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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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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
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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.

7.7
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.

7.8
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.

8.7
Avg 8.5

Reporting/analytics

7.8
Avg 7.9

Account management

Users can manage access to multiple social media accounts.

8.2
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 Makes My Social Media Life Easier!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 20, 2024
TB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
3 years of experience
  • Marketing efficiency and how much time I am spending on creating social media content each month.
  • [We now] have analytics to look at [to] see what posts are working and what posts aren't and [have] the details to know how to change it for the better.
  • I feel I have to put less effort into our social media side of things because this makes it so much easier to run.

Hootsuite is Good but Overpriced. If they lowered their price they would have more clients

Rating: 2 out of 10
August 26, 2024
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
10 years of experience
  • has made us look better in the eyes of our members
  • has helped us gain new members when we can promise multiple posts
  • has increased our membership base
  • has helped us promote our chamber better

Hootsuite: Great Social Media Scheduling and Planning

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 08, 2024
IO
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
10 years of experience
  • Price keeps going up which means by 2025 we may not be able to afford it or get it approved
  • Engagement reporting is fantastics
  • Custom Report feature is great!
  • Time saving when scheduling

Hootsuite is your one stop social media planning hub!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 03, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
3 years of experience
  • We're a small marketing team in our company so having hootsuite is a life saver, I'm spending less time posting content as I can do my plan in advance and then schedule it out over the month/months so I can get back to helping the team with the other work we deal with.

Hootsuite is great for multiple social media accounts

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 01, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
2 years of experience
  • we were able to see our total reach and impressions. we wanted to get in front of as many people as possible and we did that
  • ROI was tricky to set up so we didn't put a cost to each metric
  • We were able to reply to customer inquiries with ease and get back to them in a timely manner. We could also assign messages to different users.

It’s a hoot of a time

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 01, 2023
DP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
2 years of experience

Hootsuite is cost-effective and perfect for beginner use!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 01, 2023
MT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
6 years of experience
  • Lowered the amount of time spent on creating captions with their AI caption generator
  • doubled the amount of engagement with followers because of the direct message monitoring feature
  • allowed us to grow by a steady 100 followers per week

Hootsuite - The Biggest Name in Content Management

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 27, 2023
MJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
1 year of experience
  • Hootsuite has positively improved our overall engagement of our accounts. We went from an average of a 5% engagement rate across all accounts to a 12% engagement.
  • Hootsuite has positively improved our ability to target certain demographics on social media advertising through their analytics. We have seen CTR increase of 2% which is impressive for our industry.

Solid tool that makes my life easier!

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 13, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
3 years of experience
  • Better ROI on employees with less time being spent on these activities
  • Better management of platforms & systems all in one place
  • More consistency within our social branded experience

Hootsuite is a lifesaver for school communications

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 01, 2023
JG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
5 years of experience
  • Saves time and allows us to engage all of our audiences across platforms without having to go into each individual platform to create or schedule posts
  • Allows us to study the analytics of posts across all channels at once to help us hone our content

Using Hootsuite Enterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 28, 2023
WH
Vetted Review
Verified User
Hootsuite
1 year of experience
  • Hootsuite Enterprise has allowed us to respond to social media crises much more quickly. That speed allows us to prevent some situations from becoming bigger than they would have before.
  • It has reduced duplicate efforts from our recruiting teams. In the past, several people would be trying to reach the same goal. Now, we can have one person working on the goal while the others spend their time more wisely in other areas of focus.
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