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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ceros Studio

    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Ceros Studio is a content marketing software platform that enables designers and marketers to create interactive web content, without the need for coding or developers.

    $36,000

    per year

    Cronycle (discontinued)

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACronycle was market intelligence platform for market research, product innovation, and sales enablement teams. It enabled discovery of a variety of data (including articles, documents, conversations, and more) from top experts across 80,000 topics, delivering relevant content that users need to know about. The service has been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    Ceros StudioCronycle (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Annual Subscription
    36,000
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ceros StudioCronycle (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Ceros StudioCronycle (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Ceros
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Ceros StudioCronycle (discontinued)
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Ceros Studio and Cronycle (discontinued)
    Feature
    Ceros Studio
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Cronycle (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Approval workflows4.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Ceros Studio and Cronycle (discontinued)
    Feature
    Ceros Studio
    5.7
    4 Ratings
    31% below category average
    Cronycle (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Content hub9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content3.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution4.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation2.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Ceros Studio and Cronycle (discontinued)
    Feature
    Ceros Studio
    3.7
    4 Ratings
    66% below category average
    Cronycle (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting1.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard2.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analytics9.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Ceros StudioCronycle (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Contently
    Score9.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    HG Insights Platform
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    HG Insights Platform
    Score9.2 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Ceros StudioCronycle (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.7
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ceros StudioCronycle (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ceros
    Ceros is fantastic for companies who can afford it. It's not ideal for startups who don't have the budget for it. If your company or agency is interested in creating interactive content, but you don't have the skill sets in-house to develop or code them properly, Ceros is for you
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Prior to adopting Cronycle, our research team had a variety of different ways in which they would discover, store
    and share information. These methods were often inconsistent, with many smaller
    teams or sub-groups of researchers operating independently of others. In many cases, content that was potentially useful to more than one
    colleague was not being shared at all. We had thousands of different sources,
    accessed through varying methods and stored in different locations/systems, and
    very few colleagues would have had an idea of which sources other team members
    were using. Furthermore, we became aware as a team that while between us we
    were pulling in a lot of information, much of what was being discovered was not
    necessarily being acted upon, or indeed being read by the colleague to whom it
    was most relevant. We also needed to become more targeted, and indeed more
    selective, in the information we were seeing, and Cronycle -specifically through the Sources Library, the Feeds, and the tagging and notification functionality - has enabled us to do
    just this. There has been a genuinely transformative outcome to our information gathering ability, borne out by specific metrics, which Cronycle has also provided us with via the Enterprise account.
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    Pros
    Ceros
    • Easy to use and adopt user interface. If you know basic Photoshop, you can use this.
    • Encouraging roadmap - the product has gotten better every year. The company obviously listens to client feedback.
    • Smart, dedicated client team - always checking in, comes with new ideas, generally nice people. We always love our meetings with them!
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • relevant, spot-on content to any of the 80.000 topics they curate.
    • Content curation, quickly assemble insights from a multitude of sources
    • collaborating, commenting, and creating insights around any of the topics you focus on with a team is a breeze, and in one central place.
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    Cons
    Ceros
    • A direct to consumer model
    • Price point is high, but understandably
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • For some reason logging on for a few months does not go as easy as usual, because nowadays I need a least two attempts to log in.
    • I think I do only use the core functionality of Cronycle: getting indication info by keywords via multiple sites.
    • Vice versa: if people come to me with a suspected issue, I double-check via Cronycle by entering that issue as search in found results. A low occurrence often indicates the suspected issue likely is not so severe.
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    Support Rating
    Ceros
    Our CSMs have always been 100% and their support team typically responds within an hour or two. Their design/build team also worked with us on perfecting several experiences and are always mindful of how a project is going. One of their designers didn't really understand one of our requests and the project took more rounds of revisions than in previous projects, but they rectified the issue and the project came out well in the end. That outcome probably only happened in the time it did due to our CSM consistently checking in and getting feedback throughout the project - unfortunately, not something that happens enough with all our partners.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Any issues with the platform have always been resolved quickly. I have never previously worked with a third party software provider whose support team is as responsive.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ceros
    Ceros takes what would be difficult to accomplish in the Adobe suite of products and makes it easy. When it comes to user experience, user interface and customization options, Ceros is a much better alternative than Adobe. However, Adobe is the trusted name and some may be more comfortable with Adobe products
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Hootsuite publication prep and scheduling is great, better than Cronycl (a manual process) Cronycl management of feeds, filtering creation of topical boards are excellent, Hootsuite doesn't offer this. Cronycle I find it easier, more attractive, and better filtering than Buffer, though Buffer was slightly better at the publication prep.
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    Return on Investment
    Ceros
    • Increased win rate during presentations.
    • Elevated content appearance.
    • Engaged audience more.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Cronycle is my secret superpower (well, it was until now!)
    • I have landed and retained clients by wowing them with insights their own teams have not previously provided
    • I have aced speaking gigs and secured many more by engaging audiences with insights gained through this tool
    Incentivized
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