Bambu by Sprout Social vs. PunchTab (Discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bambu by Sprout Social
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
PunchTab (Discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
PunchTab was a tool that embeds a sharing button on a webpage or blog and encourages people to engage and share content via social channels (Facebook, Twitter and Google+) by offering rewards and prizes. It was acquired by Walmart Labs and integrated into the Sam's Club ecommerce experience. It is no longer available.
$99
per month
Pricing
Bambu by Sprout SocialPunchTab (Discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bambu by Sprout SocialPunchTab (Discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Bambu by Sprout SocialPunchTab (Discontinued)
Top Pros
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Bambu by Sprout SocialPunchTab (Discontinued)
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User Ratings
Bambu by Sprout SocialPunchTab (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bambu by Sprout SocialPunchTab (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Walmart Labs
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Pros
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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Walmart Labs
  • Ease of use - we can create a new campaign in under ten minutes
  • Customer support - we've never had an issue go unanswered for more than an hour
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Cons
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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Walmart Labs
  • Limited ability to add custom data collection fields
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Likelihood to Renew
Sprout Social
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Walmart Labs
Until something better comes along, Punchtab is the best there is. Support has been great, pricing is great and the product fulfills our needs
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Support Rating
Sprout Social
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Walmart Labs
Extremely fast support from a knowledgeable team
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Implementation Rating
Sprout Social
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Walmart Labs
Nothing more required than signing up and authenticating with Facebook/Twitter
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Alternatives Considered
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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Walmart Labs
Rafflecopter, Woobox - Punchtab offered powerful custom features, and allows us to run a variety of campaigns across multiple platforms
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Return on Investment
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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Walmart Labs
  • An average campaign generates around 2500-5000 new followers on our channels with a very minimal investment.
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