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Sprout Social

Overview

What is Sprout Social?

Sprout Social provides social media management, marketing, customer care, data and intelligence, and employee advocacy solutions for brands and agencies, including Ticketmaster, Chipotle, Grubhub, Subaru, and Zendesk. Sprout’s platform is used to simplify social publishing, engagement, reviews, analytics and listening…

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Popular Features

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  • Twitter (57)
    7.7
    77%
  • Content planning and scheduling (57)
    7.1
    71%
  • Real-time tracking (55)
    6.6
    66%
  • Facebook (59)
    6.3
    63%

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Pricing

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Standard

$199 annual / $249 monthly

Cloud
per user/per month

Professional

$299 annual / $399 monthly

Cloud
per user/per month

Advanced

$399 annual / $499 monthly

Cloud
per user/per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://sproutsocial.com/pricing/

Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $249 per month per user
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Product Demos

Sprout Social Review Demo - Is This The Best Social Media Scheduling Tool

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How To Use Sprout Social - A Walkthrough Demo Of Sprout Social

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Sprout Social Demo 2023 | Sprout Social Review

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How to Use Sprout Social's Service Cloud Integration

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Features

Listening/monitoring

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

7.4
Avg 7.6

Publishing

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

4.9
Avg 8.0

Engagement

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

6
Avg 8.1

Marketing

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

4.7
Avg 7.7

Channel coverage/integration

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

7.5
Avg 8.5

Reporting/analytics

5.9
Avg 7.9

Account management

Users can manage access to multiple social media accounts.

7.6
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Sprout Social?

Sprout Social provides social media management, marketing, customer care, data and intelligence, and employee advocacy solutions for brands and agencies, including Ticketmaster, Chipotle, Grubhub, Subaru, and Zendesk. Sprout’s platform is used to simplify social publishing, engagement, reviews, analytics and listening for customers. Sprout also provides customer success and technical support, to deliver consistent value to all users. Any organization, regardless of size or industry, receives dedicated onboarding and quick implementation to realize value faster and minimize business disruption. Sprout invites potential customer to try a free 30-day trial at sproutsocial.com.

Sprout Social 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

Channel coverage/integration Features

  • Supported: Twitter
  • Supported: Facebook
  • Supported: LinkedIn
  • Supported: Google+
  • Supported: Instagram
  • Supported: Pinterest

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

Sprout Social Screenshots

Screenshot of Sprout’s social media publishing tools, used to schedule and post messages to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn simultaneously from a single Compose window.

Sprout Social Videos

Bringing Customer and Business Insights Together with Tableau and Sprout Social
Customer Care with Service Cloud and Sprout Social
Sprout Social Employee Advocacy

Sprout Social Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

Sprout Social starts at $249.

Hootsuite, Khoros Marketing, and Sprinklr Social are common alternatives for Sprout Social.

Reviewers rate Broad channel coverage highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of Sprout Social are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Sprout Social effectively addresses social media management and monitoring needs. Users utilize Sprout Social to schedule social media posts, pull analytics reports, and monitor social media mentions. According to users who have been using the software for more than 2 years, it has helped them publish content on pages and profiles, schedule posts in different time zones, and monitor their social media effectiveness. The software is highly appreciated for its ability to increase efficiency and productivity in engaging with social media communities and mapping out online strategies.

One of the key use cases of Sprout Social is central monitoring of all social media accounts to ensure consistent branding and communications. Users have found it essential for managing multiple accounts from one platform, allowing them to maintain a unified brand voice across various channels. Additionally, Sprout Social has had a positive impact on marketing efforts by expanding advertising capabilities and enabling simultaneous content publishing.

Another valuable use case of Sprout Social is reporting and monthly metric analysis. Users rely on the software to track content performance, community growth, and overall social media effectiveness. It provides them with comprehensive reports that help in evaluating strategies and making data-driven decisions.

Moreover, Sprout Social helps users aggregate social issues, track responses, and ensure a clear voice from brands. It simplifies the process of categorizing interactions, engaging with customers, and responding to comments and direct messages. By streamlining these tasks, it saves users significant time when it comes to social media scheduling and analytics.

Users recommend Sprout Social for small businesses and non-profit organizations due to its ease of setup and robust reporting capabilities. It serves as a valuable tool for managing different strategies and campaigns by offering features like scheduling social media content, monitoring social feeds, and creating reports for all clients.

Sprout Social also caters to digital marketing agencies by providing centralized management of client's social media accounts, gathering analytics, and offering reporting tools. Its detailed analysis across all social channels makes it a preferred choice for agencies looking to track social progress and provide comprehensive reports to clients.

With its versatility, Sprout Social is used by universities as well to manage social media accounts for announcements, news, public relations, and marketing purposes.

Overall, Sprout Social proves to be an essential tool in managing social media by catering to a wide range of use cases. From scheduling content and engaging with customers to monitoring analytics and generating reports, this software simplifies the complex landscape of social media management.

Users commonly make the following recommendations based on their experience with the software:

  1. Integrate with Asana: Users suggest integrating the software with Asana to streamline workflow and enhance task management capabilities.

  2. Spend time exploring functions: Reviewers advise investing time in exploring and familiarizing oneself with the various functions of the software to fully understand its capabilities.

  3. Choose a company that treats customers well and aligns with goals: Users recommend selecting a software company that provides both a powerful tool and prioritizes customer satisfaction. They suggest finding a company that aligns with business goals and offers reliable support and service.

These recommendations emphasize the potential benefits of integration, the importance of understanding the software's functions, and considering customer-centricity when choosing a software provider.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Sarah Zibanejadrad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Creates visually appealing, clear analytics reports.
  • Easy to organize, publish, and edit across multiple clients and users.
  • Great for finding new audience members that may like the content.
  • You cannot respond to comments/responses through the platform.
  • Cannot upload videos to post.
  • Can only manage certain types of accounts.
  • Able to monitor and provide substantiated reports to clients.
  • Easy to manage multiple clients and teams.
We have enjoyed its benefits thus far and believe it to be comparable to competitors.
6
The Social Community Managers within our company use the software to create and monitor content. We also have individuals responsible for influencer outreach that use it for research.
1
Our technical manager
  • Create and publish content, and manage social accounts on behalf of a number of clients.
  • Monitor and document analytics.
  • It aids in outreach and monitoring conversations to enter our client into.
With my previous company, we used Argyle Social.
  • Implemented in-house
It is easy to add new accounts, team members, etc.
  • Self-taught
Yes, it's fairly intuitive and has a similar UX to other social platforms.
They are quick to respond and provide help.
It takes some getting used to and I'm sure there are ways we don't fully utilize it, but it does the job.
It has been down a few times in the last 6 months, but it is usually back up within a few hours.
It is quick to post, however you have to refresh the page every time you add a new scheduled item.
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google +
  • LinkedIn
No, not yet.
I am not sure, as I was not with the company when we purchased the product. I do know that they are easy to get in touch with now.
I am not sure.
Lizzie Maldonado | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • SproutSocial provides highly detailed, visual PDF reports that answer all of your key social media analytics questions in one location. For us, this is invaluable as it's the dashboard of choice we use to show progress and results to all clients.
  • Social media scheduling is extremely bulky and time-consuming. Lightweight tools like Buffer for scheduling are much more convenient and efficient, even after the time it takes to switch tools.
  • It is not a one-size-fits-all-dashboard because the interface takes too much time to load most features — the functionality that allows users to find people to follow and connect with is slow and ineffective, and managing any type of back-and-forth communication is very frustrating. You are going to use multiple platforms if you use SproutSocial.
  • Since implementing SproutSocial, we have been able to clearly tie social media initiatives to ROI for our internal marketing efforts as well as for those of our clients. Between measuring all of the social media-specific metrics within SproutSocial, we have supplemented conversion monitoring with Argyle Social to show a clear social media attribution path.
If I found another program that did reporting as well as SproutSocial does, I would swap products (provided the other elements of the tool were more efficient than SproutSocial's).
1
Social media and marketing.
1
Social media manager — there is almost no technical know-how required to operate this platform.
  • Social media reporting.
  • Social media scheduling.
  • Social media management.
  • Finding followers on social media.
  • Social media analytics.
  • Social media dashboard.
We went from using a hodge-podge of services (Twitter.com, TweetDeck, Crowdbooster, HootSuite, etc.) to consolidating all of the reporting features into one dashboard. We only use SproutSocial for reporting.
SHORTLIST:
  • Radian6
  • Act-On
  • Sprout Social
  • Hootsuite Premium
We chose Sprout Social because of a mix of cost and value. The value it provided was exactly what we needed in terms of reporting and overall functionality, whereas other systems were not as cost-effective or did not provide the exact solution for what we were looking for.
  • Implemented in-house
Extremely easy to set up in-house.
  • Online training
  • Self-taught
Yes, it's pretty intuitive in terms of what is where and how to use the platform.
The customer service team is the second reason why we are semi-loyal to this platform. The customer service process is painless, effective and flawless in my experience.
Everything, and I mean everything, about this tool is bulky and slow-loading. Whereas tools like Buffer, ViralHeat and others are lightweight and extremely easy to use, SproutSocial's load-time, margin for 404 errors, and overall UX is lagging behind. One example: Within the "Discovery" tab, following each user recommended to you takes a matter of seconds just to load, after you find the tiny "+1" button to follow that user. It's not an incredibly visually appealing platform either. But the reports are beautiful, easy to produce and highly effective.
I have never seen it in maintenance or downtime mode — I am always able to access this product.
  • Google Analytics
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • LinkedIn
  • Argyle Social
Not to date, no.
Absolutely a delight in all aspects of the buying experience. They have that part down to a T.
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