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    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

    Google Analytics

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Analytics is perhaps the best-known web analytics product and, as a free product, it has massive adoption. Although it lacks some enterprise-level features compared to its competitors in the space, the launch of the paid Google Analytics Premium edition seems likely to close the gap.

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    EmplifiGoogle Analytics
    Editions & Modules
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    Google Analytics 360
    150,000
    per year
    Google Analytics
    Free
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EmplifiGoogle Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    EmplifiGoogle Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    Emplifi Inc
    Chose Emplifi
    I feel that all three of these tools are great, and it may even come down to personal preference on minor things (such as the way certain information is presented or visualized) when determining which is best. For us, Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud's strong features come at a …
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    The reporting part is much more fancy and easy to use than Brandwatch! However, I use more the ENGAGE and PUBLISH functions of Brandwatch because I'm more efficient with it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Emplifi
    In our view, Socialbakers does not have real competitors. It offers a comprehensive solution for social media analytics and publishing. After thorough market research, we concluded that we would only ask for a bid from Socialbakers.

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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
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    Features
    EmplifiGoogle Analytics
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Emplifi and Google Analytics
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.4
    7 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Google Analytics
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    Boolean keyword searches6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis5.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Emplifi and Google Analytics
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Google Analytics
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    Content planning and scheduling7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Emplifi and Google Analytics
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Google Analytics
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    Automated routing and prioritization7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Emplifi and Google Analytics
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Google Analytics
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    Lead generation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Emplifi and Google Analytics
    Feature
    Emplifi
    5.8
    8 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Google Analytics
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    Twitter6.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn4.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pinterest3.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube3.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Emplifi and Google Analytics
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.4
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Google Analytics
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    Campaign success analytics7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking6.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis5.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Emplifi and Google Analytics
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Google Analytics
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    Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Emplifi and Google Analytics
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Google Analytics
    8.4
    11 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Lead Conversion Tracking00 Ratings8.210 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement00 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting00 Ratings9.311 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking00 Ratings9.111 Ratings
    Event Tracking00 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time00 Ratings7.810 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking00 Ratings8.610 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    EmplifiGoogle Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (110 ratings)
    8.5
    (193 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (51 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    7.4
    (19 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (43 ratings)
    7.0
    (42 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    10.0
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    EmplifiGoogle Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Google
    Google Analytics is particularly well suited for tracking and analyzing customer behavior on a grocery e-commerce platform. It provides a wealth of information about customer behavior, including what products are most popular, what pages are visited the most, and where customers are coming from. This information can help the platform optimize its website for better customer engagement and conversion rates. However, Google Analytics may not be the best tool for more advanced, granular analysis of customer behavior, such as tracking individual customer journeys or understanding customer motivations. In these cases, it may be more appropriate to use additional tools or solutions that provide deeper insights into customer behavior.
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    Pros
    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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    Google
    • Multiple reports to see website use and behavior
    • Allows you to customize reports with days, weeks, months, and years
    • You can build out a dashboard to easily view stats from multiple websites in one place
    • You can share analytics reports via the dashboard, automatically emailed PDFs or in other formats
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    Cons
    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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    Google
    • Data sampling is somewhat inaccurate on the free tier - this is addressed in premium but is expensive.
    • Some of the UI is very similar in naming when presenting different data, some in-situ information might be useful.
    • Gotchas around filtering and data validation.
    • Implementation can be tricky, it can take a lot of time and expertise to get a full, accurate picture of your metrics.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Google
    We will continue to use Google Analytics for several reasons. It is free, which is a huge selling point. It houses all of our ecommerce stores' data, and though it can't account for refunds or fraud orders, gives us and our clients directional, real time information on individual and group store performance.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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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    Google
    Google Analytics provides a wealth of data, down to minute levels. That is it's greatest detriment: find the right information when you need it can be a cumbersome task. You are able to create shortcuts, however, so it can mitigate some of this problem. Google is continually refining Analytics, so I do not doubt there will be improvements
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    Reliability and Availability
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    We all know Google is at top when it comes to availability. We have never faced any such instances where I can suggest otherwise. All you need is a Google account, a device and internet connection to use this super powerful tool for reporting and visualising your site data, traffic, events, etc. that too in real time.
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    Performance
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    This has been a catalyst for improving our site's traffic handling capabilities. We were able to identify exit% from our sites through it and we used recommendations to handle and implement the same in our sites. We have been increasing the usage of Google Analytics in our sites and never had any performance related issues if we used Analytics
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    Support Rating
    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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    Google
    The Google reps respond very quickly. However, sometimes they can overly call you to set up an apportionment. I'm very proficient and sometimes when I talk to reps, they give beginner tutorials and insights that are a waste of time. I wish Google would understand my level of expertise and assign me to a rep (long-term) that doesn't have to walk me through the basics.
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    Online Training
    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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    Google
    love the product and training they provide for businesses of all sizes. The following list of links will help you get started with Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented by Google Analytics.
    1. How to Use Google Analytics for Beginners – Mahalo’s how-to guide for beginners.
    2. A beginner’s guide to Google Analytics – A free eBook walking you through Google Analytics from setup to understanding what data is being presented.
    3. Getting to Know Your Google Analytics Dashboard – The title says it all! This is a brief post with one goal: to introduce you to the Google Analytics dashboard.
    4. Google Analytics for Beginners: How to Make the Most of Your Traffic Reports– This guide doesn’t cover setup, but it does a great job of helping you to better understand the data being presented.
    5. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 1: Setup – A video presentation that walks you through Google Analytics setup.
    6. Google Analytics Video Tutorial 2: Essential Stats – A video presentation that introduces you to some of the most important data being presented in Google Analytics.
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    Implementation Rating
    Emplifi Inc
    The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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    Google
    I think my biggest take away from the Google Analytics implementation was that there needs to be a clear understanding of what you want to achieve and how you want to achieve it before you start. Originally the analytics were added to track visitors, but as we became more savvy with the product, we began adding more and more functionality, and defining guidelines as we went along. While not detrimental to our success, this lack of an overarching goal resulted in some minor setbacks in implementation and the collection of some messy data that is unusable.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Google
    I have not used Adobe Analytics as much, but I know they offer something called customer journey analytics, which we are evaluating now. I have used Semrush, and I find them much better than Google Analytics. I feel a fairly nontechnical person could learn Semrush in about a month. They also offer features like competitive analysis (on content, keywords, traffic, etc.), which is very useful. If you have to choose one among Semrush and Google Analytics, I would say go for Semrush.
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    Scalability
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Google Analytics is currently handling the reporting and tracking of near about 80 sites in our project. And I am not talking about the sites from different projects. They may have way more accounts than that. Never ever felt a performance issue from Google's end while generating or customising reports or tracking custom events or creating custom dimensions
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Google
    • It has helped us gain understanding of what is going on on our website.
    • It has helped us determine areas that need fixing (i.e. pages with extremely high bounce rates may need to be redone).
    • It has helped us understand our biggest avenues for bringing traffic to the website and business in general.
    • It has helped guide our website redesign.
    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.