Ambassify vs Hootsuite Amplify

Looking for the Right Employee Advocacy Software?

Hootsuite is a leading social media management suite, and Amplify (now called Parliament) is its employee advocacy add-on. Ambassify is built for advocacy only. While we may be biased, our goal isn’t to criticize—it's to show what a dedicated advocacy platform adds to keep employees sharing. Keep Hootsuite for publishing: Ambassify imports your published company posts, so both tools work side by side.

Overview
Ambassify Hootsuite Amplify
Market segment Enterprise Enterprise (included with the Hootsuite Enterprise plan)
Ease of use 9.4 on G2
8.8 on G2
Quality of support 8.9 on G2
8.7 on G2
Support
  • Live chat
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Knowledge base
  • User webinars
  • Quarterly business reviews
  • Proactive outreaches by Ambassify’s Customer Success Team
  • Professional services and support by industry experts (on demand)
  • Messaging from the dashboard
  • Email to account rep (Enterprise)
  • Help request form
  • Knowledge base
  • Social media support
User/seat plan Unlimited Enterprise plan only. Price on request
Security
  • ISO 27001:2022 certified
  • GDPR compliant
  • Fully hosted in the EU
  • Service Level Agreement
  • Extensive legal center
  • External Yearly Audit
  • ISO 27001, 27017 and 27701 certified
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • GDPR DPA available
Certification and compliance

GDPR Compliant

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  • ISO 27001
  • ISO 27017
  • ISO 27701
  • SOC 2 Type II
Feature Comparison
Ambassify capabilities Hootsuite Amplify capabilities
AI Capabilities

Fully in-house managed AI assistant to guarantee privacy that can help admins:

  • Write campaign content based on initial input (summary)
  • Write content preview copies and variations
  • Write default captions for social media posts shared via the platform
  • AI Content Library
  • Translate campaigns
  • AI-powered post improvements
  • AI Tone of Voice Configuration
  • Compliance Guardrails: check every post against your social media policy in real time in the composer
  • AI-generated captions
  • AI hashtag suggestions
  • Connector for AI assistants (MCP)
Translation

Automatic and seamless translations of all content through AI assistant

Not publicly documented

Employee-generated content
  • Ideation campaigns to share input
  • Member can create campaigns (if allowed by admin)
  • Personal posts written and shared directly from within the platform.
  • Approval flow for Personal Posts, campaigns, content and goals
  • Members can suggest posts for admin approval
  • Members can personalize posts (if allowed)
Post scheduling
  • Auto-share
  • Smart-scheduling
  • Manual scheduling up to 31 days ahead
  • Cancel or edit scheduled shares
  • Quick-boost: auto-create a boost campaign for a shared post
  • Overview of all shares (scheduled, failed, and published) in the community
  • Share now or schedule
  • Scheduled LinkedIn reposts
Native content sharing

Native sharing for:

  • Links
  • videos
  • images
  • photo albums
  • PDF's
  • LinkedIn carousel

Sharing to LinkedIn, X, Facebook and TikTok

  • Links
  • Images
  • Videos
  • PDFs (LinkedIn only)
  • Native LinkedIn reposts
Alerts and notifications
  • Push notifications (via mobile app)
  • New campaign messages in Slack and MS Teams
  • Email alerts when a campaign has been published or to remind the audience of an uncompleted campaign.
  • Deeplinks to open the mobile when installed and users click links on their smartphone
  • Push notifications
  • Digest emails
  • Content in Microsoft Teams and Slack
Gamification

Full gamification suite including: point system (points vs coins, so members keep their leaderboard rank after redeeming rewards), customizable leaderboards, open group options, community goals, and rewards.

Points-based leaderboard (rolling 30 days). No built-in rewards
Campaign creation
  • Manual posts, featured posts, internal announcements
  • Send to Parliament from Hootsuite publishing
  • UpContent and TINT curation
Analytics and Reporting

In-depth analytics for:

  • Social media performance (clicks, shares, reach, ROI) verified shares & LinkedIn reactions and comments
  • Campaign performance & individual member activity.
  • Custom reporting (on demand).
  • Detailed Social Media Engagement Metrics: impressions, reach, reactions, comments, reposts.
  • Shares, reach and clicks per advocate
  • Top posts
  • LinkedIn post-level metrics
  • Excel export
Content variation Multiple text, image, and caption variations (also possible via AI assistant) Members can personalize post copy
Integrate with your existing tools in just a few clicks
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Unique Selling Points
Ambassify Hootsuite Amplify
Member Training

In-app training includes:

  • In-app training and Skill Enablement:
  • Guided learning paths that unlock advocacy skills at the member's pace: boosting, sharing, editing share messages, personal posts
  • Built-in first-time member onboarding, no pre-training needed
  • Campaign templates (social media skills, advocacy, platform training)
  • Customizable course/bundle creation
  • Customized onboarding and coaching (Enterprise)
  • Hootsuite Academy
Community-driven solution

Employee engagement and collaboration features including:

  • Forms and surveys
  • Ideation
  • Quizzes
  • (E)NPS
  • Member campaigns
  • Comment & mentions on campaigns
Internal announcements
Multi-channel access Members can access the community via web version for desktop, mobile app, or Microsoft Teams. Web, mobile app, Microsoft Teams and Slack
White labelling

White labeling for:

Not publicly documented

Single sign-on
  • Single Sign-On using all common protocols like SAML, oAuth and WS-Federation. 
  • Automatically provision and de-provision users using SCIM
Single Sign-On on the Enterprise plan (Okta, Azure AD, OneLogin, Google, Ping)
Multi-country deployment support
  • Global overarching reporting for multi-brand communities
  • Proper internationalization
  • Users can share in multiple languages
  • Segmentation by division, job function and location
  • Content filtering by language
Ambassify is used by leading companies
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