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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Parse.ly

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AParse.ly is a content optimization platform for online publishers. It provides in-depth analytics and helps maximize the performance of the digital content. It features a dashboard geared for editorial and business staff and an API that can be used by a product team to create personalized or contextual experiences on a website.

    $499

    per month

    TapClicks

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ATapClicks is a leading marketing technology company for agencies, media companies, brands, and enterprises. Its integrated Marketing Operations Platform includes workflow and order management, analytics, and automated reporting -- all within a single intuitive user interface available on demand in the cloud. TapClicks has delivered over 1,000,000 dashboards to over 5,000 brands and over 500 media companies and agencies worldwide. The TapClicks platform leverages over 150 native API…N/A
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsTapClicks offers a subscription on a month-to-month basis. We offer multiple packages catered to your needs. Try us out for free, no credit card required.
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    Parse.ly
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Web Analytics
    Comparison of Web Analytics features of Parse.ly and TapClicks
    Feature
    Parse.ly
    7.6
    7 Ratings
    6% below category average
    TapClicks
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    Ratings
    Lead Conversion Tracking6.23 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bounce Rate Measurement6.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device and Browser Reporting8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pageview Tracking8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event Tracking7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting in real-time8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral Source Tracking7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Dashboards7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Matomo Analytics
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Parse.lyTapClicks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.8
    (82 ratings)
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (32 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (35 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.8
    (35 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Parse.ly
    Parse.ly is a great tool for publishers who want to track engagement and audience behaviour across websites. With Parse.ly, we can easily track metrics like pageviews, time spent on page, and scroll depth to see which content is resonating with our audience and optimize our content strategy accordingly. Our marketers found Parse.ly to be an excellent tool for tracking the effectiveness of our campaigns. We can use Parse.ly to track metrics like referral sources, conversion rates, and engagement by audience segment to see which channels and tactics are driving the most engagement and conversions.
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    TapClicks
    For advertising agencies and marketing departments looking to aggregate and consolidate marketing, advertising, and website analytics performance data into one centralized platform, TapClicks is a market-leading solution. TapClicks provides customizable modules, charts, and graphs to make visual sense of your data. TapClicks is designed for organizations that are trying to import reporting data across multiple marketing, advertising, and web analytics platforms. It probably does not makes sense to license TapClicks if you are just getting started with your digital marketing and are only utilizing 1 or 2 third-party platforms that TapClicks has an API connection with, it's probably premature for your organization to invest in TapClicks.
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    Pros
    Parse.ly
    • Firstly, the platform is super easy to use, it is user-friendly and easy to navigate through.
    • Secondly, the platform also provides you the option to use filters to your best fit and adjust the filters according to what data you want to look at.
    • Thirdly, it enables the user to have live feedback on their articles and see what can be improved going forward to address the need of the readers.
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    TapClicks
    • Customizable dashboards: these are easy to set-up and manage and tell a powerful story. We appreciate that they can be exported.
    • Import Wizard: it's very important that we are able to include custom data points in our reports through the Import Wizard. After a short learning curve, we are not importing data on a weekly basis for a comprehensive report that not only shows marketing trends, but the business results too.
    • Groups and Clusters: The ability to manage client groups and clusters has been vital to how we report out to the client.
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    Cons
    Parse.ly
    • A more readily understandable visual guide to a visitor's pathway through your site would help understand what keeps a reader on-site.
    • The total page view number for the day should be more readily visible--on the overview page, not just by going to Posts>Historical.
    • Maintain the archive for longer than a year under all plans--it's a shame to lose year-on-year data quickly.
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    TapClicks
    • The support team sometimes isn't very responsive, and I can go a week without hearing from the TapClicks team on an open issue.
    • I would love to have the categories feature enhanced so that I could combine several services, and be able to break out reporting by the flights/adgroups/lineitems within those services.
    • I would love for the custom dashboards that are created to be integrated into reporting so that, for example, I could use the Categories dashboard as the title page of an exported report.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Parse.ly
    As an employee, this is difficult for me to comment as I am not directly funding or making these business decisions. However, it is a tool many get on with for surface level data that is useful to editorial teams.
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    TapClicks
    TapClicks is a must have for our agency clients
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    Usability
    Parse.ly
    The Parse.ly platform is very user-friendly and easy to use. User management is simple, and reporting setup only takes a few minutes. They provide very helpful documentation for implementing the scripts on your site and have great customer support to help with custom development such as implementing their content recommendation engine.
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    TapClicks
    TapClicks provides an array of on-demand training videos coupled with account management support to help your organization get up and running. That being said, TapClicks integrates with hundreds of marketing, advertising, CRM, and website analytics third-party platforms, so depending on how many integrations you want to activate, it can be a steep learning curve. Overall, we like the usability of the product.
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    Support Rating
    Parse.ly
    I rate this question this way solely because I haven't requested any support. I feel where I will eventually get support would be when we take Parse.ly up on some training that is being offered. We are looking to do that at some point after the first of the year and when our schedules support it.
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    TapClicks
    Our organization experienced a very thorough onboarding process that helped us get up and running with TapClicks. It's pretty easy to integrate or "connect" with other platforms. We have developed a long-term relationship with our Account Manager at TapClicks and we really value her support. In today's world, most technology companies change your Account Manager seemingly almost every year, but that has not been the case with TapClicks.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Parse.ly
    Parse.ly does pretty well compared to Chartbeat, particularly when it comes to historical information and analysis options that are easy for employees to use after some short training. The onboarding for Parse.ly is intuitive, and the scheduled reports take away basically all of the inconvenience associated with regular metrics reviewing. But Chartbeat wins in its social audience tracking because it can source traffic to a specific social post, which can show you exactly how your audience is coming to your content and where you need to put your content to be sure you get that audience.
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    TapClicks
    The companies I interviewed are either limited in the number of APIs built with the data source, especially with DFP. Some of them charge us cloud storage fees. TapClicks came in with enthusiasm and so far they have helped us jump start the building of dashboards for our clients.
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    Return on Investment
    Parse.ly
    • Sometimes in meetings our editorial director will point out stories that didn't perform well. To us, that means readers don't really care about the topic, so we'll pivot away from writing about that in the future. That might not be "business objectives" though.
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    TapClicks
    • Greater efficiencies in providing reports to our clients
    • Great reporting features to sell when we're trying to close new business as an agency
    • Ability to resell and add margin to our investment
    • Automated reporting for our clients which saves our team time
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    ScreenShots

    Parse.ly Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview in full-screen mode: Many Parse.ly pages, like the Overview, are TV-ready. Keep your entire team up-to-date with live, full-screen dashboards on TVs in your office.Screenshot of Overview screen: See a snapshot of what your audience is paying attention to today so you can make fast decisions about what content to produce or distribute. Customize it to show only what your team cares about by filtering it to a particular author, section, or tag. You can pick what stats and listings are displayed.Screenshot of Real-time posts page: See what’s gathering steam so you can capitalize on attention to every post, campaign, or section.
Real-time data includes the last 24 hours and updates every five seconds. It can be seen, filtered, and sorted on most screens.Screenshot of Historical posts page: Explore historical trends by post, author, section, topic, referrer, or campaign. Compare today’s performance to last week, month, or year.Screenshot of Campaign tracking: Easily tie in your off-site promotion to engagement with your on-site content using UTM parameters.Screenshot of Multi-channel tracking: Track all your content in one place, no matter where it lives.
Compare how your content performances on various distributed channels including your website, AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, and Apple News.

    TapClicks Screenshots

    Screenshot of Connect to over 100 servicesScreenshot of Easy set upScreenshot of Custom color themes and easy configurabilityScreenshot of Send automatic email reports in any formatScreenshot of Add a custom logo or customer brandingScreenshot of Margin/Markup capabilities