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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kapost

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AUpland Kapost helps you create and distribute meaningful content to support the buyer journey for B2B companies.

    $1

    per month

    Opal

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Opal is a platform for brands, used to plan, create, and calendar their content - across teams and channels. Opal aims to enable tight alignment and high levels of efficiency. Marketing teams from companies such as Starbucks, Microsoft, and Target use Opal to collaborate, plan, and visualize, while ensuring an always-unified brand voice. Users can: Plan every facet of the brand experience, to ensure consistency throughout every moment and across every…

    $8.29

    per month

    Pricing
    KapostOpal
    Editions & Modules
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    Opal Pro
    $8.29
    per month
    Opal
    Free Forever
    Teams Pro
    Custom Pricing
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KapostOpal
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    KapostOpal
    Considered Both Products
    Upland Software
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    OPAL
    Chose Opal
    I have used Kapost, which has a better editorial calendar sharing functionality for non users, but which is not as good for social, content planning or publishing.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    KapostOpal
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Kapost and Opal
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.2
    9 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Opal
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Approval workflows8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Kapost and Opal
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Opal
    -
    Ratings
    Content hub7.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs7.93 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content distribution9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion8.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Kapost and Opal
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Opal
    -
    Ratings
    Audience profiling and targeting8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analytics7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
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    KapostOpal
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    Contently
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    Medium-sized Companies
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    Score10 out of 10
    Adobe Marketing Cloud
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    PathFactory
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Adobe Marketing Cloud
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KapostOpal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.2
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    KapostOpal
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Upland Software
    Kapost has potential to be a great asset in small and large orgs. If you're not producing a great deal of content, or coordinating across a large team, there's still tremendous value, but it scales as your org scales because it makes it easier to coordinate and manage large teams and large content archives.
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    OPAL
    I honestly cannot recommend this tool enough. Opal is such a valuable tool for brand content creators and there is nothing like it available. If you're serious about content marketing and have a need to find ways to collaborate, plan and provide more visibility among teams, then Opal really is the only way to go. One more thing that's not being mentioned: The tool is simply amazing but it's only as amazing is the team behind the tool. Their customer support and willingness to quickly be in touch when needed is a key feature within itself. Seriously, such a good team of people.
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    Pros
    Upland Software
    • Filtering: If you make the most out of your custom details and custom fields, you can gain newfound access to materials that may have long been lost in the ether. It's really easy for us, for instance, to see all of our videos at once. Or everything targeting a certain buying stage. Or you can keyword search to see everything on one topic.
    • Workflows: It's really nice to lay out "who sees what when" in a digital way, because everyone involved on an asset can easily see what stage things are at. You can also set deadlines to tasks, which seems a bit more firm than a casual email, because you can visually see how meeting your deadline fits within the whole timeline.
    • Calendars: The calendar feature is nice for us because we have a blog, so we can see when everything is (supposed) to go live. It's easy to see when I, as a copy editor, should be expecting work, so I can align my day accordingly. Way better than the old-fashioned "mental note" system.
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    OPAL
    • Content planning: you can look at one asset and see how it is being used across multiple channels by multiple teams.
    • Content collaboration: it is really easy to see what other people and teams are contributing to an asset, or how they are using it. We can also duplicate content that was created by another team to use as a starting point in our own content collaboration.
    • High level/big picture overview: Opal allows us to see content that is being created, planned and scheduled very easily; it goes beyond social content (which we can also see in Sprinklr) to show us content created across multiple channels.
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    Cons
    Upland Software
    • Social media distribution needs improvement. Specifically a calendar for planned Tweets and a better way to schedule multiple shares of the same content.
    • System performance is somewhat slow.
    • Should be an easier way to make changes, like adding custom fields or publication destinations, to all content types, rather than one at a time.
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    OPAL
    • No publishing capabilities, for the most part.
    • No analytics tie-ins.
    • Rather pricey.
    • Requires someone to really manage the structure in order to keep the tool organized and use it effectively. When this is done right, though, it's worthwhile.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Upland Software
    We are using some other systems that might have replaced Kapost, but none of them had the workflow functionality we were looking for. So, we're sticking with Kapost for now.
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    OPAL
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    Usability
    Upland Software
    The calendar view is a great feature and so are the custom views. It is relatively easy to see a clear view of what content the user is responsible for and then the due dates associated to it. The ability to create and update workflows for the team is easy to navigate and keeps us on track.
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    OPAL
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Upland Software
    The reputation of the product matches up to its reputation as one of the leaders in the space. I love that you can share and access content at your fingertips from anywhere. The downside is that it does not have the prettiest interface but you can get over this with its functionality.
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    OPAL
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    Alternatives Considered
    Upland Software
    Workfront has a lot of great features, but Kapost was the right tool for what we needed at the time. With a team of our size, we had to make sure we weren't biting off more than we could chew and the project never got off the ground. We had to be thoughtful with how we rolled it out.
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    OPAL
    You get for what you paid for. Opal has more features
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    Scalability
    Upland Software
    It's easy to expand across an organization and the software is continuously being improved with new features rolled out to all users
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    OPAL
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    Return on Investment
    Upland Software
    • It allows us all to compare other email campaigns to each other. We are also able to get almost instant results.
    • By having a working one system - we all can expect the same quality newsletters versus using an outside designer.
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    OPAL
    • Opal allows for more discipline in marketing as teams are better aligned on messaging and big moments.
    • Opal cuts down on communication breakdowns and mistakes, which in the end leads to more happy customers.
    • I think Opal provides the team with more confidence as everyone is on the same page. With everything in one place rather than communications being lost in emails, etc., everyone is more efficient and can work knowing that there is one source of truth.
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    ScreenShots

    Opal Screenshots

    Screenshot of Preview content exactly as it will appear in market to the audience. Collaborate with teammates and track changes in the  Chat & Activity window.Screenshot of View scheduled Moments across all campaigns on the Calendar -- by day, week, or month.Screenshot of Plan marketing content and campaigns using Boards, a free-form space for brainstorming, briefing, and scenario planning.