Brand24 vs. Khoros Marketing

Brand24 is perfect for a company that wants to build up its social media presence. It's great to know when our organization is mentioned online so I can engage with other companies. I like the mobile app but if there was a way to be notified via phone with it that would make it even better.

Khoros Marketing is very well suited for organic social media, especially across a large organization with multiple workflows. The tool is not as appropriate for paid socials due to features that are better within the native platforms. The same applies to analytics. The use of the tool for standardization on organic social media metrics is helpful, but paid analytics are best pulled from the native platforms.

• The interface of Brand24 is extremely easy to use and easy to understand for beginnings or mid-level emoloyees
• The results in Brand24 are organized clearly in buckets that you can either PDF or download the raw data
• Brand24 looks at several social platforms rather than just 1 or 2, like some other tools are limited to

• Reporting is great - easy to create bespoke dashboards for multiple ways to view the data and trends in platform
• Onboarding and training - a good repository of knowledge articles for users to access on most aspects of the platform for self-learning
• The user-friendly and intuitive interface allows any user to quickly assimilate how to use the platform.

• The user interface was confusing. I had to reach out to support for help, and I'm a pretty tech-savvy person to begin with. Support resolved my issue.

• Uploading Instagram stories through Khoros.
• Uploading Instagram carousels through Khoros.
• Reducing the wait time for some things to delete or add to the content calendar.
• Sorting by date added as default in the content center.
• Having the most used initiative as the default when first entering Khoros instead of the newest created one.

There is no product like Khoros. Our company lives and dies by the analytics, and to date, we have not seen a more comprehensive analytics structure for any social media management tool. Khoros support is also fantastic, responding and resolving any and all questions, ideas, or complaints, usually in 24 hours.

Khoros Marketing is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The calendar visibility is the view I use most so I can see all posts going out on all of our channels. It allows us to time posts in a proper cadence so we don't overlap with other pressing content.

• We still experience a bit of downtime and slowness here but things have drastically improved in the last year with their feature updates and reconfigured hosting.

Khoros has greatly improved the performance of its SaaS products in the last 5 years. Their applications, including Conversations, Intelligence, and Experiences, all load quickly with real-time data. This performance is critical to provide meaningful, social customer support, and marketing. The performance maintains integrity even when you deploy powerful integrations like Salesforce Customer Relationship Manager.

Someone is almost always available and responds very quickly to any issues or concerns. Customer service is one of their best features and we have never had an issue. They take their time making sure you understand what you are working with and are available via email or phone to walk you through any issues.

• As a very early customer, we did not undergo formal training but worked closely with the team to get the system set up to do what we wanted. However, online training resources are now available with many blog posts / video lessons and tutorials.

it is important to note that my perspective is not necessarily common - I'm a geek/nerd/poweruser in general, so I found the online resources to be more than adequate (and often very aesthetically pleasing, too). That said, a less "geeky" person might struggle a bit.

The implementation team from Khoros were great - they worked hard to understand our somewhat complex organization, and were with us all the way through face to face meetings, user training, and technical training. We had a clearly defined account manager and implementation manager, who worked really effectively together and with us.

I would start with Mention as opposed to beginning with Brand24. We originally used Mention but the price was increasing year-over-year so we wanted to try a cheaper alternative. We eventually did go back to Mention after Brand24, due to its ease of use and it was also easier to monitor our brand with Mention in the end.

Khoros' product offering supports multiple teams within the enterprise whereas many of their competitors lacked 1 product or another, which would have required us to vet, sign, and renew with multiple vendors. My team vets competing platforms every year, and Khoros continues to beat them in functionality, support, and scalability

On a scale between one and ten, I would rate the platform's overall scalability a ten. This platform can be used by small businesses that only have one or two platforms or a small business that has one platform but a large following. This platform can be suited for any size business and can most certainly grow with each of them.

• Positive: We can respond to customers in a reasonably realistic timeframe.
• Positive: We get updates from old content that has new activity.

• The Plans section is great for keeping track of content that needs to be posted.
• The Calendar is wonderful for viewing upcoming and previous posts for additional data when needed.
• The Analytic section is terrific for tracking posts and easily viewing them natively when needed.