Name: Hootsuite
Rating: 4.3 (475 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Hootsuite?

Hootsuite is a software designed to facilitate the management of social media accounts for individuals and organizations. The software enables users to schedule posts, monitor social media activity, and analyze engagement across various platforms from a single dashboard. It provides features for content curation, team collaboration, and assignment of tasks, aiming to streamline workflows associated with managing multiple social channels. Hootsuite supports the integration of analytics tools that offer insights into post performance, audience demographics, and trends. The software addresses the challenge of maintaining an effective and organized social media presence by consolidating activities and communications into a unified interface.

Overall experience with Hootsuite

Head of Business Development

<50M USD, Miscellaneous

FAVORABLE

“Hootsuite: A Comprehensive Tool for Social Media Management”

4.0

Jan 20, 2025

Hootsuite is a useful social media application to use with a good clear layout and fantastic cross-platform compatibility. Due to this slow reporting it is not suitable for reporting situations where real-time data reporting is required.

Co-Founder

<50M USD, Services (non-Government)

CRITICAL

“The UI looks very intuitive but it has limited functionality”

3.0

Dec 11, 2018

Hootsuite analytics is a promising but half-baked social media analytics solution. The good part of the product is that it semalessly integrates with Hoosuite makreting tool.

About Company

Company Description

Hootsuite is a business platform dedicated to optimizing social media management, with a specific focus on boosting social commerce experiences and organizing customer dialogues. This platform is used by numerous companies worldwide to deploy successful social campaigns. In conjunction with their software solutions, Hootsuite also caters to enhancing social media skills by offering both complimentary online training and chargeable certifications for professionals. Training domains range from mastering new social media tactics to proficiently utilizing the Hootsuite platform itself.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2008

Head office location

Vancouver, Canada

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

http://hootsuite.com/

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Through the use of Hootsuite it allows me to be in charge of organizing numerous social media accounts. Indeed, the possibility to schedule posts across platforms is easy and the visual calendar allows for an easy overview of the general content plan.

The UI is very good and makes it easy to present your findings.

I have been using Hootsuite to plan the posting on multiple social media networks at once. It's saved me a lot of time and it also ensures I post regularly on all the various social media platforms we use.

Reports can take time to compile and the data that is collected is hardly ever real-time and hence one cannot get the best picture of the performance of social media. This can be inconvenient for time-sensitive campaigns.

The functionality is very limited compared to competition.

It is difficult for me to get more detailed information about the audience and their activity than just likes and shares. This hinders us from knowing more about our target audience and therefore creating content that will suit them.

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<50M USD

Miscellaneous

Review Source

Hootsuite: A Comprehensive Tool for Social Media Management

Social Media Manager

Services (non-Government)

Decoding Hootsuite's Role in Managing Social Media

Jan 15, 2025

Hootsuite is very useful for the management of our social media accounts. Scheduling, monitoring and even basic analytics are great. To gain more profound information about the audience and engagement I turn to other applications.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

50M-1B USD

Banking

Hootsuite: Streamlining Social Media Campaign Analysis

Dec 5, 2024

The overall experience with Hootsuite has been quite useful for us. Whenever we launch any business campaigns through our social handles, it is very important for us to analyze the performance of those campaigns in the form of metrics-based visualization, and this is where Hootsuite's analytics helps us to identify in detail which has helped us make data driven business decision-making.

SR. SOCIAL MEDIA EXECUTIVE

Discover Multi-platform Social Media Scheduling with Hootsuite

Dec 20, 2024

I use Hootsuite mainly for scheduling posts across multiple social media platforms at once. It is a time saver for the marketer. The analytics dashboard is an add-on feature.

ACCOUNT MANAGER

Media

Effective Social Media Management through Automation Tools

A good tool for managing multiple social media accounts and publishing posts using automations.