Social Animal is an excellent BuzzSumo alternative for leveraging the virality for your online business.

📹 VIDEO REVIEW: https://youtu.be/Otol5kNKVWU (with timestamps)

Key features:

🌟 Articles: Ability to know what articles are performing well in the topics you enter. This has powerful filters. The unique filters are deep search (presence of keyword), content type (the filter options are pretty comprehensive - some worth mentioning are listicles, infographics, guest posts, case studies, etc),
🌟 Insights: Tool really does a good job of analyzing the commonalities between the highly shared articles and displaying them in insights. This makes it a no-brainer deal for publications to save time in manual research. The headline analyzer is the icing on the cake.
🌟 Influencers: A superb feature to let influencers share your content. This is powerful for getting free traffic where omnichannel approach is becoming crucial.
🌟 Facebook Search: It helps you see the most shared content on Facebook for a topic and also page content analysis.

🌟 Brand mentions for monitoring your competitors and your brand mentions online.

My note about credits: Credits will not be used for article searches, influencer searches, and FB post searches. Monthly credits to analyze article headlines, find content insights for a keyword/domain, analyze Facebook posts for a keyword/page, view sharers of articles, view links shared by influencers and view links of articles written/shared by top authors.

Pros (unique features compared to BuzzSumo)
👍 Lots of great features than that of BuzzSumo
👍 Search within articles (deep research).
👍 Headline analyzer (similar to CoSchedule but works in synergy with the rest of the tool)
👍 Fetch co-occurring Keywords (great for semantic SEO and to get a quick glimpse of your competitor articles)
👍 Compare Domains (this is quite good)
👍 Top domains (top shared domains when it comes to a specific domain)
👍 Daily email digest
👍 Facebook searches which is unavailable even for a regular $49/month customer. But sumolings are getting this (I'm pretty sure that I'm not gonna use FB searches most!).
👍 They recently doubled the credits offered per code. (got rid of a major con)

Cons
👎 Can't find trending realtime content effectively (they are working this)
👎 Multi-user not available with this no matter how much you stack

👉 Who's it for? If you're into content marketing, Social Animal really helps you a lot to amplify your social media reach. If you're into agency, you can easily offer content curation or influencer outreach as a service and charge a retainer fee.

It's like BuzzSumo + CoSchedule Headline Analyzer + BrandMentions (partial) all in one. If you are someone who would have bought BuzzSumo if it ever ran LTD, then buy this tool.

The price they are offering is really a bargain. Because it takes a lot of processing power just for them to scrape the web. Even while you're not using the tool.

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