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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Directly

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ADirectly’s crowd platform harnesses thousands of independent experts and AI technology to automate common customer questions and deliver customer service that consumers love. The vendor states companies like Airbnb, Microsoft, and Samsung partner with Directly to improve the customer experience, boosting CSAT by 20% while reducing contact center volume and saving millions per year. Directly is based in San Francisco and backed by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures, Samsung NEXT, True…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

    Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AWildfire was a social media advertising management software application that was acquired but since discontinued by Google.N/A
    Pricing
    DirectlyEmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DirectlyEmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    DirectlyEmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Considered Multiple Products
    Directly Software, Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Emplifi Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Would buy again
    76 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    63 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    80 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    DirectlyEmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Directly and Emplifi and Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Directly
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.4
    7 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings5.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Directly and Emplifi and Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Directly
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Directly and Emplifi and Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Directly
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Directly and Emplifi and Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Directly
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Lead generation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Directly and Emplifi and Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Directly
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    5.8
    8 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Twitter00 Ratings6.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings4.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings3.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings3.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Directly and Emplifi and Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Directly
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.4
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings6.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings5.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Directly and Emplifi and Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Directly
    -
    Ratings
    Emplifi
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DirectlyEmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (110 ratings)
    2.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (43 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DirectlyEmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Directly Software, Inc.
    It is well suited for customer experience service management but, it should focus more on a support system.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    The transition to Google has been painful - key contacts are no longer available.
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    Pros
    Directly Software, Inc.
    • customer messaging management
    • IVR
    • Branding
    Incentivized
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Facebook tab implementation. Allows you to easily create and produce functioning social tabs on your brands FB page.
    • Add voting, sweepstakes, poll functionality to your website. Easily implement these campaigns to increase user engagement and TOS.
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    Cons
    Directly Software, Inc.
    • support
    • moderation
    • termination process
    Incentivized
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • More customization - Would like to have the ability to edit more without coding.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Directly Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Our initial contract with Wildfire Whitelabel was for $30,000/year, as we progressed we found several alternatives for significantly less. We used this to our advantage to lower the second year to $17,000 with the limitation in the level of support (they call this their "core" subscription). Support has been quite bad.

    During our contract, we also asked for quotes on some custom work, but never managed to get an answer (or actual quote). Now two years into our contract, the limitations and lack of development are enough for us to find a different solution. Newcomers to the market like Rafflecopter, WooBox and PunchTab are delivering much better results for a fraction of the price
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    Usability
    Directly Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Very easy to use, almost anyone can learn how to build a comprehensive promotion.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Directly Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    I have never been kicked out of Wildfire service. Always up and running.
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    Performance
    Directly Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Easy to perform tasks and quick to upload changes to your promotions.
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    Support Rating
    Directly Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Phone and email support were always available to us when we needed it.
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    Online Training
    Directly Software, Inc.
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Gave me a thorough rundown on everything the software does. Sometimes it is difficult to run through it all over the phone/internet, but I was able to figure it out myself.
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    Implementation Rating
    Directly Software, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Emplifi Inc
    The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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    Discontinued Products
    Simple to use and very effective in increasing user engagement on both social channels and website. Noticeably helped raise TOS.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Directly Software, Inc.
    Directly is more user-friendly and provides an easy interface. It's help desk software and chat support is very interactive
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Wildfire was a merely an adequate social media tool when it existed as a standalone, but it just couldn't compete against other players like Sprout, Falcon, and Sprinklr.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Directly Software, Inc.
    • increased branding
    • increased numbers of customer
    • increased customer loyalty
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Discontinued Products
    • As with any social media management tool, there is a savings on labor hours (rather than doing the manual work)
    • Aggregating all content into one system creates efficiencies for content teams
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Emplifi Fuel Command CenterScreenshot of Emplifi Fuel ObjectivesScreenshot of Emplifi Unified AnalyticsScreenshot of social listening with AI-Powered Spike Alerts.Screenshot of the integrated social care interface.