Brand Storytelling: Opal is the best for brands who are serious about telling better stories
February 26, 2019

Brand Storytelling: Opal is the best for brands who are serious about telling better stories

Kenji Onozawa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Opal

Opal is great for content collaboration among teams (internal stakeholders and creative teams), planning and giving vision to entire groups of upcoming campaigns and key moments within those campaigns. A lot of companies become very siloed and a tool like Opal really breaks them down, allowing everyone to be on the same page with aligned messaging, all while being in sync together.
  • Providing teams with visibility: everything from the 30,000-foot view to the in-the-grass details. People who need to see, coordinate and communicate over campaigns can do it easily within Opal.
  • Alignment and efficiency: Great workflow processes whether you need to set up approval systems or need to organize different items.
  • Opal is quite flexible and easy to use; it really is intuitive.
  • I would love it if Opal integrated social publishing into their tool.
  • It would be beneficial if at least some basic analytics were brought back into the tool so we could then review content performance within the same tool as creative teams.
  • I've felt like at times the process of creating and sharing presentations was a bit tedious. It'd be nice if was a bit simpler.
  • Opal allows for more discipline in marketing as teams are better aligned on messaging and big moments.
  • Opal cuts down on communication breakdowns and mistakes, which in the end leads to more happy customers.
  • I think Opal provides the team with more confidence as everyone is on the same page. With everything in one place rather than communications being lost in emails, etc., everyone is more efficient and can work knowing that there is one source of truth.
I've used Percolate and it's said to be a competitor of Opal, but in reality, it's a tool I've struggled with. It's fine for day-to-day scheduling and publishing, but lacks the flexibility and functionality of Opal. Opal really feels like it was built by storytellers where Percolate feels like it was built purely by an engineering team.
I honestly cannot recommend this tool enough. Opal is such a valuable tool for brand content creators and there is nothing like it available. If you're serious about content marketing and have a need to find ways to collaborate, plan and provide more visibility among teams, then Opal really is the only way to go. One more thing that's not being mentioned: The tool is simply amazing but it's only as amazing is the team behind the tool. Their customer support and willingness to quickly be in touch when needed is a key feature within itself. Seriously, such a good team of people.