Hearsay, now part of Yext vs. Meta Business Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hearsay, now part of Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
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After the August 2024 acquisition, Hearsay Systems joined Yext, combining Yext's digital presence management with Hearsay's compliant customer engagement tools.N/A
Meta Business Suite
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Formerly known as Facebook Business Suite or Facebook for Business, a solution for small businesses used to manage all business activity on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram from one place. It is presented as a one-stop shop where business owners can manage all marketing and advertising activities on Facebook and Instagram. It centralizes tools that help the user to connect with customers on all apps and get better business results.N/A
Pricing
Hearsay, now part of YextMeta Business Suite
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hearsay, now part of YextMeta Business Suite
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Meta Business Suite
6.3
14 Ratings
19% below category average
Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings6.49 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings6.111 Ratings
Sentiment analysis00 Ratings6.611 Ratings
Broad channel coverage00 Ratings6.313 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
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Meta Business Suite
7.1
16 Ratings
13% below category average
Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.716 Ratings
Audience targeting00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
Content optimization00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings6.311 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Meta Business Suite
6.7
13 Ratings
19% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings6.99 Ratings
Customer interaction histories00 Ratings6.512 Ratings
Bulk actions00 Ratings6.811 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.3
16 Ratings
5% below category average
Lead generation00 Ratings7.215 Ratings
Content marketing00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Paid media management00 Ratings7.715 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.113 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.9
14 Ratings
6% below category average
Twitter00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
Facebook00 Ratings8.613 Ratings
LinkedIn00 Ratings7.65 Ratings
Google+00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Instagram00 Ratings8.314 Ratings
Pinterest00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
YouTube00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.7
16 Ratings
0% below category average
Campaign success analytics00 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
Competitor analysis00 Ratings7.710 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.4
14 Ratings
7% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings7.514 Ratings
Mobile access00 Ratings7.313 Ratings
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User Ratings
Hearsay, now part of YextMeta Business Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.2
(109 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.3
(17 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hearsay, now part of YextMeta Business Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
Yext
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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Meta Platforms Inc
Meta Business Suite has been highly effective in exposing our brand and our clients' brands to a large audience. It is also one of the most cost-effective ad platforms for B2B marketing campaigns. The issue is filtering out low-quality leads from a B2B lead generation process, as you often receive as many poor-quality leads as high-quality ones.
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Pros
Yext
  • 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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Meta Platforms Inc
  • Segmentation is HUGE. You can segment by almost anything you want, be it demographic, sociological, behavioral... you name it. You can also create targets based on your visitors and their actions. Even custom lists.
  • They are very good at optimizing your campaigns automatically. This is so important because it will improve your ROI in several multiples otherwise
  • Managing ads in general works fine, and the data, even though is not exactly as accurate as Analytics, it's pretty decent.
  • Gives you placements and different ad types so you can get the most out of it.
  • Pixel and catalog integration are very powerful. You can almost instantly start tracking and catalog fetches your site daily for updates.
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Cons
Yext
  • 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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Meta Platforms Inc
  • The planner enables timings of others' posts to be seen easily, but an easier view of that content (eg by hovering over it) would be preferable
  • Insights gives detailed information on the performance of posts, but could be more intuitive - and it would be helpful if it flagged particularly good performers or practices.
  • Sometimes using @ tags is a little slow - and it's not always easy to tell which ones you want without opening another window and testing them yourself.
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Likelihood to Renew
Yext
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Meta Platforms Inc
We have to continue using this tool in order to be effective on this marketing platform. Though there are several changes I wish we could see, the fact is that we will still need to use this product to provide customers with the information they need.
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Usability
Yext
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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Meta Platforms Inc
Meta Business Suite is a solid, centralized tool that covers the core needs of social media planning and publishing. However, some limitations — like inconsistent Reels functionality, clunky previews, and lack of creative asset organization — hold it back from being a seamless, end-to-end solution. There's a lot of potential with continued improvements.
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Reliability and Availability
Yext
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
I've only dealt with the API having issues a couple times, but as you can imagine an outage is not something an advertiser would find acceptable, especially during any ecommerce-heavy time of year. The overall platform could use some help with availability when it comes to authentication, as it struggles with consistency in authentication.
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Performance
Yext
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
There are a lot of shortcomings when it comes to performance. There are pages that I do not expect to have much information to load on the page, yet it takes an incredibly long time (10+ secondes). I have not had experience with the integration slowing other platforms down too much.
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Support Rating
Yext
1. Simple to Use. 2. User Friendly Interface 3. Great Features 4. Very Few Limitations. 5. Automates my Tasks
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Meta Platforms Inc
I've found the Facebook for Business support to be hit or miss. For billing questions they're timely and helpful. For complex questions about specific services I've often received a longer wait and a less helpful experience. I'm often redirected to their docs, which are often not particularly helpful.
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Implementation Rating
Yext
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Meta Platforms Inc
Take all of the training offered through Facebook first before attempting to create a page on the platform. Learn all of the capabilities available to you. Learn about the different types of audiences who might be interested in seeing your page. Create short video clips as though they are viewed at a much higher rate than anything else. Offer free giveaways or raffles to further build to your list of prospects and drive traffic to your website
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Alternatives Considered
Yext
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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Meta Platforms Inc
Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its industry-leading targeting functionality (which is a result of that massive user base!).
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Scalability
Yext
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
This product is definitely able to run at scale, but it would be wise to have enough eyeballs to oversee it and the tools for keeping the campaigns, adsets, and ads organized could use some improvement. I can also see the UI interfering with usability at greater amounts of scale.
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Return on Investment
Yext
  • 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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Meta Platforms Inc
  • Overall positive ROI has been achieved using this platform. You must have a clear understanding of where your CPL maximums are to remain profitable and either optimize to success or pull the plug on campaigns that are bleeding spend.
  • This is a great platform to build new audiences or grow existing ones.
  • Building audience segments via pixel tracking is a huge win for this platform.
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