Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ipsos Synthesio
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Synthesio, an Ipsos company (acquired 2019) offers social monitoring and engagement tools. Synthesio competes with major listening vendors like Radian6 and Sysomos. A point of differentiation is that Synthesio offers a mix of technology and human analysis. In their view, human analysis is required to validate and interpret the data. Customers are large, particularly French, brands.
$1,200
per month
MeetEdgar
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Edgar is a social media management solution from Roeder Studios built primarily to provide users with optimized post scheduling to maximize post visibility across social media channels.
$24.91
per month
SmarterQueue
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
SmarterQueue is an intelligent social media scheduling tool that aims to empower marketers, content creators, and entrepreneurs with the technology and capabilities they need to grow their businesses and careers. The vendor states it: Sparks conversations that fuel growth. Helps users reclaim time and regain freedom while posting more consistently and driving revenue. Is a social media scheduling platform for every use case. Personal Brands…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Synthesio
$1,200.00
per month
Eddie Annual Plan
$24.91
per month
Eddie Monthly Plan
$29.99
per month
Edgar Annual Plan
$41.58
per month
Edgar Monthly Plan
$49.99
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Listening/monitoring
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Ipsos Synthesio
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Ratings
MeetEdgar
7.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
SmarterQueue
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Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
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Ipsos Synthesio
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Ratings
MeetEdgar
10.0
3 Ratings
21% above category average
SmarterQueue
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Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Ipsos Synthesio
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MeetEdgar
10.0
1 Ratings
21% above category average
SmarterQueue
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Bulk actions00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Ipsos Synthesio
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MeetEdgar
10.0
2 Ratings
26% above category average
SmarterQueue
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Content marketing00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
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Ipsos Synthesio
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Ratings
MeetEdgar
10.0
3 Ratings
18% above category average
SmarterQueue
-
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Twitter00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook00 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn00 Ratings10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Pinterest00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
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Ipsos Synthesio
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Ratings
MeetEdgar
6.0
2 Ratings
25% below category average
SmarterQueue
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Campaign success analytics00 Ratings2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Ipsos Synthesio
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Ratings
MeetEdgar
10.0
2 Ratings
23% above category average
SmarterQueue
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Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(6 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Ipsos
It's a very good tool. It covers every need we have for social media listening & monitoring. Bad thing is that those who were selling us the software were not much concerned about costs and were not reducing although there are a lot of market leaders like Sprinklr who are really good with compensation & value addition
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Roeder Studios Inc.
  • Edgar works best if you already have enough (or plan on keep adding more) evergreen content to avoid too much repetition. This will of course be dependent on the frequency of your schedule as well as how refined your categories are.
  • Edgar works for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn currently, and it doesn't seem like they will be adding more networks in the near future.
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SmarterQueue
It's a great platform that can easily schedule posts, and create evergreen posting by creating queues with different categories of posts. SmarterQueue allows you to create a range of content categories (tips, updates, quotes, images, videos, promotions, stories, case studies, etc) and choose where to post the various categories of content so you don't blast all your channels with the same content (have content specific channels). The interface is very clean, easy to use, and simple to navigate through, and has an AI assistant to help you create content and content variations. What I like the most creating an evergreen queue to which I can simply keep adding new content to and the posting is taken of.
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Pros
Ipsos
  • Synthesio has an unlimited volume, which helps us to not worry about going over budget. This helps us focus on refining our search to pull in the mentions that have the most value.
  • Synthesio has an excellent support team. They are always available to answer any questions we have.
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Roeder Studios Inc.
  • Scheduling
  • Organization
  • Engagement
  • AI-assisted Posts
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SmarterQueue
  • Queueing of posts to create evergreen content
  • Setting up different categories of posts
  • AI-assisted generating content and content variations
  • Searching competition
  • Post on Google My Business
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Cons
Ipsos
  • I’d love better graphics when I pull reports.
  • The sentiment data is still inaccurate.
  • We are unable to weed out all mentions of the arena associated with the bank.
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Roeder Studios Inc.
  • The reporting is very limited. There's no dashboards or easy way to track how your posts are performing.
  • Honestly, that's the only recommendation I have—everything else works great!
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SmarterQueue
  • AI-content generation can be improved
  • Sometimes slow to load up queue and unresponsive
  • Have more flexible plan to choose exactly the number of channels we want and only pay for what we use
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Likelihood to Renew
Ipsos
Ben Farkas was the representative that worked with us on this project, while we have been very excited with the work he provided, especially the customer service, we just did not have enough time with the product hands on to be comfortable giving it the 10 we think it deserves. As the Data tracking was done beyond our expectations and the finished product (infographic) were all excellent, we used this service to fill our need in being shorthanded to cover the data ourselves. Synthesio provided outstanding customer service, their data tracking and materials where top notch, just we lacked the hands on experience to speak to everyday use.
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Roeder Studios Inc.
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SmarterQueue
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Support Rating
Ipsos
Everything we needed was handled, in many cases during the first time we used Synthesio the representative made adjustments and explained them to us, some things we did not even consider when setting up the service.
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Roeder Studios Inc.
No answers on this topic
SmarterQueue
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Alternatives Considered
Ipsos
I have used Meltwater, Hootsuite for the same tracking purpose. Every tool has it own pros and cons. The best way to decide is go by the reviews of the people who have actually used it. Budget is yet another factor to consider.
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Roeder Studios Inc.
In terms of evergreen content promotion, Buffer and AgoraPulse offer very basic functionalities in this regard. We were looking for something that would enable us to categorize our evergreen content and Edgar is the only product on the market then that does this. We no longer need to manually re-post anything and only need to focus on content-creation. It is worth noting that we are still using Buffer in conjunction with MeetEdgar, where the former takes care of our new content while the latter will continually share the best content of the bunch.
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SmarterQueue
SmarterQueue is more comprehensive, has more features for cheaper subscriptions, and more flexible price plans to suit your business needs, whether you want to scale down or scale up. The user-friendly interface enabled a very quick learning curve for myself and for my virtual assistant. Better UI design and layout, clean, simple, intuitive to use and navigate through, and does the job well.
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Return on Investment
Ipsos
  • It has helped us understanding the on going topics on our social page quite well.
  • Really helped us in community management in due time for social accounts. Saved a lot of clicks and time as well as resources.
  • Employees feel really happy with the tool because it lets them do the work fast and securely.
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Roeder Studios Inc.
  • Takes out so much of the guesswork of posting at the best times. It uses the best general times and then uses your own post data to adjust to optimal times specifically for your business.
  • Measures engagement on your posts so that you know what content is the most effective
  • Helps me track my measurement goals through reporting.
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SmarterQueue
  • Save time managing social media channels
  • Everything is accessible in one place
  • It is easy to delegate social media posting and content creation to a virtual assistant
  • Good value for money for a social media management platform
  • Posting on Google My Business
  • Finding content ideas
  • Leverage generative AI with the AI assistant to accelerate content creation
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ScreenShots

SmarterQueue Screenshots

Screenshot of INteractive calendar view of scheduled social media postsScreenshot of Social media post editor including category, evergreen recycling, post to multiple platforms, and a preview.Screenshot of Content discovery and curation to easily find and share contentScreenshot of View your schedule at a glance and get quick content previewsScreenshot of Get detailed post analytics and actionable insights to replicate successScreenshot of Get detailed post analytics and actionable insights to replicate success