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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    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
    MeltwaterSprinklr Social
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Custom Social Media Management Solution
    Custom, quote-based pricing
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MeltwaterSprinklr Social
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    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
    MeltwaterSprinklr Social
    Considered Both Products
    Meltwater
    Chose Meltwater
    I have tried several platforms but continue coming back to Meltwater. Even though we are a national company, I like the global reach that Meltwater offers.
    Incentivized
    Chose Meltwater
    Cision and LexisNexis are better for accessing articles behind paywalls. I've found that social-specific tools like Sprout Social or Sprinklr seem to be better for monitoring social media mentions. However, Meltwater Media Intelligence Platform may have upped its "social game" …
    Incentivized
    Chose Meltwater
    Meltwater is great for an internal social listening tool and very cost efficient but with the cheaper cost comes less features and slower optimization.
    Incentivized
    Sprinklr
    Chose Sprinklr Social
    Sprinklr has all the features and more integrated into one platform and with API access to all platforms and superior data visualization. Sprinklr is the best tool for enterprise-level clients.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    63%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    62%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    69%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    63%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    MeltwaterSprinklr Social
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Meltwater and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.7
    57 Ratings
    0% 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 Meltwater and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    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 Meltwater and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    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 Meltwater and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.1
    49 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings7.035 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 Meltwater and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    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 Ratings5.830 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings5.142 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Meltwater and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    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 Meltwater and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.6
    57 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.556 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings6.750 Ratings
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    MeltwaterSprinklr Social
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    Help a Reporter Out (HARO)
    Score5 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cision Communications Cloud
    Score8 out of 10
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cision Communications Cloud
    Score8 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MeltwaterSprinklr Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (73 ratings)
    9.0
    (85 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    7.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    10.0
    (34 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MeltwaterSprinklr Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    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
    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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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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.
    Incentivized
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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
    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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    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
    Meltwater
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Meltwater
    No answers on this topic
    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
    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.
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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
    Meltwater
    Again, really in-depth and helpful for a program that is really easy to use.
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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
    Meltwater
    Walked step by step through program. Very informative on a program that doesn't require much training.
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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
    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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    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
    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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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Meltwater
    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
    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.
    Incentivized
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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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