Hearsay Social vs. Khoros Marketing

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hearsay Social
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Hearsay social is designed to help companies that have both corporate brands and local representatives in highly-regulated industries like banking and insurance. It allows companies to push out social media content for their local representatives to personalize, and then analyze the effectiveness of their campaigns. Clients are large companies in highly-regulated industries, or companies with a large store networks or retail franchise networks.N/A
Khoros Marketing
Score 7.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium) is a social media management platform. Key features include: Plan and Organize Social Campaigns, Manage Real-Time Engagement, and Learn and Prove Social ImpactN/A
Pricing
Hearsay SocialKhoros Marketing
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hearsay SocialKhoros Marketing
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Hearsay SocialKhoros Marketing
Considered Both Products
Hearsay Social

No answer on this topic

Khoros Marketing
Chose Khoros Marketing
I've used a number of other Marketing software over my 13yrs of working in social media. I would say that Khoros stacks up relatively well against it's competitors. It may not be the number one but it suited our needs.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Hearsay SocialKhoros Marketing
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.0
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Khoros Marketing
6.3
117 Ratings
19% below category average
Boolean keyword searches9.01 Ratings7.290 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam9.01 Ratings5.899 Ratings
Sentiment analysis9.01 Ratings6.889 Ratings
Broad channel coverage9.01 Ratings5.5111 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.3
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Khoros Marketing
7.3
148 Ratings
9% below category average
Content planning and scheduling10.01 Ratings8.4146 Ratings
Audience targeting9.01 Ratings7.2112 Ratings
Content optimization8.01 Ratings5.05 Ratings
Workflow management10.01 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Khoros Marketing
7.5
113 Ratings
8% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization9.01 Ratings7.390 Ratings
Customer interaction histories9.01 Ratings7.7103 Ratings
Bulk actions9.01 Ratings7.594 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.3
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Khoros Marketing
7.0
103 Ratings
12% below category average
Lead generation9.01 Ratings6.747 Ratings
Content marketing9.01 Ratings6.486 Ratings
Paid media management9.01 Ratings7.12 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions10.01 Ratings7.790 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.3
1 Ratings
8% above category average
Khoros Marketing
7.6
147 Ratings
12% below category average
Twitter10.01 Ratings7.7138 Ratings
Facebook10.01 Ratings7.9143 Ratings
LinkedIn9.01 Ratings7.4105 Ratings
Google+8.01 Ratings9.018 Ratings
Instagram9.01 Ratings7.4132 Ratings
Pinterest10.01 Ratings6.246 Ratings
YouTube9.01 Ratings7.533 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.0
1 Ratings
13% above category average
Khoros Marketing
7.1
131 Ratings
10% below category average
Campaign success analytics9.01 Ratings8.0121 Ratings
Real-time tracking9.01 Ratings6.5120 Ratings
Competitor analysis9.01 Ratings6.777 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay Social
9.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Khoros Marketing
6.0
136 Ratings
30% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges9.01 Ratings6.3132 Ratings
Mobile access9.01 Ratings5.7112 Ratings
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Hearsay SocialKhoros Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(184 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(34 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(29 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(11 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(7 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(24 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.4
(4 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(122 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hearsay SocialKhoros Marketing
Likelihood to Recommend
Hearsay Systems
Apart from a few limitations, Hearsay Social is an excellent tool for managing your social media posts in one place. Its user-friendly interface allows you to analyze, track, schedule, and automate social media posts. This is a must in today's age. It saves a lot of stress and handwork and makes you efficient as it gives you tools to analyze the results of your posts in terms of reach, viewership, etc. Thereby helping you to formulate your social media strategy.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
The best it could be used for is running campaigns. Be it a product launch or be it any new event that you are hosting. If you need to quickly grab attention, then this might be your choice. Also the report given after the campaign is a good insight for improving your next campaign.
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Pros
Hearsay Systems
  • Single dashboard of all your social media channels
  • Automation of posts
  • Scheduled posting as per design
  • Great for analytics & customer Interactions
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
  • Reporting is great - easy to create bespoke dashboards for multiple ways to view the data and trends in platform
  • Onboarding and training - a good repository of knowledge articles for users to access on most aspects of the platform for self-learning
  • The user-friendly and intuitive interface allows any user to quickly assimilate how to use the platform.
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Cons
Hearsay Systems
  • Lacks ability for significant flexibility and customization
  • Mobile app sometimes does not save the posts that are edited
  • It does allow you to tag or hashtag any post.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
  • Look and feel of the interface could use a refresh as it's not very exciting to use
  • Improve analytics features and accuracy
  • Facilitate bulk actions
  • Better alerts/visibility of collaborative actions and assigned tasks
  • Clearer communication around new feature releases and announcements
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Likelihood to Renew
Hearsay Systems
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
There is no product like Khoros. Our company lives and dies by the analytics, and to date, we have not seen a more comprehensive analytics structure for any social media management tool. Khoros support is also fantastic, responding and resolving any and all questions, ideas, or complaints, usually in 24 hours.
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Usability
Hearsay Systems
If you wish to reduce stress of managing multiple social media handles from a single place, you can use Hearsay Social. Hearsay Social helps you analyze, automate, schedule posts and even give ideas for posts. Rather than multitasking, one would obliviously choose a single place to track your posts. It also fares greatly as compared to its competitors. It has a great interface. Very easy and simple to use.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Khoros Marketing is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The calendar visibility is the view I use most so I can see all posts going out on all of our channels. It allows us to time posts in a proper cadence so we don't overlap with other pressing content.
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Reliability and Availability
Hearsay Systems
No answers on this topic
Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
• We still experience a bit of downtime and slowness here but things have drastically improved in the last year with their feature updates and reconfigured hosting.
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Performance
Hearsay Systems
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Khoros has greatly improved the performance of its SaaS products in the last 5 years. Their applications, including Conversations, Intelligence, and Experiences, all load quickly with real-time data. This performance is critical to provide meaningful, social customer support, and marketing. The performance maintains integrity even when you deploy powerful integrations like Salesforce Customer Relationship Manager.
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Support Rating
Hearsay Systems
1. Simple to Use. 2. User Friendly Interface 3. Great Features 4. Very Few Limitations. 5. Automates my Tasks
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Overall, support does a great job and is timely in their responses and efforts. We have had to contact support many times due to the Capture app. Some tickets have remained open for months, while others get resolved quickly. I understand this is not always up to support and they often have to wait for their engineering team to fix issues that we identified, but it's difficult to deal with issues that are affecting our workflow, especially for extended amounts of time.
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In-Person Training
Hearsay Systems
No answers on this topic
Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
• As a very early customer, we did not undergo formal training but worked closely with the team to get the system set up to do what we wanted. However, online training resources are now available with many blog posts / video lessons and tutorials.
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Online Training
Hearsay Systems
No answers on this topic
Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
it is important to note that my perspective is not necessarily common - I'm a geek/nerd/poweruser in general, so I found the online resources to be more than adequate (and often very aesthetically pleasing, too). That said, a less "geeky" person might struggle a bit.
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Implementation Rating
Hearsay Systems
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
The implementation team from Khoros were great - they worked hard to understand our somewhat complex organization, and were with us all the way through face to face meetings, user training, and technical training. We had a clearly defined account manager and implementation manager, who worked really effectively together and with us.
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Alternatives Considered
Hearsay Systems
Facebook Business Manager is also good however it has some limitations like it's very difficult to remove an ad account, we cannot schedule shared posts and the user interface is a bit complicated and not user-friendly. I like the user interface of Hearsay Social. I find it very simple and easy to use. Also, it has all the features that you might require in Social Media Management tool.
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
On some accounts that I am on, I use Asana in place of Khoros marketing but I much prefer Khoros Marketing. I prefer Khoros Marketing over Asana because I can post directly (and schedule posts) on Khoros but not on Asana. Also, I can moderate directly on Khoros but not Asana
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Scalability
Hearsay Systems
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
Khoros seems to struggle a little past a certain level of scale. More than 30 separate per day makes it difficult to view all content in the weekly calendar view, which is frustrating and could cause issues. However, the ability to schedule one post across multiple channels is hugely valuable and cuts down on a lot of duplicative work.
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Return on Investment
Hearsay Systems
  • It has helped us save time in maintaining our social media handles
  • It gave us a lot of intelligent insights on our posts, thereby helping improve our marketing strategy to perform better every time
  • It helped us design our posts better based on inputs & design ideas based on our past posts
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Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
  • Negatively impacted relationship with Khoros as they're notoriously difficult to engage with or able to produce viable results from our feedback.
  • Negatively impacted KPI reporting, as metrics were inaccurate for six months.
  • Negatively impacted resource management, as there've been so many restrictions with this platform that simple, day-to-day tasks take so much longer.
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