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123 Ratings
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Based on 123 reviews and ratings
6 Ratings
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Based on 6 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 2 feature sets: Email & Online Marketing, Reporting & Analytics
Email & Online Marketing
7.0
Acoustic Campaign
70%
4.9
MessageGears
49%
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 8/9 features
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 8/9 features
WYSIWYG email editor
4.0
40%
10 Ratings
3.0
30%
2 Ratings
Dynamic content
8.0
80%
7 Ratings
5.1
51%
3 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content
7.5
75%
8 Ratings
4.7
47%
3 Ratings
Landing pages
5.1
51%
8 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
A/B testing
7.0
70%
10 Ratings
4.8
48%
3 Ratings
Mobile optimization
6.9
69%
7 Ratings
8.0
80%
1 Rating
Email deliverability reporting
8.0
80%
20 Ratings
4.1
41%
3 Ratings
List management
8.0
80%
9 Ratings
4.9
49%
3 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences
8.0
80%
8 Ratings
4.5
45%
3 Ratings
Lead Management
7.4
Acoustic Campaign
74%
MessageGears
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 4/4 features
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 4/4 features
Lead nurturing
6.1
61%
8 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading
7.9
79%
7 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Data quality management
8.0
80%
7 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks
7.5
75%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Campaign Management
7.0
Acoustic Campaign
70%
MessageGears
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 2/2 features
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 2/2 features
Calendaring
6.5
65%
8 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing
7.4
74%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
6.3
Acoustic Campaign
63%
MessageGears
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 2/2 features
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 2/2 features
Social sharing and campaigns
6.5
65%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Social profile integration
6.2
62%
5 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
4.5
Acoustic Campaign
45%
1.7
MessageGears
17%
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 3/3 features
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 3/3 features
Dashboards
4.2
42%
10 Ratings
1.8
18%
3 Ratings
Standard reports
4.2
42%
10 Ratings
1.8
18%
3 Ratings
Custom reports
5.1
51%
8 Ratings
1.4
14%
3 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
5.7
Acoustic Campaign
57%
MessageGears
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 6/6 features
Acoustic Campaign ranks higher in 6/6 features
API
5.2
52%
9 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals
6.0
60%
4 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Customizability
5.9
59%
5 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com
4.3
43%
8 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
5.0
50%
3 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM
8.0
80%
2 Ratings
N/A
0 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Acoustic Campaign
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
4.6
MessageGears
46%
MessageGears ranks higher in 7/7 features
MessageGears ranks higher in 7/7 features
URL Validation
N/A
0 Ratings
1.0
10%
1 Rating
Link Tracking
N/A
0 Ratings
5.6
56%
3 Ratings
Image Validation
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
70%
1 Rating
Inbox Display
N/A
0 Ratings
7.0
70%
1 Rating
Spelling and Grammar Check
N/A
0 Ratings
6.0
60%
1 Rating
Spam Testing
N/A
0 Ratings
2.7
27%
2 Ratings
Email Previews
N/A
0 Ratings
3.1
31%
2 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Acoustic Campaign is rated higher in 1 area: Usability
- MessageGears is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
4.1
Acoustic Campaign
41%
40 Ratings
4.8
MessageGears
48%
3 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
5.5
Acoustic Campaign
55%
30 Ratings
MessageGears
N/A
0 Ratings
Usability
8.0
Acoustic Campaign
80%
6 Ratings
6.0
MessageGears
60%
1 Rating
Availability
10.0
Acoustic Campaign
100%
4 Ratings
MessageGears
N/A
0 Ratings
Performance
7.0
Acoustic Campaign
70%
4 Ratings
MessageGears
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
5.9
Acoustic Campaign
59%
10 Ratings
8.0
MessageGears
80%
1 Rating
Online Training
9.0
Acoustic Campaign
90%
2 Ratings
MessageGears
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
7.4
Acoustic Campaign
74%
8 Ratings
MessageGears
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Acoustic Campaign
Silverpop is a powerful and comprehensive tool for digital marketers, and is apprprioate for companies of varying sizes, as well as both B2B and B2C models. It's particularly well-suited for companies with large, accurate customer databases and the ability to track customer actions on their websites to use as marketing automation triggers.
Email Marketing Manager, Analog
Texas InstrumentsSemiconductors, 10,001+ employees
MessageGears
MessageGears can be a solid, inexpensive email solution and you can be able to send millions of emails per year. In 2020, we delivered over 235 million emails at a fraction of what that would cost with any other email service provider. We worked with MessageGears on a custom solution with our database.

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Marketing & Advertising Company, 51-200 employeesPros
Acoustic Campaign
- Automated Messages - we currently have over 70 automated messages going out on any particular day through feeds and API calls that we pass to Silverpop. We rely on these automated messages to communicate to our customers and can rely on Silverpop to always be up and running to get these messages out.
- Robust query building - We can target customers easily based on a combination of demographic profile data, as well as email and site behavior and purchase behavior, allowing us to finely segment our audience
- Deep dive reporting - the UI reporting, as well as the available reports to download through the API give us tremendous insight into how our subscribers are responding to email.
Email Marketing Manager
SmartPakRetail, 201-500 employees
MessageGears
- The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.

Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesCons
Acoustic Campaign
- Data syncing and errors - Silverpop does not do a great job of getting data to sync regularly with our CRM (Salesforce.com). The data had to flow back and forth several times before being added to campaigns and in some instances, it took days to update leads! Also, failed lead syncs get stuck in an alert list but it does not notify you otherwise that a lead failed the sync.
- Design issues - we use custom HTML to build emails and landing pages, and we were unable to render background images on our campaigns. Also, once you toggle between design and source (code) view to make edits, it often broke the code and threw off the design.
- Administrator alerts - when sync fails altogether between systems, there is no email alert sent to the system admin (me/my team) so we at times have found that we have gone 18 hours until we stumble across the fact that the system sync has failed.
- Reporting - it is not very comprehensive and we had difficulty generating the level of reporting that we need to have.
- Support - there are a few gems in the support team who know what they're doing, but largely calling support is a lesson in frustration.
- Product bug fixes - in two instances, my open support tickets were identified as product bugs. One related to incorrect cookie tracking which was causing our leads not to be scoring properly. They determined that this wasn't critical enough to build into their product fix road map. This is core to an automation system working properly.
Sr. Interactive Marketing Manager
SafeNet, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
MessageGears
- Multivariate testing
- WYSIWYG email builder
- SQL audience error report
- Native reporting

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employeesPricing Details
Acoustic Campaign
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—MessageGears
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
Acoustic Campaign
Acoustic Campaign 5.5
Based on 30 answers
SilverPop is a great marketing tool that integrates with Salesforce to provide customers and employees a great buying and selling experience. The software takes some very difficult tasks and makes them easy to accomplish. With proper setup and management, Silverpop gives you the tools to gain insight into the productiveness of campaigns.
Senior Manager, Marketing Analysis
Roadnet Technologies Inc.Education Management, 1001-5000 employees
MessageGears
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Usability
Acoustic Campaign
Acoustic Campaign 8.0
Based on 6 answers
This is a little bit difficult to rate because Silverpop is gradually updating its interface to improve usability all around. I know users are able to do their job with minimal assistance. However, some of the interface is dated, and the Programs interface, while functional, has a bit of a learning curve.
Silverpop Administrator & Web Designer
Intertek10,001+ employees
MessageGears
MessageGears 6.0
Based on 1 answer
Our situation is unique so I believe we are working on a semi-outdated UI which needs a tune up / version upgrade. Similarly, our custom connection means that we do not have access to the full feature set so I've never experienced MessageGears' best functionality

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Marketing & Advertising Company, 51-200 employeesReliability and Availability
Acoustic Campaign
Acoustic Campaign 10.0
Based on 4 answers
While several of the other reviews have mentioned poor performance in this department, we have only had one situation where the system was down (although it was down for several hours). Silverpop segments its clients on different servers, and I know that the problem we experienced only occurred on our specific server (maybe other servers have had their own problems?) but our service has been reliable otherwise.
Silverpop Administrator & Web Designer
Intertek10,001+ employees
MessageGears
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Performance
Acoustic Campaign
Acoustic Campaign 7.0
Based on 4 answers
The throttle time for sending emails would vary depending on how many other campaigns were going out that day, which I found inconsistent

Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Media Production Company, 11-50 employeesMessageGears
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Acoustic Campaign
Acoustic Campaign 5.9
Based on 10 answers
The Salesforce Integration support team is fantastic. I'd give them greater than a 10 if possible. The rest of the support team can be extremely frustrating to work with. Too often they try to blame something obscure and refuse to escalate or look into the issue. And on occasion when you find system glitches they don't seem to care about fixing them
Senior Manager of Email Marketing
Connections AcademyE-Learning, 1001-5000 employees
MessageGears
MessageGears 8.0
Based on 1 answer
MessageGears support is always quick to respond when we have an issue, which is rare. Gail has been our main rep and she has been great. We don't have many issues so luckily, we don't need to lean on their customer support team much. That said, it would be beneficial to hear from upper management more.

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Marketing & Advertising Company, 51-200 employeesOnline Training
Acoustic Campaign
Acoustic Campaign 9.0
Based on 2 answers
The online trainings are very detailed (for the most part) and really walk through the entire system. They are a little dry, but they are usually broken up into segments to allow you to skip to the parts you need.
Silverpop Administrator & Web Designer
Intertek10,001+ employees
MessageGears
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Acoustic Campaign
Acoustic Campaign 7.4
Based on 8 answers
Based on recommendations from Silverpop we made some implementation decisions that we later regretted pretty substantially. In hindsight we should have started a pilot implementation earlier so we could learn and then start over. The big issue for us was that Silverpop recommended a non-keyed database, or at least a database that doesn't use email address as primary key. This is resulted in a large number of duplicate email addresses so that the end user is forced to unsubscribe multiple times to stop receiving emails.

Verified User
Vice-President in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesMessageGears
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Acoustic Campaign
We evaluated alternate providers less than a year into our IBM Watson Campaign contract because the system was so clunky to use (and we wanted a system that would include or better integrate with our SMS provider). Bluecore and Klaviyo were the front runners at the time, and we came close to moving forward with Bluecore. The pricing model and overall the cost of Bluecore was much higher than IBM for us though, and the timing of this was right when the IBM to Acoustic changes took place. We decided to give Acoustic a shot and are optimistic it will be enough to keep us on board once all the dust settles, though I find it unlikely we will renew with Acoustic when our contract is up again. My main email specialist is a Klaviyo expert and finds that platform very easy to use in comparison-- it might be a better fit for a team of our size.

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Retail Company, 11-50 employeesMessageGears
MessageGears doesn't come close to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We chose MessageGears based on how data was accessed. We never really got a good preview of how the system works or what was available, so we didn't know everything that it was lacking until we started using it.

Verified User
Professional in Marketing
Internet Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
Acoustic Campaign
- we have not experienced any currently but moving to lead automation and lead scoring could change that.
- i'm not sure how increased employee efficiency would ever be a benefit b/c lead importing and visibility, along with setting up email templates is quite cumbersome.
Senior Marketing Manager
SafeNetComputer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees
MessageGears
- Sending more email!
- Onboarding handoff was a little rough
- Great control on who we are sending to
- Dynamic content is very easy!

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees