2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

Emplifi named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Social Media Management and Listening

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2026 Emplifi Excellence Awards

Emplifi celebrates award-winning experiences

The Emplifi Excellence Awards celebrate brands creating connected customer experiences that span across marketing, commerce, and care.

The categories

Excellence across every part of the customer journey.

The 2026 Emplifi Excellence Awards span nine categories, each connected to a measurable outcome that customers and their consumers care about.

CX Superhero

Brands that took an end-to-end customer-experience leap across response time, scale, language, and consistency.

Care Champion

Care organizations combining human empathy, AI triage, and unified workflows to scale support without breaking quality.

Social Listening Leader

Teams that turned listening into early-warning intelligence, protecting brand health and unlocking new market moves.

Insights & Analytics

Marketers using Emplifi Unified Analytics to translate cross-channel signals into decisions that leadership can act on.

Fueling your growth

Brands that compounded audience, pipeline, and revenue growth by operationalizing Emplifi across teams.

Best Social Campaign

Creative campaigns using Emplifi Publisher and Community: billion-impression moments and culture-defining wins.

Best overall Emplifi agency partner

Agencies that put Emplifi at the center of every pitch, plan, and client win, from strategy to execution.

Best unified customer experience

Enterprises that broke down silos between marketing, commerce, and care to deliver one continuous experience.

AI in action

Leaders operationalizing Fuel AI across marketing, commerce, and care.

Meet the 2026 Emplifi Excellence Award winners

CX Superhero Award

Stellantis

Multi-brand automotive ecosystem

Stellantis connected care, content, and analytics into a single operational framework, bringing structure, alignment, and visibility to one of the world’s largest automotive networks.

“Connecting care, content, and analytics into one operational framework brought alignment, efficiency, and control across our global social ecosystem.”

Stellantis global social operations team

  • 100 agencies
    Managed in one ecosystem
  • 20 brands
    Unified governance
  • Care → Analytics
    End-to-end implementation
  • 100+ Regions
Care Champion Award

Hisense

AI-powered consumer electronics care

Hisense introduced AI-driven social care workflows on Emplifi to triage and route a high volume of inbound inquiries, moving from once-a-week DM checks to issue resolution within 24 hours.

“An AI chatbot as the first line of support let us deliver faster response times, smarter routing, and a far more scalable approach to high-volume care.”

Hisense customer care team

  • Once a week → 24 hrs
    Inbound resolution
  • AI chatbot
    First-line triage
  • Auto-routed
    Post-sales to care teams
  • SLA-ready
    Every request handled in time
Care Champion Award

Naked Wines

High-volume eCommerce and direct-to-consumer

By centralizing inbound social messages and combining real-time triage with close team collaboration, Naked Wines now delivers fast, empathetic support at scale even through extreme peak-trading periods.

“Centralising every inbound message and pairing real-time triage with close team collaboration lets us deliver fast, empathetic support even at peak volumes.”

Naked Wines social customer care team

  • 41 min → 31 min
    Average response time
  • 55% of social contacts
    Response coverage
  • NPS 56.9 → 70
    FY24 to FY26
  • Peak-ready
    Staffed for high-volume periods
Fueling Your Growth Award

Paris Saint-Germain

Elite international sports organization and lifestyle brand

Following the 2025 Champions League, PSG used a Social Media Scorecard built on Emplifi Insights to steer content strategy beyond vanity metrics, and produced their most visible week in years.

“Deep analytics let us steer content strategy beyond vanity metrics and produced our most visible week in years following the Champions League.”

Paris Saint-Germain social media team

Best Social Media Campaign

BBC

Global public service broadcaster and media network

BBC Sport’s Women’s Euros campaign redefined how a century-old broadcaster connects with a new generation. Emplifi powered publishing, community management, and reporting end-to-end.

“Using one platform for publishing, community, and reporting, we reshaped our strategy to become a must-follow brand for Gen Z.”

BBC Sport social team

  • 231M views
    Across the campaign
  • 76% under 34
    TikTok audience share
  • Must-follow
    Brand status with Gen Z
  • One platform
    Publishing, community, reporting
AI in Action Award

Syngenta

Global agricultural technology and sustainable farming solutions

Syngenta’s global digital marketing team moved Fuel AI from experiment to operating engine, embedding AI PrimeTime, AI Composer, and AI-generated dashboards across daily content and reporting workflows.

“AI doesn’t replace the marketer; it provides the superpower we need to leverage real-time insights and scale content across 100+ markets while remaining authentic”

— David Blundell, Global Social Media Manager, Syngenta

  • AI PrimeTime
    Optimized publishing cadence
  • AI Composer
    Scaled creative output
  • AI dashboards
    Automated strategic reporting
  • Global
    Daily AI-led operations
How winners are selected

Built to perform. Measured to win.

A cross-functional panel of Emplifi product, customer success, and marketing leaders evaluates every award against three pillars. Submissions must show evidence in each.

Outcomes

Winning entries demonstrate measurable business impact, from audience growth and faster response times to revenue lift and improved NPS.

Platform depth

Winning brands use Emplifi Fuel as a connected system across marketing, commerce, care, and AI, creating more unified customer experiences.

Authenticity

Customer-first storytelling, transparency, and meaningful engagement transform audience trust into measurable impact.
See excellence in motion

Bring award-winning execution to your team.

See how Emplifi Fuel unifies marketing, commerce, and care, with Fuel AI doing the heavy lifting behind every workflow.