Audiense vs. Bambu by Sprout Social

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Audiense
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Audiense is a social marketing platform focused on Twitter analytics. The company and product was formerly called SocialBro, and rebranded in 2015. Capabilities include social listening, social marketing, and Twitter advertising.
$99
per month
Bambu by Sprout Social
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Bambu is a social media marketing tool from Sprout Social that leverages employee advocacy. It allows users to organize and encourage distribution of company blog posts, press releases, news and articles, thought leadership, and customer case studies through employees' personal social networks on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. There are three main use cases for Bambu: Marketing, HR, and Sales. In terms of Marketing, Bambu aims to leverage employee advocacy to increase brand awareness…N/A
Pricing
AudienseBambu by Sprout Social
Editions & Modules
Twitter Marketing (formerly Socialbro)
$39
per month (billed annually)
Audience Insights
$696
per month (billed annually)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AudienseBambu by Sprout Social
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
AudienseBambu by Sprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
7.4
(23 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AudienseBambu by Sprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
Audiense
When you start a strategy and want to discover how the audiense is composed, this is the first step to start exploring and then create your buyer personas with more details from other auxiliary tools (social listening, market research). Audiense is the best way to start exploring. It works better when you are dealing with big social media accounts when you want to explore audiences from a specific country or very specific interests. It’s good to import information from listening tools like Brandwatch to get better results about your audience.
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Sprout Social
Routinely sharing job postings from Bambu by Sprout Social to LinkedIn, using the canned content our Marketing team provides and revising so that it "sounds like me" prior to sharing on LI. Cadencing my content shares for the week in the "Scheduling" option Creating a new link to share content via Bambu by Sprout Social to LI, to position myself as a thought leader in my space
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Pros
Audiense
  • Audiense is the best tool I have found for tie your tweets to changes in your followers. In essence, I can see when tweets are gaining or losing followers for my account.
  • Audiense also has great analytical tools like best time to tweet reports
  • Audiense also provide a very complete look at each person you follow or is following you. It helps to understand who the people are.
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Sprout Social
  • Ease of use. It creates a user-friendly experience that allows employees to understand and share.
  • Customer support & feedback.
  • Understanding the power of social media and building their tool around its use.
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Cons
Audiense
  • For the USA, if Audiense.com is able to pull in the FULL spectrum of Acxiom data, then we have a truly splendid solution.
  • For the world, if Audiense.com is able to enrich an audience with PIPL, Apollo.io, and Full Contact API data, then we have the next iteration of this already amazing solution
  • As Audiense.com refines its SEMRush partnership, we will see advanced SEO unlink anything seen in past decades.
  • If Audiense.com were to integrate the full capabilities of Relationship Science ( relsci.com ), then we would, as salespeople, have the next iteration of the solution as a sales power tool.
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Sprout Social
  • Sprout to Bambu integration is not what was depicted in trial and is not used because of this
  • Missing functionality: LinkedIn tagging
  • Missing functionality: posting videos
  • Missing functionality: posting something without a link. Example: picture from an event or community outreach
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Likelihood to Renew
Audiense
I have been using it for a few years now and I still think it's a pretty competitive tool, although a lot of new interesting tools are coming on the market and I am always on the lookout for new solutions. If it keeps innovating, however, Audiense could stay relevant for some time to come
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Sprout Social
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Usability
Audiense
The dashboard is excellent and easy to understand. Their messaging is very clear. The reports are visual and powerful.
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Sprout Social
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Reliability and Availability
Audiense
I have never had an issue.
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Sprout Social
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Performance
Audiense
I have never had an issue.
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Sprout Social
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Support Rating
Audiense
Any questions we had were promptly answered.
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Sprout Social
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Online Training
Audiense
Pretty simple to start using. Have to do some self-study to learn more advanced features
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Sprout Social
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Implementation Rating
Audiense
Just a plug and play online tool
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Sprout Social
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Alternatives Considered
Audiense
I have used a few audience insight tools but I find Audiense has a large mix of data within one platform. For instance, IBM Watson, Demos, Social Listening, Hashtags. It is great to have a lot of insights about an audience in one place to have a holistic understanding.
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Sprout Social
It was similar in that it helped us push prewritten messages out to our team, but the UX/UI was far more dated and not as intuitive. It's mobile app also wasn't very useful; made it difficult to edit messages and would constantly need you to log back in. The two things GaggleAMP had over Bambu however was more comprehensive analytics and the ability to automatically push out social posts
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Return on Investment
Audiense
  • Definitely increased the value of my social intelligence data. Now I'm able to really understand who my audience is and this helps my clients think about them as real people instead of an anonymous group.
  • Time saved, being able to click a button and then have my audience generated within a couple of hours without me having to do anything else is invaluable.
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Sprout Social
  • The social amplification effects of our employees sharing brand content helped us achieve a 400% increase in website visits following our re-brand.
  • With some "Executive nudging" when we announced that Bambu would be used as our internal comms tool, and that we would only be sharing real-time updates via the mobile apps push notifications, we were able to double the # of employees who use the App in addition to the desktop application. Mobile users aside, another positive side effect of using Bambu as an internal comms tool is that it exposes users (the non-social butterflies who don't like to share) to all other content that has been curated into the system and has helped garner more social impressions.
  • The majority of our employees come from the BabyBoom/Gen X generation and didn't come of age in the world of social media, which has presented some challenges in user adoption rates.
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