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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contently

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AContently is a SaaS content marketing platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York, containing features a collaboration space, calendar, and workflow controls, engagement metrics, and rapid access to a high volume of original content from freelance creative talent, researchers, and journalists. Contently has received approximately $12.3 million in funding since its founding in 2010.N/A

    Contentsquare

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AContentsquare is an enterprise experience intelligence and Digital Analytics platform designed to track, visualize, and optimize user journeys across websites and mobile applications. The platform captures digital interaction telemetry—such as clicks, scrolls, hovers, and page drop-offs—without manual event tagging to power Web Analytics, session replays, funnel visualization, and experience monitoring.N/A
    Pricing
    ContentlyContentsquare
    Editions & Modules
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ContentlyContentsquare
    Considered Both Products
    Contently
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    Contentsquare
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    ContentlyContentsquare
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Contently and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    Feature
    Contently
    9.6
    9 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
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    Ideation10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Approval workflows9.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration10.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Contently and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    Feature
    Contently
    9.6
    9 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
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    Content hub10.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution9.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion10.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Contently and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    Feature
    Contently
    9.6
    4 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
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    Audience profiling and targeting10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analytics10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Contently and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Contently and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
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    -
    Ratings
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Heatmap tool00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Click analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Scroll maps00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Goal tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ContentlyContentsquare
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (11 ratings)
    8.2
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.1
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ContentlyContentsquare
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contently
    It's helpful for top of marketing funnel writing that we can sometimes lose sight of because we are so ingrained in the product day to day. Contently is also helpful for long written pieces and ebooks that will take a significant amount of employee time to put together. I avoid using Contently for mid to bottom funnel marketing writing because my team will often have greater insight into the product function or use-case or product release, making them more adroit to the tone of the written piece and able to produce the content quickly.
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    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is good for a first pass at understanding user sentiment or locating potential usability issues. There are features such as "rage clicked" which shows recordings or instances when a user rage clicked or had an issue with your site. Hotjar has also been helpful to launch intercept surveys on mobile, desktop, and app, which not all competitor software allow. Hotjar recordings are fun to watch. "Watching Hotjar like Netflix" is a favorite pastime at work.
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    Pros
    Contently
    • Consolidating my work in one place to make my work life easier
    • Contently is unique from other content marketing organizational tools in one key way. It hands you a network of freelance professionals eager for delegated work.
    • You can search through a database of professionals to find the perfect person for your given project. Find individuals in your budget offering the exact skills and experience you need.
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    Contentsquare
    • Heat mapping is great on Hotjar. It is a good place to start when you are looking at the UX & CRO on your website. You can see the % of people clicking on elements on a page, how far they scroll, and mouse movements.
    • Hotjar is great for session recordings. These record the mouse movements, clicks, pages and scrolls of a user in video format. You can watch these to investigate what works well on a site and identify potential roadblocks and bugs.
    • Hotjar is great as it ensures that users details are anonymous; for instance, if you are watching a session recording, you cannot see what a user types in a form field, as Hotjar blanks this out.
    • Hotjar has a poll function, so you can have polls on your website.
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    Cons
    Contently
    • I have been using it for 3.5 years, and have had no response from potential clients.
    • The portfolio section is pretty easy to use, but I don't love the format.
    • Since I'm not a client, I don't know just how easy it is for them to find new freelancers or how often it is actually used.
    • Probably more suited for some types/concentrations of freelance writers, like finance, tech, or healthcare.
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    Contentsquare
    • Hotjar is primarily used for web-based experiences. Not that easy to use on mobile apps.
    • I'd love to see Hotjar integrated with Google Analytics for an even deeper view.
    • Hotjar is primarily used by smaller organizations...pricing can get steep quickly for larger organizations.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Contently
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    Contentsquare
    For small companies with limited user testing budgets, ClickTale serves as a useful user testing tool. When I cannot get the funds for in depth user testing, I always know that I have a baseline of information I can rely on
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    Usability
    Contently
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    Contentsquare
    It is fairly easy to use, easy to explain, and easy to learn even for a non-techie like me. I admit I was a little intimidated when it was recommended by my developers, but I learned afterwards that there really was nothing to worry about. My experience has been awesome so far!
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    Support Rating
    Contently
    I'm giving them a 10, but honestly, I've never reached out to them. I do see them putting out regular content on social media, so they might be responsive to questions there as well as regular customer support. In their posts and communication, they do seem to value their community, so hopefully, they have good customer support. And I've seen them asking for pitches from their community to publish well-paid articles during this stressful coronavirus time, and I really appreciate that.
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    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is a SaaS-based company, and as such has a good support service. Users can quickly submit support tickets through Hotjar's online portal. Enterprise customers get access to additional support members and have SLAs to support their larger, more complex needs. Overall, Hotjar is extremely reliable and I've never had to reach out to customer support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Contently
    I also opened an account with Skyword in 2019, which is a similar service. The person that recommended it was a travel writer, and since I've done that as well, I thought it might be a better fit. To this point, I've received no work from it either, and don't hold out a lot of hope. As previously mentioned, where I think Contently does well is by giving you an online portfolio, additional resources like a blog for learning, and a rates database for publications.
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    Contentsquare
    ContentSquare [(Clicktale)] is going deeper on UX understanding than traditional web analytics tools. You can truly understand how a page is used (where users click or even miss click, on which part of the page they are spending most of their time, if some links are clicked but bad positioned on the page...), and that's a thing you can't really measure trough a traditional web analytics tool.
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    Return on Investment
    Contently
    • Contently contributors have produced some great inbound marking posts and creative materials saving our marketing team significant time allowing them to focus on more strategic plans for the business.
    • The amount of time Contently has saved our internal creative writing staff has more than paid for itself!
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    Contentsquare
    • Our UX team can now use hard data to back up and validate design decisions that we make. Our role as usability experts is becoming more respected and integral to business objectives because we now have data that can back up our field of study and prove that our roles are demonstrably useful and necessary.
    • HotJar allows our small team of 3 UX designers to get research data as if we were a much larger team. Instead of painstakingly using our time to do guerrilla research, endless user observations, and other types of manual testing, we can now get a significant portion of our data from HotJar.
    • Using HotJar is actually giving our team a sense of excitement and enjoyment in our day-to-day usability work. Instead of seeing UX as a chore, HotJar is making data gathering and analyzing more fun, because we can see tangible results from a much larger pool of user/user-data than we could in the past.
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