Bambu by Sprout Social vs. GaggleAMP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bambu by Sprout Social
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Bambu is a social media marketing tool from Sprout Social that leverages employee advocacy. It allows users to organize and encourage distribution of company blog posts, press releases, news and articles, thought leadership, and customer case studies through employees' personal social networks on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. There are three main use cases for Bambu: Marketing, HR, and Sales. In terms of Marketing, Bambu aims to leverage employee advocacy to increase brand awareness…N/A
GaggleAMP
Score 8.4 out of 10
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GaggleAMP's employee advocacy and communications platform enables companies to boost the distribution of workforce communications and social media messaging. The solutions aims to foster a network of people, or a Gaggle, who share company-created messages to their social media networks and contribute content to their internal workforce community. This aids in employee development, leveraging them as a thought leader in their space while increasing social selling and recruitment…
$25
per month
Pricing
Bambu by Sprout SocialGaggleAMP
Editions & Modules
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Enterprise
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Agency
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Small and Medium Businesses
$300
25 seats per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsGaggleAMP serves small businesses, medium-size businesses, enterprise-class organizations, and agencies that represent these businesses. Their small business offering starts at 25 seats for $300 per month, with additional packages available based on the number of seats needed. For Enterprise-class pricing and agency offerings, it is best to speak with a GaggleAMP representative to secure a rate.
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Community Pulse
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Bambu by Sprout Social
Chose Bambu by Sprout Social
It was similar in that it helped us push prewritten messages out to our team, but the UX/UI was far more dated and not as intuitive. It's mobile app also wasn't very useful; made it difficult to edit messages and would constantly need you to log back in. The two things GaggleAMP
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Bambu by Sprout SocialGaggleAMP
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(7 ratings)
8.7
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bambu by Sprout SocialGaggleAMP
Likelihood to Recommend
Sprout Social
Routinely sharing job postings from Bambu by Sprout Social to LinkedIn, using the canned content our Marketing team provides and revising so that it "sounds like me" prior to sharing on LI. Cadencing my content shares for the week in the "Scheduling" option Creating a new link to share content via Bambu by Sprout Social to LI, to position myself as a thought leader in my space
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GaggleAMP
GaggleAMP is well suited when you want to get timely local language content out to folks in other countries/regions, or content for a specific group/department. It is also well suited when you have multiple Gaggle content managers with multiple content calendars. It might be less appropriate if you want to hold multiple Social contests (gamification) with different rules, scopes, leaderboards, etc. for different groups/tags as there is only one leaderboard.
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Pros
Sprout Social
  • Ease of use. It creates a user-friendly experience that allows employees to understand and share.
  • Customer support & feedback.
  • Understanding the power of social media and building their tool around its use.
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GaggleAMP
  • Easy to tell associates what posts to like and share. Especially like that we can point them to like or share industry posts.
  • Easy to get others in organization to sign up. Also offers app and browser app.
  • Gamefication aspect allows associates to have friendly competition and allows awarding of prizes for reaching set point values
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Cons
Sprout Social
  • Sprout to Bambu integration is not what was depicted in trial and is not used because of this
  • Missing functionality: LinkedIn tagging
  • Missing functionality: posting videos
  • Missing functionality: posting something without a link. Example: picture from an event or community outreach
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GaggleAMP
  • There are no out of the box implementations to get started quick.
  • The campaign manager could be more involved and vocal about recommendations and how to implement them.
  • I'd like deeper insight into what my employees do and do not like to share.
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Likelihood to Renew
Sprout Social
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GaggleAMP
Customer service has been good. It's easy to use. It's cost effective. It's a good way to expand your social presence and get your employees more vested in branding the company without spending a ton of money. There are bells and whistles that may be good for other users. I just haven't had the time to use them
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Support Rating
Sprout Social
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GaggleAMP
Support for GaggleAMP is easily the best customer support I've experienced with any software tool. Our rep, Sam, is dedicated to our account (no bouncing around a call-center bullpen), and is highly proactive and eager to help us succeed. Most of our interactions have nothing to do with problems, but rather opportunities to optimize our use of the tool and set us up for greatest success. GaggleAMP sets a gold standard for customer support!
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Alternatives Considered
Sprout Social
It was similar in that it helped us push prewritten messages out to our team, but the UX/UI was far more dated and not as intuitive. It's mobile app also wasn't very useful; made it difficult to edit messages and would constantly need you to log back in. The two things GaggleAMP had over Bambu however was more comprehensive analytics and the ability to automatically push out social posts
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GaggleAMP
A former colleague suggested EveryoneSocial, but I think that GaggleAMP has more industry experience in terms of employee advocacy and social engagement. While it did appear somewhat easier to use, it didn't have all the features and attention to detail that GaggleAMP provided such as the detailed reporting and the specific activity suggestions I was looking for.
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Return on Investment
Sprout Social
  • The social amplification effects of our employees sharing brand content helped us achieve a 400% increase in website visits following our re-brand.
  • With some "Executive nudging" when we announced that Bambu would be used as our internal comms tool, and that we would only be sharing real-time updates via the mobile apps push notifications, we were able to double the # of employees who use the App in addition to the desktop application. Mobile users aside, another positive side effect of using Bambu as an internal comms tool is that it exposes users (the non-social butterflies who don't like to share) to all other content that has been curated into the system and has helped garner more social impressions.
  • The majority of our employees come from the BabyBoom/Gen X generation and didn't come of age in the world of social media, which has presented some challenges in user adoption rates.
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GaggleAMP
  • Take this with a grain of salt, but our company's all-time CPC (cost per click) savings is $1.85 M ($184,116.95 last quarter).
  • GaggleAMP has become an important part in getting our employees and partners to engage with us on Social Media more regularly - a great tool for getting information out there.
  • Brand awareness.
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ScreenShots

GaggleAMP Screenshots

Screenshot of The member view provides a simple view of actions and messages available. Acting take a simple click of a button. "Share" to share the message or "No Thanks". If a user declines a message/action there is an opportunity for them to provide feedback on why they chose not to share the message or perform the action. This helps the Gaggle manager learn the preferences of their member base and helps future content curation.Screenshot of Channels provide an outlet for employees to create user-generated content, communicate with their fellow employees, discover new content, and more. Channels also allow for automated RSS feeds, pulling in Twitter Lists, and monitoring hashtags, making the content curation process easier for marketing team.Screenshot of My feed shows employees and stakeholders what activities they have available to them. This area enables employees to engage and interact with content. Here they can share content to their social channels, see when content is expiring, and also engage with external and internal Channels.Screenshot of The GaggleAMP scheduling feature helps employees and stakeholders schedule their social media advocacy efforts on their time. Here they can pick and choose which messages they want to schedule, when they want to schedule them to go out, and their default preferences.Screenshot of Gaggle Managers, the term for the administrator of an employee advocacy program, can choose what types of activities to send to their employees and stakeholders. GaggleAMP offers over 50 different activities on any favorite social media networks. Some favorites are displayed here.Screenshot of Leaderboards allow sorting by reach and by points assigned to activities during certain timeframes. With leaderboards, employees and stakeholders can see how they are performing compared to their peers and also have the option to opt-out of the leaderboard.