Emplifi vs. JW Player

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emplifi
Score 8.8 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
JW Player
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
JW Player (or JWP) is a video platform boasting 40,000 broadcasters, publishers, and other video-driven brands whose business relies on video as users. It provides these companies with a way to accelerate and scale their video strategy and is a video platform that can be used to stream video, engage audiences on any screen, and monetize content.N/A
Pricing
EmplifiJW Player
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EmplifiJW Player
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
EmplifiJW Player
Features
EmplifiJW Player
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.4
7 Ratings
17% below category average
JW Player
-
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
JW Player
-
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
JW Player
-
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
JW Player
-
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
JW Player
-
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
18% below category average
JW Player
-
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
JW Player
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Video Marketing
Comparison of Video Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
Ratings
JW Player
8.6
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Support for advertisements00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Video SEO00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
Video Security
Comparison of Video Security features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
Ratings
JW Player
7.8
3 Ratings
10% below category average
Video access controls00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
User management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Video link sharing00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
External video00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Video Player
Comparison of Video Player features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
Ratings
JW Player
7.0
3 Ratings
16% below category average
Player customization00 Ratings2.03 Ratings
Embedded videos00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Video quality / Bandwidth controls00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Mobile compatibility00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Video Analytics
Comparison of Video Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
Ratings
JW Player
1.0
3 Ratings
155% below category average
Per viewer tracking00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Per video tracking00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Video analytics dashboard00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
Video Hosting, Management & Storage
Comparison of Video Hosting, Management & Storage features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
-
Ratings
JW Player
8.6
3 Ratings
1% below category average
On-Demand video00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Live streaming00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Video upload & format support00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Video library / File management00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Video portal00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
EmplifiJW Player
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(110 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(36 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(43 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
EmplifiJW Player
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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JW Player
JW Player has flexible plans that won't cost you a lot of money. If you are a startup, JW offers a variety of plans that will suit your specific needs and grow with you as your company grows. You do not need to be a video expert to understand how to upload a video, which allows nearly anyone in the office to do it.
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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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JW Player
  • Responsive HTML5
  • Provides share functionality built into the player
  • Platform use enables playlist functionality and playlist players which can be customized or versioned for specific uses
  • Videos uploaded to the JW Platform automatically provide multiple image frame options for selecting video thumbnail
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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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JW Player
  • Definitely missing the ability (in and easy way) to have clickable links in the video.
  • Analytics is a little cumbersome and not very user-friendly.
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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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JW Player
Just made the decision to renew given demonstrated improvements being made to the platform to expand compatibility for its player use on devices such as Apple TV, as well as improvements made recently to its JW Platform Dashboard
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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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JW Player
Reliability and compatibility on a majority of platforms. Would have received a 10 except recent versions of browsers such as Firefox are now defaulting against Flash components and thus prompting approval from users BEFORE loading which is a HUGE obstacle to an effective user experience thus creating concerns by end-users unnecessarily and risking that they will NOT accept the prompts, thus leaving unable to view video content hosted using the JW Player. Assurances by JW support suggest they will resolve this, so we'll see...
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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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JW Player
Support is reasonable. I from time to time have made suggestions on improvements that would be nice to see (like the ability to have a clickable link within the video - that is easy to create, without tons of coding) and it seems as though I never see it happen or get much response to "suggestions" to upgrade the software. The good news, other than a few things as I mentioned above, overall, I don't have many "technical issues" in the platform, which is a good thing. On occasion, I have seen some "issues" with the delivery of the video, but it has been pretty scarce. So it is dependable.
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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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JW Player
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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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JW Player
One of the primary features promoted by JW Platform is its SEO definition. However, there did not seem to be a way to integrate that data to our platform if selected thus only leaving the benefits of that data to be established on the individual video page hosted by JW Platform, which isn't useful in the end to the client value we are trying to deliver for our VideoproFile.net solution
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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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JW Player
JW had more player options, a better/more intuitive user interface, was altogether faster both in rendering the uploaded videos and in time to load on the web page. The integration with OpenX for pre-roll was faster and easier than with Brightcove, and lastly, they offered a great price for 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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JW Player
  • JW Player has was less expensive (without sacrificing quality) than our previous video platform so the ROI was instant.
  • We were easily able to add a variety of video advertising options including pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll.
  • The quality and consistancy of the look of the video has enabled us to grow our video views by well over 100% since starting with JW.
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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.