Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued) vs. Meltwater

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Wildfire was a social media advertising management software application that was acquired but since discontinued by Google.N/A
Meltwater
Score 6.6 out of 10
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Meltwater Media Intelligence platform is a set of public relations software tools for media monitoring, social media monitoring, and collecting brand insights. The four areas of functionality are Monitor, Analyze, Distribute, and Engage. (Note that this product combines features from the vendor Meltwater's former Buzz, Press, and News products.)N/A
Pricing
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)Meltwater
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)Meltwater
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)Meltwater
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User Ratings
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)Meltwater
Likelihood to Recommend
2.0
(4 ratings)
5.7
(71 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.9
(3 ratings)
8.0
(9 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
2.2
(3 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(2 ratings)
7.5
(28 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.5
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.5
(2 ratings)
6.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)Meltwater
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
The transition to Google has been painful - key contacts are no longer available.
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Meltwater
Meltwater is well-suited for agencies that have an engagement team who is looking to service a variety of client needs such as social media reporting, public relations outreach, and community management. If you're looking to have a platform serve just one need, you can still use Meltwater but will get more bang for your buck if you are needing a variety of tools.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Facebook tab implementation. Allows you to easily create and produce functioning social tabs on your brands FB page.
  • Add voting, sweepstakes, poll functionality to your website. Easily implement these campaigns to increase user engagement and TOS.
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Meltwater
  • Media research - you can search for relevant publications and journalists to add to your media list.
  • Earned media coverage - you can search for coverage of your brand and find news stories that also include data that may be useful (how many people did the story reach for example).
  • Building media lists - if you have no current existing list, you can build and export one in Excel for example.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • More customization - Would like to have the ability to edit more without coding.
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Meltwater
  • The dashboards are not user-friendly, customizable (color, font size, etc.), or worthy of presenting to a client. All of the insights from a dashboard get pulled from the platform and placed into a more client-friendly presentation.
  • Paywalls for certain publications connected to who-knows-what. DowJones racket limits media monitoring capabilities and results in manual searches for a growing number of publications.
  • TVeyes, the broadcast monitoring arm of the media monitoring capabilities, just needs TLC and to become more client-facing. Currently, the links produced to share clips look sketchy, and they have a relatively short shelf life.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
Our initial contract with Wildfire Whitelabel was for $30,000/year, as we progressed we found several alternatives for significantly less. We used this to our advantage to lower the second year to $17,000 with the limitation in the level of support (they call this their "core" subscription). Support has been quite bad.

During our contract, we also asked for quotes on some custom work, but never managed to get an answer (or actual quote). Now two years into our contract, the limitations and lack of development are enough for us to find a different solution. Newcomers to the market like Rafflecopter, WooBox and PunchTab are delivering much better results for a fraction of the price
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Meltwater
Meltwater works well for our organization and has allowed us to meet our internal goals. We are always open to new products and services that may be able to provide similar or better features; however, our experience has been that many of Meltwater's competitors are not up to the task.
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Usability
Discontinued Products
Very easy to use, almost anyone can learn how to build a comprehensive promotion.
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Meltwater
Once you get some basic training it's pretty easy to use. I would like to see training manuals, or instructional videos to help me explore features I'm not currently using.
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Reliability and Availability
Discontinued Products
I have never been kicked out of Wildfire service. Always up and running.
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Meltwater
No answers on this topic
Performance
Discontinued Products
Easy to perform tasks and quick to upload changes to your promotions.
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Meltwater
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Support Rating
Discontinued Products
Phone and email support were always available to us when we needed it.
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Meltwater
Our account rep at Meltwater went dark for a long time. Then, a couple of weeks ago, our new account manager reached out to set up a meeting. Apparently, they had a big shakeup in the company, and there were some personnel changes. Our new account rep was great in discussing the platform's capabilities that were available to us and even offered to schedule a follow-up meeting with his technical team to introduce our new social media team members to the platform and how it could help them with their jobs.
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In-Person Training
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Meltwater
Again, really in-depth and helpful for a program that is really easy to use.
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Online Training
Discontinued Products
Gave me a thorough rundown on everything the software does. Sometimes it is difficult to run through it all over the phone/internet, but I was able to figure it out myself.
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Meltwater
Walked step by step through program. Very informative on a program that doesn't require much training.
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Implementation Rating
Discontinued Products
Simple to use and very effective in increasing user engagement on both social channels and website. Noticeably helped raise TOS.
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Meltwater
You are only allowed 15 users, so make sure you've identified who will have access to use the tool.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Wildfire was a merely an adequate social media tool when it existed as a standalone, but it just couldn't compete against other players like Sprout, Falcon, and Sprinklr.
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Meltwater
I was looking for a full-service option. I did some research. What really sold me was the presentation. They offered products that were helpful, and I wasn’t even aware of them. It is more expensive than the other products that are out there, but you get more. The other companies are good, but Meltwater Media Intelligence is more full service.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • As with any social media management tool, there is a savings on labor hours (rather than doing the manual work)
  • Aggregating all content into one system creates efficiencies for content teams
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Meltwater
  • As a PR firm, we rely on the media databases that [Meltwater Media Intelligence Platform] supplies to deliver the media exposure that they expect from us.
  • We utilize their tracking of media hits for our overall reporting to our clients.
  • Both of these are advantageous in helping us to not only keep our existing clients happy but also to gain new clients (and, in turn - revenue), as well.
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