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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Social

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAdobe 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…N/A

    Piano Amplifier

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AA 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.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe SocialPiano Amplifier
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe SocialPiano Amplifier
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Adobe SocialPiano 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 searches7.58 Ratings5.12 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam7.57 Ratings4.62 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis7.58 Ratings5.12 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.09 Ratings5.12 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 scheduling7.09 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.58 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Content optimization7.59 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Workflow management7.59 Ratings5.13 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 prioritization7.58 Ratings5.12 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories8.08 Ratings4.62 Ratings
    Bulk actions7.58 Ratings5.13 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 generation8.07 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Content marketing8.08 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Paid media management8.07 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions8.08 Ratings5.13 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
    Twitter8.08 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Facebook8.09 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    LinkedIn7.57 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Google+7.09 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Instagram8.57 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Pinterest8.04 Ratings5.12 Ratings
    YouTube8.07 Ratings5.12 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 analytics8.09 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Real-time tracking7.58 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Competitor analysis8.08 Ratings5.12 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 & privileges7.58 Ratings7.13 Ratings
    Mobile access7.07 Ratings7.13 Ratings
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    Adobe SocialPiano Amplifier
    Small Businesses
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Adobe SocialPiano Amplifier
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (16 ratings)
    5.6
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.4
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    5.1
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    5.6
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe SocialPiano Amplifier
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    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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    Piano Software
    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)
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • 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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    Piano Software
    • Posts without human input.
    • Monitors algorithms.
    • Easy to use interface.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • 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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    Piano Software
    • I'd like to open up windows for more than one account/platform at time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    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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    Piano Software
    • Clarity of communication
    • Quality of product
    • Its sheer utility
    • How we now rely on it greatly
    • Reasonable price point
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    Usability
    Adobe
    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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    Piano Software
    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
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    Support Rating
    Adobe
    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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    Piano Software
    They don’t seem to understand the issues when we explain them.
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    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.
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    Piano Software
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Adobe
    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
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    Piano Software
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    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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    Piano Software
    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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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • 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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    Piano Software
    • Increased engagement
    • ROI
    • Efficiency
    • Transparency/data/insight
    Incentivized
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