Demographics Pro vs. Helixa

Demographics Pro is really useful for getting nitty gritty info about audiences. Having this info to back up reasoning for working with an influencer or for developing a brand campaign is especially useful. The interface is also really easy to navigate and looks great. I can easily just screenshot and add it into my presentations.

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Users have to be upfront with clients on where Helixa is pulling data from or they could get the wrong idea about the insights. Helixa pulls from a number of sources to gain insight but may not specifically be from the owned channel social audience. By using total social view, you can potentially get the audience data for your Twitter channel which can add specificity to your insights but they can differ from the overall consumer audience. Helixa is best used as a starting point, a place to get ideas and pull supporting data to understand patterns in behavior about an audience. I would not necessarily take its word as gospel, just one piece of a larger insight. My favorite section are the opinions as they show what is most important to the specific audience and can really help get the wheels turning. My least favorite section are the influencer categories. From my experience with Helixa, the influencers tend to skew political and mainstream which is not necessarily what clients are looking for when trying to understand what kind of people are influencing audiences. I also mind that Helixa pulls in a lot of unnecessary social apps like Flickr or Foursquare which are hardly used anymore.

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• location demos
• income demos
• brand affinity info

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• Visualization
• Category organization
• Valuable intelligence

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• the price, it can be hard to justify the cost with some clients

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• Loading times
• Navigation
• Easier Social Audience Uploads

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Demographics Pro is able to provide much more in-depth data than Facebook or any other social platform can do natively. They are really not even comparable. Demographics Pro can provide info that I didn't even know was possible to obtain from social media audiences. The data that Facebook can provide is very very basic.

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Helixa is just a completely different beast entirely. Where other consumer research boils down their insights into reports, Helixa allows you to go through audience data with a fine tooth comb, also providing the opportunity for direct comparison across different brands or demographic groups. While we did pick Helixa, I can’t emphasize the need for making Helixa one tool in a tool box. While Mintel was a tool we considered that was similar-ish, we also use Mintel now to help complement Helixas insights

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• Has made it possible for us to justify campaigns with clients.

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• More creative pitches
• The allure of data driven services
• Signed scopes

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