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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Piano Amplifier
Score8 out of 10
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A solution to amplify content with AI-powered social publishing. Used to grow and engage an audience through real-time data and machine-learning optimization, guiding users to content, and to just the right place in the social conversation.
Socialflow was acquired by Piano in 2022, and is now a Piano solution.
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Piano Amplifier
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Adobe Social
Piano Amplifier
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Free/Freemium Version
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Features
Adobe Social
Piano Amplifier
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Adobe Social and Piano Amplifier
Feature
Adobe Social
7.4
9 Ratings
3% below category average
Piano Amplifier
5.0
2 Ratings
42% below category average
Boolean keyword searches
7.58 Ratings
5.12 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam
7.57 Ratings
4.62 Ratings
Sentiment analysis
7.58 Ratings
5.12 Ratings
Broad channel coverage
7.09 Ratings
5.12 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Adobe Social and Piano Amplifier
Feature
Adobe Social
7.4
9 Ratings
10% below category average
Piano Amplifier
5.1
3 Ratings
46% below category average
Content planning and scheduling
7.09 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Audience targeting
7.58 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Content optimization
7.59 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Workflow management
7.59 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Adobe Social and Piano Amplifier
Feature
Adobe Social
7.7
8 Ratings
5% below category average
Piano Amplifier
5.0
3 Ratings
48% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization
7.58 Ratings
5.12 Ratings
Customer interaction histories
8.08 Ratings
4.62 Ratings
Bulk actions
7.58 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Adobe Social and Piano Amplifier
Feature
Adobe Social
8.0
8 Ratings
4% above category average
Piano Amplifier
5.1
3 Ratings
41% below category average
Lead generation
8.07 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Content marketing
8.08 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Paid media management
8.07 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions
8.08 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Adobe Social and Piano Amplifier
Feature
Adobe Social
7.9
9 Ratings
5% below category average
Piano Amplifier
5.7
3 Ratings
38% below category average
Twitter
8.08 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Facebook
8.09 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
LinkedIn
7.57 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Google+
7.09 Ratings
9.01 Ratings
Instagram
8.57 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Pinterest
8.04 Ratings
5.12 Ratings
YouTube
8.07 Ratings
5.12 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Adobe Social and Piano Amplifier
Feature
Adobe Social
7.8
9 Ratings
1% above category average
Piano Amplifier
5.1
3 Ratings
41% below category average
Campaign success analytics
8.09 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Real-time tracking
7.58 Ratings
5.13 Ratings
Competitor analysis
8.08 Ratings
5.12 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Adobe Social and Piano Amplifier
Feature
Adobe Social
7.3
8 Ratings
8% below category average
Piano Amplifier
7.1
3 Ratings
11% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges
7.58 Ratings
7.13 Ratings
Mobile access
7.07 Ratings
7.13 Ratings
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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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SocialFlow is well suited for Platform & keyword research : 1. In-depth research to identify requisite platforms & channels and the pertaining keywords, followed by query building to create search profiles & topic tags Social mediaplatforms Professional review forums Industry-focused discussion sites E-commerce websites Content streaming platforms data extraction 2. Setting up processes and tools for data extraction such as –-Social intelligence tools-Web scraping-Custom crawlers-Manual minimum (if applicable)
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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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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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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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
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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I give this rating as an outcome to understand competitor social strategy to improve strategic positioning. Drive improvement by benchmarking and serving to compete on content Identify trends, topics/themes, potential threats, etc. Improve campaigns by measuring and comparing audience reach, Interaction, etc. Measure engagement rate to analyze audience association. What themes/topics are generating higher engagement Insights to assist marketing teams in planning future campaigns
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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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
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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We've also evaluated HootSuite and Sprout Social, and we used both in the past. SocialFlow is superior in its content system for creating, editing, and publishing posts. It's ideal for a team of our size. The cost is fair. It was overall the best option in all of the categories we were looking for.
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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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