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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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Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • We use it in a way that cannot be quantified simply in ROI, it is used simply as a metrics too to judge the effectiveness of our recruiting. Conversions and ROI aren't feasible measures because there are no sales
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Radian6 has allowed my team to develop effective keyword strings at a quicker pace. It is very easy to edit keywords and immediately see how it affects conversation results.
  • Clients are impressed that we use the Radian6 tool. We have been able to sell through additional business by sharing that we use this platform.
  • The visual exports from the Radian6 platform can be used in presentations to more clearly explain a piece of data. Clients understand and trust visuals.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It has lead to faster response times on social channels and overall strategy planning.
  • It has allowed us to find who is talking about our brands at how they are talking about us.
  • It has increased employee efficiency for reports.
November 05, 2013

Radian6 Review

Eric Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Very little - our industry was one that sold to the buyer, but the buyer was not the end user. We spent a fair amount of money to discover we were largely listening teenage girls complain.
  • We quit using it and went with Hootsuite.
Chirag Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Increased efficiency - Using Radian6 was definitely faster than manually tracking queries on various social media channels
  • Better response rate - Brand could more efficiently respond to customers in real time without hopping around to various websites.
  • Learning curve - It took about 4 weeks to get Radian6 integrated with other processes and tools
Andrea M. Bussey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The data retrieved from Radian6 allowed up to increase app downloads by 12 percent over a 6 month period, which surpassed our goal. Since we were able to find the consumers most likely to download the iPad app, we were able to engage them in/on a couple blogs and chat rooms. That was great for spreading the word.
October 28, 2013

New Results with Radian6

Nicolette Hawks | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • It has helped understand the impact of a campaign.
  • It has helped identify influencers around a campaign/product that help increase the reach of the campaign/product message.
  • Sometimes it can be too much data without enough direction on how to analyze that data.
Dan Collery | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Faster lead conversion and a streamlined approach to social selling.
  • Mobile access makes it easy to stay on top of your console and social accounts when on the go.
  • Enhanced customer service that allows to you go directly to the user to help solve the problem or react to questions.
Christina Mercadante | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • We tested this tool on industry leading CPG & entertainment accounts that were very fast paced and awareness oriented. For many campaigns the scale and efficiency goals were easily reached. in some cases that was a unique reach of Millions of users in a day or back end app engagement to basic old fashioned branding.
  • There are conversions that you can set up as well as CPA bidding and their team is always willing to work on custom solutions.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Social Brand Intelligence reporting. This involves monitoring of the client's brand as well as their competitive set. You can determine sentiment of conversation via random sample and can determine the Share of Voice in various media types to include, blogs, twitter & Facebook.
  • Helps develop Social insights through SBA performance, Sentiment and Competitive analysis
  • The alternative to not using this platform of course is to monitor manually. This is both cost prohibitive to the client and requires a large team of hourly billable staff versus one or two individuals using R6 which is less the $1000 per brand profile.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The software does a fantastic job of letting us understand who are top social supporters are. It would be impossible to understand this without Radian6. We now know who shares our content and helps us grow virally. Knowing who these people are is crucial to the success of the organization. Our marketing team understands who among our supporters can help us grow, and which messages resonate the most.
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