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    Hootsuite

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AHootsuite is a social media management platform for building brand awareness, engaging with customers, and driving business results. Users can schedule posts across multiple social networks (including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube ), manage organic and paid social content together, keep track of customer conversations, integrate with over 200+ applications, and gain actionable real-time insights from social media to make critical business decisions from…

    $149

    per month Starts at 1 user, 5 social accounts

    Talkwalker by Hootsuite

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ATalkwalker is a consumer intelligence company that bring sin data from 30+ social networks, 150 million websites, and 100 data partners to give customers a unified view of their consumers. Talkwalker is a Hootsuite solution since the 2024 acquisition.N/A
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    HootsuiteTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $99
    per month (billed annually) Starts at 1 user, 10 social accounts
    Advanced
    $249
    per month (billed annually) Starts at 1 user, unlimited social accounts
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    Custom Pricing
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    HootsuiteTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPlans can be paid monthly or annually, with a discount for annual pricing.—
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    Chose Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Talkwalker is a complete package and within budgets and easy to use.
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    Chose Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    For our needs, Talkwalker is the best 'all-rounder' in the market. Some of the other platforms focus more on certain media types (social in particular) or specific geographies (western markets or English speaking markets). Talkwalker covers all media and all markets very well. …
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    Features
    HootsuiteTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Hootsuite and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Hootsuite
    6.6
    275 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Boolean keyword searches6.0185 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam5.9193 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis6.1187 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage8.5255 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Hootsuite and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Hootsuite
    7.5
    383 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Content planning and scheduling8.9382 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting6.5260 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization6.9312 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.7322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Hootsuite and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Hootsuite
    7.8
    308 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Automated routing and prioritization7.4220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories7.6237 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions8.3265 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Hootsuite and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Hootsuite
    7.4
    295 Ratings
    5% below category average
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    Lead generation6.3177 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing8.1263 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management7.6175 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions7.6225 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Hootsuite and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Hootsuite
    9.2
    376 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Twitter9.0344 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook9.7360 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn9.5314 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+8.960 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram9.7316 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pinterest9.2161 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube8.4149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Hootsuite and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Hootsuite
    8.0
    306 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Talkwalker by Hootsuite
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    Campaign success analytics8.4282 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking7.6282 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis8.0189 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Hootsuite and Talkwalker by Hootsuite
    Feature
    Hootsuite
    7.8
    316 Ratings
    3% below category average
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    Role-based user permissions & privileges8.7268 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access6.8294 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HootsuiteTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (444 ratings)
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (89 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (83 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.8
    (19 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (263 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (39 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    7.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.9
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    HootsuiteTalkwalker by Hootsuite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hootsuite
    Hootsuite is a great starter tool for companies that want to use a scheduling service for their social media content. It allows access to nearly all of the commonly used social media platforms, so no matter where you share content, Hootsuite will allow you to do it with ease.
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    Hootsuite
    Talkwalker is well suited for big companies and agencies that are looking for a long-term solution to keep track of the industry and/or their brands and key competitors. While setup requires a bit of dedication (especially in terms of custom filters and tags), once it's done, the tool will give the user a lot of flexibility to analyze the conversations and find the relevant results that answer the business questions. Companies just looking for a tool to track a short time period, or simple things like Twitter hashtags, won't take advantage of the full capabilities of this tool. Therefore, they could feel frustrated when comparing the outcomes/usage versus the costs.
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    Pros
    Hootsuite
    • Scheduling of content. The ease of use for Hootsuite's planner abilities is top of the industry. It is simple and effective in posting content to different channels and accounts.
    • Analytics are superior on Hootsuite. Their custom reports allow you to view very specific KPI's that you can adjust for each channel or account. The reports are also exportable to be used for others in the company.
    • Inbox management. The inbox manager is superior to any in the industry. Hootsuite allows you to tag certain phrases or keywords to better filter messages based on importance or topic.
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    Hootsuite
    • Truly global listening platform - monitor a deep range of media types from all over the world. Particularly strong in supporting competitive monitoring and analysis briefs across regions and countries. It monitors content in original language which I believe is a very strong monitoring factor.
    • Easy to use yet powerful dashboard visualisations - the dashboard interface is among the best I have seen. While it can accomplish many things, and under the hood is a very powerful and complex tool, the user interface is very intuitive, slick, quick and packed with all the KPIs you could want.
    • Customisation of the tool is a great feature. You can build your own dashboard and reporting spaces to suit your needs. You can schedule alerts from the system in a variety of outputs to keep you up to date with the latest events.
    • Customer support & technological advancement - the team at Talkwalker are highly proficient, always willing to support our every need, however big or small. Talkwalker aim to release around 4 software updates each year which means the platform is always full of the latest data visualisations and monitoring technologies
    • Having 'traditional' media monitored alongside social as well as owned media assets in one dashboard space is invaluable to help brands understand where their media footprint lies and how they perform in each media set, relative to the others.
    • AI - Talkwalker has introduced greater AI capabilities recently which means the capability of the tool in monitoring is ever-increasing, and the accuracy of targeting content and sentiment analysis is improving. The Visual Insights and image recognition technology is a really strong feature, and a very welcome addition to the monitoring aspect
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    Cons
    Hootsuite
    • Because of the way algorithms works, we would have loved to be able to automate making a post with no link and posting the first comment with a link (hello LinkedIn)
    • We would have loved an easy way to post from a main account and repost the post for other accounts we administrate, for instance a corporate post reposted by individuals for LinkedIn, or retweets from one main account by child accounts
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    Hootsuite
    • The system is complicated. With everything that you're able to do, it does come at the cost of simplicity. It definitely requires training and a high level of expertise to properly leverage what it can do.
    • The system can be slow. If you "ask" it to do too many things at once, it can get hung up and do the spin of doom.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Hootsuite
    At this time we are satisfied that Hootsuite offers the most of what we are looking for at the most reasonable price point. As the social media landscape and monitoring/scheduling software changes, so do our needs. We re-evaluate our tools semi-annually or as new tools emerge onto the market. If we find at any point that we aren't gaining an advantage, then we are open to switching products.
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    Hootsuite
    Love it! In most cases, Talkwalker is a no-brainer: I can confidently recommend it to clients.
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    Usability
    Hootsuite
    The overall usability is awesome, the scheduling, reporting, etc. The spellcheck and feature that used to be a part of it was awesome and we are sad to see that it was taken away. However, we do like the AI feature and emoji customization. The new ad and paid media element is something we are starting to explore, especially for Facebook and Linkedin
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    Hootsuite
    Despite all the functionalities available on the platform, I never felt overwhelmed or confused
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    Reliability and Availability
    Hootsuite
    Any outages are communicated in advance and have not been a problem. We let our clients know based on communications from HootSuite. Since we operate 24/7 with multiple shifts, planned outages can interfere with our operations, but we can always work around it.
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    Performance
    Hootsuite
    Hootsuite makes passing on articles from the web very easy- when it works! I have had a number of gliches with Chrome where it does not open properly and the solution (after some toing and froing with support) was to uninstall and reinstall. The support staff are always very helpful (which is great!) but the gliches..... well, they suck when you are already busy!
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    Hootsuite
    Talkwalker gets the job done at a basic level. It performs regular indexing of existing webpages and tracks the instances in which a particular brand or company is mentioned. Especially for being free, this is an awesome resource. However, it should be said that this product does not perform nearly at the level of the paid options.
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    Support Rating
    Hootsuite
    I can manage all of my accounts on one site! It's absolutely amazing!
    The dashboard is helpful to see how you are doing as well. Still
    getting to understand the analytics and may need to reach out for help
    on this
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    Hootsuite
    They are very helpful, but can sometimes be a little too quick and not explain things in as great a depth as we would like. They have great staff and programs, and we don't really have any other major complaints. Support is very responsive and helpful when need be.
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    In-Person Training
    Hootsuite
    Very easy to teach and learn
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    Hootsuite
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    Online Training
    Hootsuite
    The online training is decent; however, it takes a lot more time to search for answers to my questions. Having a training session with a live person was much more effective as they were able to quickly address the business needs I have.
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    Hootsuite
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    Implementation Rating
    Hootsuite
    • Combination of vendor and internal. The vendor bumped up our account to the Enterprise version (quite simple and easy) and then set up our organization and team structure. We then had to log in and set up team members and assign members to social media accounts. This was pretty easy to do as they have a great user interface. We simply had to drag and drop people into the correct team giving them access to specific social media accounts.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hootsuite
    Hootsuite is definitely the most cost effective of the bunch for the goals that my clients have. The AI caption generation is also perfect for cutting down on time. Caption creation actually takes up a lot of time in the scheduling process for content and this feature made Hootsuite stand out to me!
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    Hootsuite
    I have yet to find another tool that would provide me with such a detailed information per query. It's such a find! Plus, I get separate emails per a search query and I'm able to archive those emails to the appropriate folders and always have a way of looking back. It's very useful for building monthly reports.
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    Scalability
    Hootsuite
    We are only using in marketing and have been able to scale.
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    Return on Investment
    Hootsuite
    • I have been able to evaluate which posts, in general, do well and figure out what types of posts to make (content)
    • It's been harder however to compare on social medial platform compared to another because it's hard to duplicate a post with a new owly (I think you used to be able to) but more so, you also can't assign it a custom owly link so I can see at a glance which owly link was associated with what platform.
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    Hootsuite
    • The free tool is a no-brainer. It absolutely helps ferret out mentions on social media that I wasn't aware of before.
    • Now, I can use the tool for clients, too, so for consultants, it can be a great way to help stay on top of what's being said about them online, as well.
    • Using the paid version would help delve into even more insights for your business.
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    ScreenShots

    Hootsuite Screenshots

    Screenshot of Monitoring: Monitors social media profiles and tracks the topics that matter to the brand.Screenshot of Publishing: Create, publish and schedule engaging posts across social channels.Screenshot of Customer Engagement: A consolidated stream of messages across networks that can be triaged and assigned to respond to customers faster. Provides optional chatbot handover for automated responses.Screenshot of Scheduling: Social content can be planned as a team with a shared calendar that features collaborative post drafts and built-in approval workflows.Screenshot of Analytics & Reporting: Measures the effectiveness of a social media strategy to help turn strategy into execution with meaningful and actionable insights. Reports can be customized and shared according to unique business goals and objectives.