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Hootsuite

Overview

What is Hootsuite?

Hootsuite is a social media management platform for building brand awareness, engaging with customers, and driving business results. Users can schedule posts across multiple social networks (including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube ), manage organic and paid…

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Video Reviews

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User Review: Hootsuite Helps Keep Content Scheduling on Track
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User Review: Hootsuite Takes Social Media Management to Next Level with Cross Posting Capabilities
02:13
User Review: Hootsuite Optimizes Company's Ability to Drive a Social Strategy
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Pricing

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Professional

$99

Cloud
per month (billed annually) 1 User, 10 Social accounts

Team

$249

Cloud
per month (billed annually) 3 Users, 20 Social accounts

Enterprise

Custom Pricing

Cloud
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://hootsuite.com/plans?utm_campaig…

Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $1,188 per year 1 User, 10 Social accounts
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Product Demos

Hootsuite Interactive Demo

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Features

Listening/monitoring

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

7.5
Avg 7.7

Publishing

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

8.2
Avg 8.2

Engagement

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

7.9
Avg 8.2

Marketing

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

7.5
Avg 7.9

Channel coverage/integration

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

8.8
Avg 8.5

Reporting/analytics

7.9
Avg 7.9

Account management

Users can manage access to multiple social media accounts.

8.1
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Hootsuite?

Brands can use Hootsuite’s tools and expertise to launch social campaigns, deliver social commerce experiences, and manage customer conversations in one place.

With Hootsuite, users can schedule posts across multiple social networks (including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube ), manage organic and paid social content together, keep track of customer conversations, and gain actionable real-time insights from social media to make critical business decisions from one dashboard.

Hootsuite Academy helps professionals and organizations boost their social IQ with free online education and paid certifications in social media marketing, social selling, and the Hootsuite platform.

Key Benefits of leveraging Hootsuite:

  • Saves time by crafting and scheduling posts for Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Youtube from one dashboard.

  • Supports team collaboration by assigning tasks, managing approvals, and monitoring team performance.

  • Reach more customers, grow engagement, and drive conversions by automating posts to reach the audience at the best times.

  • Turn real-time data into strategic insights by monitoring mentions of a brand, key industry topics, and competitors.

  • Streamline how users deliver customer care and support by sending incoming messages across social profiles to the right people in an organization.

  • Offers a better understanding of what customers want with analytics and gather those insights into customizable reports.

  • Reaches beyond dedicated followers and drive new customers to a brand by managing and reviewing social advertising performance.

  • Level up skills with certifications, training, and strategic coaching with Hootsuite experts.

  • Manages and maintains a social presence from anywhere, at any time, with the Hootsuite mobile app.

  • New tools—or connect existing technology—with 200+ technology partners and applications in the Hootsuite ecosystem.


Hootsuite Features

Listening/monitoring Features

  • Supported: Boolean keyword searches
  • Supported: Filtering out noise/spam
  • Supported: Sentiment analysis
  • Supported: Broad channel coverage

Publishing Features

  • Supported: Content planning and scheduling
  • Supported: Audience targeting
  • Supported: Content optimization
  • Supported: Workflow management

Engagement Features

  • Supported: Automated routing and prioritization
  • Supported: Customer interaction histories
  • Supported: Bulk actions

Marketing Features

  • Supported: Lead generation
  • Supported: Content marketing
  • Supported: Paid media management
  • Supported: Campaigns and promotions

Channel coverage/integration Features

  • Supported: Twitter
  • Supported: Facebook
  • Supported: LinkedIn
  • Supported: Instagram
  • Supported: Pinterest
  • Supported: YouTube

Reporting/analytics Features

  • Supported: Campaign success analytics
  • Supported: Real-time tracking
  • Supported: Competitor analysis

Account management Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions & privileges
  • Supported: Mobile access

Additional Features

  • Supported: TikTok management

Hootsuite Screenshots

Screenshot of Monitoring: Monitors social media profiles and tracks the topics that matter to the brand.Screenshot of Publishing: Create, publish and schedule engaging posts across social channels.Screenshot of Customer Engagement: A consolidated stream of messages across networks that can be triaged and assigned to respond to customers faster. Provides optional chatbot handover for automated responses.Screenshot of Scheduling: Social content can be planned as a team with a shared calendar that features collaborative post drafts and built-in approval workflows.Screenshot of Analytics & Reporting: Measures the effectiveness of a social media strategy to help turn strategy into execution with meaningful and actionable insights. Reports can be customized and shared according to unique business goals and objectives.

Hootsuite Video

How to Use Hootsuite's Advanced Features in 13 Minutes

Hootsuite Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Blackberry
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Catalan, Indonesian, Turkish, Russian, Polish

Frequently Asked Questions

Hootsuite is a social media management platform for building brand awareness, engaging with customers, and driving business results. Users can schedule posts across multiple social networks (including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube ), manage organic and paid social content together, keep track of customer conversations, integrate with over 200+ applications, and gain actionable real-time insights from social media to make critical business decisions from one dashboard.

Hootsuite starts at $1188.

Reviewers rate Facebook highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Hootsuite are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Comprehensive Platform: Users appreciate the platform for consolidating all social media channels into one, streamlining the scheduling and posting process across multiple platforms efficiently. They value having a single dashboard to manage multiple accounts, simplifying monitoring and interaction with different platforms.

Detailed Analytics Tools: Reviewers find the analytics tools comprehensive and user-friendly, enabling detailed tracking of social media performance, audience engagement, and demographics. The ability to generate detailed reports offers valuable insights into post performance and engagement metrics.

Convenient Scheduling: Many users value the ability to schedule posts in advance, finding it helpful in planning and organizing social media content effectively. The feature providing recommendations for optimal posting times optimizes engagement and reach across platforms.

Limited Moderation Functionality: Users have expressed dissatisfaction with Hootsuite's limited moderation features, indicating the need for additional functionalities to effectively manage their social media interactions. They feel that more robust tools are necessary to handle moderation tasks efficiently and improve overall user experience.

Expensive Reports for Small Businesses: Reviewers have criticized the high cost associated with reports, particularly custom URL shorteners, which they perceive as unaffordable for smaller businesses. The pricing of these features is seen as a barrier for budget-conscious users who seek cost-effective solutions in managing their social media presence.

Challenges with LinkedIn Tagging and Publishing: Users have highlighted difficulties encountered when tagging on LinkedIn and formatting posts within Hootsuite. These challenges extend to integrating email campaigns seamlessly, with frustrations arising from issues related to tagging accuracy on LinkedIn and inconsistencies in post formatting across platforms.

Reviews

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Hootsuite for private and company rental management

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
ZK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
2 years of experience
I give this rating because my generation is quite experienced with technology and social media platforms. This allows me to quickly learn how to use and navigate new apps with similar concepts. At this time I find it palpable to manage my social media presence without having to have additional software. But in the future, once I become more busy, I would recommend this product.

Using Hootsuite Enterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 28, 2023
WH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
1 year of experience
We are always open to exploring alternatives; however, we do not currently have any significant issues with Hootsuite and there is no reason we would need to end our relationship.

Great product!

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 23, 2023
LM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
5 years of experience
I love that I can easily schedule posts in the future and duplicate posts so that I can use them on multiple channels. The biggest reason is because now I can post carousel photos and stories on IG directly on Hootsuite!

Give a Hoot... your organization will be glad you did!

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 23, 2023
JM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
5 years of experience
Hootsuite has been a factor in my classroom for five years and each time our students come away with valuable skills. The program Hootsuite provides in one of a few with the ability to access parts of the platform you would normally pay a hefty sum. Instead, students gain a strong foothold in social media management and strategy because of the program.

Hootsuite Pro is alright.

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 03, 2022
CC
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
2 years of experience
While no platform is perfect, we are finding some areas where improvements that we have requested/inquired about for quite a while have yet to be integrated.

Game Changer

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 09, 2021
SA
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
3 years of experience
The ease of use and overall experience is nothing short of perfection.

A great tool with some limitations

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 18, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
3 years of experience
We currently use the free version of Hootsuite, but they recently changed it so the free version only allows you to schedule 5 posts vs 30 which is an inconvenience.

HootSuite Made My Job and Life Easier

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 17, 2020
NS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
1 year of experience
HootSuite Pro is a solid product. Good support team, good tools, easy to use and understand. They have great tutorials, I was never left just sitting and staring at my computer wondering what to do next. It was a very intuitive and a time saver.

I give a Hoot about HootSuite. It's affordable, intuitive and convenient.

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 14, 2020
KL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
10 years of experience
The few shortcomings are not outweighed by the low cost and value it provides. Being able to automatically schedule posts across platforms with shortened trackable URLs is a huge productivity boost and the weekly reports are helpful to keep on track with longer-term content planning and optimization strategies.
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