Adobe Social vs. ZoomSphere

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Social
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
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…N/A
ZoomSphere
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
ZoomSphere is a social media management platform that helps 7000+ customers across the world manage all their social media interactions including social listening, publishing and reporting. According to the vendor, ZoomSphere has been created keeping medium and scaling teams in mind making it super collaborative to use. One of the USP's of ZoomSphere is that we do not require head counts on how many users you have or how many profiles you connect or how many likes and…N/A
Pricing
Adobe SocialZoomSphere
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe SocialZoomSphere
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Adobe SocialZoomSphere
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.4
9 Ratings
3% below category average
ZoomSphere
-
Ratings
Boolean keyword searches7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam7.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.4
9 Ratings
7% below category average
ZoomSphere
8.0
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Content planning and scheduling7.09 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Audience targeting7.58 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Content optimization7.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management7.59 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.7
8 Ratings
5% below category average
ZoomSphere
-
Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
8.0
8 Ratings
4% above category average
ZoomSphere
9.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Lead generation8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing8.08 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Paid media management8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.9
9 Ratings
8% below category average
ZoomSphere
8.4
1 Ratings
1% below category average
Twitter8.08 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Facebook8.09 Ratings10.01 Ratings
LinkedIn7.57 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Google+7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram8.57 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Pinterest8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
YouTube8.07 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.8
9 Ratings
1% below category average
ZoomSphere
8.3
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Campaign success analytics8.09 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Real-time tracking7.58 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Competitor analysis8.08 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.3
8 Ratings
11% below category average
ZoomSphere
8.5
1 Ratings
5% above category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges7.58 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Mobile access7.07 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe SocialZoomSphere
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(16 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.4
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe SocialZoomSphere
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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ZoomSphere
ZoomSphere is suited for all companies - from small to big, for one brand or more brands within company. With ZoomSphere you can leverage your social media presence - but you need to use lot of apps ZoomSphere has. I think that ZoomSphere is not suited for company that want to use ZoomSphere for only one purpose, for example content creation and publishing. There are plenty of ways how to use ZoomSphere more complex.
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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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ZoomSphere
  • Content Creation and Publishing
  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Workflow management
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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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ZoomSphere
  • Community Management
  • Viewable backlog or product roadmap
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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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ZoomSphere
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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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ZoomSphere
There is always a space for improvement, but overall I see ZoomSphere as a valuable partner and tool for our business on social media. Maybe in a future rest of the apps in tool (community management, social media listening,...) will be on a same level as competitors and we will use only one tool for whole social media management. But if not, ZoomSphere is still awesome for the most of it
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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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ZoomSphere
Whenever I contacted customer service, I had a great response within minutes. Sometimes was not easy to solve, but somehow we figured it out. I would like to reccommend more proactive communication with clients regarding product roadmap, for example "In 1Q we will launch XY,..." Client should know that before implementation - client can prepare for news, client can test something,...
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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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ZoomSphere
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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ZoomSphere
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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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ZoomSphere
We see ZoomSphere as a better option than Kontentino. They are almost the same in way you can use the tool, but ZoomSphere has better UI and UX and also customer service. We also know that pricing levels are better with ZoomSphere than Kontentino. But both tools are quite awesome for social media management. Just book a demo, have a trial and you will see by yourself.
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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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ZoomSphere
  • Possitive effect into measure all awareness effects on social channels
  • Time effectiveness
  • Faster workflow management and realtime communication
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ScreenShots

ZoomSphere Screenshots

Screenshot of ZoomSphere workspace interface.Screenshot of ZoomSphere publishig calendar.Screenshot of Publishing calendar in post detail with real previews of all social media posts.