Wonderful for large teams with multiple clients and social profiles!
March 02, 2020

Wonderful for large teams with multiple clients and social profiles!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Agorapulse

Our agency uses Agorapulse for all community management that we manage in-house. We work on a variety of clients with various needs across multiple platforms. Agorapulse helps us aggregate all of those comments, mentions, and messages into an easy-to-follow stream. Team assignments help keep managers focused on their brands while allowing for flexibility to assign users on a temporary basis so that they can assist while coworkers are out on vacation, sick, etc. As a supervisor, it allows me to get a snapshot at any moment of who is behind and may need help so that I can jump in. For us, Agorapulse is all about community management with some use of the Instagram direct publishing feature.
  • Simple, intuitive sorting system for inbound comments, messages + mentions.
  • Easy to assign and un-assign members to different client teams, as needed.
  • Easy-to-use publishing tools baked in to the program.
  • Easy to quickly sort through multiple inbound conversations at once.
  • Automated rules help keep the inboxes lean so that managers can focus on what needs their attention.
  • Sometimes liking a comment or post will automatically close it out before a response can be typed.
  • The tokens expire frequently and in batches from time to time.
5 - 4 work in social media marketing and 1 is tech support for the company.

As social media managers, most of my team provides the following to clients:
  • Community management during business hours (both on their own clients and on other clients, for as-needed support).
  • Content calendar development.
  • Final content approval.
  • Content scheduling and publishing.
  • Paid media scheduling.
  • Influencer marketing discovery.
  • Influencer marketing management.
  • Agorapulse streamlines our community management process so that managers can quickly assess community needs at any one time.
  • Agorapulse ensures better supervisory across all accounts so that it's clear who is behind and needs assistance.
  • Agorapulse saves unnecessary time spent involving IT for simple account coverage/permissions while workers are on vacation or out sick.
I'll break this into two chunks based on how we use our tools.

Community Management: Clear winner here is Agorapulse. It's easy to use, quick to learn and does what I want it to.
  • Hootsuite - Community management is AWFUL. So, so confusing. Not a user-friendly layout in the slightest.
  • Clarabridge - Good for companies that need lots of approvals/review, but extremely clunky and hard to use.
  • Sprout - Similar to Clarabridge.
  • HeyOrca - N/A
  • Socialbakers - Confusing like Hootsuite.
  • Meltwater - Way too much in one product.
  • Facebook - Definitely pulls everything in but doesn't help with managing profiles outside of the Facebook ecosystem.
Content Publishing/Review: Winner here for us is HeyOrca. The external interface for clients takes the cake.
  • Agorapulse - Of all the products we've used, Agorapulse has the highest success rate for publishing without issues. However, the post approval/review process doesn't work for us with external clients.
  • Hootsuite - A little better than their community management but still awful.
  • Clarabridge - Good for if you have a lot of stakeholders but super clunky.
  • Sprout - Same as Clarabridge.
  • Socialbakers - Too much in one product.
  • Meltwater - Same as Socialbakers; it's all overwhelming.
  • Facebook - Publishing Tools works 95% of the time and Creator Studio works 80% of the time. Not ideal for multiple profiles.
Agorapulse is well suited to:
  • Teams with multiple managers
  • Teams that manage a variety of clients
  • Teams/brands that have presences on multiple social media sites
  • Supervisors who need to keep a check on community management as a whole for all clients
  • Teams that need an affordable option to manage these requests
  • Teams that do not have other publishing tools already in their inventory
Agorapulse is not well suited for:
  • Teams looking to use it purely for publishing
  • Teams who need to submit content to clients for review and feedback prior to going live

Agorapulse Feature Ratings

Boolean keyword searches
Not Rated
Filtering out noise/spam
Not Rated
Content planning and scheduling
7
Audience targeting
Not Rated
Workflow management
Not Rated
Customer interaction histories
10
Bulk actions
8
Not Rated
Lead generation
Not Rated
Campaigns and promotions
Not Rated
Twitter
6
Facebook
7
LinkedIn
Not Rated
Instagram
8
Campaign success analytics
Not Rated
Real-time tracking
Not Rated
Competitor analysis
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions & privileges
10
Mobile access
9