5 Comprehensive Social Marketing Automation Platforms Enhanced with AI

Our analysis of social marketing automation platforms focuses on five leading tools that stand out for their AI-enhanced features and user-friendliness. We delve into each platform capabilities in campaign management, social listening, team collaboration, and analytics. Our guide aims to help marketers streamline their social media strategies, offering insights on tools like Agorapulse, Sendible, Loomly, SocialPilot, and Planable, making it easier for businesses to engage effectively with their audience and measure their social media impact.

Automation rules the world. Smart tools, today, take away all the manual burden and boredom of performing repeat, routine jobs. Human beings no longer have to stress about being present 24/7 to respond to a customer in wee hours. They don’t have to sweat over shafting and manually scanning each social media comment to find out which ones need urgent attention.

Things have been taken over by intelligent automation tools, and this is just the beginning.

In the realm of social media marketing, automation has brought about a tremendous shift (for good). Business largely runs on marketing fueled by marketing automation.

As per stats highlighted in the infographic by Invespcro, automation drives a 14.5% increase in sales productivity and a 12.2% reduction in marketing overhead.

The numbers speak for themselves about the power of social media automation tools. That’s why most companies are applying automation tools to each function, each aspect of their business. In the digital age, content and social media marketing automation have become a norm. And, with automation tools to rescue, every marketer’s job has become ten times simpler.

Though there of hundreds of such social media automation tools in the market, a few of them like sprout social simply stand out because of their features and capabilities.

I’ll be taking up five of the most popular social media automation platform like sprout social and discussing them in detail in this post.

The five tools that I will talk about today are  Agorapulse, Sendible, Socialpilot, Leadfuze, and Loomly.

About Agorapulse

Agorapulse

agora pulse

Well-equipped to be titled an all-rounder, Agorapulse is on every marketer’s ‘must have’ list.

The marketing automation tool offers social media automation capabilities that make it the right automation tools to add to your marketing strategy if you want to win over the right audience and to one-up your competition.

In the context of how Agorapulse can make social media content management really efficient and effective, here are its features and capabilities:

Increasing user engagement

Acquiring the right audience is only half the job done. The remaining half is keeping them engaged. Having a huge number of followers or fans on social media doesn’t guarantee purchases or conversions.

But, when you interact with them regularly, send them offers that motivate them to interact with your social media campaigns, and post content that is engaging, the likelihood of making a sale increases. In addition, you can buy followers on Tiktok, Facebook, or Instagram to readily increase your social visibility and boost marketing efforts.

With Agorapulse’s notifications, you as a marketer can keep a tab on each comment or interaction that a social media user or follower makes.

In case you have a huge following, using this feature means you can timely respond to that interaction, easily skimming through all the clutter and chaos!

A timely response from you translates to respect, love, trust, and loyalty from that user.

Easy campaign management across channels

If you are an eCommerce business or a blog, chances are that you are running your social media campaigns on different platforms – Facebook LinkedIn Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Snapchat.

Keeping sync can take a toll with so many accounts to handle.

However, with Agorapulse you can schedule and publish posts across all the social channels from a single dashboard.

Multiple-platform management with this social marketing automation is absolutely hassle-free and gets across your communication seamlessly.

Social Listening

If you are not listening to what your fans and followers are discussing or talking about you and your competitors, you aren’t taking full advantage of social media automation.

With automation tools, you can always find out what’s being said in your favor or in a negative light about your brand.

This is the best way to get and respond to user feedback.

With Agorapulse you can monitor every hashtag, keep a check on what influencers are saying, and find out interesting conversations happening around your product. And, engage.

When you listen to what’s happening socially, you have better chances of managing your reputation.

agorapulse monitoring

Better team collaboration

Agorapulse is a social media marketing automation platform that enables you to coordinate and collaborate better with all team members working on the same or on different campaigns.

With Agorapulse you can easily view who is working on what, who needs to be allotted work, and allocate responsibilities accordingly.

Every member has an idea of who is working on what so that there is no work collision or stepping on each other’s toes.

agorapulse team collaboration

Tracking the right metrics

Facebook barometer and Twitter Report card are two special offerings for Agorapulse users. Using these features, Agorapulse users can dig in deep into their campaign stats for Facebook and Twitter.

You need not manually dig into analytics to make your reports.

When it’s time to show the results of your campaign to your investors you know you can pull the numbers out from Agorapulse.

Segmentation

Intelligent segmentation is the key to running campaigns that successfully win you conversions.

When you are able to deep dive into your audience’s interactions and behaviors, and can understand them fully, only then you can create campaigns that interest and motivate them.

With Agorapulse you can run segmentation based on audience characteristics, demographics, annual spend, etc.

Personalization becomes smarter and better with this capability with this marketing automation tool.

About Sendible

Sendible

sendible

At par with Agorapulse (and Hootsuite), Sendible is a sensibly priced complete social media automation tools.

In fact, Sendible is a much popular Hootsuite alternative for marketers looking for a compact, comprehensive deal. Pitching itself as a social media ‘productivity’ tool, Sendible offers the following features and capabilities:

Social inbox

Within Sendible dashboard there is a social inbox:

a feature that can help organize social streams easily and in a matter of minutes. The social inbox keeps you notified about any engagement such as ‘comments,’ ‘likes,’ ‘shares,’ etc. on your campaign.

It also allows you to run a sentiment analysis and identify mentions that need to be responded to immediately.

Moreover, with a feature called priority inbox you can mark, sort or segregate any activity that is urgent and important and would like to keep up-to-date with.

Another important feature inside this marketing automation tool’s dashboard is advanced content recommendations that allows you to share recent and fresh content with your social media fans.

Interactive calendar

Sendible’s interactive calendar is called interactive for a reason – the ability to drag-and-drop your posts in a sequence in which you want to post them.

  • This ‘interactive’ ease allows you to easily schedule and re-schedule campaigns as need be.
  • You can also add graphical elements to your post in seconds with drag-and-drop capability.
  • Sendible is smart enough to let you add visual elements to your posts with ease. When talking about design capabilities how can I skip not sharing my love for ‘compose box’!
  • You can design your own graphics in Canva right within Sendible.

No switching tabs and no uploading troubles. You get to design graphics right within the dashboard.

sendible canva

Team and client collaboration capability

With the interactive calendar at your team’s disposal they can view all scheduled tasks, reschedule tasks that are not on priority, pre-pone campaigns based on urgent, decided goals, as well as allocate responsibility collectively.

  • All this can be done using a single marketing automation dashboard.
  • Collaboration with clients is also as easy as with team members.
  • Your clients can see and review your schedule posts and give instant feedback or suggestions.
  • This feature that is designed for clients is called custom workflows.

Social Listening

As we’ve pointed earlier if you aren’t keeping a tab on what’s being said about your brand you are missing out on vital feedback and on important instances to engage.

  • Just like Agorapulse, Sendible too enables you to keep track of what customers, fans, and influencers are saying about you.
  • You can keep a tab on and become a part of interactions and discussions trending online or mentioning you.
  • By reacting and responding to brand or product related conversations, and becoming an active social listener you can keep negative publicity from pulling you down.

Analytics

Sendible’s report hub gives you complete access to nine social media reports that give a comprehensive picture on social media analytics and custom reports

sendible custome report

You can pick from over 250 modules for your reporting in this marketing automation platform.

Isn’t that awesome?

And, you have ready to present reports personalized for each of your clients! What’s more?

You can email these insights and reports from within Sendible.

On-the-go notifications

To be truly interactive you need to go mobile. With Sendible you can reply to your users from mobile.

sendible g2 review

You need not be logged in from your laptop to access the dashboard to take charge of your campaigns.

With intelligent notifications, you keep informed about any important messages coming in from your user base and respond to them on-the-go, in real-time.

About Loomly

Loomly

Earlier known as Calendy, Loomly is a  smart social media management automation tools that emphasizes on user-friendliness. As a Loomly user, you will be glad to be able to easily use all its features without having to wrap your head around complicated interface or definitions.

It’s really simple to understand how to use this tool and deliver outstanding results.

Let’s get to discussing the capabilities of this social marketing automation platform:

All your work managed under a single roof

With an intuitive library at your service, you can easily manage all your content for social media at one place.

Be it photos, videos, notes, or post templates, you don’t need to maintain all your material to build a fantastic social media post on Google Drive or on a folder in your laptop anymore.

Manage it all from the intuitive library.

Content creation is a breeze

Creating content and copy that converts for social media is easy with Loomly. And, it is really effective to do so as well.

Loomly gives live optimization tips as and when you are crafting your post so that you get a large number of interaction and engagement on your posts.

loomly conversations

From post ideas to subject lines to copy optimization, you can do it all with Loomly.

Be 100% sure with post preview

With post preview, you save yourself the time and trouble of having to republish in case you mistakenly miss out adding an important element to the post or misspell a word.

Be sure that your post looks good before hitting the publish button.

Edit and publish only if you are absolutely satisfied with your copy and image.

Effective collaboration with team members

Loomly’s collaborative review and approval workflow allow all team members to be on the same page regarding work.

Your team members don’t have to struggle to find out what is to be taken up urgently or to know who is working on what.

All lined up work, posts in approval and review can be seen by everyone.

Automated scheduling

You have the choice to schedule your content for publishing or to send them to Buffer, which is great because it gives you so much freedom to manage your work and time.

 loomly secheduling

Automation is enabled by intelligent integrations so that you can manage publishing on multiple platforms without stretching at work for hours.

Better targeting

Marketing is meaningless if it fails to engage and convert the right audience that shows interest in your product or brand.

With targeting, you can reach out to those users who are highly likely to engage with your social media campaigns, share them and spread the love, and purchase from you.

With Loomly you target better with Facebook Preferred Audience, Facebook Post Sponsoring, etc.

loomly integrations

Meaningful analytics and reporting

Loomly’s analytics helps you keep a real-time tab on how your posts are performing.

In a glance, you can find out which posts are working well with your social media fans and which ones aren’t.

You can use these insights to improve and optimize your future campaigns.

Smart capabilities such as data filtering, period comparison, URL metrics, post metrics, etc. give a quick overall view of your social media marketing performance.

About SocialPilot

SocialPilot

This tool has been one of my favorite on the list of social media marketing tools for a very long time, and it’s not budging anywhere from it anytime soon.

The reason why I love SocialPilot is that it provides a whole bunch of features that allow me to do anything and everything related to social platforms.

I simply don’t need anything else if I am using SocialPilot.

Also, it’s extremely cost-effective. Some of the best features that SocialPilot boasts of are as follows:

Post on over 50 accounts

If you have an account on all social media channels or even multiple accounts on each, Social Pilot is the tool that’s got you covered.

You can manage and connect over 50 accounts and schedule your content on all of them in a single click.

This ensures serving seamless communication over a variety of social platforms for the type of audience that ‘hangs-out’ on their preferred media.

Social listening

  • With Social Inbox you can discover conversations happening around your product or brand, and become a part of that interaction.
  • Responding to comments, shares, messages, etc. on your social platforms becomes easier with Social Inbox.

Better collaboration

  • Plan your work together and execute it better with SocialPilot.
  • All your team members get to know the status of their work and have a better picture of how to manage tasks when they are working on a single, shared dashboard.
  • Also, as a manager, you can review work properly before approving it.

Meaningful content curation

SocialPilot curates content that appeals to your audience and is highly likely to get shared.

You can use this content in your social media campaigns and schedule it to be delivered to the intended audience at the best time.

Best thing – you can put can automate sharing your favorite blog posts using RSS feeds.

Plan better with Social Media Calendar

When you are on a social media marketing roll with multiple posts to be published across multiple platforms, you need solid planning.

socialpilot calendar

Having a social media calendar can prove to be a lifesaver at such times.

With a calendar in place, you get a better picture of where you are headed and know exactly if you are going overboard or doing too little for your month’s social media marketing.

Bulk scheduling save time

Are planning a week-long vacation and don’t want to spend even five minutes on your leave to post on social media?

socialpilot bulk scheduling

Don’t know if anyone else will be able to do the job well?

With Bulk Scheduling, you needn’t worry as you can bulk schedule up to 500 posts!

Later on, you can also edit, delete, or reschedule your posts just in case you need to.

Analytics

Get complete insights into your social media campaign performance across all platforms.

Find real-time insights on how your content is performing and use this as feedback for your future posts.

Export all data into presentable reports in a single click to share your contribution with the Head of the team or with clients.

About Leadfuze

Leadfuze

A little different from others in the league, Leadfuze is more than a social media automation tools.

It is quite a popular choice for marketing automation when it comes to lead prospecting.

So, if you want to go a step beyond simple social media campaign management, Leadfuze is your tool.

With Leadfuze you make sure that the leads that your team is warming up are of quality.

And, no time is wasted on those leads who have very little chance of ever making a single purchase.

leadfuze g2 review

Some of the capabilities that Leadfuze offers are as follows:

Data collection and verification

Gathering contact information with Leadfuze is easy as pie with various free tools at your disposal.

However, gathering relevant and verified information isn’t. This is where Leadfuze stands as a winner.

With verified contact information at your disposal, you can at least be sure that your emails are landing in the right inbox.

Lead gen with social media

You can use social media to extract contact information pretty easily with intelligent tools like Leadfuze.

With Leadfuze you can create a list of these contacts or leads and even send emails right from your Leadfuze account.

For example, if you are running a contest on Facebook you’ll be able to fetch email IDs of participants.

Same is possible if you run a discussion on Twitter or on Google Hangouts.

What is cumbersome though is documenting these contacts and then nurturing them further.

Makes life so much simpler!

Our Observation

Our observation of all the tools discussed in this guide:

Social media toolsPricingQuick Round-up
Agorapulse Agorapulse offer 4 plans:
Standard: $69/mo
Professional: $99/mo
Advanced: $149/mo
Custom: $399/mo
All the pricing is based on annual billing
Integrations: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram.
What is Good?
Well rounded social media management tool
Multiple users
Thorough data reports
What is not good?
Not a cheap option
Lacks Pinterest integration
No blog scheduling
SocialPilot SocialPilot offer 4 plans:
Agency: $100/mo
Small Team: $50/mo
Professional: $30/mo
Agency +: $200/moCustom plans
All the pricing is based on annual billing
Integrations: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google My Business, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, TikTok and Vk
What is good?
Value for money tool
Browser extension for Chrome and Firefox
What is not good?
Lacks advanced features like chatbot creation
No automated posting with Instagram
Sendible Sendible offer 4 plans:
Starter: $29/mo
Traction: $89/mo
Growth: $240/mo
Large: $750/mo
All the pricing is based on monthly billing
Integrations: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google My Business, Instagram, Pinterest, WordPress, Foursquare,Blogger and Youtube
What is good?
Support wide range of platforms
Intuitive and easy to use
In-built CRM
What is not good?
Not cheap as compared to competitors.
Not a tool for entrepreneurs
Loomly Loomly offer 4 plans:Base: $42/mo
Standard: $80/mo
Advanced:$175/mo
Premium:$369/mo
Enterprise: Contact sales team
All the pricing is based on annual billing
Integrations: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
What is good?
Clean interface.
Good value for money.
Helps create new content around existing blogs.
What is not good?
No excel formats.
LeadfuzeThe pricing plan starts at $132/moWhat is good?
Easy to use for generating leads.
Automated list building.
Specifically for lead generation.
What is not good?
At times the information gathered is not up to date.
An overview of all the tools in this post

Our Experience

Our Experience

Other than Leadfuze, all the four tools I’ve discussed are ‘core’ social media campaign management and marketing tools to save time.

Leadfuze, however, shifts the focus to social selling and outreach.

If you are a marketer trying to sort out your social media marketing efforts and want your plan to show results you must convince your boss to apply automation to the process.

This will not just save time and effort but also ensure that your campaigns are reaching out to the intended audience at the most appropriate time.

When optimized and personalized campaigns are run using automation, their conversion capability automatically increases manifold.

You skim and skip anything that won’t work based on data and past analytics.

Undoubtedly, social media automation adds to the quality of work that you deliver alongside maintaining a good quantity of work done.

FAQs

Questions asked for social media automation tools

What are some of the best social media automation platforms?

Some of the best social media automation platforms are Agorapulse, sprout social and Sendible.

What is social media automation?

Social media automation is the process of automating the social media interactions and activities. These can include scheduling and posting content on various social media platforms.

How can social media automation platforms help my business grow?

Social media is one of the primary sources where businesses can find their prospects. So, with social media automation you can automate your social media marketing efforts and reach out to your leads and prospects in a more impressive way on time.

How expensive is it to implement a social media automation platform?

There are a large number of social media automation tools and you can always find something that suits your budget and requirements like sprout social.

What do social media automation tools do?

Social media tools help to keep a track of all your social media accounts at one place. You can schedule, monitor, reply to comments and do a lot more with these tools without human intervention. You do not need to dedicate resources for managing your social media platforms. 

How to create a good social media marketing strategy?

To create a marketing strategy follow the below steps:

1. Define your goals
2. Understand your audience and their expectations based on age, location, gender … etc.
3. See what competitors are doing
4. Social media audit or better say understand the trends. 
5. Craft your posts in accordance to the social media channels. Like some fields may prefer 6. Instagram while some may use Twitter.
7. Take input from your audience
8. Find appropriate time to post content

Pritha Bose
Pritha Bose

I am an accomplished content marketing and communications expert with over 10 years of experience in the EdTech and SaaS industries. In my current role as a content marketer, I create engaging stories and campaigns focused on #marketingb2b, #contentdesign, #marketingdesign, #contentmarketing, and #marketingautomation. I have deep expertise in marketing automation, ecommerce tools, email marketing, project management, and content strategy. I have a proven track record of working cross-functionally to build brand awareness and promote products through immersive storytelling and campaigns. Previously, I have led content and communications initiatives for various EdTech businesses and internet products. I am skilled at developing content that resonates with key stakeholders while positioning brands strategically. With my passion for team collaboration and hands-on approach, I thrive at managing freelancers, designers, and engineers to deliver impactful campaigns across digital channels and domains. My breadth of experience allows me to be a trusted advisor to companies seeking to amplify their message and connect authentically with target audiences.

  1. As per my experience Sendible has always been my favorite. I have tried other tools as well but Sendible as far has been quite helpful for my business needs. But, I am quite keen to give Loomly a try and see how it fare against Sendible.

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