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What do you like best about Opal?

I like that it is such a collaborative system. In any company of scale, it is hard to track people down and get a bigger team in a meeting that results in productive work. This helps things move more seamlessly and everyone is on the same page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

The only thing I dislike is It is hard to get creatives to learn something new or to participate on something like this. It is definitely a project management or account based tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were solving communication issues by putting information together in a visually pleasing and easy to understand manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Opal Overview

What is Opal?

Opal is the planning platform that enables marketers to strategize visually, collaborate together, and experience their brand through the eyes of a customer. With a visual calendar, dynamic workflows, and a flexible content system, it’s easy for teams to collaborate from anywhere. Sharing assets, collecting feedback and securing approvals is simple—you can even export a detailed presentation with a few clicks. Manage your marketing campaigns across every channel: social media, retail in-store, web, email, paid, even SMS. Teams can understand at-a-glance how their work fits into the bigger picture, and executives get peace of mind from watching strategy come to life in real time. Learn how Opal saves time and drives results for best-in-class brands like Starbucks, Target, Wendy’s and Microsoft at workwithopal.com. Opal, a privately held software company, was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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Product Description

Collaborative Planning for Brand Marketers


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Opal
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Year Founded
2011
HQ Location
Portland, OR
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
123 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Opal is the planning platform built for marketers to plan, create & calendar their content. Marketing and communications teams that trust Opal experience tight alignment, high levels of efficiency, and the ability to see their work through the eyes of their customers.Learn how Opal drives results for best-in-class brands like Starbucks, Target, Activision, GM, and countless others at workwithopal.com.


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Sami K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"Excellent Content Management Tool"
I like the user-friendly interface, and how easy it's to work with.
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Rashawn C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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"Solid Social Posts organization."
I keeps every post organized and you can see how the post looks in each platform.
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5.0 out of 5
"Opal for Social Media"
As a social media manager, we create a lot of content each month. I love creating a mock post within the platform itself so you do not have to clic...
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What do you like best about Opal?

This tool is incredibly user-friendly and seamlessly integrates into our social media planning process. Its ability to provide visibility for various stakeholders within our organization is crucial to our success. The customer support has been exceptional—anytime we encounter an issue, the team is quick to troubleshoot and resolve it. I’ve never used a platform that is both this comprehensive and effective in developing social media plans and campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

There’s not much to improve, but it would be fantastic if they added social media publishing functionality in the future. Having everything in one place would make the platform even more seamless and efficient! 😊 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opal serves as a single source of truth for our social media team's planning across all platforms. It offers excellent organization, visibility, and tracking for our multiple stakeholder groups, enabling our team to stay flexible. Since we work across different time zones, it significantly boosts our efficiency and helps us collaborate seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lee Dussinger of Opal

Thank you for the outstanding review - I literally couldn't have said it better myself! I am going to share this with the team! In particular, thank you for calling out our support team and the speed with which they resolve errors.

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What do you like best about Opal?

I find Opal to be a great collaborative planning tool for the different communications teams across our enterprise. There are a lot of options for making entries, filtering and searching, which I appreciate. It gives us the opportunity to see not just what's being published internally and externally across the company, but also among our teams and leaders, which helps us align our efforts. There are some features we're not using at this time, but the ability to implement those when the time is right seems easy enough, and overall it's a great tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

I don't know that the system is super intuitive. We've had to onboard our team several times and it required some effort to put our regular comms plans into the architecture of the site (themes vs. stories vs. moments vs. content). But we did get there and now it works great for us. I think the feature I'd most love to see is the ability to export boards or stories. The Opal software is great, but it would help to be able to export things to share with leaders or teams who do not have Opal licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Alignment and collaboration of multiple communications teams across the enterprise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lee Dussinger of Opal

I appreciate your thoughtful review of Opal as a collaborative planning tool for your enterprise communications teams. Your feedback about the robust filtering, searching, and visibility features helping align efforts across your company is valuable. Thank you also for sharing your candid assessment of the learning curve.

Good news, you can export Boards! Ask you CSM to show you how.

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What do you like best about Opal?

The complete overview of all content pieces and to quickly move around posts as things and timings change. Also the look back to recycle best performing posts and assets from the past. Really easy to use once you are used to it and the connection to other tools like Sprinklr is very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

The first days are not easy because the tool offers quite a lot of possibilities. But after that, it is really easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

All posts, assets, channels, copies, images in one place. Collobarion via teams and other countries and markets is really easy and useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Pocklington of Opal

Thank you for sharing your feedback about your experience with Opal. We're pleased to hear that you're finding value in Opal's features for managing your LinkedIn content plan and facilitating collaboration with your team. That is good feedback about getting started in Opal – did you have the chance to check out our Help Center?

Katie Pocklington

Head of Growth

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What do you like best about Opal?

As a social media manager, we create a lot of content each month. I love creating a mock post within the platform itself so you do not have to click out to watch our videos play. My favorite feature is the presentation. Being able to put our content together this way and send for approval really streamlines the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

I wish I could more easy duplicate and move content around. It would be nice to be able to mass duplicate and move an entire list over to a specific board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Content organization, planning, and sharing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lee Dussinger of Opal

Thank you for sharing your experience with Opal as a social media manager. I'm delighted to hear that our true-to-life content previews and presentation features have helped streamline your approval process! While it is not exactly the same, you are able to move a collection or list of content from one board to another. Ask your CSM to see how to do it.

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What do you like best about Opal?

Allows for many disparate marketing teams to be able to align on marketing plans and execution. Everyone gets to have the visibility. Then those that need to collaborate between the inputs vs the execution have a place to track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

Like anything that tried to address complex business processes, the tools sometimes can feel complex at first. you really need a strong change management and enablement program to facilitate the rollout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

a single source of truth for the marketing projects..all the creative inputs and all the execution/promotion plans of record Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lee Dussinger of Opal

Thank you for sharing your insights on how Opal is your single source of truth for marketing! I appreciate your feedback about the platform's ability to align disparate teams while providing necessary visibility and collaboration capabilities...that is one of the most important things Opal does!

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What do you like best about Opal?

I like the look and design of Opal. However, the funcationality needs improvement. I like the customer support that Opal provides and had only good experiences talking with their team. Overall, it has a number of features that are helpful. It's somewhat easy to use and can be learned quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

Opal is buggy, and seems to be in a development stage still. There were times when you click and nothing happens, or links may be broken. There are missing features too that are specific to the social platforms. This is something that can be improved upon is aligning with the current platform formats, layouts, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opal solves the problem of having many, many different teams and people involved in social media approval process. It serves as a home where all the parties can come together and review/approve content easily. This is extremely helpful when teams are quite large and spread across the business. However, it is not the easiest to navigate right away and like anything has a learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Pocklington of Opal

I’m glad that the UX and design of Opal resonate with you. In addition, it’s good to know that you’ve had positive experiences with our support team – I’ll be sure to pass that along to them. I’m sorry, though, that you’ve had trouble with bugs and other issues. Please consider contacting your CSM about these challenges so we can begin to work through them.

Katie Pocklington

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Marketing Manager, Social Media
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What do you like best about Opal?

I like the user-friendly interface, and how easy it's to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

I dislike the multiple layers to set up content and primarily the slow-video loading within the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easier content management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lee Dussinger of Opal

Firstly, thank you for the outstanding review! Love hearing that you are trusting Opal for content management. In particular, it is great to know that you are finding it user-friendly!

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What do you like best about Opal?

The ability to collaborate easily across teams in a big organization. Everything you need is in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

Sometimes the descriptions for the tabs can get too long and make the page cumbersome to work with. But that is more of a user issue than an issue with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Opal as a project management platform so multiple teams across the company can collaborate on complex projects with multiple workstreams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lee Dussinger of Opal

I appreciate your feedback about Opal's strength in facilitating collaboration across teams in your large organization, with everything conveniently available in one place. Thank you for sharing how you're using Opal as a project management platform to enable multiple teams to collaborate effectively on complex, multi-workstream projects across your company.

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What do you like best about Opal?

We use Opal daily to review creative and its been a huge asset to our team and overall company. Everything comes through super hi res and easy to read/review. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

Nothing really. Some times it glitches a bit and assets dont load. But more often than not it works great and is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Opal has allowed us to clearly view and review marketing campaigns all in one place. While you can build decks, those images are never large enough or high res enough to read digitally. Opal lets us see the larger overview of creative and how were coming to market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Pocklington of Opal

Wonderful to hear that Opal has upgraded your creative review process! The ability to experience marketing the way your customer will during reviews is one of the reasons users love Opal. Thanks for writing a review and for being an Opal user.

Katie Pocklington

VP of Enterprise

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What do you like best about Opal?

I like the visibility to be able to see everything in one place and collaborate with other people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Opal?

There are still features that can be incremented to help make it more seamless. Some features include real time sync to collaborate together, full integrations with other external parties, and streamlined workflows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Opal solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having a holistic view and review process for all social channels and editorial calendar planning on Opal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Pocklington of Opal

Glad to hear you’re leveraging Opal for your all-up review process. Bringing teams together to collaborate is one of the core missions of Opal. Thank you for trusting Opal in your work.

Katie Pocklington

VP of Enterprise