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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Iconosquare

    Score5 out of 10
    N/A"Iconosquare is a social media analytics and management platform helping brands and Agencies with in-depth reporting and analysis for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and TikTok." Iconosquare's social media analytics aim to enable users to: Make strategic decisions for Instagram, Facebook and Twitter based on concrete data; Build a brand using statistics; Save time with content scheduling, in-depth…

    $29

    per month

    Meltwater

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AMeltwater 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
    IconosquareMeltwater
    Editions & Modules
    Single
    $29
    per month per user
    Team
    $49
    per month
    Custom
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    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IconosquareMeltwater
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IconosquareMeltwater
    Considered Both Products
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
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    Meltwater
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    63%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    62%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    69%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    63%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    IconosquareMeltwater
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    7.2
    (73 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    5.6
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    6.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    1.0
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    IconosquareMeltwater
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    A good match for someone looking into Iconosquare would be a social media manager looking to streamline their analytics process. It is for someone who may be pulling these numbers manually and wants a centralized location to pull numbers across platforms. Iconosquare also allows you to schedule your content, which provides another one-stop shop. Where it would be less suited is someone who may not use more than one social platform.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    • Provides in-depth analytics on engagement.
    • Provides in-depth analytics on consistencies among your follower base.
    • Provides insight into ways to grow your followership and refine your content.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    • Manipulating data can be difficult.
    • Paid and organic posts couldn't be separated.
    • Tracking story posts you wanted to group is messy.
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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
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Support Rating
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    We never had a problem with customer support, nor really needed it. The UX of the site was easy to follow and simple to use.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    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
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    No answers on this topic
    Meltwater
    Walked step by step through program. Very informative on a program that doesn't require much training.
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    Implementation Rating
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    We focus primarily on Instagram with our social media strategy, so Iconosquare delivers the best experience by far for that platform
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Tripnity (ICONOSQUARE)
    • It's allowed us to view IG story metrics even after they have passed over the 14 day review in Instagram Insights
    • The graphs are easy for us to send to clients as they are not very complex or complicated to read
    • There have been no issues or errors with retrieving data with a quick turnaround.
    Incentivized
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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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    Screenshot of Performance analytics overviewScreenshot of Media ViewerScreenshot of Industry BenchmarkScreenshot of Competitor trackingScreenshot of Schedule postsScreenshot of Comments management