Every online marketer recognizes the power of social forums. It can make or break a business. But with so many social media channels, how do you take advantage of these platforms?

Whether you’re a fan of Apple, Android, or Windows, there are plenty of apps with different features that can help you organize multiple accounts. Plus, these apps are smart enough to show you information about trends, the latest practices, and how people are responding to your messages.

To help you optimize your social media marketing strategies, we have listed 5 of the best apps for social media aggregation.

1. Hoot Suite.

Hootsuite – A social forum management platform serving over 15 million users worldwide. It is available in five versions: Free, Pro, Team, Business and Enterprise. HootSuite is fully integrated with most social networks, allowing you to manage your activities on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or LinkedIn accounts in one simple dashboard. The app has a simple and intuitive dashboard with advanced filters for the workplace. Some other Hootsuite features include:

1. A support service for inquiries.
2. A wise guide. It shows you how to schedule a post, add a social network, check keywords/mentions, share content using Hootlet, and social networks.
3. Social media courses where you can learn the basics of social media marketing.
4. Hootsuite Forums allows you to connect your Facebook or Twitter page to this forum.
5. 30-day free trial for the Hootsuite Pro plan
6. Provide support for the WordPress blog.

2. Social outbreak

Sprout Social is a SaaS service with three core functionalities: engagement, publishing, and analytics. As a social media aggregation tool, it aims to promote communication between people and a business. Monitor social conversation, get things done, and manage a portfolio from a single platform. The app has features such as:

1.Intelligent inbox
2. Cooperation
3. Publication
4. Mobile
5. Analytics
6.Monitoring
7. Account Structure
8. Discovery
9. Reports
10.Social CRM

These features are available on the dashboard and are divided into six sections: Source Dashboard, Task, Messaging, Reports, Discovery, Publishing & Scheduling, and Integrations. The topic area lets you know where you stand with your prospects and customers, as well as allowing you to build your presence on social media platforms.

3. Shock absorber

Buffer is social media integration software used to schedule posts, text, images, and photos to your Facebook, Twitter, and other social media accounts.

The app is available in four different plans: an individual plan that is free, Awesome, Small, Medium, and Large. The application is web-based and allows you to create, schedule posts, and update your entire account with a single click. The app has a browser extension and integrates seamlessly with Chrome, RSS, and WordPress.

Additional Buffer features include:

1. RSS feed support
2. Connectivity features
3. Team collaboration
4. Analysis and information
5. Statistics Comparison
6. Share social profile
7. Support for iOS and Android
8. Multiple posts and tweets
9. 2-Step Account Login
10. Share media format
11. Custom programming
12. Informative Social Analytics
13. Profile Management
14. Standard buffering
15. Agency/business planning
16. Statistics Comparison
17. 14 day trial for each plan

4. Brand watch

While other social engagement tools are for sharing and managing content, Brandwatch is more of an analytics tool. It listens, monitors and collects data from the Internet, social media platforms, product reviews, blogs, news about what people are saying about your service or product and offers a large amount of data for analysis and sentimental analysis.

Brandwatch sentiment analysis eliminates spasm and unnecessary messaging. It can also integrate with HootSuite and Spreadfast, allowing you to use data in those apps.

5. Social boost

As a social media aggregator, SocialOomph allows you to manage all your accounts on one platform. It has free and paid version. The free version allows you to manage up to five Twitter profiles, while the paid version allows you to unblock other platforms like FB, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Tumblr. It’s easy to manage, enables URL shortening, has a keyword search feature, and tracks the clicks you get on each URL.

In addition, the paid version offers contact suggestions and allows you to link many Twitter accounts, manage blogs and RSS feeds, perform social updates by email and has filters to discard unnecessary messages.