Case Study: BuzzFeed achieves streamlined scheduling and real-time updates with Toggl Plan

Why BuzzFeed's production team is happy to say goodbye to spreadsheets

BuzzFeed, a leading independent digital media company, faced a painful reliance on Excel for production scheduling—sheets that didn’t update in real time, required exporting to PDF for every change, and were hard for freelancers and teammates in BuzzFeed’s six time zones to read. When producer Ada Enechi joined the team she moved from spreadsheets to Toggl Plan, adopting its visual timeline and collaborative features to replace the clunky Excel workflow.

Toggl Plan’s colorful timeline, real-time updates, color-coding and capacity planning simplified scheduling, eliminated repeated PDF resends, and made freelancer management easy by sharing per-freelancer views. As a result, BuzzFeed teams communicate and complete projects faster, avoid double-bookings, save time and money on resource planning, and have brought other departments (including billing and design) onto Toggl Plan.

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Ada Enechi

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