Emplifi vs. Meltwater

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emplifi
Score 8.5 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
Meltwater
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
Meltwater Media Intelligence platform is a set of public relations software tools for media monitoring, social media monitoring, and collecting brand insights. The four areas of functionality are Monitor, Analyze, Distribute, and Engage. (Note that this product combines features from the vendor Meltwater's former Buzz, Press, and News products.)N/A
Pricing
EmplifiMeltwater
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EmplifiMeltwater
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
EmplifiMeltwater
Considered Both Products
Emplifi
Chose Emplifi
A better tool in terms of measurement
Chose Emplifi
I evaluated 10 different tools, Emplifi was one of them. What really set Emplifi apart was the user experience, quick turnaround for new features, and robust support. Emplifi allowed us to work most flexibly with the API of all social channels - offering features that other …
Chose Emplifi
The reporting is more customizable and we have received great support.
Chose Emplifi
There are different uses that we give to the tools, historical searches are not available to Emplifi but Brandwatch is, Klear gives us better metrics that are not visible.
Meltwater

No answer on this topic

Features
EmplifiMeltwater
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.4
7 Ratings
17% below category average
Meltwater
-
Ratings
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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
8 Ratings
10% below category average
Meltwater
-
Ratings
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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
7 Ratings
10% below category average
Meltwater
-
Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
6 Ratings
1% below category average
Meltwater
-
Ratings
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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
5.8
8 Ratings
36% below category average
Meltwater
-
Ratings
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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.4
8 Ratings
19% below category average
Meltwater
-
Ratings
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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.7
8 Ratings
17% below category average
Meltwater
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
EmplifiMeltwater
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(110 ratings)
7.2
(73 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(6 ratings)
10.0
(10 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(36 ratings)
6.8
(5 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(43 ratings)
10.0
(29 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
6.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
EmplifiMeltwater
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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Meltwater
Meltwater is well-suited for agencies that have an engagement team who is looking to service a variety of client needs such as social media reporting, public relations outreach, and community management. If you're looking to have a platform serve just one need, you can still use Meltwater but will get more bang for your buck if you are needing a variety of tools.
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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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Meltwater
  • Media research - you can search for relevant publications and journalists to add to your media list.
  • Earned media coverage - you can search for coverage of your brand and find news stories that also include data that may be useful (how many people did the story reach for example).
  • Building media lists - if you have no current existing list, you can build and export one in Excel for example.
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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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Meltwater
  • The dashboards are not user-friendly, customizable (color, font size, etc.), or worthy of presenting to a client. All of the insights from a dashboard get pulled from the platform and placed into a more client-friendly presentation.
  • Paywalls for certain publications connected to who-knows-what. DowJones racket limits media monitoring capabilities and results in manual searches for a growing number of publications.
  • TVeyes, the broadcast monitoring arm of the media monitoring capabilities, just needs TLC and to become more client-facing. Currently, the links produced to share clips look sketchy, and they have a relatively short shelf life.
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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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Meltwater
Meltwater works well for our organization and has allowed us to meet our internal goals. We are always open to new products and services that may be able to provide similar or better features; however, our experience has been that many of Meltwater's competitors are not up to the task.
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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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Meltwater
Once you get some basic training it's pretty easy to use. I would like to see training manuals, or instructional videos to help me explore features I'm not currently using.
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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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Meltwater
Our account rep at Meltwater went dark for a long time. Then, a couple of weeks ago, our new account manager reached out to set up a meeting. Apparently, they had a big shakeup in the company, and there were some personnel changes. Our new account rep was great in discussing the platform's capabilities that were available to us and even offered to schedule a follow-up meeting with his technical team to introduce our new social media team members to the platform and how it could help them with their jobs.
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In-Person Training
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Meltwater
Again, really in-depth and helpful for a program that is really easy to use.
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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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Meltwater
Walked step by step through program. Very informative on a program that doesn't require much training.
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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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Meltwater
You are only allowed 15 users, so make sure you've identified who will have access to use the tool.
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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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Meltwater
I was looking for a full-service option. I did some research. What really sold me was the presentation. They offered products that were helpful, and I wasn’t even aware of them. It is more expensive than the other products that are out there, but you get more. The other companies are good, but Meltwater Media Intelligence is more full service.
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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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Meltwater
  • As a PR firm, we rely on the media databases that [Meltwater Media Intelligence Platform] supplies to deliver the media exposure that they expect from us.
  • We utilize their tracking of media hits for our overall reporting to our clients.
  • Both of these are advantageous in helping us to not only keep our existing clients happy but also to gain new clients (and, in turn - revenue), as well.
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ScreenShots

Emplifi Screenshots

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.