Product Updates
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Additional language support in Inbox 2.0
In addition to English, Inbox 2.0 is now supported in Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and French. Customers will see the language that has been selected by users in their account settings.
Assign an approver on a post-by-post basis
Allow team members to approve a single post on a case-by-case basis before it’s published or add an additional approver before a post goes through your existing approval process. Business and Enterprise plans only.
Analytics update to the Amplify and Microsoft Teams integration
Hootsuite Amplify customers who share posts to their social networks through Microsoft Teams will now see them aggregated into the Hootsuite Analytics dashboard. Previously these were not captured centrally for reporting purposes.
Unified Advanced Analytics settings
Advanced Analytics users can now manage all of their Analytics settings in one place. Open your settings to create custom metrics, connect web analytics accounts, add competitors, and more.
Let OwlyWriter AI write your holiday and event captions
Fill your content calendar fast with suggested post ideas in Planner, including social holidays and major upcoming events.
Introducing approvals for Inbox 2.0
Looking to get your messages approved before sending them to customers? Now in Hootsuite, you can send messages for review and approval before they get sent to a customer with an easy-to-activate workflow in Inbox. Business and Enterprise plans only.
Post accessible content from the Hootsuite mobile app
Now you can add alt text to posts with images for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. You can also add closed captions to videos published to Facebook and Twitter.
YouTube and Pinterest metrics are now available!
You can now view and track your YouTube and Pinterest metrics directly in Analytics. Get insights on the content that is performing best in YouTube, track your top performing Pins - and so much more.
Publish longer TikTok videos
You can now upload and publish videos up to 10 minutes long on TikTok from the Hootsuite Dashboard.
Get email notifications for team assignments
Inbox users can now choose to receive email notifications when a conversation is assigned to one of their teams. Business and Enterprise Plans only.
Member permission access for Amplify admin users
Amplify Admins are now able to see a Member list under Admin Settings. Admins can now see if a user received a welcome email and onboarded, manage content Admin permission and search for users.
Prove the impact of your social campaigns with Advanced Analytics
Understand, prove, and improve the impact of your social campaigns. From organic posts and paid campaigns to web data from Google Analytics 4 and Adobe Analytics, it’s all available in Hootsuite. Unify social and web data, analytics, and reporting to understand, improve, and showcase the business value of social media. Available with Business add-on and Enterprise add-on.
Introducing Heyday by Hootsuite FAQ Chatbot
Automate answers to repetitive, time-consuming customer questions any time of day with a customer service FAQ chatbot.
Zendesk integration now in Inbox
Good news! For Enterprise & Business Plan customers, you can now create tickets from Inbox’s conversation view directly in Zendesk. To set up your integration, visit your Inbox settings and turn on the Zendesk integration toggle (it's that easy!).
Your social home base is here!
Hootsuite has a new homepage—your one-stop shop to keep track of your performance, pick up from where you left off, and keep things organized with easy access to your social accounts, drafts, and top performing posts. Check out your new homepage
New Inbox 2.0 features for Business and Enterprise plans
Now Business and Enterprise customers can manage Instagram dark posts in Inbox. Plus, view messages on organic and dark posts in one place or apply a new filter to view organic and dark posts separately.
Upload larger videos across all social networks
You can now upload videos with a file size of 1 GB to all social networks from the Hootsuite dashboard.
Write longer alt text for LinkedIn and Twitter
Describing your images with alt text will help people of all abilities engage with your content. You can now write longer alt text for LinkedIn and Twitter in the Hootsuite dashboard.
Drag and drop images onto your Calendar
Turn pics into posts faster than ever with your media library now located right in Planner. To start a new post, just drag and drop stock assets (free images and GIFs) and your existing content assets (through our app integrations) into your Calendar. Check it out
Publish Instagram Stories in one click
Instagram Business users can now schedule Instagram stories in advance right in Hootsuite. No more mobile workflows, no more push notifications, no more hopping between apps—just an easier, faster way to tell your story. How cool is that? Try it now
Our Hashtag suggestions just got a whole lot better!
Looking for the perfect hashtags to include in your next post? With our recently improved hashtag suggestions, you can easily grab from dozens of AI-generated hashtags to help increase your post reach (and spark the right conversations on social).
LinkedIn mentions are now available!
We have exciting news: you’re now able to @mention your LinkedIn followers on Hootsuite. To unlock this feature, simply reconnect your LinkedIn profile(s) at the link below.
Need more help? No problem. Visit our Help Center or contact our Support team.
New features available in Inbox for Business & Enterprise users
Perform new actions on comments and messages, including like and unlike, hide and unhide, Retweet and Quote Tweet, mute and delete messages.
Easily select and view tags under your messages to keep track of what your customers are saying.
Send quick replies, carousels, and postback buttons to your customers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter—and view these features as rich messages in the conversation.
Custom covers are now available for Instagram Reels.
You can now upload any image from your desktop to use as an Instagram Reels cover (or continue using a suggested thumbnail). Try it out
OwlyWriter AI—An AI writer for busy social media pros
OwlyWriter AI makes posting on social media quick and easy. OwlyWriter AI guides you through a menu of options and turns your answers into the perfect posts. Instantly generate captions, get post ideas, and repurpose top-performing content with OwlyWriter AI.
See all your social posts in Planner.
If you’ve posted directly to Instagram, Facebook, or other social networks, you’ll now see these posts in Planner alongside content you’ve created and posted from Hootsuite.
Create a custom link in bio
Use Hootbio to create a custom link in bio with your company’s branding, colors, and more. Share all your valuable links in one webpage and drive traffic from social media.
Easily export (and share) your content calendar
For all the sharers out there: You can now easily export a CSV or PDF file and share your content calendar with colleagues. Boom.
Prepare your posts with confidence
When drafting a post, you’ll now see clearer, real-time prompts and warnings—including character limits and unlinked mentions—to ensure it meets the requirements of each social network and publishes successfully.
Monitor owned LinkedIn pages in Insights
You can now track posts and comments from your owned LinkedIn Page in your searches, helping you monitor mentions in one place and benchmark your LinkedIn Page performance in comparison to other social networks.
Publish longer Instagram Reels and Stories
You can now upload and schedule videos up to 15 minutes long for reels, and 60 seconds in length for stories.
Insights, powered by Brandwatch has two updates this month to help businesses better monitor sentiment:
See how sentiment changes over time with a new Net Sentiment Card in Insights, powered by Brandwatch
Save time (and a lot of clicks) by easily adjusting sentiment directly from within the Mentions Panel
Quickly crop images to the right size
Save time cropping photos with new presets based on the social network you’ve selected
Competitive Benchmarking in Analytics
Discover insights about your performance on social - you can now compare your social media performance against your competitors and/or other brands.
Write alt text while previewing your image
Describing your images will help people of all abilities engage with your content. View your image and easily write alternative text in the same place.
Quickly export and share a CSV view of your calendar
Have an overview of your published and scheduled content across all your social accounts in Planner. You can easily fill any content gaps (check out our catalog of content ideas if you need inspiration). Share your calendar view with your colleagues by exporting it into a CSV file—just filter and select the post status, date range, campaigns and social accounts you'd like to export.
Repeat what’s working in Analytics
You can now easily tweak and re-share your top performing posts across social networks with a new ‘Repost’ button. Your original post will copy into Composer, so you can build off it and make it good as new.
Select custom video thumbnail cover
Choose a video thumbnail cover from pre-generated frames for Instagram posts and reels.
Track performance across social networks in a snapshot
Get the complete picture of your social performance with multiple network metrics. Compare how your audience is engaging across all social networks in one tile and optimize your social strategy accordingly.
Discover how you compare with others in your industry
Compare your social performance against the averages in your industry to identify what’s working and ways you can improve.
Hashtag recommendations
Level up your content strategy with AI-generated hashtag suggestions, to make it easier for more people to find your content.
Increased file size uploads (photos and videos)
Upload high quality images and videos to the maximum allowable file sizes for each social network.
Ready-to-use Content Ideas
Beat writer’s block with our new "Inspiration" tab. Browse a catalog of English content ideas and select a template to use for your next post. Just customize the caption and the image, and you’re ready to schedule engaging content!
Share of voice tile
Understand how often people mention your brand versus your competitors’ with the new Share of voice tile in Insights, powered by Brandwatch.
Analytics Welcome page
Get a bird's eye view of your social performance with the Analytics Welcome page. Learn about your most important metrics, top-performing posts, and key actions to improve your visibility and engagement.
Vidyard Video Integration
Access Vidyard videos in Hootsuite, record your desktop, and schedule videos to your social channels.
Instagram Story in Composer
We’ve improved the Instagram Story publishing experience by bringing it into our primary Composer. Learn more.
Track your Reels in Analytics
Filter and report on metrics by post type in Analytics. Customize reports to attribute performance by photos, videos, reels, carousels, and much more across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Learn more.
Grammarly is now available in Composer
Check English grammar and spelling with Grammarly and publish with confidence knowing your writing is mistake-free. Grammarly in Composer also currently gives advanced suggestions, like tone detection, to make your writing better. Learn more about Grammarly in Composer.