A one-stop social media scheduling and analytics package for WordPress sites. It takes any sized website on WordPress and turns it into a social center for your business. Schedule your posts to be published on multiple networks around the world. Visually see how your posts perform across Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest and more. Analyze the effectiveness of your content through organic traffic and URL stats along with our in-depth analysis tools that allow you to dig deeper into stats like shares and likes to gauge what is helping grow your business.
Social Command Center (SCC) is the world’s first social media scheduling and analytics tool that is fully integrated with enterprise-grade, marketing automation implementation. It’s a complete social media management platform that combines social content publishing with comprehensive real-time analytics and optimal scheduling capabilities
ContentCal
ContentCal is the ultimate content calendar and social media scheduling platform that helps thousands of individuals, businesses, and agencies with their content planning and social media. The platform also defines user permissions and streamline the approval process, manage multiple accounts in one centralized location, and communicate and collaborate with your team on upcoming content. With ContentCal Analytics and Respond you can also keep tabs on content performance and learn how to improve for the future.
Features of ContentCal include social media post scheduling, keyword filtering, collaboration, feedback analysis, reporting, project management, and more. Content creators can use the application to design visual content by modifying the layout and adding a header color and personalized logo. Additionally, employees can create and store posts as drafts, receive feedback from collaborators, and preview posts before publishing.
You’re able to save time, collaborate with team members or clients, and create even better social media content. This platform is perfect for agencies, distributed organizations, or anyone who needs to manage and participate in multiple social media accounts. It could not be any easier, which is perfect for teams with varying degrees of ability. And, the ability to create custom workflows and approvals that reflect your unique governance plan is unmatched. Not only is ContentCal well priced but it is also one of the leading social media schedulers in the market today.
Later
Later is another useful Instagram scheduling tool that lets you schedule single photo and video posts, including optional location and user tags, directly to Instagram via desktop or mobile.
Like other schedulers, you can plan and schedule Stories and Carousels to publish via mobile notifications since those post types aren’t supported by Instagram’s API.
Later makes it easy to bulk schedule Instagram posts with its Quick Schedule. Create weekly time slots and then just drag-and-drop posts to schedule in seconds. You can also schedule your first comment, such as hashtags, to publish at the same time as your post.
Later also has a visual planner so you can create a beautiful Instagram aesthetic by dragging and dropping photos to see how they’ll look in your feed. It’s a great way to see how your 9-grid will look with your scheduled content.
There’s also the option to switch between a weekly or monthly calendar view to get a complete look at your Instagram strategy and scheduled content. And if you’re managing multiple accounts, you can choose to view them individually or all at once.
Standout scheduling features:
- Schedule single image and video posts directly.
- Schedule Stories and Carousel posts via push notifications.
- Schedule posts in bulk with Quick Schedule.
- Extend your reach with hashtags in the first comment.
- Create a beautiful Instagram aesthetic with the visual planner.
- Preview scheduled content by week or month.
Other features:
- Manage multiple profiles from one Later account.
- Keep your photos and videos separate from your different Instagram accounts with Access Groups.
- Keep all your content in one place, accessible on any device by your team.
Pricing
Later has a wide range of subscription plans for individuals and businesses, with premium plans starting from $7.50/month (billed yearly) for 1 profile and 100 posts per social platform.
Note: There’s also a limited FREE plan that only includes single photo scheduling for 1 profile and 30 posts per social platform.
Hootsuite
Hootsuite lets you schedule single image and video posts directly to your Instagram business account.
But for Stories, or any posts for an Instagram personal account, you can only schedule post notifications via the Hootsuite mobile app. And for Carousels, you can only schedule via the iOS app.
If you’ve got loads of content to publish, then you can use the Bulk Composer to upload and schedule hundreds of posts at once. You can view, edit, reschedule, or delete your scheduled posts in the Hootsuite Planner.
Hootsuite lets you keep your Instagram account active 24/7 by automatically scheduling posts to fill the gaps in your content calendar. AutoSchedule uses your custom settings (posts per day, period, and days applicable), content gaps, and general high-engagement periods.
Standout scheduling features:
- Schedule single image and video posts directly.
- Schedule Stories and Carousel posts via push notifications.
- Upload and schedule hundreds of posts at once with the Bulk Composer.
- Keep your content calendar full with AutoSchedule.
- Get an instant overview of scheduled content using the built-in Planner.
Pricing
Hootsuite has a range of premium subscription plans, starting from $29/month for 1 user, 10 social profiles, and unlimited scheduling.
Note: Hootsuite also has a limited Free plan for 1 user, 3 social profiles, and 30 scheduled messages.
Buffer Publish
Supported Platforms:
- Twitter [primary]
Cost: Buffer offers a free plan that covers three social media accounts, 10 scheduled posts and one user, but paid plans start at $15 per month.
Buffer is another one of the top social media scheduling tools. It doesn’t place as much emphasis on the visual elements and bells and whistles, but it’s a solid option for people who want one place to schedule content and monitor the results.
Buffer offers both a browser extension and a mobile app so that you can schedule social media content anytime and anywhere.
As it’s almost the OG queueing-social-media-posts tool, Buffer has a pretty advanced queue feature, particularly for Twitter.
Buffer recently also launched a link in bio tool, but it’s still quite early in its features – we expect it to quickly improve though!
While Buffer is enough to cover the basics, they’ve also rolled out some added services like Buffer Reply (which is a paid option starting at $15 per month). This pulls all of your comments, pings, and social media conversations into one dashboard—so you can reply and engage with your users without hopping in and out of accounts.
Cons: Unfortunately, Buffer doesn’t allow for multiple users on their free account and you’ll need to log in with an Instagram Account’s credentials, making this a compromising position when contractors are granted access to confidential information.
Buffer also doesn’t offer Instagram Story (unless you have a Premium account) or Carousel scheduling or product tagging. For Social Media Managers, these functions are a bare necessity for client accounts. Here’s their quick graphic explaining where they can post directly (automatically) vs sending you a reminder:
Buffer does however offer hashtags in your first comment! This was recently launched and supports single image or video posts.
As Twitter is their primary channel, Buffer doesn’t have a visual feed planner.
The whole point of a social media scheduler is that you don’t need to manually post a thing. However, with Buffer, you’ll still need to go into Instagram and add your tagged accounts and upload Stories.
Loomly
Loomly has a mission to make social media management a more structured and less complex feat for social media managers. It operates with five pricing tiers, ranging from $36 per month up to $299/month (with custom pricing for the top Enterprise tier). Even the Basic plan is useful for those with those operating ten or fewer social accounts.
You begin by setting up a calendar, including a time zone and industry. Loomly gives you the option of scheduling posts directly from the application or working with Buffer for scheduling purposes (although the latter suffers from some limitations). You then attach your social accounts. Loomly does not yet allow native Instagram automated post publishing, so you must use a third-party app. Once Loomly has worked through access issues with Instagram’s API, they will be improving their Instagram offerings.
Loomly has a strong emphasis on workflows. If you have more than one team member, the typical workflow is:
- Draft
- Pending Approval
- Requires Edits
- Approved
- Scheduled
- Published
The standard practice for a new post (unless you set otherwise) is:
- Set Post Details
- Select Social Channels
- Define Generic Content
- Fine-Tune Each Channel
Conclusion
Social media scheduling is essential for businesses with a large audience on social sites like Facebook and Twitter because these sites are always changing. Schedule4Me allows you to manage the content of your social sites more efficiently by giving you access to multiple analytics reports, which means you don’t have to leave your schedule open, scheduler online.