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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pulsar CORE

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APulsar is a social media monitoring platform offering social listening, owned channels analytics, and social CRM. Customers use Pulsar for brand tracking and campaign measurement. The platform includes 4 tools: TRAC: Social media listening across topics, audiences and content diffusion. CORE: Owned channels analytics to measure your content performance and audience growth. FLOW: Social customer relationship management and social media publishing. TEAM: Analyse your internal social networks…

    $1,200

    150,000 mentions

    Tracx

    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Tracx is a social media analytics platform that is designed to help enterprises to build their brand, attract new customers, service existing ones and connect with other key audiences in the social-enabled world. According to the vendor, the solution analyzes and refines mass amounts of geographic, demographic and psychographic data from across the social web to deliver deep insights into customers, competitors and influencers. It then makes those insights actionable through its contextually…N/A
    Pricing
    Pulsar CORETracx
    Editions & Modules
    TRAC (starter package)
    $1,200
    150,000 mentions
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Pulsar CORETracx
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices listed are on a 'starting from' basis. All TRAC packages have unlimited user log-ins, unlimited search queries and are charged on the amount of mentions pulled in. Bespoke packages are available.—
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    User Ratings
    Pulsar CORETracx
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Pulsar CORETracx
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Pulsar
    I think that Pulsar is a good tool for brands or agencies who have a set list of competitors or subbrands that they are looking to do a monthly/weekly comparison of engagement metrics. When you have the brand account inputted, the data is shown in a visually tangible way and easy to comprehend.
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    Tracx
    Tracx is best for influencer marketing tracking, where you need to track specific mentions of a keyword from specific people. Not sure it's the 100% solution for other social media aspects, but I have not explored many of those aspects, so I cannot be the end-all-be-all person to say when it isn't well suited
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    Pros
    Pulsar
    • Track engagements over time
    • Easy to use interface
    • Modern and updated display
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    Tracx
    • Tracx is very user friendly. There is a bit of a learning curve but once that is established there are many opportunities to use Tracx to your brands benefit.
    • There customer service team is exceptional. If I ever have a question regarding the platform I am able to reach out to our account manager and receive a reply the same day.
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    Cons
    Pulsar
    • Unfortunately, when exporting data it is often hard to read in an easy format.
    • I've used other tools where you can get historical data once you put into the tool but Pulsar cannot do that.
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    Tracx
    • Tracx is a little slow to pull in data. It could be a lot better although I understand it's pulling in a lot of metadata which other platforms don't pull.
    • Tracx is not "real time", some of the sources take a little more time to get pulled in although I understand this is probably an API issue on the social network side.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Pulsar
    No answers on this topic
    Tracx
    Tracx is a solid software for identifying customer sentiment that would otherwise go unheard and undocumented by our company. We're able to report to our CEO the good and the bad with actual data and do so on an attractive interface. It is also essential in helping us prepare queries well in advance.
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    Usability
    Pulsar
    Pulsar is not a complex tool by any means. The interface is updated and comprehensive, and I've used multiple tools in the past where the interface was very outdated and exporting data was often a difficult process since it was not well organized. The tool works well in visualizing complex data.
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    Tracx
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Pulsar
    I have not had to reach out to Pulsar support before but my coworkers have and said the support was good.
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    Tracx
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Pulsar
    I think that Pulsar is one of the more updated platforms that I have used and the metrics exported/shown in the dashboard are accurate. I think that some tools report inaccurate metrics gathered from social media platforms due to the new APIs, something that often causes confusion and lack of clarity.
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    Tracx
    I like the attention that we have from our team at Tracx. I like that unlike other tools we have tried Tracx allows us to publishing, listen, receive automated reports and track our competition in real time.
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    Return on Investment
    Pulsar
    • Input into our algorithm for brand strength and stature
    • Quick engagement tracking
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    Tracx
    • We are able to see what people are saying about our brand on social media in real time and respond to it in a timely fashion.
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    ScreenShots

    Pulsar CORE Screenshots

    Screenshot of The activity dashboard gives you a thorough snapshot of all the key numbers in your datasetScreenshot of Pulsar TRAC advanced location detection gives you up to 100% geo-localised data by city, country and GPS coordinatesScreenshot of The Network map visualizes the engagement patterns within your audience and identifies the most influential usersScreenshot of Slice and dice the data with contextual, behavioural and content filtersScreenshot of See the bigger picture. Pulsar CORE gives you integrated brand-level metrics across all owned channels, so you can measure the total reach and engagement you're getting.

    Tracx Screenshots

    Screenshot of KNOW WHO YOUR INFLUENCERS ARE
Stitch together an individual's social media profiles to understand their true sphere of influence.
KNOW WHY THEY HAVE INFLUENCE
Put the whole profile in perspective with metrics such as volume, reach, and impact to get the most out of each investment.Screenshot of HOTSPOT IDENTIFICATION
Better measure and target your campaigns and initiatives by viewing hotspots of social media activity geographically.
HYPER LOCAL TARGETING
Get granular at the post and street levels for deeper engagement with your target audience.Screenshot of KNOW WHAT TO POST
Enhance marketing management by receiving recommendations for trending content that your unique audience will love.
KEEP THE CONTENT FLOWING
Establish a consistent cadence of engagement with your community by scheduling posts ahead of time and organizing your content so that your teams can collaborate.
CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION
Create and implement workflows and approval processes to optimize your team's efficiency. Easily measure your team's compliance to your overarching engagement strategy.Screenshot of Measure your team's performance. Manage internal KPIs by benchmarking individual or team activity by social media campaign or initiative. Keep tabs on the amount of time taken to identify, respond and close social cases.