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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

    TechTarget Priority Engine

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APriority Engine is TechTarget's primary intent data offering. The vendor aims to enable marketing and sales teams by providing behavior insights for high priority accounts and leads.N/A
    Pricing
    MeltwaterTechTarget Priority Engine
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MeltwaterTechTarget Priority Engine
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MeltwaterTechTarget Priority Engine
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    Meltwater
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    TechTarget
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    63%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    62%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    69%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 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
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    MeltwaterTechTarget Priority Engine
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Meltwater and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    10.0
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Contact information00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Company information00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Industry information00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Intent Data
    Comparison of Intent Data features of Meltwater and TechTarget Priority Engine
    Feature
    Meltwater
    -
    Ratings
    TechTarget Priority Engine
    7.5
    8 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Web Personalization00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    3rd party intent signals00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Downstream intent signals00 Ratings5.74 Ratings
    Account identification00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Buyer journey tracking00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Revenue forecasts00 Ratings4.03 Ratings
    Audience segmentation00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Conversion optimization00 Ratings5.36 Ratings
    Content Syndication00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
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    Score5 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MeltwaterTechTarget Priority Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (73 ratings)
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    5.6
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MeltwaterTechTarget Priority Engine
    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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    TechTarget
    TechTarget would notify us when prospects looked us up by name or specifically researched areas where our product would prove beneficial. It did a great job gauging legitimate interest from the prospect and gave an idea of a timeline as well so that we could understand their urgency.
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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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    TechTarget
    • Contact Info is pretty good. I've occasionally found better data than I can get from our chosen lead solution.
    • I don't know of another alternative source, but TechTarget provides data on content that people are researching.
    • TechTarget provides current tech stack for companies that I'm researching.
    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.
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    TechTarget
    • It is not particularly intuitive
    • Too many steps to get where I need to go
    • Needs to provide more depth to help determine urgency and intent to buy
    • Response rate from contacting leads based on search behaviors was almost nil. This may be partially due to messaging on our end.
    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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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    TechTarget
    Usability is great, we would love to see how strong the intent is for every keywords
    Incentivized
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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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    TechTarget
    I'm just a business user of TechTarget so I really haven't had the chance to gauge what the support is from a customer standpoint. Given that we recently rolled it out and everyone is utilizing it daily I would assume that their support is strong enough for us to continues to use it.
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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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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Meltwater
    Walked step by step through program. Very informative on a program that doesn't require much training.
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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    TechTarget
    No answers on this topic
    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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    TechTarget
    TechTargets Priority Engine's interface and customizable features were easier to use and better organized than ZoomInfo's. I like the custom alerts that TechTarget provided, and I'm not sure ZoomInfo had the same feature. I would get email alerts any time a target customer read a white paper or downloaded a brochure, which made my timing for prospecting much easier. I do believe ZoomInfo's company directories are more robust and wide-spread
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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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    TechTarget
    • It is best when used in conjunction with all of our other tooling and not used alone
    • It has enabled my team to have a better feel for what is happening at a prospect's company
    • It sometimes consumes too many hours in the day waiting on data to load, and time is wasted toggling between pages
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