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Buffer Inc

Buffer

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

8.9 /10

140 Reviews Write a Review

What is Buffer?

A better way to manage social media for your business. Buffer makes it easy to manage your business's social media accounts. Schedule posts, analyze performance, and collaborate with your team — all in one place.

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Awards & Recognition

Buffer won the following awards in the Social Media Management - Enterprise category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

6 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2024

10 Top Rated Capabilities

9 Top Rated Features

2023

6 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2022

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2021

Buffer Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

88 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

90 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Buffer?

2% Negative

5% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Efficient Service
Effective Service
Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Social Media Channel Integration Outbound

Social Moderation and Workflow Management

Social Media Channel Integration Inbound

Campaign Execution

Social Post Archival

Dashboards and Visualization

Social Response Management

Social Asset Management

Trend Analysis

Contextual Analysis

Sentiment Analysis

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Buffer Reviews

Margareth L.

Role: Consultant
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2023

An efficient way to distribute content

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Buffer from other similar products?

It is one of the content programming systems on different web sites with high accessibility compared to others, because as it is a tool that is easy to implement and accessible plans, it is usually one of the most used in the cloud, it allows programming content and distributing it in different websites without complications

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My experiences for many years have been good because it is very easy to understand but it is a powerful and advanced tool that simplifies distribution actions. There are plans for all companies, as well as networks that are quite well known, even in professional environments.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I have no criticism because it is one of the simplest but professional and efficient tools to distribute content

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

In professional terms, it is one of the best tools of its kind to edit and create content that can be distributed on networks.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2023

Simple software, works well for our needs

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Temitayo A.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Easy to use, simple setup, quick scheduling.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Buffer from other similar products?

Buffer helps to build your social media presence organically. You are able to share and schedule your content fast with the buffer browser extension. You can also clip texts an images straight-up.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the built in analytics that track important engagements like clicks, shares, retweets etc. I love the high five for those posts that have performed so well.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Certain specialized posts and hashtags are not supported.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I highly recommend this product to everyone.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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What is Buffer?

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Buffer Ratings

88 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

90 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Buffer?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Social Media Channel Integration Outbound Ability to publish to social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more.

Social Moderation and Workflow Management Ability to create end-to-end routing and escalation workflows from social content.

Social Media Channel Integration Inbound Ability to monitor social media services, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more.

Campaign Execution Ability to manage social and media assets: tools for social campaign execution, reporting, and analytics.

Social Post Archival Ability to archive social posts and platform activity to create an audit trail.

Dashboards and Visualization Ability to visualize data and create analytics dashboards.

Social Response Management Ability to respond in-band to social media posts; ability to execute post-time optimization.

Social Asset Management Ability to access visual asset library with access permissions and expiry dates to be used on social media.

Trend Analysis Ability to monitor trends and traffic on multiple social media sites.

Contextual Analysis Ability to use NLP, deep learning and semantic analysis to extract meaning from social posts.

Sentiment Analysis Ability to analyze and uncover insights from attitudes and opinions expressed on social media.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Buffer Reviews

Margareth L.

An efficient way to distribute content

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Simple software, works well for our needs

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Temitayo A.

Easy to use, simple setup, quick scheduling.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Social Media Channel Integration Outbound

Social Moderation and Workflow Management

Social Media Channel Integration Inbound

Campaign Execution

Social Post Archival

Dashboards and Visualization

Social Response Management

Social Asset Management

Trend Analysis

Contextual Analysis

Sentiment Analysis

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement