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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Postwire

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/APostwire is a SaaS product that enables marketers to capture and organize content that salespeople and account managers can use to create a personalized resource page. Postwire merged with the Social Communications Company in 2015.

    $20

    per month

    Wistia

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AWistia is a video marketing platform that helps teams create, host, market, and measure their videos and webinars. Wistia is used to create professional videos, host webinars, collect and send leads to a connected marketing automation platform. Wistia additionally offers customers support and educational resources.

    $24

    per month

    Pricing
    PostwireWistia
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    up to 10 videos
    Plus
    $24
    per month
    Pro Plan
    $99
    per month
    Advanced Plan
    $399
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PostwireWistia
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—20% discount for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    PostwireWistia
    Considered Both Products
    Social Communications Company
    No answer on this topic
    Wistia
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
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    User Ratings
    PostwireWistia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (4 ratings)
    9.5
    (73 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PostwireWistia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Social Communications Company
    Postwire is best used in any type of situation where you're trying to deliver data sheets, content or videos to customer or clients in one please. Instead of sending multiple emails with a lot of stuff attached, this is a great place to store it. It looks professional and often times, the client appreciates not having to look through all of their emails.
    Incentivized
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    Wistia
    For companies that want to integrate their videos into actionable steps like behavioral follow up through a CRM, Wistia is the best tool to use. You can automate your systems to track when a video is viewed, engaged with or how long a person has been watching along with heatmaps to show where people were most interested and least interested so you can adjust your videos to optimize their performance.
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    Pros
    Social Communications Company
    • Content Sharing - Easy way to share content.
    • Content Engagement Tracking - Easy way to track prospects engagement with the content
    • Ease of Use - Ability to set up a site in minutes.
    Incentivized
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    Wistia
    • Wistia enables a lot of customization in the video player, making it personalized to your business.
    • The user experience is pretty intuitive and easy to use without too much training.
    • Wistia's help articles, blog and instructional videos were very helpful as we began investing more resources into video production.
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    Cons
    Social Communications Company
    • Enough people don't know about Postwire, and I think that because of that, prospective clients often disregard these links as spam.
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    Wistia
    • Obtaining embed codes for a significantly large number of videos can be very time consuming as there is no way to automatically pull a report.
    • Within a project, there is no way to set the list to show a specific number of videos and you may only have a certain number of videos shown unless you click to expand the list and continue to do so.
    • Once the list is expanded and you click in to a video, when clicking back, the list reloads and you must expand the entire list again which can become very time consuming.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Social Communications Company
    Unfortunately, the decision to renew does not fall on me. However, I have told the decision maker that I believe that we utilized Postwire incorrectly when we started. I believe that rather than sending links to our Postwire pages to prospective clients in our introduction email, they would be better suited to send after connecting and agreeing to send them additional information. That way, you can explain that it will be in the format of a Postwire link due to it's ease of use.
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    Wistia
    Wistia is super easy to use and very reliable, anytime a video needs to be updated, the existing media can be replaced, but the url remains the same so anywhere this media is shared or embedded, it is immediately updated. Their support is extremely helpful, and there is very rarely any issues with this product.
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    Usability
    Social Communications Company
    No answers on this topic
    Wistia
    Great, simple, usable product. Would have given it higher marks, but sometimes the folders and permissions aren't the most intuitive. Interface for uploading, tagging, describing videos is simple. Sharing is also relatively intuitive. Overall, a clean and simple interface and most of our marketing team had no issues using it. I think it was easier than using Vimeo.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Social Communications Company
    No answers on this topic
    Wistia
    After several years, we have not come across a situation for which Wistia was not available when needed.
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    Performance
    Social Communications Company
    No answers on this topic
    Wistia
    I have never had any technical issues with Wistia. The service is fast and reliable. video play back begins as soon as a few seconds of video have buffered. The stats are accurate and available within a few hours of current use. I have integrated it with Marketo and found that the integration is clean and is easily incorporated into the campaign logic flow. (ex. If the user played more than 50% of the video, do Action-A, otherwise do Action-B.
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    Support Rating
    Social Communications Company
    No answers on this topic
    Wistia
    We have only had to reach out to Wistia support a handful of times in the 4 years we have been using Wistia. They have always been quick to respond and help us solve the problem. The system is self-service so there should be very little to no need to reach out to support on a regular basis.
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    Implementation Rating
    Social Communications Company
    No answers on this topic
    Wistia
    We were in the process of changing our website so that took some time to get Wistia implemented in to our website.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Social Communications Company
    Clearside has less features and is very simple. It's convenient because it comes free with Sales Navigator. There is limited functionality and you can only have a certain number of different clear slides accessible at once. There is also a lot of other random LinkedIn content that shows up on ClearSlide, but I'm not a fan. I prefer paying with Postwire over free with LinkedIn.
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    Wistia
    Wistia is for business. Period. Vimeo has none of the benefits for a business that Wistia offers. The SEO value and SUPER FAST playback speed are essential. Wistia has it all. Personally, I can rarely get thought a video if hosted on Vimeo because of the glitchy playback and slow rendering.
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    Scalability
    Social Communications Company
    No answers on this topic
    Wistia
    We use many platforms and Wistia has been a standout in terms of reliability and scaleability.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Social Communications Company
    • Sales conversion rates
    • Sales image
    • Sales efficiency
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    Wistia
    • Doubled lead capture from lead magnet on website from one year to the next.
    • Increased email interaction on newsletters when embedding Wistia video thumbnail into email campaigns (10-15% links clicked bumped to 30-40% links clicked).
    • Can save us about 50+ hours of one-on-one client meeting time per year for pointing clients to video content rather than presenting the same info in a live setting.
    Incentivized
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