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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (retiring)

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (retiring)
Formerly Radian6 + Buddy Media

Overview

What is Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (retiring)?

Radian6 was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2011 and - along with Buddy Media - became Salesforce Social Studio. The product is slated to be retired in November 2024.

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Popular Features

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  • Content planning and scheduling (10)
    10.0
    100%
  • Broad channel coverage (10)
    10.0
    100%
  • Twitter (10)
    9.0
    90%
  • Workflow management (10)
    8.0
    80%
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Pricing

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Basic

$1,000.00

Cloud
Per Org Per Month

Pro

$4,000.00

Cloud
Per Org Per Month

Corporate

$12,000.00

Cloud
Per Org Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Listening/monitoring

Using complex keyword searches to surface insights from social media conversations.

8.5
Avg 7.6

Publishing

Scheduling posts to various social media channels and profiles from one interface.

8.5
Avg 8.0

Engagement

Engaging with customers and responding to comments and inquiries via social media channels.

7.6
Avg 8.1

Marketing

Using the software to increase customer engagement and grow customer base via social media channels.

5.5
Avg 7.7

Channel coverage/integration

Effective integration with social media networks, including the ability to monitor, publish and respond.

8.1
Avg 8.5

Reporting/analytics

8.6
Avg 7.9

Account management

Users can manage access to multiple social media accounts.

9.5
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (retiring)?

Social Studio (formerly Radian6 and Buddy Media) enables users to listen, engage, and publish within a social media marketing and management suite — and connect enriched social data to marketing with sales and service. Social Studio was the result of Salesforce' combining of Radian6 with the capabilities of Buddy Media, a social media publishing tool acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Social Studio is slated to be retired in November of 2024.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (retiring) Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Radian6 was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2011 and - along with Buddy Media - became Salesforce Social Studio. The product is slated to be retired in November 2024.

Bottlenose, Brandwatch, and Verint Messaging are common alternatives for Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (retiring).

Reviewers rate Sentiment analysis and Broad channel coverage and Content planning and scheduling highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (retiring) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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January 18, 2014

Buddy Media Survey

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I think it is well suited for a candidate engagement piece however, the challenge was branding it to college campuses since we are a "tab" from the main FB page opposed to a true page to search for. Some key questions are: "How can we brand our page as a tab?" How can we drive more traffic to our tab?" "How can utilize this page while we are on campus?"
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
How many social media accounts you plan on using and whether full bundling is cost effective for your organization. It seems the price points are running on antiquated model of pay per account that can be quite costly depending on the scale of your organization. Seems to weed out middle size users
Madison Holland | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I think Buddy Media is always a useful tool and would recommend it to any vendor. It's great for promoted posts, for conversations, for keeping a good presence on the web and getting your message out in creative and useful ways.
Susie Mac Kinnon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Radian6 is well suited for organizations looking to tap into Social Media and see what is out there and what opportunities monitoring Social Media will bring to their organization. What is great about Radian6 is that you can use the tool for as little or as much as you want to get out of it. Even using it a little opens the doors to some customer facing/saving opportunities that will help you get a better understanding for how your organization is viewed.
January 10, 2014

Fan Engagement Wizardry

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
If you have the budget and time to let Buddy Media create campaigns and pages for you, they are great. Otherwise you need to have someone with a working HTML and CSS knowledge to get things customized correctly.
Weston Woodward | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Make sure you have a dedicated person to clearly understand the extent of how the tool works. It takes quite a bit of time to get your profiles set up. You will also want to make sure you have very clear objectives of what you want to accomplish. If you do not have tons of folks talking about you online, then you may want to get another tool.....this is definitely best used to handle lots of data and would not be as great of an ROI if you are a baby brand due to the cost.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Take a training course and really master the ins and outs of the program. It looks scary at first, but once you know what you need to do, it's easy and really beneficial for clients.
November 04, 2013

Robustly Glitchy

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I would say to steer clear of Radian6. For the same reasons I gave in my last response, I wouldn't recommend them. There are so many other options out there that are better for social media analytics and monitoring that are more accurate. I would most likely recommend Crimson Hexagon.
Chirag Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Only use it for long term campaigns. It provides a lot of interesting data and insights, but they tend to only be actionable in the long term. Be sure to ask:

1. Is my audience large enough to justify using a tracking tool?
2. Is my audience actively using social media?
3. Which features will I be using most often? And are those features available for free somewhere else?

Ryan Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I would tell the colleague to do some training to get familiar with how the dashboard works but also let them know its a very user friendly platform that you won't be able to live without.
Jenn Vojta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Radian6 is a great tool and service that I have come to rely upon. With many competitors coming up in the marketplace there are certain one-off features Radian6 has yet to start incorporating, for instance returning Pinterest results. This is something I hope they address and continue to improve upon as they are a Salesforce company and have been an industry leader for many years.
Sarah Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is a big shame this part of Salesforce seems to have been neglected, despite strong claims originally that this would be fully integrated into their "marketing solution" - something which never happened (not necessarily a bad thing), but which has just been left to gather dust.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall, it was an ok tool for a standalone PR team; however, to do social monitoring across teams, other tools are better. It was also not as good as tools like Spredfast for engagement.

Radian6 is really built for listening to conversations, but Spredfast is built for engaging on the most important items. Radian6 might actually have more advanced listening filters (ie. Language); however, Spredfast is built for taking action, participating on conversations, and sharing relevant materials.
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