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    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

    Tango Card

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Tango Card provides digital rewards and incentives. Users can access a global catalog that includes popular e-gift cards, digital Visa and Mastercard rewards, non-profit donations and bitcoin e-gift cards. Tango Card backs their catalog with technology and expert support. Incentives can be delivered in bulk, on-the-spot, or by API integration. The vendor’s value proposition that this provides convenience for their customers and guarantees that rewards arrive exactly at the right time to…

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    You only pay for the incentives

    Pricing
    MeltwaterTango Card
    Editions & Modules
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    Only One Edition
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    You only pay for the incentives
    Only One Edition
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    You only pay for the incentives
    Delivery to an Individual
    $2.00
    Per Card
    Delivery to a Corporate Addtess
    $2.00
    Per Card
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MeltwaterTango Card
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—We provide all of our services at no additional cost. The only cost is the face value of all e-gift cards or other rewards and incentives send via our API.
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    Community Pulse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    63%
    Would buy again
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    88%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    62%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    69%
    Happy with the feature set
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    81%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    63%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
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    Score5 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Cision Communications Cloud
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MeltwaterTango Card
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (73 ratings)
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    5.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.8
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    MeltwaterTango Card
    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.
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    Blackhawk Network
    Tango Card is great for bulk purchases - if you need to send a large number of people they have easy templates to have it as simple as possible. The one offs become cumbersome - I have never used the API connections so I am unsure if that makes it better but the one at a time sales take a lot of time compared to the uploads.
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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.
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    Blackhawk Network
    • Tango Card is very easy to use and set-up
    • Tango Card makes it easy to allow for multiple gift card options
    • Tango Card allows for excel imports of respondents, which keeps things nice and simple
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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.
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    Blackhawk Network
    • The initial setup of the API with all the ACH info was a bit complicated.
    • The only speedbump (not big concern) is the branding of a Tango Card - when saying that to recipients, they don't "get it" immediately and some quick-to-judgement folks can say they don't want it.
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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.
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    Blackhawk Network
    We like the product/service.
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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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    Blackhawk Network
    Good platform. Only feedback is sometimes when you have no funds in your account you have to “fill” the bank and that is a minor pain to fill out CC information each time. But overall, it’s a relatively easy system to use for the team
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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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    Blackhawk Network
    Giving it a 9 only because I haven't been using it for more than 6 months but that said, I've had enough projects and redemptions to get a full understanding of its performance. TANGO CARD just works better than the rest for the redemption experience for the end recipient.
    Incentivized
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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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    Blackhawk Network
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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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    Blackhawk Network
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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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    Blackhawk Network
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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.
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    Blackhawk Network
    We liked Tango Card much more as it was easier to use and had more flexibility within our company. It allowed us to be more creative as well. The scale of cards and ease of use, both front and back end were huge decision points for us. Everything about Tango Card appeared to be much better than Tremendous and we are happy with our choice.
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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.
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    Blackhawk Network
    • We used Tango Card as an incentive to attend training, and this increased the number of attendees by over 50% when it was not used.
    • We were able to bring in more attendees as a focus group and gain valuable insight to a product we were creating.
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