Emplifi vs. Talkwalker by Hootsuite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emplifi
Score 8.7 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
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Talkwalker is a consumer intelligence company that bring sin data from 30+ social networks, 150 million websites, and 100 data partners to give customers a unified view of their consumers. Talkwalker is a Hootsuite solution since the 2024 acquisition.N/A
Pricing
EmplifiTalkwalker by Hootsuite
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
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
EmplifiTalkwalker by Hootsuite
Considered Both Products
Emplifi
Chose Emplifi
we use Talkwalker in conjunction with Emplifi as together they seem to provide the most complete picture. Talkwalker provides a very in-depth listening tool which has helped in some situations a lot more.
Chose Emplifi
In relation to Talkwalker, Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud has a better performance when we talk about our own publications. On the "open sea", Talkwalker has excellent performance and coverage.
Chose Emplifi
I think Emplifi is much better in terms of real time data crawling. It is way faster than Fanpage Karma and gathers more metrics as well.
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
Chose Talkwalker by Hootsuite
For our needs, Talkwalker is the best 'all-rounder' in the market. Some of the other platforms focus more on certain media types (social in particular) or specific geographies (western markets or English speaking markets). Talkwalker covers all media and all markets very well. …
Features
EmplifiTalkwalker by Hootsuite
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.4
7 Ratings
17% below category average
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
8 Ratings
10% below category average
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
7 Ratings
10% below category average
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
6 Ratings
1% below category average
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
5.8
8 Ratings
36% below category average
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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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
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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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 Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.7
8 Ratings
17% below category average
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
EmplifiTalkwalker by Hootsuite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(110 ratings)
8.3
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(6 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(36 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(43 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
EmplifiTalkwalker by Hootsuite
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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Hootsuite
Talkwalker is well suited for big companies and agencies that are looking for a long-term solution to keep track of the industry and/or their brands and key competitors. While setup requires a bit of dedication (especially in terms of custom filters and tags), once it's done, the tool will give the user a lot of flexibility to analyze the conversations and find the relevant results that answer the business questions. Companies just looking for a tool to track a short time period, or simple things like Twitter hashtags, won't take advantage of the full capabilities of this tool. Therefore, they could feel frustrated when comparing the outcomes/usage versus the costs.
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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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Hootsuite
  • Truly global listening platform - monitor a deep range of media types from all over the world. Particularly strong in supporting competitive monitoring and analysis briefs across regions and countries. It monitors content in original language which I believe is a very strong monitoring factor.
  • Easy to use yet powerful dashboard visualisations - the dashboard interface is among the best I have seen. While it can accomplish many things, and under the hood is a very powerful and complex tool, the user interface is very intuitive, slick, quick and packed with all the KPIs you could want.
  • Customisation of the tool is a great feature. You can build your own dashboard and reporting spaces to suit your needs. You can schedule alerts from the system in a variety of outputs to keep you up to date with the latest events.
  • Customer support & technological advancement - the team at Talkwalker are highly proficient, always willing to support our every need, however big or small. Talkwalker aim to release around 4 software updates each year which means the platform is always full of the latest data visualisations and monitoring technologies
  • Having 'traditional' media monitored alongside social as well as owned media assets in one dashboard space is invaluable to help brands understand where their media footprint lies and how they perform in each media set, relative to the others.
  • AI - Talkwalker has introduced greater AI capabilities recently which means the capability of the tool in monitoring is ever-increasing, and the accuracy of targeting content and sentiment analysis is improving. The Visual Insights and image recognition technology is a really strong feature, and a very welcome addition to the monitoring aspect
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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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Hootsuite
  • The system is complicated. With everything that you're able to do, it does come at the cost of simplicity. It definitely requires training and a high level of expertise to properly leverage what it can do.
  • The system can be slow. If you "ask" it to do too many things at once, it can get hung up and do the spin of doom.
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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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Hootsuite
Love it! In most cases, Talkwalker is a no-brainer: I can confidently recommend it to clients.
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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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Hootsuite
Despite all the functionalities available on the platform, I never felt overwhelmed or confused
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Performance
Emplifi Inc
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Hootsuite
Talkwalker gets the job done at a basic level. It performs regular indexing of existing webpages and tracks the instances in which a particular brand or company is mentioned. Especially for being free, this is an awesome resource. However, it should be said that this product does not perform nearly at the level of the paid options.
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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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Hootsuite
They are very helpful, but can sometimes be a little too quick and not explain things in as great a depth as we would like. They have great staff and programs, and we don't really have any other major complaints. Support is very responsive and helpful when need be.
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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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Hootsuite
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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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Hootsuite
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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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Hootsuite
I have yet to find another tool that would provide me with such a detailed information per query. It's such a find! Plus, I get separate emails per a search query and I'm able to archive those emails to the appropriate folders and always have a way of looking back. It's very useful for building monthly reports.
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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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Hootsuite
  • The free tool is a no-brainer. It absolutely helps ferret out mentions on social media that I wasn't aware of before.
  • Now, I can use the tool for clients, too, so for consultants, it can be a great way to help stay on top of what's being said about them online, as well.
  • Using the paid version would help delve into even more insights for your business.
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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.