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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Acoustic Content

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AAcoustic Content (formerly Watson Content Hub) gives business owners the power to create, robust and consistent brand experiences using cloud-based, cognitive content management capabilities. Marketing and merchandising professionals can quickly select content to create relevant offers delivered across multiple channels, such as mobile, web-based or email. Acoustic is an independent spun off from IBM Watson Marketing in 2019.N/A

    Ghost

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AGhost is a CMS for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. Available open source and free (e.g. for blogging), it can also come with tools for business' content marketing.

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    Pricing
    Acoustic ContentGhost
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Ghost (community)
    $0
    Starter
    $11
    per month 1 staff user, 500 members
    Creator
    $31
    per month 2 staff users, 1000 members
    Team
    $63
    per month 5 staff users, 1000 members
    Business
    $249
    per month unlimited staff users, 10,000 members
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acoustic ContentGhost
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Acoustic ContentGhost
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Acoustic Content and Ghost
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Ghost
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Acoustic Content and Ghost
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Ghost
    -
    Ratings
    API8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Acoustic Content and Ghost
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Ghost
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.43 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.33 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Page templates8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.43 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Form generator9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Acoustic Content and Ghost
    Feature
    Acoustic Content
    8.8
    3 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Ghost
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Content taxonomy8.33 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SEO support8.43 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Bulk management8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.93 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Acoustic ContentGhost
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    Umbraco CMS
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    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Acoustic ContentGhost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acoustic ContentGhost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Acoustic
    We can organize all our content easily by uploading content files and other digital assets. CMS smart AI generates metadata by tagging them automatically which helps us to sort our content into different categories. CMS content modeling feature helps us to visualize our content structure, assemble them in an intelligent manner and reuse the content whenever we want to for different purposes.
    Incentivized
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    Ghost Foundation
    It is well suited for distributed writing and publishing with a subscription component.and well suited for simultaneous deployment to email and the web.
    Its pricing for a very small group (3 or more) tends to the expensive and login across multiple different devices can be aggravating.
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    Pros
    Acoustic
    • Creating separate pages is easy and straightforward and only requires basic basic knowledge to get started
    • Advanced API calls can be easily built.
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    Ghost Foundation
    • Creating a newsletter for web and email simultaneously
    • Allowing for paid subscriptions
    • Allowing content to be segmented by subscription type
    • Allows content to be segmented by medium
    • Good analytics across various output medium
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Acoustic
    • The organization of the application is poor and some elements could be more easily accessible not buried in menus.
    • There is little to no community around the application and what does exist is out of date.
    • Does not work well with our IBM applications as well as you would expect, which seems a common issue with IBM products.
    Incentivized
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    Ghost Foundation
    • They wysiwig editor is missing critical functions like superscript and subscript
    • The markdown complement has those features but it doesn’t integrate well with the wysiwig editor
    • Footnoting is hard to do
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Acoustic
    No answers on this topic
    Ghost Foundation
    Flexible, competent and easy to use
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acoustic
    Added benefit
    Incentivized
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    Ghost Foundation
    It is simpler, headless, faster than WordPress. The core functionality is focused on subscription membership which is a bloated add on for WordPress. The simplicity has a cost as WordPress, while complicated, offers more expansion opportunities.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Acoustic
    • With the AI based content organizer in place, we can focus more on the content creation.
    • Acoustic Content makes sure your content is safe and secure with its Content Delivery Networks and we can easily pull out the right content into our channels with the help of its REST APIs.
    • With their rich Digital Asset Management capabilities, we can find most suitable images to go with your content
    Incentivized
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    Ghost Foundation
    • Our business is totally built around this product
    • It has allowed us to easily and quickly scale our free and our paywalled content experiments
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Acoustic Content Screenshots

    Screenshot of Cognitive TaggingScreenshot of Flexible, Easy EditingScreenshot of Automatic renditions createdScreenshot of Card-based Asset Library

    Ghost Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Ghost dashboardScreenshot of Ghost postsScreenshot of Ghost member managementScreenshot of Ghost member profile