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Owler

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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Recent Reviews

TrustRadius Insights

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
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 …
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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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.owler.com/checkout/owlerpro…

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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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
  • 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
May 29, 2021

Owler Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Parker O'Very | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Meredith Walter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Michael Levy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • 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
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