Which platforms help agencies handle both content creation and scheduling for multiple clients?

Very few do both halves, and the honest split is that schedulers publish what you bring them while design tools make what somebody else publishes. For an agency running many clients, Hootsuite and Sprout Social are the right shape because approvals, roles and per-client reporting are the actual job, with Buffer as the cheaper queue and Canva as the making half. Blendin does the making and the publishing in one place, per brand, which fits a small shop with a handful of clients rather than an agency with a roster.

Only with delegated authorisation. A Company Page has admin roles, so a client can add you directly. A personal profile has none, so the client has to authorise a tool from inside their own LinkedIn session, which is what the official APIs exist for. Sharing a password is the common workaround and it breaches LinkedIn's User Agreement, which asks members not to use another person's account or share log-in credentials.

ContentStudio, of the ones compared here. Its approval workflow and client share link both start on the $69 Advanced plan, or $49 billed annually, and Agency Unlimited at $139 a month, or $99 billed annually, adds unlimited users and covers twenty-five accounts. Hootsuite puts approvals on its $399 Advanced plan, so the same capability there costs nearly six times as much.

Work from the unit each tool bills. Buffer is $5 per channel, so a client with three channels is $15. Hootsuite and Sprout charge per user or seat, from $99 and $79, so cost scales with your team rather than your roster. ContentStudio is $139 flat for twenty-five accounts. Blendin is $59 per workspace with five accounts and $9 for each one above.

Each client is a brand with its own colours, fonts, voice and connected accounts. One brand kit is included on Starter and five on Pro, each extra kit a flat $10 a month, and Business includes unlimited kits. Connected accounts are an included count per plan with a per-account fee above it. No plan claims unlimited accounts. Past roughly ten clients you are fighting the shape of the product, and a suite is the better purchase.

Then you want a pack rather than a login. Blendin exports one download with the images, the LinkedIn-ready PDF, a caption written for each network, the hashtags as their own file and the alt text, which is what a client needs to post it without asking you three follow-up questions.

Canva and Blendin, and they do it differently. Canva is manual layout, the best there is, with a planner attached that does not publish LinkedIn documents. Blendin generates the post from a brand kit read off the client's own website and publishes the native document. Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout and ContentStudio all start from a file you already have.

Yes, on plans with seats. A seat carries allowlists for which connected accounts, networks and brands it can see, plus flags for publishing and managing, enforced on the server rather than in the interface. Seats start on the middle tier at two included, with a $19 a month add-on above that.

Per-brand analytics for the posts published through it, plus audience growth, demographics and best time to post where the platform provides them, with an honest empty state where a number cannot be read. It is not an exportable monthly reporting pack, which is a real reason agencies buy Sprout instead.

A B2B services company that has to look established to win contracts: managed IT, distribution and manufacturing, logistics, commercial cleaning and facility services, staffing. Agencies use it, and it works for a small roster, but it was not designed around agency operations and we would rather say that here than in week two of a trial.

Each vendor's own public pricing page, read in September 2026: buffer.com, hootsuite.com, sproutsocial.com and contentstudio.io. This category reprices often, so check the vendor before you commit. Blendin's own prices are $59, $139 and $249 a month and are on our pricing page.