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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Clay

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AClay is a GTM enrichment product that combines access to 100+ data sources and AI agents with automated workflows to build any growth use case. Companies use it for tasks like recurring CRM enrichment to targeted outreach.

    $149

    per month 2000 credits per month

    Talkwalker by Hootsuite

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ATalkwalker is a consumer intelligence company that bring sin data from 30+ social networks, 150 million websites, and 100 data partners to give customers a unified view of their consumers. Talkwalker is a Hootsuite solution since the 2024 acquisition.N/A
    Pricing
    ClayTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $149
    per month 2000 credits per month
    Explorer
    $349
    per month 10,000 credits per month
    Pro
    $800
    per month 50,000 credits per month
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ClayTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    ClayTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Considered Both Products
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
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    Hootsuite
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    102 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    94 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    ClayTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Clay and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Clay
    8.2
    95 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Ratings
    Advanced search8.393 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads8.287 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality7.986 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download9.083 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access7.688 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Clay and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Clay
    8.3
    86 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Contact information8.186 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information8.685 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information8.284 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Clay and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Clay
    8.0
    84 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Lead qualification process8.578 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.266 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles8.382 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene8.180 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Clay and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Clay
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Sales email templates7.964 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ClayTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (102 ratings)
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (102 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ClayTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    Sales automation is the most suited use case of Clay. You could generate GTM motions that are auto triggered by the signals, so you could actually create workflows that are triggered on specific signals. For example, a company gets new funding, you can reach out to the company within in a matter of minutes and you can track a lot of news that's happening on Google or using RSS feeds. You can patch that news into Clay and then manipulate that and get insights out of it. The second best use case is the data enrichment or data cleanup. Usually companies have CRMs with messy data. You can import that. Clay has native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Marketo, and you can import those lists into Clay and then clean the data, enrich the data, and then push that forward, update the data in the CRMs. That's the second best use case that I use it for and would recommend it for.
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    Hootsuite
    Talkwalker is well suited for big companies and agencies that are looking for a long-term solution to keep track of the industry and/or their brands and key competitors. While setup requires a bit of dedication (especially in terms of custom filters and tags), once it's done, the tool will give the user a lot of flexibility to analyze the conversations and find the relevant results that answer the business questions. Companies just looking for a tool to track a short time period, or simple things like Twitter hashtags, won't take advantage of the full capabilities of this tool. Therefore, they could feel frustrated when comparing the outcomes/usage versus the costs.
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    Pros
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    • Pros, I think there are a lot of pros, so I mentioned a couple of them already, so being able to use different data providers. I think being able to massage the data, I call it a data orchestration where I can get different points of inputs of data. I can throw everything in Clay and then I can make all the changes before I use them for campaigns, for email, for LinkedIn, for whatever reason I'm going to use my data, but it's really easy to enrich, it's really easy to do research. It's really easy to build agents that tie to each row in your dataset, like there are a lot of things that you could use it for that are huge pros.
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    Hootsuite
    • Truly global listening platform - monitor a deep range of media types from all over the world. Particularly strong in supporting competitive monitoring and analysis briefs across regions and countries. It monitors content in original language which I believe is a very strong monitoring factor.
    • Easy to use yet powerful dashboard visualisations - the dashboard interface is among the best I have seen. While it can accomplish many things, and under the hood is a very powerful and complex tool, the user interface is very intuitive, slick, quick and packed with all the KPIs you could want.
    • Customisation of the tool is a great feature. You can build your own dashboard and reporting spaces to suit your needs. You can schedule alerts from the system in a variety of outputs to keep you up to date with the latest events.
    • Customer support & technological advancement - the team at Talkwalker are highly proficient, always willing to support our every need, however big or small. Talkwalker aim to release around 4 software updates each year which means the platform is always full of the latest data visualisations and monitoring technologies
    • Having 'traditional' media monitored alongside social as well as owned media assets in one dashboard space is invaluable to help brands understand where their media footprint lies and how they perform in each media set, relative to the others.
    • AI - Talkwalker has introduced greater AI capabilities recently which means the capability of the tool in monitoring is ever-increasing, and the accuracy of targeting content and sentiment analysis is improving. The Visual Insights and image recognition technology is a really strong feature, and a very welcome addition to the monitoring aspect
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    Cons
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    • A max column limit. I run into the column limit all the time and kind of have to figure out using multiple tables. Just bugs really. I mean if you start getting too crazy on it, I feel like takes a long time. You can't really identify that it's working or if it's not. So that kind of slows things down a little bit.
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    Hootsuite
    • The system is complicated. With everything that you're able to do, it does come at the cost of simplicity. It definitely requires training and a high level of expertise to properly leverage what it can do.
    • The system can be slow. If you "ask" it to do too many things at once, it can get hung up and do the spin of doom.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    The software is well suited in lead scoring and workflows management. Product reliability in customer outreach management and segmentation. The product is worth it from pricing to quality ecommerce services and automation of processes.
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    Hootsuite
    Love it! In most cases, Talkwalker is a no-brainer: I can confidently recommend it to clients.
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    Usability
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    I think it's actually before the launches today, I would say eight, but after they launch, what's the name of the product? I dunno if it was the web intent or the sculpture. 10, because I think that the sculpture was the missing part of plates till now.
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    Hootsuite
    Despite all the functionalities available on the platform, I never felt overwhelmed or confused
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    Performance
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    No answers on this topic
    Hootsuite
    Talkwalker gets the job done at a basic level. It performs regular indexing of existing webpages and tracks the instances in which a particular brand or company is mentioned. Especially for being free, this is an awesome resource. However, it should be said that this product does not perform nearly at the level of the paid options.
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    Support Rating
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    No answers on this topic
    Hootsuite
    They are very helpful, but can sometimes be a little too quick and not explain things in as great a depth as we would like. They have great staff and programs, and we don't really have any other major complaints. Support is very responsive and helpful when need be.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    So in a sense, there is a large community, and because of the community you also learn multiple workflows and how to use it better. You can kind of democratize or source knowledge more easily on how to use the product, and also transfer it so other people can use it more easily. So in a sense, that works.
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    Hootsuite
    I have yet to find another tool that would provide me with such a detailed information per query. It's such a find! Plus, I get separate emails per a search query and I'm able to archive those emails to the appropriate folders and always have a way of looking back. It's very useful for building monthly reports.
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    Return on Investment
    Clay Labs Inc. (dba Clay)
    • Without Clay we would probably have our agency, but not with the level of sophistication we have right now or really one of our USP that we are certified by Clay. That's how we get a lot of inbound leads as well. So that of course leads to a very healthy ROI. If we look at inbound.
    • I think negative as terms in negative ROI, I think this is a nice one to touch on. Expectation management for tooling such as Clay is extremely difficult because people see a lot of stuff happening on LinkedIn from the top 1% of Clay experts and they look at us and "hey, we want the same thing," basically. That's quite a challenge. So that's really a good conversation to have with your potential client as well. Like, "Hey, I know, tell me what you've seen. We're going to see what we can do if that's reasonable or not." Set realistic expectations there and don't expect to go from zero to 100 within a very small time window. So that was something we had to learn. We had a lot of unrealistic expectations for what we can do. We can improve your business, but we can't do it with a factor of X or in a period of eight weeks.
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    Hootsuite
    • The free tool is a no-brainer. It absolutely helps ferret out mentions on social media that I wasn't aware of before.
    • Now, I can use the tool for clients, too, so for consultants, it can be a great way to help stay on top of what's being said about them online, as well.
    • Using the paid version would help delve into even more insights for your business.
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