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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Marin Software (discontinued)

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AMarin Software was a cloud-based cross-channel advertising campaign management platform which integrated many tools and functions, and the name of the company in San Francisco that issued the software. Marin declared bankruptcy in 2025, and the service is not currently active.N/A

    Sprinklr Social

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASprinklr Social is a Social Media Management platform for enterprise teams managing social publishing, scheduling, engagement, and employee advocacy. It centralizes social operations across more than 30 social and messaging channels for distributed marketing, communications, and customer-facing teams. The platform also supports Social Media Publishing, Employee Advocacy, and Social Media Analytics through content scheduling, approved employee content sharing, and…N/A
    Pricing
    Marin Software (discontinued)Sprinklr Social
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Custom Social Media Management Solution
    Custom, quote-based pricing
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Marin Software (discontinued)Sprinklr Social
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Pricing is completely custom, quote-based upon request.
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    Community Pulse
    Marin Software (discontinued)Sprinklr Social
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Sprinklr
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Marin Software (discontinued)Sprinklr Social
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Marin Software (discontinued) and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Marin Software (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.7
    57 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings8.450 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings7.753 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings7.354 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.253 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Marin Software (discontinued) and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Marin Software (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.8
    57 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.854 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.249 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings7.647 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings7.851 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Marin Software (discontinued) and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Marin Software (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    8.4
    56 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings8.348 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.454 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings8.552 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Marin Software (discontinued) and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Marin Software (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.1
    49 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings7.135 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings8.241 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings5.936 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.243 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Marin Software (discontinued) and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Marin Software (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    6.8
    60 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings9.457 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings7.458 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings6.344 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings6.230 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings7.257 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings5.930 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings5.242 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Marin Software (discontinued) and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Marin Software (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    8.1
    59 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.055 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.458 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.041 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Marin Software (discontinued) and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Marin Software (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.6
    57 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.556 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings6.850 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Marin Software (discontinued)Sprinklr Social
    Small Businesses
    Listrak
    Score10 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Sailthru
    Score5.3 out of 10
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Listrak
    Score10 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Marin Software (discontinued)Sprinklr Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (32 ratings)
    9.0
    (85 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    7.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.3
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (34 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Marin Software (discontinued)Sprinklr Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    It's well suited when you have to integrate it with another data source, like an FTP for example. The dimensions you can assign to campaigns or ad group levels help for easier performance management and reporting. What makes it difficult is that everytime you need to update anything on the account, you can't use the publisher but have to do it through Marin. This makes the whole process very time consuming and causes more mistakes. Also if you have paused anything on the publisher and you don't remember to sync marin after, all changes on the publisher will get lost if you make new changes on marin
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    Sprinklr
    In my perspective, I would say Sprinklr Modern Sales &
    Engagement is best suited for teams and organizations who are more involved in
    automating social media activities, getting a great analytical report on
    activity engagement, and generating lists and bolds that helps determine the
    trends and events, etc. One of the best tools that one could use for clients
    with every information they would need.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
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    • Marin is a self-serve platform. You can tailor your campaigns per your preference/convenience/needs. You can customize your view, see % changes, create custom columns depending on your Key Performance Indicators, and set any sort of dimensions and labels that will help you filter for your campaigns on a daily basis.
    • Bidding and changes to destination URLs can be done through mass edits within the UI, without having to upload bulk-sheets. You push any changes from Marin to the Engines, and can also pull in your changes from Bing/AdWords engines by syncing your campaigns as well. The system will not publish anything you do not manually post until Midnight PST. You can copy paste straight from your excel bulksheet into the uploading tool (or upload the document through unicode text).
    • The Administrative log keeps track of all changes, and keeps users (through their logins) accountable for any edits. This way, you can filter for your name, and find the edits that you made, just to double check your work, or to make sure you are publishing the correct changes. There is a keyword- group- and campaign-level history/settings log, where you can see the name of the user who created, edited, published, paused, activated, deleted, etc. any item.
    • You can set up alerts that will help you manage accounts: anything from active campaigns with 0 ad copy, to finding keywords in low ad positions.
    • If you push duplicate keywords, the system will reject them, keeping our accounts from getting clouded due to human error. There is no need to download existing keywords or groups and use their keyword or group IDs to make any edits--instead, editing is a breeze because the system detects the new changes automatically. The only need for IDs is when making edits to creative.
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    Sprinklr
    • Customization - Through Sprinklr's rules and robust custom field creation, you really can create a lot of customization for every facet of your business.
    • Listening - Their Listening Engine and Explorer are fantastic ways to proactively find engagement-friendly conversations, in addition competitively research your brand.
    • Care - Using their case formatting, messages and customer contacts can be routed and assigned easily to available reps, and their bot builder can help to automate your contacts without sacrificing a personal touch.
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    Cons
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    • Support. They are addressing this currently, and things seem to have improved lately, but we were experiencing long delays in getting support tickets addressed.
    • New Google Shopping campaigns will not even show in the tool. Old PLA campaigns are fine however.
    • Random missing data. Typically this happens after an update, but we've seen data missing in various clients. Usually logging a support ticket and having Marin Support rerun a backend process resolves the issue.
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    Sprinklr
    • Overall, Sprinklr rewards users to do a lot of digging on their own to get to the more in-depth functionalities. For instance, the asset manager feature leads you to a dashboard with all the content you ever published but doesn't tell you what to do next or how to organize it
    • Sprinklr offers basic social listening features, but it is much more limited than other pure social listening players like Crimson Hexagon or Brandwatch. It is perfectly usable for a quick search but I wouldn't recommend it as your sole social listening platform
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I've used Marin Software now at three separate companies where I evaluated the platform along with several other internal partners. In each case, we did make the decision to renew based on our positive experience with the app and the customer support we received at the Enterprise level. Especially when we had complex integration questions or faced the change to Google's enhanced campaigns - Marin worked closely with us to make the transition seamless.
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    Sprinklr
    I really do feel that Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social media program. It covers everything you would need to do to run a strategic social media program. On top of that, the success managers are really the best. Our success manager goes above and beyond for us and has been so helpful to us with setting up some very specific repots and profiles. Paul (our CSM) has been great about keeping us up to date on the latest features and functionality as well as helping us set up innovative dashboards as need
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Marin Software's usability is bar none in the paid search world. All that said, I think Marin Software only appears superior because all the tools in the space provide extremely subpar support. Kenshoo is so complex that I don’t know think half the people that work there know how to use it.
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    Sprinklr
    The user interface, training via Sprinklr university and detailed articles on almost every topic in the knowledge portal make Sprinklr a complete package. This is also GDPR compliant, helping us stay good with the info security. The layout of the navigation is easy and anyone new to the tool won't be overwhelmed
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    Our account partners at Sprinklr are not only responsive to out needs, both domestically and internationally, but have consistently approached us with ideas on how to improve our communication and collaboration in a proactive manner.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    Perfornace is not aan issue. The issues/bugs with this software are few and far between. And when one pops up the 24/7 support team is helpful, quick and informative.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    The times that I have had to contact Marin support, they have been very helpful. When I spoke with them on the phone, they walked me through the process to be able to resolve the issue that I had, The gentleman walked me through all the steps and easily helped me resolve the issue that I had.
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    Sprinklr
    Support is amazing. We have had to reach out [to] them only a few times in the past few years. Each time, they were back in touch with us within the hour or two, no matter the time. We've always had our issues addressed quickly and promptly corrected. They are a great team to work with.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
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    Sprinklr
    I don't recall our training in detail. I know we met in person a few times, and did some over-the-phone product walk-throughs. It may have been somewhat informal -- I don't recall having any takeaways to refer to.
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    Interactive helpful videos, summaries, and quizzes help a user learn the platform in demo-mode. The only challenge was that once you clicked certain buttons per instructions, you couldn't necessarily go back to retake notes without redoing the entire module.
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    Sprinklr
    Through multiple webinars, easily accessible training documents, and ad-hoc sessions with my account manager I am never left in the dark when I have a question.
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    Implementation Rating
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    As I said previously I would just highly recommend everyone being hands on during implementation to make sure everyone knows how to use the product. Marin Software does an excellent job with training and answering questions so this is not a significant insight however it makes the process easier in the long run
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    Sprinklr
    The implementation personnel at Sprinklr are top-notch. They will work with you to make sure they setup Sprinklr in a way that best aligns with your structural needs
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Marin is a must have for any enterprise-level PPC account. The time savings from task automation and the very sophisticated bidding platform can help any advertiser or agency effectively scale any account. In both AdWords and Bing, the bulk editing and automated bidding features are less reliable and prone to error. The interfaces are also unnecessarily complicated and outdated. While Google Analytics is a great tool, there are no features that tie true revenue data into these interfaces, limiting the amount you can really optimize around ROI.
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    Sprinklr
    As much as I get frustrated with Sprinklr, Sprinklr is a much cleaner platform than others I have used and I do obtain good data from the reports due to my custom filters, allowing me to pass along education onto product teams in regards to their specific lines.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Always start simple with Sprinklr, e.g. one client. You can easily grow over time adding products/units/regions, etc
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • It has definitely increased employee efficiency because we run on Yahoo Gemini, Bing, and Google. If we had to optimize/report per engine, it would take hours and hours each week.
    • I think it's made optimizations less of a daunting task in my daily routine. I've been able to pinpoint where our ROI suffers and work from there in a matter of minutes.
    • The customer service has gotten better and could still be improved. Our Marin rep used to be horrible at returning messages but once he got support, we were able to implement a ton more pixels and betas.
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    Sprinklr
    • Reports can be customized and exported easily in many different formats. I especially like the PowerPoint version of reports. It quickly and professionally creates a custom slideshow to show the metrics of the platforms and time periods you choose. This is a great way to keep your company's C-level executives informed on your team's progress and investing in your efforts. This is especially true for executives that do not personally use or understand the value of social media.
    • Brand reputation management is always a great investment. The dashboard alerts you in real-time when your brand or product is mentioned across any of the platforms and offers a quick and efficient way to respond. The Sprinklr customer experience cloud can be implemented across your entire organization, including CRM and email systems.
    • If you're not growing you're dying. That alone helps me with the ROI of using Sprinklr for my client's business objectives.
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