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Overview

What is Owler?

Owler is a sales intelligence app developed by the company of the same name San Mateo and acquired by Meltwater June 2021, providing competitive insights, company information, and other sales relevant information.

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Owler is a valuable tool that provides a range of use cases for its users. Sales and marketing teams rely on Owler to keep tabs on named …
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Owler Review

6 out of 10
May 29, 2021
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We use this to get some background information on competitors we hear about. It's not something we use on a daily basis but more as the …
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Insights you need

9 out of 10
May 24, 2019
Incentivized
I use Owler to gain insights on competitors and leads. I receive regular updates with information on the companies I am following. It's …
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Popular Features

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  • Industry information (13)
    7.1
    71%
  • Company information (14)
    7.0
    70%
  • Identification of new leads (12)
    6.4
    64%
  • Advanced search (14)
    5.7
    57%
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Pricing

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Plus (personal use)

$99

Cloud
per year

Pro

$420

Cloud
per year

Teams

Contact Sales

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $8.25 per month
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Features

Prospecting

Features related to generating leads and finding new contacts.

6.6
Avg 7.6

Sales Intelligence Data Standards

How well does the contact, company, and industry information provided by the SI tool meet the user’s needs? Is the availability and quality of data satisfactory?

6.7
Avg 7.5

Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification

Features around contact data management and lead intelligence.

8.1
Avg 7.4

Sales Intelligence Email Features

Features that support sending emails to leads, especially initial emails to a list of prospects. May gather additional sales intelligence based on email engagement, adding additional info to the contact record and/or contributing to lead prioritization.

8.8
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is Owler?

Owler Pro helps users find new prospects, research accounts, and personalize your outreach with real-time news tracking for the companies in a pipeline. The tool boasts data on 14 million companies, and tracking for over 180,000 news events. Advanced Search enables users to to filter by industry, sector, location, and annual revenue. The service includes real-time breaking news alerts for all customers and prospects so as to never be caught off guard.

Owler entered into an agreement to be acquired by Meltwater in June 2021. Owler will become a Meltwater brand.

Owler Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Owler is a sales intelligence app developed by the company of the same name San Mateo and acquired by Meltwater June 2021, providing competitive insights, company information, and other sales relevant information.

Owler starts at $8.25.

Reviewers rate Alerts and reminders highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Owler are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 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!

Owler is a valuable tool that provides a range of use cases for its users. Sales and marketing teams rely on Owler to keep tabs on named accounts and industry news, leveraging it as a dynamic RSS feed that requires minimal manual work. This allows them to personalize their outreach and stay informed about changes within the companies they are targeting. Owler also serves as a blueprinting tool in the sales department, gathering information about a company before meetings and providing valuable insight into prospects before initiating conversations.

Additionally, Owler is utilized for due diligence processes in potential investments, addressing the information deficit that can occur when researching small companies. It offers extensive information about a company, including revenue, headcount, competitors, and latest news. This makes it an invaluable resource for gaining insights on competitors and leads, and staying ahead of prospects and competition. However, some users have reported incomplete profiles and inaccurate data for certain companies on Owler, particularly when it comes to determining annual revenue for private companies. Nevertheless, overall, users find Owler to be a useful tool for market research, comparative analysis, prospecting, and monitoring companies that need regular attention.

Valuable Source of Information: Users have found Owler to be a valuable source of information, with several reviewers stating that it provides clear and concise data visualizations. Some users appreciate the well-organized information about competitors, which helps in conducting competitive analysis. Owler's customizable dashboard allows users to set alerts and track selected companies conveniently.

Useful Daily Reports: Reviewers have praised Owler's daily reports for providing useful insights on various aspects such as revenue, headcount, and industry-specific RSS feeds. The funding, merger, and acquisition alerts provided by Owler are often more timely than those from other platforms, making them particularly loved by users. These daily notifications help users stay updated with the latest news and changes happening within companies.

Free Access to Valuable Tools: One of the standout features mentioned by reviewers is that all the benefits offered by Owler are available for free. This makes it a valuable tool without any cost for both small and big companies alike. Users appreciate Owler's commitment to sending only one email per day without overwhelming their inbox. Additionally, they find Owler's simplicity, user-friendliness, and availability of many great features highly commendable.

Limited Social Media Viewing: Some users have expressed the desire for Owler to expand its social media viewing capabilities beyond the current platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn, as they feel that these platforms are not sufficient for their needs.

Lack of Detailed Company Profiles: Several users have mentioned that they would like to see more detailed company profiles on Owler, as they find the current depth of information provided to be insufficient.

Inaccurate or Irrelevant Competitor Suggestions: Users have reported that the competitors suggested by Owler are not always relevant or useful for comparison. This has led some users to question the accuracy and effectiveness of this feature in helping them make informed decisions.

Users of Owler have provided several recommendations for the platform. The most common recommendations include creating filters or deciding who should receive the multiple daily emails from Owler, making Owler more user-friendly and easier to navigate, and having a clear understanding of Owler's capabilities before selecting an option. Additionally, users find Owler very useful for gathering information about companies, recommend trying Owler's premium plan for the full view of comparison and data, and using the platform on desktop for a better experience. Finally, users recommend Owler for sales and market intelligence purposes.

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Jonathan Garbin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Owler is a great tool for prospecting. In multiple roles where I've used their platform I've been able to expand my prospecting base by approaching businesses across an entire vertical that share a similar space with either a prospect I've landed, or a prospect that I received a "no" from.
  • Useful Daily Reports
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Prospecting
  • Making Custom Lists A Part Of The Plus Plan
Owler is best used as a supplemental asset, as it allows you to get very granular on specific prospects. I believe its limitations lie in the fact that while you can see the competitive companies, it's difficult to get any prospecting information out of them ie., contacts, without going for the highest level plan.
September 16, 2021

My views on owler

VIKAS TIWARI (L.I.O.N) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Owler is being extensively within my department along with other tools for company research. It is very helpful as it gives a lot of information about a company. It can be a very useful tool if one knows how to utilize it. We fetch the revenue, headcount, competitors and latest news about the company from Owler.
  • Gives revenue and headcount of the company
  • Gives an analysis of the competitors of a company
  • Provides latest news about the company that helps a lot in research
  • The information provided is useful but at times the variation with other websites and tools is substantial which makes it difficult to rely solely on owler
  • Information only about bigger companies is available not for smaller and research on smaller ones are important as there are not many tools that do that
  • There are few companies that appear as defunct or do not exist but in the actual market there is a lot going on with them and being in market intelligence industry owler needs to capture that
  • It would be great if they provide revenue or growth of the in the past three years or so. As it would save our time and efforts to some extent
  • They need to maintain the database in aperiodic manner with precise information
Owler is one of the tools that we use for company research. it gives great competitive analysis and news of company at one place but since it doesn't contain small company research and precise revenue and few other details the reliability on it is in question. If one has to gather a rough idea about a company then Owler will come in handy however a detailed in-depth analysis requires consulting multiple tools.
May 29, 2021

Owler Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this to get some background information on competitors we hear about. It's not something we use on a daily basis but more as the need comes up
  • Gathers data
  • Clear information
  • Engaging information
  • It doesn't have all companies
  • Some info (like ours) is very updated
  • Some info it seems might be made up, like company value etc
If you're looking to get alot of companies info at once it can be a good resource. But I wouldn't bet the farm on the info that they have
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Signed up for Owler for market research. I am a commercial insurance broker in Las Vegas, focused on risk management for general contractors and specialty trade construction. My ideal client has roughly 20-200 employees, and $2-15 million in revenue annually.

Owler did not address any problems. Upon searching for 10 mid-sized companies that I am already familiar with as a test, all 10 had "incomplete profiles." As well, those with "estimated employee and revenue totals" were wildly inaccurate.

For example, 2 mid-to large companies that I am in touch with with employee counts of 100-250 are left blank in Owler. I am also in talks with a business owner who has 130 employees, but it is listed on Owler as 34 employees.
  • Potentially good source of market research for large companies with 1000+ employees.
  • Very limited information.
  • Inaccurate information, wildly misleading.
  • It is not user friendly for searching.
Owler provides very limited information - they are unable to properly gather and assess company data, and when they do, they provide inaccurate information.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Owler is a resource being used across my organization, primarily by those conducting due diligence processes for potential investments. Owler helps to address the information deficit that can sometimes arise when diligencing small companies. Owler, however, is valuable to use in my organization's researching process for all types of companies, large and small, across a variety of industries.
  • Owler enables the user to quickly find the data and information that he or she needs.
  • I appreciate the customizable dashboard where you can set alerts and track companies you select.
  • The latest news regarding the funding rounds of startup companies is especially helpful.
  • The top competitors to companies provided by Owler often give me a great point of reference for my competitive analysis.
  • Owler often does not provide all of the information I need or am looking for about a company.
  • The information on Owler can be inaccurate, almost undoubtedly a result of the user-generated content that is displayed about companies. Owler should have a more rigorous verification process for user submissions.
  • The lack of data integrity can cause me to waste unneccessary time attempting to see whether some crucial data points are accurate.
Owler is best suited for becoming knowledgeable on a company in a short amount of time. If one needs to become acquainted with an unfamiliar company say, for a call or meeting, Owler is great. Owler is also helpful for more rigorous, in-depth analysis of companies and their competitors. I do not use Owler exclusively for my data and information sourcing, however, as I have found the information on Owler to be inaccurate at times.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use it to determine annual revenue for prospect companies - it seems to be lacking when it comes to private companies, however.
  • CEO name
  • Number of employees
  • Annual revenue more precise
  • CFO name
I use Owler to determine annual revenue for a sales prospect, but it doesn't have CFO contact info, so I go elsewhere (ZoomInfo) for that information.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Owler is used to provide sales intelligence into the prospect we are about to contact. This enables us to learn more about their personality and determine their best needs and ways to communicate. Some of the sales department use it, and it gives additional insight before a conversation begins with a prospect.
  • Personality assessment
  • Communication Recommendations
  • Detailed reports
  • Saving of profiles
Owler is well suited for cold calling. This will allow the employee to gain a little bit of insight into who they are calling and how to best communicate. Owler can also be used to learn how to close a deal and what ways could connect with a person.
Parker O'Very | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Owler on our Sales and Marketing teams to keep tabs on our named accounts and industry news. It is a great "dynamic" rss feed that doesn't require a great deal of manual work, and the manual work that it does require is pretty simple and light. Great to help us stay up to date on industry news and arms us with good background info for sales/marketing outreach.
  • Great industry info.
  • Really good industry- or company-specific rss feed.
  • Love the funding/merger/acquisition alerts that we get on companies and portfolios that we follow. Often even more timely than Crunchbase since it's based on press releases rather than Crunchbase's data team reaching out to VCs to get their portfolio updates.
  • Pretty good firmographic data on companies (# of employees, ann. revenue, website, c-suite members, etc.).
  • We get all these great benefits for free!
  • Sometimes the email alerts, industry info, and other stuff Owler sends out is less relevant because it casts a wide net. You ensure you get just about everything this way, but it does mean more filtering/sifting on your part. Really not a big deal though.
  • Like I said before, it does take some manual setup work, though it's not terribly difficult. It's simple to do, but having to update your preferences each time you want to follow another company can get tedious. I imagine that Salesforce integrations and paid versions solve this problem.
Owler is great if you are wanting regular updates on specific companies or industries. You get funding/merger/acquisition updates, press release updates, competitor updates, and more. You can also use Owler to get company data for data enrichment. It is a fantastic tool to use to get a crash-course background on a company to arm you in your outreach and sales efforts. It also offers a fair amount of integrations.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Owler is used by my sales team in order to add a level of personalisation that would take much longer if done manually.

My team has refined their own list of "best accounts" that they feel is a great fit for our company. They then simply add these companies to their Owler accounts and if something changes within the company, for example, a new project launched or new funding, the morning Owler email will alert them to this and allow them to personalise their outreach from there.
  • Streamlined - each SDR has around 25 companies that they want Owler to alert them about. The email each morning is short and to the point with nice abstracts of changes in the company making it quick and easy to find what you need.
  • If something changes in the company, Owler finds it - we have yet to find a compelling event within the company that Owler missed.
  • Doesn't spam - when they say one email a day they really mean it. No excess inbox messages.
  • The email they send out each day could be formatted a little nicer. The content is good, but it is "framed" in a box that doesn't nothing for the eyes!
  • There are optional questions added to the email that don't always make sense. e.g. comparing two companies that are very different and asking which you prefer. I understand why they would want this in there, but it needs to be refined a bit more.
  • More third party content would be good - quite often it is blog posts and changes on the companies careers page. This would be particularly useful for how people are perceiving a recent project launch.
Owler is fantastic for any sales person looking to personalise emails and outreach on a weekly basis.

Best suited for any company that regularly posts to social media, their blog, or that creates "noise" in other influential circles that Owler can pick up.

Where it falls short is when companies aren't making noise. Not really Owler's fault, but if you want to find content and changes to a company that doesn't really post to social media or a blog you want have much to work with.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Owler is used as a blueprinting tool in the sales department to gather information about a company before a meeting. It's really useful for things like following news about a company, seeing if there have been any leadership changes,and finding out about recent funding. Also great for info on a company's primary competitors, revenue, etc.
  • Info for blueprinting new sales accounts
  • Helpful for tracking company news
  • Great source for info on company demographics, size, location, revenue, etc
  • More companies in the SMB arena
  • List of competitors could sometimes be stronger/ more relevant
It's a wonderful tool for gathering information before a meeting, tracking a company you follow, and being tipped off as to when might be a good time to reach out. For example, it's great to learn about recent funding events that might make a company a great sales opportunity like funding or opening a new location/ launching a new product.
May 24, 2019

Insights you need

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Owler to gain insights on competitors and leads. I receive regular updates with information on the companies I am following. It's been an extremely useful tool to stay one step ahead of my prospects and competitors. It takes the work out of researching companies that I need to follow regularly.
  • Alerts users of company changes.
  • Sends daily snapshots to your email.
  • Auto-syncs with CRM.
  • Lots of notifications.
Owler is useful for anyone in a sales position. If you need to keep updated with your prospective clients, current clients, or competition, this is a great tool. Owler provides users with information that can help make a successful outreach or connection. It's also helpful if you use a CRM.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Within our organization, Owler is used by teams and individuals. Mostly by the marketing team, but also by individuals in different positions. Because Owler gives interesting and useful information about latest news in the industry, updates about competitors and their products and some other more specific information such as CEOs' ratings, the tool has something interesting to share with any person, no matter what position she or he holds.
  • I love that it is a crowdsourcing system and anyone can make a contribution
  • I like that it is completely free for everybody whether you are SMB or a big company
  • It is great to have the tool that gives you many insights about the industry in a very convenient way
  • More customizable notifications
  • Better filtering when it comes to companies' search
  • Do a better job when suggesting who your competitors are. Sometimes Owler suggests companies that had absolutely nothing in common with our organization
Owler is a great tool for anyone who wants to be updated about industry news and trends, follow competitors and just find out more information about specific companies and their leaders. And it does not matter if it is a small startup with 1-2 employees or a huge company with thousands of employees.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Owler gives some valuable information about an industry, competitors, clients, partners, buyers etc. It also allows you to make a comparative analysis and track other companies you're interested in. The information is very useful for marketing and sales professionals, so Owler is mostly used by our marketing and sales departments.

  • Owler is very simple, user-friendly and offers many great features.
  • It is completely free which is great.
  • The platform gives me a lot of information about our industry trends; about our competitors and partners. It helps to stay updated and always to know the latest news.
  • Customized notifications are great, it allows me to spend time reading what I actually need.
  • I do not like that Owler asks employees to compare their organization with competitors. I do not think that it gives an objective and accurate rating because if the employee is happy with the company, he/she will just give the highest mark without even paying attention to questions. And otherwise, if the employee is unhappy he/she will just give the lowest mark without paying attention to questions. As a result, the rating is not accurate.
  • The customer support is very slow, you can wait forever for their replies.
  • I do not like the fact that in order to register and track other companies you need to provide information about your company to allow other companies to track your company. It would be great to have an option to pay a little bit for not providing information about my company.
Owler is great for those who need to know latest industry news and trends, who wants to learn more about the particular companies and/or track the updates on the companies. Owler is not well suited for companies that do not want other companies (including competitors) to track their updates and news.
February 28, 2018

Owler Review

Davis Hepworth | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I work on the business development team, so finding context from Owler helps get in the door with companies by being able to relate.
  • Providing context
  • Daily notifications
  • Exporting details
  • Be more industry-specific
When I am trying to get in a whitespace account, I love to find context on a company's latest news, technologies and so on from owler. This helps me formulate solid emails, and have context for calls when getting in contact with decision makers within their company.
Meredith Walter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When looking for tools to help my company research competitors, we tried out Owler. If it was successful, my company was hoping to branch out and use Owler for client competitor research, as well.
  • Clear and concise data visualizations
  • Well organized information about competitors
  • Clean look and feel to the site overall
  • Easy user experience
  • Better competitors for comparison. Often, the competitors were not relevant.
Owler would be great to check out a KNOWN competitor. However, when doing competitor research, I would be hesitant to trust the recommendations.
Michael Levy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Owler provides daily email alerts of companies I track as part of my consulting business. The system also provides an easy way of tracking broader information around companies including blogs, video posts, press releases, and three sales trigger categories (fundings, exec changes, and M&A). In early 2015, they rolled out special alerts for Funding, Exec Changes, and M&A events. They also just launched a set of 12 competitive comparison reports that are sent on a staggered basis quarterly (they were just announced these reports so they are not part of this review).
  • High Precision News Alerts
  • Social Media Viewing (Blogs & Video Uploads) and Filtering
  • Funding Data
  • Special Alerts for M&A, Executive Changes, and Funding Events
  • They should broaden the social media viewing to include Twitter and LinkedIn
  • Only offer three event triggers
  • Company profiles should be built out with more depth
  • Lack of executive data
  • Add alerting on a broader set of content categories particularly social media

This is a free service, so it should be compared to free and low cost alerting (e.g. Google Alerts) and PE/VC funding profile (e.g. Crunchbase) services. Owler is well suited for competitive intelligence professionals, named account reps, and marketing professionals tracking company news (web mined company mentions and press releases) and social media (blogs, Video, YouTube). The alerts are high precision and tag for three key events (M&A, Funding, Exec Changes). It is the alerting and social media tools which are the key strength of the service.

The company claims two million profiles, but only has 60,000 with full address information. Content includes competitors, user polls, and funding / M&A data. Owler should be viewed as a free complement to other online company research tools, but it lacks the depth to replace subscription services. Missing content includes long business descriptions; financials and discrete sizing data; family tree linkage, and executive profiles (only the CEO is covered)

While they offer list building functionality, it is quite thin and non-downloadable. As such, I would not recommend Owler for sales and marketing prospecting at this point.

A unique feature is a set of company polls about the direction of the company and CEO performance. Unfortunately, the response rates are often too low to be statistically meaningful.

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