Adobe Social, incorporates technology from Context Optional and Efficient Frontier.
Adobe acquired Facebook advertising-management platform Efficient Frontier in November. Six months earlier, Efficient Frontier had acquired Facebook page-management platform Context Optional.
Adobe Social is an enterprise social platform competing with Buddy Media and Involver, enabling things like automated content marketing and social sweepstakes and competitions.
Customers tend to be medium to large…
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Brandle
Score9 out of 10
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Brandle is a social media management platform focused on governance, compliance and minimizing the brand risks involved in social media.
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MutualMind (discontinued)
Score5.6 out of 10
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MutualMind was an enterprise listening platform with engagement and publishing features and analytics, that is now discontinued after the company's acquisition in 2016.
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Free Trial
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
Adobe Social
Brandle
MutualMind (discontinued)
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Adobe Social and Brandle and MutualMind (discontinued)
Feature
Adobe Social
7.4
9 Ratings
3% below category average
Brandle
8.3
1 Ratings
8% above category average
MutualMind (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Boolean keyword searches
7.58 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam
7.57 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis
7.58 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage
7.09 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Adobe Social and Brandle and MutualMind (discontinued)
Feature
Adobe Social
7.4
9 Ratings
10% below category average
Brandle
9.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
MutualMind (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Content planning and scheduling
7.09 Ratings
00 Ratings
00 Ratings
Audience targeting
7.58 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Content optimization
7.59 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow management
7.59 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Adobe Social and Brandle and MutualMind (discontinued)
Feature
Adobe Social
7.7
8 Ratings
5% below category average
Brandle
8.7
1 Ratings
7% above category average
MutualMind (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization
7.58 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories
8.08 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Bulk actions
7.58 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Adobe Social and Brandle and MutualMind (discontinued)
Feature
Adobe Social
8.0
8 Ratings
3% above category average
Brandle
9.3
1 Ratings
18% above category average
MutualMind (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Lead generation
8.07 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Content marketing
8.08 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Paid media management
8.07 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions
8.08 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Adobe Social and Brandle and MutualMind (discontinued)
Feature
Adobe Social
7.9
9 Ratings
5% below category average
Brandle
10.0
1 Ratings
18% above category average
MutualMind (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Twitter
8.08 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Facebook
8.09 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
LinkedIn
7.57 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Google+
7.09 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Instagram
8.57 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Pinterest
8.04 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
YouTube
8.07 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Adobe Social and Brandle and MutualMind (discontinued)
Feature
Adobe Social
7.8
9 Ratings
1% above category average
Brandle
8.7
1 Ratings
12% above category average
MutualMind (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Campaign success analytics
8.09 Ratings
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Real-time tracking
7.58 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Competitor analysis
8.08 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Adobe Social and Brandle and MutualMind (discontinued)
Feature
Adobe Social
7.3
8 Ratings
8% below category average
Brandle
9.0
1 Ratings
13% above category average
MutualMind (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges
7.58 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile access
7.07 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Adobe Social
Brandle
MutualMind (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Sendible
Score7.1 out of 10
Sendible
Score7.1 out of 10
Mention
Score8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Emplifi
Score8.9 out of 10
Emplifi
Score8.9 out of 10
Mention
Score8 out of 10
Enterprises
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
Score8.1 out of 10
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
I used Adobe Social when I use to have my own business on social media. After many months I was having no success in finding the correct clients for my products. Using Adobe Social I was able to market and discover different ways of searching for the correct clients and later on helped my business grow.
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Brandle is great for any company that doesn't get a lot of exposure. You are able to use this software as a tool in order to expand your sights on the internet. People are more easily able to access social media, websites, and apps. It also is great to use in scenarios where you want to put your company out there and be more visible to others. It may be less appropriate when companies already have a lot of exposure. It would really just be better for statistical purposes at that point.
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Adobe Social lacks strengths, as I believe Adobe themselves have acknowledged, given their decision not to continue support or development. But if I need to list three strengths, the first would be it can publish to some social media platforms with a success rate of over 50%. If that's a strength.
It has workflow processes, but they are over-complicated and poorly designed.
It has some basic analytics, but Adobe consultants usually recommend referring to Adobe Analytics instead. Which is great if you actually use Adobe Analytics.
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MutualMind gives us a view into the reach of social content we produce on behalf of our advertisers and the engagement that content generates with shoppers.
It would be great if Adobe scheduled video uploads for Twitter.
A time change in a social post automatically puts the post back to Level 1 of approvals. It can be a big hassle to have to start the process over for such a small change.
Adobe uses a different algorithm to measure engagement our company does. It would be great to upload your own algorithm into Adobe.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
MutualMind gauges sentiment around social conversations but does so with the standard margin of error found in most social analytics products. The nature of human conversation makes it difficult for a machine to categorize sentiment with 100% accuracy. MutualMind gets sentiment right between 50% to 70% which is within acceptable industry averages for this type of product. With additional tuning (which MutualMind provides) the accuracy levels will increase.
I wasn't in charge of making the actual management decision, but I would absolutely renew Adobe Social. As I mentioned, it provides strong and in-depth analytics and listening tools. The reports that it generates are very thorough and easy to read. I loved the platform and would recommend it to anyone
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The reason why I give this rating is that the overall platform is simple to use. You don't need to be tech-savvy or have a vast understanding of how to work a marketing tool. It is very simple to use compared to different platforms and you learn a lot of different ways to build your business.
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As a company that's only 3 years old, MutualMind's toolset is quite usable but it could use some tweaks in the user interface, which they are constantly working on.
During a recent upgrade period, MutualMind had a small window of unavailability. I am confident they have addressed the root cause and do not foresee any future issues.
The product's performance has improved greatly in the last year and we anticipate seeing additional improvements in coming months based no planned infrastructure changes.
The reason why I give this a 9 out of 10 in terms of support is because of the mobile app functionality. I have had many issues in terms of logging in and also loading pages. The app overall is easy to use but at what cost? Other than that it is great and I still enjoy Adobe Social.
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Training was long and a little confusing. While a number of features carried over, they were still covered in this elongated training. It would have been nice to have training tailored to experience level with the product.
The implementation was done during our POC. We had a very mixed experience here, and have had some issues arise since based on the way the tool was implemented. An Adobe employee went ahead and made a change to our account that was unauthorized (helpful for our implementation) which caused issues in on boarding another team who needed the same change, but could not get it done without costly Adobe certification
Hootsuite Enterprise is superior in many ways, but the biggest factor is probably that it is constantly evolving and adding new features, working directly with social media companies ahead of new releases. Adobe seems to have stopped developing their product.
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Brandle stacks up against other apps and software because it offers many different options. You can choose between different packages and you are able to keep track of the status of your social media websites. Brandle is able to help promote your brand in a multitude of ways and places which is why it stacks up against other brand making apps and software.
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Although we chose Adobe Social believing it could provide ROI metrics we could not get elsewhere, that turned out not to be the case. Site Catalyst can give us everything we need without Adobe Social
Adobe Social did not create greater efficiencies and speed up our activity within social media. In fact, it has done the oppposite. It is very cumbersome with little clear benefit.
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By showing increases in engagement and share of voice (defined as the amount of content generated for our advertisers versus the amount of content generated for their competitors over time) we are able to correlate content to incremental sales data provided by our advertisers.