Hootsuite Overview
What is Hootsuite?
Hootsuite helps organizations use social media to launch marketing campaigns, identify and grow audience, and distribute targeted messages across multiple channels.
Using Hootsuite’s unique social media dashboard, teams can collaboratively schedule updates to various social networks, integrate their existing marketing tools to streamline workflow, and track campaign results and industry trends to rapidly adjust tactics.
Hootsuite Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
Professional: $29/mo
Team: $129/mo
Business: starting at $599/mo
Enterprise: contact for pricing (custom solutions)
Hootsuite Features
Media


Hootsuite Reviews
Hootsuite Reviews
Impressive free plan
Overall, I'm satisfied with Hootsuite and will continue to use this platform to manage my social media accounts. With the ability to schedule up to 30 posts on the free plan, including scheduling Instagram posts, and viewing different social media accounts all on one dashboard, it beats other social media management platforms that require plan upgrades to access similar features.
Mediocre at best
Where is the competition in the social media management software space? There has to be a better option than this?
Getting Better with Time
Overall, Hootsuite provides a single place to monitor multiple social media platforms, create branded and consistent marketing campaigns, schedule content in advance with easy oversight, and get insights into content performance.
Great way to schedule posts on social media
I would recommend using Hootsuite to manage your social media posts. It has a free trial that is great to get to know the software before buying.
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Impressive free plan
Pros
As someone who uses Hootsuite's "Free" plan, I'm incredibly impressed by what Hootsuite offers in the plan. My favorite tool on Hootsuite is the "Streams." I can sort scheduled posts, past posts, mentions, and followers' posts by social media platform using "Streams" on my dashboard. This allows me to see responses or comments on my posts and engage with followers, without having to visit several social media sites. With the free version, I can also schedule more posts on social media than other social media management programs, and the free plan allows me to schedule posts on my business Instagram account.
Cons
"Free plan" users who are needing advanced features beyond basic analytics will need to upgrade and if they shorten links using TinyUrl or Bitly, there isn't a meaningful way to track engagement in the program. Also, users need to be aware that the connections between Hootsuite and social media networks frequently drop, and that the program's connection with Instagram is frequently buggy.

A Competitive Social Media Scheduler
Pros
Hootsuite offers all the features a basic social media scheduler offers: auto-posting, media library, multiple social media accounts, etc. The amazing thing about this software is it has a free account so you can test out the features before going premium. Definitely a contender for researching a social media scheduler for your business.
Cons
The software can sometimes be finicky, and auto-publishing doesn't always work.
Mediocre at best
Where is the competition in the social media management software space? There has to be a better option than this?
Pros
I run a modeling and acting agency and I was posting between SC, IG, FB, Twitter and YT on a daily basis. Making it very hard to be away from my phone and risk missing prime posting opportunities and viral trends. I was looking for something that would schedule pre-selected posts, videos, pictures and adds. The best option online seemed to be Hootsuite. It was well marketed and seemed very user-friendly... at first.
It does indeed schedule your posts to various social media platforms, and it also allows for multiple streams of social media (i.e other business or personal accounts). That's a very handy feature!
Cons
The user interface is weak, it's not user-friendly nor is it practical or modern looking. It has a tendency to leg, it also isn't mobile friendly, they do have an app, but again it's not easy to navigate. Which is an absolute must when working on social media on the fly. When I created beautiful well-round posts and saved them to a posting schedule. I would check the posts after they had been released, via the online social media site, the posts would always turn out unformatted, with broken links and fuzzy low res images. I was overall very disappointed with this product. especially because it was so highly rated and not free. I felt like I kept putting in a lot of effort just to re-do all my work all the time.
Getting Better with Time
Overall, Hootsuite provides a single place to monitor multiple social media platforms, create branded and consistent marketing campaigns, schedule content in advance with easy oversight, and get insights into content performance.
Pros
Hootsuite is a great way to set up a multi channel dashboard to have greater oversight of your social media channels. I appreciate that it covers all the major platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Cons
At this point in time, users can't directly publish content to the Facebook and Instagram stories, which are major marketing tools. Where as you can pre schedule traditional posts, it's not an option for stories.
Great way to schedule posts on social media
I would recommend using Hootsuite to manage your social media posts. It has a free trial that is great to get to know the software before buying.
Pros
I love th fact that I can use a single platform to manage all of my social media activity. It has a great feature that allows to schedule social media posts at times when your audience is most active.
Cons
The software can be glitchy and cause frustration. It takes a bit of learning but once you know how it works you can make your posts calendar easily.
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Hootsuite Pricing
Hootsuite Pricing
Professional: $29/mo
Team: $129/mo
Business: starting at $599/mo
Enterprise: contact for pricing (custom solutions)
Professional: $29/mo
Team: $129/mo
Business: starting at $599/mo
Enterprise: contact for pricing (custom solutions)
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Hootsuite Features
Hootsuite Features
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Additional information for Hootsuite
Additional information for Hootsuite
Key features of Hootsuite
- @mentions
- API
- Access control
- Activity dashboard
- Activity monitoring
- Approval process control
- Assignment management
- Automated scheduling
- Automatic content scheduling
- Behavior tracking
- Bulk scheduling
- Calendar management
- Campaign analysis
- Campaign scheduling
- Channels performance
- Cloud content management
- Collaboration tools
- Communications calendar
- Compliance management
- Contact history
- Content filtering
- Content library
- Content management
- Content repository
- Custom analytics reports
- Custom fields
- Custom forms
- Customizable branding
- Dashboard creation
- Data visualization
- Demographic data
- Employee advocacy
- Engagement analytics
- Gather intelligence by tracking mentions of your brand
- HIPAA compliance
- Image library
- Import/export data
- Interactive reporting
- Keyword tracking
- Location tracking
- Manage multiple contributors
- Mobile alerts
- Mobile integration
- Monitoring
- Multi-campaign
- Optimize delivery
- Performance appraisal
- Permission management
- ROI analytics
- RSS feeds
- Real time analytics
- Real time reporting
- Reporting & statistics
- Reputational risk
- Risk alerts
- Search functionality
- Search stream creation
- Security notifications
- Social analytics reports
- Social media integration
- Social media metrics
- Social network marketing
- Tagging
- Tags & keywords
- Task management
- Team performance analytics
- Third party integration
- Trend tracking
- Two-factor authentication
- Update multiple networks in one step
- Usage tracking
- User access controls
- User management
- Visual analytics
- Web analytics
- Web forms
- Web traffic reporting
- Workflow management
Benefits
Hootsuite FAQs
Hootsuite FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Hootsuite.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Hootsuite offer?
Hootsuite offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$29,00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Professional: $29/mo Team: $129/mo Business: starting at $599/mo Enterprise: contact for pricing (custom solutions)
Q. What are the main features of Hootsuite?
Hootsuite offers the following features:
- @mentions
- API
- Access control
- Activity dashboard
- Activity monitoring
- Approval process control
- Assignment management
- Automated scheduling
- Automatic content scheduling
- Behavior tracking
- Bulk scheduling
- Calendar management
- Campaign analysis
- Campaign scheduling
- Channels performance
- Cloud content management
- Collaboration tools
- Communications calendar
- Compliance management
- Contact history
- Content filtering
- Content library
- Content management
- Content repository
- Custom analytics reports
- Custom fields
- Custom forms
- Customizable branding
- Dashboard creation
- Data visualization
- Demographic data
- Employee advocacy
- Engagement analytics
- Gather intelligence by tracking mentions of your brand
- HIPAA compliance
- Image library
- Import/export data
- Interactive reporting
- Keyword tracking
- Location tracking
- Manage multiple contributors
- Mobile alerts
- Mobile integration
- Monitoring
- Multi-campaign
- Optimize delivery
- Performance appraisal
- Permission management
- ROI analytics
- RSS feeds
- Real time analytics
- Real time reporting
- Reporting & statistics
- Reputational risk
- Risk alerts
- Search functionality
- Search stream creation
- Security notifications
- Social analytics reports
- Social media integration
- Social media metrics
- Social network marketing
- Tagging
- Tags & keywords
- Task management
- Team performance analytics
- Third party integration
- Trend tracking
- Two-factor authentication
- Update multiple networks in one step
- Usage tracking
- User access controls
- User management
- Visual analytics
- Web analytics
- Web forms
- Web traffic reporting
- Workflow management
Q. Who are the typical users of Hootsuite?
Hootsuite has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Non Profit, Freelancers, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Hootsuite support?
Hootsuite supports the following languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
Q. Does Hootsuite support mobile devices?
Hootsuite supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Hootsuite integrate with?
Hootsuite integrates with the following applications:
Batchbook, Bitium, Brandwatch, Constant Contact, Influitive, Kapost, Locowise, LoginRadius, Nimble, Zendesk
Q. What level of support does Hootsuite offer?
Hootsuite offers the following support options:
Online Support, Knowledge Base, FAQs, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
Overall, I'm satisfied with Hootsuite and will continue to use this platform to manage my social media accounts. With the ability to schedule up to 30 posts on the free plan, including scheduling Instagram posts, and viewing different social media accounts all on one dashboard, it beats other social media management platforms that require plan upgrades to access similar features.