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Swello

MARKETING
Velocity5.0

A French social tool whose feed is mostly events and studies, with rare real features.

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Current state
Swello's feed mixes product notices into a stream of community marketing, and the marketing dominates: a podcast for community managers, the second edition of an annual community-manager survey, a fourth Swello Days conference. The one genuine product change in this window is first-comment scheduling for Instagram, extending a capability already available for LinkedIn and Facebook. An outage notice from February sits in the same stream, tagged as an event.
Where it's heading
The company is investing in being a fixture of the French community-manager scene — conference, podcast, salary and wellbeing survey, LinkedIn white paper — more visibly than it is shipping. Product entries, when they appear, follow a clear pattern of bringing an existing capability to one more network rather than adding a new one. The entries are tagged (Nouveau, Amélioration, Événement) but the tags do not reliably separate product from marketing.
Prediction
Expect the community programming to keep setting the publishing rhythm, with product entries continuing to arrive as per-network parity additions to features that already exist elsewhere in the tool.

Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    On lance notre podcast dédié aux Community & Social Media Managers ! 🎉

    Launch announcement for Follow Back, a podcast aimed at community and social media managers, recorded with twelve brands and practitioners. Community programming, not a product change.

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  2. 11d ago

    Découvrez la deuxième édition de notre grande étude du Community Manager 2026 en partenariat avec J’ai un pote dans la com ! 🥳

    The second edition of Swello's community-manager survey, covering pay, tooling and mental health. Audience research published as content — the first edition's download count is the metric being celebrated.

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  3. 3mo ago

    Participez à la 4e édition des Swello Days ! 🤩

    Promotion for the fourth Swello Days conference. An event notice occupying a changelog slot.

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  4. 5mo ago

    Programmez le premier commentaire sous vos Posts Instagram ! 💬

    First-comment scheduling arrives for Instagram, letting hashtags and supplementary links go into a comment instead of weighing down the caption. It brings Instagram to parity with LinkedIn and Facebook rather than adding anything new to the product.

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  5. 6mo ago

    Incident terminé (mise à jour : 15h55)

    An incident notice: a hosting failure blocked the platform and post publishing for roughly two and a half hours, with unpublished posts recoverable from the pending tab. Operational communication rather than a change.

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  6. 6mo ago

    Téléchargez gratuitement notre livre blanc LinkedIn mis à jour ! 😍

    An updated LinkedIn tactics white paper offered as a free download. Lead-generation content, tagged as an improvement in the feed.

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