Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued) vs. SOCi

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
SOCi
Score 8.4 out of 10
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SOCi, including the former Brandify (acquired July 2021) presents a range of local marketing solutions, such as store locators, local SEO driven landing pages, local advertising, and brand reputation management.N/A
Pricing
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)SOCi
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)SOCi
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)SOCi
Best Alternatives
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)SOCi
Small Businesses
Growave
Growave
Score 9.7 out of 10
Google Business Profile
Google Business Profile
Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Echobox Social
Echobox Social
Score 9.9 out of 10
Google Business Profile
Google Business Profile
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Sprout Social
Sprout Social
Score 8.5 out of 10

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User Ratings
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)SOCi
Likelihood to Recommend
2.0
(4 ratings)
8.4
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(5 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(2 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)SOCi
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
The transition to Google has been painful - key contacts are no longer available.
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SOCi, Inc
SOCi is a fantastic tool for a franchise business because it provides the ability to post in bulk while also posting localized content. So, you can share the same basic content across all of your locations, but SOCi's tagging system inserts a location's phone number or website for each individual location. This helps create a localized feel and personalized touch -- but you only schedule one post, making it easy and efficient to localize content in mass posting. This principle applies to paid ads as well. Because of these features, SOCi may not be the best platform for companies with just one location
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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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SOCi, Inc
  • Firstly, as a user of Brandify, I am really fond of their after-sales support services because as a user these services matter a lot.
  • Brandify has made the work so much easier as it avoids spending time looking for better options.
  • It is very helpful platform for the growth of a company.
  • Its analysis helps us in foreseeing situations that can be either good or bad and ensure that we think of a possible solution.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • More customization - Would like to have the ability to edit more without coding.
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SOCi, Inc
  • Their analytics are sub-par to other tools that I use.
  • Their website can be a little clunky until you learn to navigate it.
  • It takes a long time to be fully on-boarded and running on the platform with all information syncing together.
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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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SOCi, Inc
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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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SOCi, Inc
There are some aspects of the scheduling of posts that could be more user friendly for the less tech-savvy users.
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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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SOCi, Inc
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Performance
Discontinued Products
Easy to perform tasks and quick to upload changes to your promotions.
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SOCi, Inc
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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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SOCi, Inc
We have not had to contact support so there is nothing to say in response to this question. We are sure that if we needed to contact them we would be able to get any issues resolved quickly
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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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SOCi, Inc
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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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SOCi, Inc
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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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SOCi, Inc
Soci is a lot better. It’s more user friendly and it makes better for one platform to have all my accounts on
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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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SOCi, Inc
  • Brandify allows us to analyze the reputation of the business and how happy our customers are with us.
  • It is a affordable local marketing software.
  • It has reliable and efficient support.
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