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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Critical Mention

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACritical Mention headquartered in New York offers their eponymous media monitoring platform for public relations and crisis management.N/A

    Emplifi

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Emplifi offers a platform that enables brands to manage social marketing, commerce, and care. At the core of this platform is Emplifi Fuel — the outcome and enablement layer that connects all modules across marketing, commerce, and care. Fuel empowers brands to optimize the customer journey, unifying data, automation, and AI-driven insights to ensure every interaction drives meaningful business outcomes. The platform's core capabilities include:…N/A
    Pricing
    Critical MentionEmplifi
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    Pricing Offerings
    Critical MentionEmplifi
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Critical MentionEmplifi
    Considered Both Products
    Critical Mention
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    Emplifi Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    76 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    57%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    63 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    71%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    80 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    Features
    Critical MentionEmplifi
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Critical Mention and Emplifi
    Feature
    Critical Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.4
    7 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings6.75 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Critical Mention and Emplifi
    Feature
    Critical Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings7.67 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Critical Mention and Emplifi
    Feature
    Critical Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Critical Mention and Emplifi
    Feature
    Critical Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings7.66 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Critical Mention and Emplifi
    Feature
    Critical Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    5.8
    8 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings7.98 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings4.17 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings3.25 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings3.95 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Critical Mention and Emplifi
    Feature
    Critical Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.4
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings6.78 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Critical Mention and Emplifi
    Feature
    Critical Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings7.38 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
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    Critical MentionEmplifi
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    Enterprises
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    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Critical MentionEmplifi
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.6
    (21 ratings)
    9.2
    (110 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (43 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Critical MentionEmplifi
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Critical Mention
    Critical Mention is great for schools/businesses/etc. that want to know when they are in the news. Sometimes a brand's reputation can suffer greatly if you are not aware of an issue that was posted by a competitor or media outlet If you are not in the news a lot, there is no need for this product.
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    Emplifi Inc
    - Very well suited to grabbing top-level and more in-depth social performance data, across campaigns and BAU activity. - Not as well suited for moments where you need benchmarking or context of your performance compared with a previous time frame. This can be a bit clunky to go back and forth with as it requires multiple dashboards or consistent manual time-frame changes.
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    Pros
    Critical Mention
    • Critical Mention's customer service is excellent. Any time we've had a challenge finding a clip or anything, they are on top of it and go above and beyond to make sure we have what we are looking for quickly.
    • The ability to create tailored clips of each mention and quickly share them is unparalleled.
    • The reporting feature is fantastic. It makes it very simple to pull detailed reports and share them with interested parties.
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    Emplifi Inc
    • Helps us prioritize requests based on urgency and tone
    • Helps us divide work between several teams
    • Helps us keep an eye on how our posts are being recieved and are performing
    • Helps us stay in contact with customers, and helps us understand particular customers needs
    • Helps us separate the chaff from the wheat
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    Cons
    Critical Mention
    • I believe the one frustration I have with searching in general that if the closed captioning is not correct on the broadcast end Critical Mention will miss that data. Which is not a Critical Mention issue and does overcome depending on the search. Also, it would be great if you wanted to capture a complete 30 minutes newscast, it could be done by using the search. The clips need to be about to handle 30-minute programs.
    • One nagging issue when using Critical Mention is that it does not save e-mail addresses when sending a report and this requires a waste of time having to type in e-mails that should be able to be pulled from the customers' contacts.
    • Also, it would be great if you wanted to capture a complete 30 minutes newscast, it could be done by using the search. The clips need to be able to handle 30-minute programs.
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    Emplifi Inc
    • Would love more robust search parameters for labels. ex. search for tickets labeled 'Availability' AND 'United States' but excluding any that are only one of those labels
    • Ability to break conversations into multiple tickets; so labels can be more accurate if the same person reaches out again after 3 months with a totally different question
    • The social account quick view doesn't always load the follower count for people reaching out to us. it makes it slower to manager messages from high level creators
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Critical Mention
    I gave this a 5 only because I do not make the decisions to renew. When I used this at my previous company, I also recommended to the decision maker to renew this tool as it was a crucial piece to the overall client objective
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    Emplifi Inc
    the balance between quality and price si perfectperfect for agency that have many client to manage, because it helps us to save time (we don't have to plan content from every single account, only one click to look at different community and moderate...)it also help the team works: senior can review content direcly from emplifi; labeling DM/comments as done help us to track where a collegue stop and we have to startIt makes the content approval from clients very easy
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    Usability
    Critical Mention
    It's great for quickly looking up a specific clip, but this platform makes it difficult to select and accurately report on a high volume of clips
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    Emplifi Inc
    Since the main use of the Live Advisor is on the website that doesn't have e-commerce capabilities, it has been challenging to attach an specific metric to Emplifi's solutions and their usability in our websites. The Live Advisor is helping us to deliver our unique sale proposition in digital channels, which is great, but it is difficult to assign a higher mark in usability due to the limitation just explained.
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    Support Rating
    Critical Mention
    Look, Critical Mention follows up on an or phone call immediately or in the AM the following business day. I have called them after hours and get a live person to work through any issues that may have come up. Support seems to be job one with Critical Mention.
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    Emplifi Inc
    We have a dedicated Customer Success manager, and that is very helpful. Anytime we have questions or need support, they are always there to answer. If thety do not know the solution, they always go around the bend to find one and provide it to us. They are always very kind.
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    Online Training
    Critical Mention
    No answers on this topic
    Emplifi Inc
    The online training was fine but, in the end, the best way to learn any product is by actually using it.
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    Implementation Rating
    Critical Mention
    Critical Mention implementation was easy and fast. Their support and training were awesome.
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    Emplifi Inc
    The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Critical Mention
    Burrelles is confusing and outdated. Critical Mention works on the side of the account team and understands our needs better. I was able to share hundreds of outlets that I wanted to be included in my online search and Critical Mention added all of them in less than a day I was seeing better results in my searches. The possibilities with Burrelles seem limited while Critical Mention's online monitoring service really lets me craft reports the way I want to
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    Emplifi Inc
    We have used Sprinklr to source UGC content as well, but found the platform to be much more time intensive when searching for the desired images. Additionally, Emplifi's UGC tool has incremental tools the other platforms do not provide, including the ability to share images on digital screens within the property and put carousels on our websites.
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    Return on Investment
    Critical Mention
    • Every week the department I am a part does dozens of searches on Critical Mention. We use it as our primary search engine for all things broadcast.
    • One negative aspect is that we do not know where Critical Mention gets their audience viewing numbers from so we just have to take it as their word.
    • Another negative aspect is that we are limited on the amount of time that one clip can be so we have to share several clips of the same show with our clients.
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    Emplifi Inc
    • reporting - this has massively reduced the time spent on creating reports for social media activities
    • paid ads - has provided detailed analysis of how our ads are performing
    • community - reduced the time taken to respond to social messages, resulting in more leads
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