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Opal review and pricing

Brand content planning and integrated marketing calendar.

By Opal (ATS Inc.) · Founded 2011 · Portland, OR · private

Opal is a brand content planning platform, founded 2011, acquired by ATS Inc. in 2024. The product is built for large consumer brands managing integrated brand calendars across owned, earned, social, and paid channels. Strengths: deepest integrated brand calendar in category, visual planning UX (brand teams love the interface), strong fit for consumer brands and retail, and proven track record with Fortune 500 brand marketers. Best fit for large consumer brands with cross-channel brand planning needs. Trade-offs: post-ATS acquisition in 2024 created some uncertainty about roadmap direction, the platform is brand-planning focused (less depth on B2B content workflow), pricing meaningful, and AI feature velocity behind Contently.

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Best for

Large consumer brands and retail marketers (1,000-50,000+ employees) running integrated brand calendars across owned, earned, social, and paid channels.

Worst for

B2B content marketers (Contently or Kapost better fit), buyers who want creator marketplace (Contently or Skyword better), or mid-market buyers (most calendar platforms cheaper).

Vendor Trust Score

Is Opal a trustworthy vendor?

6.8/10
Mixed
Pricing transparency
Published rates; no hidden fees
5.5
Contract fairness
Reasonable terms; no auto-renew traps
7.0
Incident response
How they handle outages and breaches
7.5
Post-acquisition behavior
Customer treatment after M&A or PE
6.5
Executive stability
Leadership churn over 24 months
7.0
Roadmap honesty
Public commitments held
7.0
Trust signal log
  • 2011-09-22
    Opal founded in Portland; brand content planning focus
  • 2024-08-14
    ATS Inc. acquired Opal; roadmap direction under review
Vendor Trust is scored independently of product quality. A great product from an unfair vendor still earns a low trust score.
Review Intelligence

What 160 reviews actually say

Synthesized from G2, Capterra, Reddit, Trustpilot. Patterns >15% prevalence shown.

Last synthesized
2026-04-29

Praise patterns

  • Deepest integrated brand calendar
    87% →
  • Visual planning UX brand teams love
    71% →
  • Cross-channel calendar
    64% →

Complaint patterns

  • Post-ATS acquisition uncertainty
    47% ↑
  • Brand-planning focused (less B2B depth)
    41% →
  • AI feature velocity behind Contently
    38% ↑
Sentiment trend (6 months)
75/100 -2 pts
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Patterns are extracted from review corpus and human-verified. We surface trends, not anecdotes.
Verified Pricing

What buyers actually pay

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Company size Median annual
1,000-5,000 employees $108,000
5,000-25,000 employees $240,000
25,000+ employees $528,000
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Editorial: Strengths

  • Deepest integrated brand calendar
  • Visual planning UX that brand teams love
  • Strong fit for consumer brands and retail
  • Fortune 500 brand marketer track record
  • Cross-channel calendar (owned, earned, social, paid)
  • Mature approval workflows for brand teams

Editorial: Weaknesses

  • Post-ATS acquisition uncertainty on roadmap
  • Brand-planning focused (less B2B content depth)
  • Pricing meaningful
  • AI feature velocity behind Contently
  • No creator marketplace
  • Reporting depth uneven

Key features & integrations

  • +Integrated brand calendar
  • +Visual planning canvas
  • +Cross-channel calendar
  • +Workflow approvals
  • +Asset library
  • +Performance dashboards
  • +Brand portal
50+ integrations
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Geography supported
Global; strongest in US, UK, EU
Best fit
1,000-50,000+ employees · Large consumer brands and retail marketers
Editorial deep-dive

Read our full ranking of Content Marketing Platforms

Opal ranks #8 in our editorial review of 10 content marketing platforms platforms. The deep-dive covers methodology, comparison tables, decision matrix, migration scoring, and FAQs.

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