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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

    Monetate

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMonetate (formerly Kibo Personalization, powered by Monetate and Certona) is an ecommerce personalization software for consumer-facing brands. Monetate enables brands to create individualized experiences for site visitors, with the goal of improving engagement and business performance. Founded in 2008, Monetate services Adidas, Lufthansa, Office Depot, Reebok, Wolseley, and other companies.N/A
    Pricing
    EmplifiMonetate
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    EmplifiMonetate
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    EmplifiMonetate
    Considered Both Products
    Emplifi Inc
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    Monetate
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    76 Answers
    82%
    Would buy again
    32 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    63 Answers
    84%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    80 Answers
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
    72%
    Implementation went as expected
    18 Answers
    Features
    EmplifiMonetate
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Emplifi and Monetate
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.4
    7 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Monetate
    -
    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 Emplifi and Monetate
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Monetate
    -
    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 Emplifi and Monetate
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Monetate
    -
    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 Emplifi and Monetate
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Monetate
    -
    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 Emplifi and Monetate
    Feature
    Emplifi
    5.8
    8 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Monetate
    -
    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 Emplifi and Monetate
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.4
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Monetate
    -
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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 Monetate
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Monetate
    -
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    Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    EmplifiMonetate
    Small Businesses
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Vista Social
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Dynamic Yield
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Dynamic Yield
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EmplifiMonetate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (110 ratings)
    5.4
    (117 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.2
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    6.4
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (43 ratings)
    8.0
    (16 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (15 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EmplifiMonetate
    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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    Monetate
    Monetate is a fully functional space to generate multiple marketing campaigns for your company on the web, many of the functions found in this program are a contribution to manage your content correctly and give it the space you are looking for, we We recommend it one hundred percent. We feel very comfortable with everything we have been able to achieve thanks to this program.
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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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    Monetate
    • Audience segmentation is relatively painless. They provide a robust way to granularly target visitors by device type, location, weather, demographics, etc.
    • Our CSM has been very engaged and detailed in supporting our partnership. She provides very prompt responses and clearly works hard to push the Kibo team when possible.
    • The User Interface to develop new actions is not terrible.
    • Supports Single Sign On, which is the preferred method of managing users at my organization.
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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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    Monetate
    • We'd like to be able to use the Monetate resources to help us set up tests that require web dev (to get it out of our backlog), but they also have wait times similar to our internal ones. I realize resources are hard to come by, but this is an area we'd love to be able to utilize more if the turnaround were quicker.
    • IE is always a problem. I know it's not Monetate-specific though, and many tools struggle with IE.
    • We have a large percentage of our users who use IE, and I'd like to provide more experiences in IE without and additional hassle.
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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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    Monetate
    I had never worked within a company that had a tool like this. It made my life as a designer and a creative manager much easier with it's easy to use interface and limitless possibilities in terms of creative. I would highly recommend taking Monetate for a test drive, you will not be disappointed.
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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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    Monetate
    Part of what I love about Monetate is how intuitive the tool is. Very very easy to use - based on the basics - Who/What/When/Where concept. Anyone can jump right in and start using the tool. And very easy to copy campaigns and tweak to continue to build experiences. We recently added Monetate on mobile and similar experience - easy to jump back and forth between platforms. Also love the analytics dashboard...easily quantifiable and easy to get tidbits that are digestible for others not as familiar with tool.
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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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    Monetate
    Monetate support team meets with use weekly, answers emails daily and promptly. They are proactive about getting answers for us when we need it and offering suggestions based on observations they have or learnings they want to share from other partners. Monetate's support is top notch.
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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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    Monetate
    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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    Monetate
    Monetate installs easily and sets up personalization with just a few clicks. We never used the recommendation engine but the multivariant testing was great.
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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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    Monetate
    At the time of selection, it was the best tool to fit our business needs. The day-to-day users were able to create some experiences on their own and did not require much oversight. We also had developer support built into our contract along with internal developer support so most experiences were achievable. We believed it was as good and in some ways better than the other comparable tools on the market.
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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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    Monetate
    • We are really starting to understand our audience and what they prefer on our website. One example is on our product display pages, we learned that our visitors convert about 35% more when content is laid out in one fashion versus another. Another example is our promotional banners perform better when it takes up the width of the page versus the margins pulled in more.
    • At first, Monetate was a negative ROI - we were paying for a service we weren't getting, and not understanding the full power of the program. With the new optimization firm however, we are now really able to churn out more tests, have a clean and direct test plan, and finally seeing tangible results.
    • As an aside, Monetate has helped us just save time and money on creating our promotional banners now so we don't have to get with our development team each time we want to put one up. Even without running a test, it has let us add content to our site when we need to (as we already have the experiments set up as we need it to and we can quickly duplicate it) without our developers getting in there to make those short-lived changes.
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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.