# Social media tools for multi-location brands
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Compare social media tools for multi-location brands on per-location workflows, brand control, and roll-up reporting. Ranked against Sked.
Multi-location brands juggle head-office consistency with local flexibility, and no tool solves that balance completely, Sked included. What Sked does bring is Google Business Profile posting, bulk scheduling, and approvals, which cover the day-to-day of running many locations without overpromising location-specific automation we have not built.

## What multi-location brands teams need
- 80/20 HQ-vs-local content model
- Google Business Profile posting at scale
- Per-location sign-off

## Tools ranked for multi-location brands
1. Hootsuite — from $99/mo: Enterprise-scale social suite; broad but heavy and pricey
2. Sked Social (Sked): Approvals, Instagram-first scheduling and real analytics for agencies and social teams, without enterprise pricing.
3. Sprout Social — from $79/mo: Premium suite with deep analytics & listening; expensive
4. Agorapulse — from $79/mo: Inbox-strong agency tool with white-label leanings
5. Sendible — from $29/mo: Agency-focused suite with strong white-label
6. Metricool — from $20/mo: Analytics-per-dollar value tool with a free plan; ceiling for agencies
7. Publer — from $5/mo: Affordable scheduler with bulk & AI features
8. Planable — from $33/mo: Approval-first collaboration tool; requires client login
9. Buffer — from $6/mo: Simple, well-priced publishing; light on depth
10. Later — from $19/mo: Instagram-first visual planner; per-social-set pricing
11. Loomly — from $49/mo: Content calendar with built-in approval; limited analytics
12. CoSchedule — from $19/mo: Marketing calendar with social scheduling
13. Planoly — from $16/mo: Instagram-first visual planner for creators; narrow platform set
14. Tailwind — from $15/mo: Pinterest/Instagram-focused scheduler & marketing suite