Emplifi vs. Meta Business Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emplifi
Score 8.4 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
Meta Business Suite
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Formerly known as Facebook Business Suite or Facebook for Business, a solution for small businesses used to manage all business activity on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram from one place. It is presented as a one-stop shop where business owners can manage all marketing and advertising activities on Facebook and Instagram. It centralizes tools that help the user to connect with customers on all apps and get better business results.N/A
Pricing
EmplifiMeta Business Suite
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EmplifiMeta Business Suite
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
EmplifiMeta Business Suite
Considered Both Products
Emplifi
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.

Chose Emplifi
I inherited Simply Measured when I joined. It was a very clunky platform with Excel data outputs that would freeze my computer because they were so large.

One thing that I miss is a list of accounts that engaged with owned posts that were in those fairly large Excel files.
Meta Business Suite

No answer on this topic

Features
EmplifiMeta Business Suite
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.4
7 Ratings
17% below category average
Meta Business Suite
6.3
14 Ratings
19% below category average
Boolean keyword searches6.75 Ratings6.39 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam6.46 Ratings6.011 Ratings
Sentiment analysis5.55 Ratings6.511 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.07 Ratings6.213 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
8 Ratings
10% below category average
Meta Business Suite
7.1
16 Ratings
13% below category average
Content planning and scheduling7.38 Ratings7.616 Ratings
Audience targeting7.07 Ratings7.516 Ratings
Content optimization7.38 Ratings6.713 Ratings
Workflow management7.67 Ratings6.311 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
7 Ratings
10% below category average
Meta Business Suite
6.6
13 Ratings
20% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization7.37 Ratings6.99 Ratings
Customer interaction histories8.25 Ratings6.412 Ratings
Bulk actions6.46 Ratings6.711 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
6 Ratings
1% below category average
Meta Business Suite
7.2
16 Ratings
7% below category average
Lead generation8.01 Ratings7.115 Ratings
Content marketing7.66 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Paid media management7.74 Ratings7.715 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions7.34 Ratings7.113 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
Meta Business Suite
7.8
14 Ratings
7% below category average
Twitter6.18 Ratings8.34 Ratings
Facebook7.98 Ratings8.513 Ratings
LinkedIn4.17 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Google+8.01 Ratings7.25 Ratings
Instagram7.38 Ratings8.314 Ratings
Pinterest3.25 Ratings7.85 Ratings
YouTube3.95 Ratings7.15 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.4
8 Ratings
19% below category average
Meta Business Suite
7.6
16 Ratings
2% below category average
Campaign success analytics7.07 Ratings7.816 Ratings
Real-time tracking6.78 Ratings7.516 Ratings
Competitor analysis5.57 Ratings7.610 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.7
8 Ratings
17% below category average
Meta Business Suite
7.2
14 Ratings
10% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings7.314 Ratings
Mobile access6.15 Ratings7.113 Ratings
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EmplifiMeta Business Suite
Small Businesses
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
EmplifiMeta Business Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(110 ratings)
7.2
(109 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(6 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(36 ratings)
6.3
(17 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.9
(43 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
EmplifiMeta Business Suite
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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Meta Platforms Inc
Meta Business Suite has been highly effective in exposing our brand and our clients' brands to a large audience. It is also one of the most cost-effective ad platforms for B2B marketing campaigns. The issue is filtering out low-quality leads from a B2B lead generation process, as you often receive as many poor-quality leads as high-quality ones.
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
  • Segmentation is HUGE. You can segment by almost anything you want, be it demographic, sociological, behavioral... you name it. You can also create targets based on your visitors and their actions. Even custom lists.
  • They are very good at optimizing your campaigns automatically. This is so important because it will improve your ROI in several multiples otherwise
  • Managing ads in general works fine, and the data, even though is not exactly as accurate as Analytics, it's pretty decent.
  • Gives you placements and different ad types so you can get the most out of it.
  • Pixel and catalog integration are very powerful. You can almost instantly start tracking and catalog fetches your site daily for updates.
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
  • The planner enables timings of others' posts to be seen easily, but an easier view of that content (eg by hovering over it) would be preferable
  • Insights gives detailed information on the performance of posts, but could be more intuitive - and it would be helpful if it flagged particularly good performers or practices.
  • Sometimes using @ tags is a little slow - and it's not always easy to tell which ones you want without opening another window and testing them yourself.
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
We have to continue using this tool in order to be effective on this marketing platform. Though there are several changes I wish we could see, the fact is that we will still need to use this product to provide customers with the information they need.
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
Meta Business Suite is a solid, centralized tool that covers the core needs of social media planning and publishing. However, some limitations — like inconsistent Reels functionality, clunky previews, and lack of creative asset organization — hold it back from being a seamless, end-to-end solution. There's a lot of potential with continued improvements.
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Reliability and Availability
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
I've only dealt with the API having issues a couple times, but as you can imagine an outage is not something an advertiser would find acceptable, especially during any ecommerce-heavy time of year. The overall platform could use some help with availability when it comes to authentication, as it struggles with consistency in authentication.
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Performance
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
There are a lot of shortcomings when it comes to performance. There are pages that I do not expect to have much information to load on the page, yet it takes an incredibly long time (10+ secondes). I have not had experience with the integration slowing other platforms down too much.
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
I've found the Facebook for Business support to be hit or miss. For billing questions they're timely and helpful. For complex questions about specific services I've often received a longer wait and a less helpful experience. I'm often redirected to their docs, which are often not particularly helpful.
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
No answers on this topic
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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Meta Platforms Inc
Take all of the training offered through Facebook first before attempting to create a page on the platform. Learn all of the capabilities available to you. Learn about the different types of audiences who might be interested in seeing your page. Create short video clips as though they are viewed at a much higher rate than anything else. Offer free giveaways or raffles to further build to your list of prospects and drive traffic to your website
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its industry-leading targeting functionality (which is a result of that massive user base!).
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Scalability
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
This product is definitely able to run at scale, but it would be wise to have enough eyeballs to oversee it and the tools for keeping the campaigns, adsets, and ads organized could use some improvement. I can also see the UI interfering with usability at greater amounts of scale.
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
  • Overall positive ROI has been achieved using this platform. You must have a clear understanding of where your CPL maximums are to remain profitable and either optimize to success or pull the plug on campaigns that are bleeding spend.
  • This is a great platform to build new audiences or grow existing ones.
  • Building audience segments via pixel tracking is a huge win for this platform.
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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.