Analytics are extremely useful for social media marketing.
Only social media analytics tools can allow you to make sense of your social media stats. The insights provided by these tools inform your overall marketing strategy.
You can tell what’s working, replicate success, and find out what isn’t.
With the proper tool, you can streamline your social media marketing efforts and apply limited marketing resources for maximum benefit.
We’ve put together a list of 8 great social media analytics tools. Most of them are free or have a feature-packed free trial option. They are not arranged in any particular order.
1. Iconosquare
Iconosquare (formerly Statigram) is an Instagram analytics and management platform. Some of the features include:
- Measure your follower growth.
- Visualize followers gained daily and lost.
- Find out where your followers are located.
- Manage all your accounts from the same interface.
- Schedule posts in advance.
- Create custom feeds to follow specific groups of users and hashtags.
- Find the best Instagram influencers in a few seconds.
Iconosquare has a full-featured 14-day free trial, after which pricing starts at $54 per year.
2. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a must-use tool for any serious social media marketer. It is primarily used to track website traffic. Its social analytics provides you with the tools to measure social impact. You can:
- Identify high-value networks and content.
- Track on-site and off-site user interaction with your content
- Tie all this back to your bottom-line revenue through goals and conversions.
Google Analytics is free; you only need a Google account (Gmail).
3. Tailwind
Tailwind is a Pinterest and Instagram analytics tool to discover content, schedule posts, monitor conversations, amplify reach, and analyze results. Getting started is free; you can sign up with an Instagram or Pinterest account.
4. Beevolve
Beevolve is a powerful and easy-to-use social media software for businesses. With Beevolve, you can monitor your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts, and measure resulting sales and engagement for those posts in one easy-to-use platform. Other features include:
- Social media post statistics such as conversions, shares, and comments.
- Post metrics drill-down, such as heat maps of your campaigns
- Visitor re-targeting
- Digital channel measurement of the overall effectiveness of social channels in generating conversions and sales for your organization.
- Visitor demographics
- Competitive intelligence
- Identifying brand advocates
- Customizable reports
5. Riffle
Riffle is a Twitter dashboard that helps you build more purposeful relationships with your community.
With Riffle, you can build instant rapport with anyone on Twitter. By building rapport, you create authentic and purposeful relationships with your audience.
This allows you to get insights into everyone’s current and potential value to plan how to engage them effectively.
See anyone’s Twitter engagement, interest, and activity analytics in real time so that you can make interactions more personal and meaningful. Riffle is free and can be added to the Chrome browser in seconds.
6. HowSociable
HowSociable provides you with a social score for all the main social networks. You can see your social score for Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, Reddit, and 8 other social sites with a free account.
To unlock your social score for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Posterous, and 32 other social sites, you need a pro account priced at $9 per 3 months. The social score factors in the activity around your brand over the last week.
7. TweetReach
TweetReach by Union Metrics is a nifty tool that gives you a report of any hashtag, keyword, or account. Once you enter the hashtag, account, or keyword into the search field, you get a report that contains:
- The estimated reach in terms of accounts reached.
- Impressions generated.
- Activity by the time of day.
- The top contributors to that hashtag, account, or keyword.
- A timeline of tweets
A free account entitles you to unlimited free snapshot reports, which provide a quick analysis of up to 100 Tweets posted in the past few days.
Full snapshots are priced at $20 each, allowing up to 1,500 tweets from the past week. A paid subscription will cost you $99 per month.
8. WolframAlpha Facebook Report
This is a tool built by the team at the Wolfram Alpha search engine. The Facebook Report lets you visualise your posting activity, friends, and conversations.
Conclusion…Social Media Analytics Tools
Numerous other social media analytics tools help you streamline your social media marketing. These are not the best, but they are easy to carry and packed with useful features.
Hey Adeshokan
Great collection of Social Media Marketing tools. Thanks for such an Amazing post with best review.
Hi Suresha,
Thanks, and glad you find the list useful. Do have a nice day.
Hi Adeshokan,
Thank you for including TweetReach by Union Metrics in your piece. We appreciate it! Anyone interested in checking out our multi-channel analytics plans can do so here: https://unionmetrics.com/pricing/.
Thanks again!
– Sarah A. Parker
Social Media Manager | Union Metrics
Fine Makers of the Union Metrics Social Suite & more
Hi Sarah,
It worth the mention, glad you like the list. Thanks.
Seems like almost all the listed tools are new to me and I haven’t tried any of these except google analytics. I will surely check these tools soon.
Thanks
Hi Nick,
Glad you find some new tool to try from the list above. Let me know how it worked for you. Thanks for your time here.
Same as here Nick! I’m also not aware of these list of tools except google analytics.
Thanks for these tools Adeshokan. Going to try them all.
Hi Nikhil,
Sure, most of these tools are not the regular ones we heard or read about. But they’re equally useful too and server even better purpose.
Thanks for stopping by, Nikhil.
Hii ADESHOKAN .
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Thanks for such an Amazing post with best review.
Again For Thanks For This Post.
Hi Vedant,
Glad to read you find some new useful tools to try, thanks for reading through.
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This is good article. Thanks for sharing the information.
Thanks Md Jamal,
Good, you like it.
Social media marketing tools are awesome. I am very happy to read this article. Thank you very much
Thanks, Izzak,
Glad you like it.
Hi Adeshokan,
Thanks for sharing those wonderful tools. Many of them are new to me. But I will try them.
Glad I could help, thanks for reading through.
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Hey Shamsudeen
Great post to monitoring the social media by using the tools. Its useful for all. Personally i recommend Google anlaytics tool. You can monitor all platforms data in one place. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks
Aadiv
Hi Aadiv,
Thanks for your input, I’m glad to read you find this post helpful. Yes, Google Analytics is a mush-have tool for online marketers.