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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Percolate, now part of Seismic

    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Percolate was a content marketing platform designed to help large brands create content and manage marketing campaigns. The product's capabilities have been integrated into the Seismic platform's digital marketing capabilities, and Percolate is no longer available for sale standalone.N/A

    Social Mention

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ASocial Mention is a free tool which is a kind of Google search for the social web. It provides basic search and alerts across a very broad variety of social channels.N/A
    Pricing
    Percolate, now part of SeismicSocial Mention
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Percolate, now part of SeismicSocial Mention
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    Features
    Percolate, now part of SeismicSocial Mention
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Percolate, now part of Seismic and Social Mention
    Feature
    Percolate, now part of Seismic
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Approval workflows9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production9.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Percolate, now part of Seismic and Social Mention
    Feature
    Percolate, now part of Seismic
    7.8
    13 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Content hub8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion7.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Percolate, now part of Seismic and Social Mention
    Feature
    Percolate, now part of Seismic
    7.3
    13 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Social Mention
    -
    Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics7.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Percolate, now part of SeismicSocial Mention
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    Contently
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    Mention
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Social Suite by Reputation.com
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Percolate, now part of SeismicSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    1.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Percolate, now part of SeismicSocial Mention
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Very useful for the management, planning, and programming of all social networks, as well as marketing campaigns. One of the best tools to make life easier for community managers and automate daily tasks such as content publishing. It is my favorite for managing my clients' networks.
    Incentivized
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention is a great tool for monitoring social media. This Tool can also be used to search specifically taking the keywords in the blogs, comments, news etc. It offers a third party API for users. It can be used to send email to clients of their brand performance data. This tool can indicate if your mentions are angry, happy or neutral but the data can't be reliable.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Create social content from briefing all the way through to the approval process.
    • Social planner for managing topics and content streams across multiple channels.
    • Robust API and integrations.
    • Image library (with cost-free access/rights to stock photo libraries).
    • Frequent updates to the platform.
    • Built-in community management.
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    Social Mention
    • Can predict future response from today's number.
    • Let's you judge which types of campaigns to run.
    • Has a very well managed dashboard of results.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • A lot of the features in Percolate are very well built, but only provide the bare minimum as features go. Its editorial calendar for example lacks export/import features and its multimedia repository only supports images. In many ways, Percolate is trying very hard to be too much at the same time.
    • At the moment, Percolate lacks user level management. We can add users who need to be moderated before posting, but it is for example not possible to add users just for one specific function (like the multimedia database).
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    Social Mention
    • Under the "Free" dashboard you are limited to only receiving weekly results.
    • Can't negate those tags which contain my tags.
    • Lots of tweets missing, no noise filtering. Sometimes we get very old contents which are not needed.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    Percolate is a great tool for us, because we need the approval process workflows. The training was great when we first signed on, and the interface is very user friendly. We have trained our interns to use it as well with no issues. It makes keeping up with our content calendar a breeze and we can easily see what posts have been approved and which ones are still pending at a quick glance
    Incentivized
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    Social Mention
    I love that Social Mention is so easy to use. It does not take a long time to learn how to navigate the site when you need information quickly. I don't use it as much in my new job, but I recommend it for basic monitoring and when you need social media information right away
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Easy to set up approval flows, but not always necessary to follow all the requires steps
    Incentivized
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    Social Mention
    While it's easy to use and pay for it's totally useless.
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Rarely has a company shown this much support during implementation. This almost got to the point where it was too much hand holding. Sometimes, social teams just want the keys to the car so they can drive it themselves instead of waiting on someone to drive along with them...
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    Social Mention
    It doesn't work as well since we changed our name. We used to have a very unique twitter handle etc. so it was easier for social mention to find us. For folks who have unique names it's excellent if you don't it may not be that helpful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Percolate and Falcon have many similarities and provide many of the same features, however Percolate felt a bit more robust than Falcon, although it does come with a higher price tag to match. Both platforms are excellent for content approval workflows, content scheduling, and community management. Percolate offers additional features such as an Asset Management Library and a section for creative briefs and collaboration with internal teams.
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    Social Mention
    Social Mention streamed everything together, calculated my sentiment for me, allows me to filter what results I am personally looking for, extract my RSS feed and navigate to one of the channels of buzz.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Percolate has made it much easier to communicate between teams and has provided a return on investment in that area in particular.
    • Percolate also helps save time because you are able to schedule social media posts across channels easily.
    • It has also been an easy way to work with remote team members, which is very helpful.
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    Social Mention
    • The paid-version actually had a negative ROI for us as it would sometimes feed us topically inappropriate articles and didn't allow us to filter by source so as to eliminate inappropriate blogs and inappropriate news sources (like highly politically partisan ones).
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    Screenshot of Percolate's integrated marketing calendarScreenshot of Percolate's integrated marketing calendar