Adobe Experience Manager Livefyre vs. Hootsuite Amplify

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Experience Manager Livefyre
Score 7.8 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Livefyre was acquired in 2016 and is now part of Adobe Experience Manager. Later versions of AEM include features of Livefyre pre-installed. Livefyre (or the Livefyre Studio app) is a content curation, social media UGC, audience engagement application that enables users to access user generated content that can be streamed in real-time to a customer’s sites, digital billboards, apps,…N/A
Hootsuite Amplify
Score 7.9 out of 10
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HootSuite Amplify is an employee advocacy tool built on top of HootSuite's social media management platform.N/A
Pricing
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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTo learn more about how Hootsuite Amplify can help you expand your social reach, please request a demo.
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.4 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud
Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud
Score 8.9 out of 10
Influitive
Influitive
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud
Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud
Score 8.9 out of 10
Sprinklr Marketing
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User Ratings
Adobe Experience Manager LivefyreHootsuite Amplify
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(7 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.8
(5 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Experience Manager LivefyreHootsuite Amplify
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
I was strictly the implementor of Livefyre (for my company only). That task alone was at least 3 weeks worth of work. From a user standpoint, Livefyre is a good product which is why this review is strictly about how difficult it was to implement. Therefore, if a colleague was to ask me if I recommend Livefyre, it's not a straight answer. Questions like, 'how fast do you need it?', 'how centralized is your user database?', 'do you want social login?', all come into question and were details that made my job not easy (hence, my review of 5/10 for suggesting it to others). Once implemented, Livefyre is a great product (notice my overall review is higher), but based on my experience with implementation, it certainly requires a senior developer's dedicated time and patience to set up exactly as desired. For smaller companies with small/simple user bases and websites, the process may be more straightforward, but from my experience, it wasn't out-of-the-box at all.
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Hootsuite
There needs to be a cost-benefit analysis to determine the value we are getting. Once we are able to see that the advocacy is resulting in sales/registration we can provide a more accurate score.
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Pros
Adobe
  • It provides and allows comments and comment management that is fast, seamless and shareable.
  • Having used disquss, WordPress comments and many others I like Livefyre better for its seamless integration and transparency
  • It is really nice that they have a range of services from free to enterprise with increasing functionality and benefits.
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Hootsuite
  • Content curation
  • Content categorization
  • Intuitive app
  • Strong permission management settings
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Cons
Adobe
  • Implementation was not easy. Although flexible, I personally wrote at least 1,400 lines of code to get this implemented over a few week's time.
  • The social login aspect is cool, but again, hard to implement. They did not write any of those modules, although they could have. This required senior-level developmental skills and a knowledge of how social media is interfaced with programmatically. Lots of questions arose from this and it was difficult to implement with virtually no help from Livefyre, other than to provide the hooks into their system for when users were validated. I had to write at least 2 separate login/redirection scripts to accomplish this flow.
  • CSS tweaking was tricky. We could override lots of common CSS classes, but to get things just the way we wanted it, I ended up writing LOTS of jQuery listeners and functions to transform the output into exactly what we wanted. This was a surprise since the software was sold to us as being 'fully customizable'.
  • Documentation was sufficient, but not great. Getting the flow of the callbacks that are fired wasn't clear at first, and sometimes did not work as expected.
  • It should be noted that, after this review was published, Livefyre contacted me stating they now have better documentation and process for implementation (for version V3, specifically) and urged me to revise this review. However, I can only write of my experience with V2, and it WAS difficult to implement over 3 weeks of dedicated time. Another developer on my team implemented version V3 and his evaluation is very similar to mine, claiming much difficulty with the CSS customization.
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Hootsuite
  • Can be complicated for employees to learn the platform
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
We feel we have a real partnership with Livefyre and we both make each other better. Their customer service has been phenomenal even during a time of rapid growth.
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Hootsuite
Unsure whether cost justifies the purchase, or whether Hootsuite as an entire product line will continue to meet our needs
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Usability
Adobe
It's really easy to implement that app but should improve some analytics.
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Hootsuite
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Support Rating
Adobe
From purchasing to implementation, the customer service/support was really perfect!
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Hootsuite
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
We felt Livefyre was more innovative and better at SEO. It felt like we were working with a partner for the long haul who was interested in our business and how to improve it.
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Hootsuite
They are very compatible. EveryoneSocial does offer more robust gamification.
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • The heavy work is already done given that we take the time to implement.
  • Very useful insights and AI powered delivery.
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Hootsuite
  • It has helped bring awareness to key business priorities
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Hootsuite Amplify Screenshots

Screenshot of An easy-to-use tool for the entire organization. Make it easier to find the most relevant content for your employee’s network with recommendations in Amplify, powered by machine learning.Screenshot of Make more data-driven decisions with Post Impact reports, aggregate your reach, adoption, and content metrics in the Hootsuite dashboard and connect advocacy to business objectivesScreenshot of Increase adoption and get more advocates to participate with Amplify leaderboardScreenshot of Get participation from across the organization with suggested contentScreenshot of The Amplify mobile app makes it easier for your employees to share on the go. Allow users to share content to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram and to the apps they already have on their devices using the native iOS and Android mobile share feature.