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Likelihood to Recommend
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
It's great for large field sales organizations that lack the ability to automate email sends that are consistent and on-brand. The idea of templated emails (with the ability to build custom emails) really helps keeps the look-and-feel of each email similar to what the rest of the organization is sending to customers or prospects. This isn't the solution that you'd need if you are looking for an automation tool that easily integrates into other marketing channels. The dynamic content feature is lagging far behind other tools in the space.

Verified User
Contributor in Marketing
Warehousing Company, 1001-5000 employeesFeature Rating Comparison
Email & Online Marketing
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.0
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
6.5
WYSIWYG email editor
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
4.2
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
7.0
Dynamic content
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
8.0
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
6.3
Ability to test dynamic content
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.5
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
5.3
Landing pages
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
5.7
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
4.1
A/B testing
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.1
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
6.5
Mobile optimization
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.6
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
7.3
Email deliverability reporting
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
8.0
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
8.2
List management
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
8.1
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
7.5
Triggered drip sequences
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
8.1
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
6.7
Lead Management
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.4
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Lead nurturing
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.4
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Lead scoring and grading
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.7
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Data quality management
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.9
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
—
Automated sales alerts and tasks
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.5
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Campaign Management
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.0
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Calendaring
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.6
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Event/webinar marketing
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
7.4
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Social Media Marketing
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.3
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Social sharing and campaigns
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.5
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
—
Social profile integration
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.2
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
—
Reporting & Analytics
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
5.2
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
4.3
Dashboards
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
4.9
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
5.3
Standard reports
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
5.2
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
4.9
Custom reports
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
5.4
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
2.7
Platform & Infrastructure
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.1
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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API
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.0
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
—
Role-based workflow & approvals
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
6.0
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
—
Customizability
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
5.9
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Integration with Salesforce.com
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
5.6
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
5.0
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Integration with SugarCRM
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
8.0
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
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Pros
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
- 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
- Sends client confirmations when they subscribe to a newsletter, sign up for a conference, or place an order with our company (SourceMedia). We don't have to hire an agency to send these for us.
- Manages newsletter subscriptions and allows us to deploy on specific dates/times.
- Helps us discover and manage the correct audience base per newsletter, and automates the distributions so we don't have to do it manually.
Client Services Manager
SourceMediaPublishing, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
- 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
- Deliverability reports - before sending emails they are checked for known issues and deliverability performance. The SFMC offering is ok but could be better. There additional software that can be purchased which should be included as part of the offering
- SF should make it easier to integrate other clouds i.e commerce cloud and service cloud. The implementation of commerce cloud has improved but I still feel there is a way to go
Technical Project Manager
Speedo International LtdTextiles, 51-200 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio 8.9
Based on 18 answers
Exact Target has an exceptional team with great customer care. Whenever we have a question or concern they are timely in addressing it. They also perform annual reviews in person that provides us with market trends, new tools and features, performance metrics, and new content recommendations. We evaluate this by local market and at the international level
International Product Development Manager
CareerBuilder.comInternet, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio 8.0
Based on 3 answers
I think the tool is easy to use, protects a company from the spam legislation and manages subscribers very well. It is simple to create a non-complex email. I like the survey function on the email tool as well. Overall usability is quite easy and no necessary to have an IT background or extensive knowledge to use. It is helpful, though, to have an understanding of HTML for formatting at this point.
Marketing Manager
Stens CorporationFurniture, 5001-10,000 employees
Reliability and Availability
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) 10.0
Based on 2 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Upgrades and timing of the upgrades were communicated well and planned during off hours for our work. If we did have a campaign scheduled during that time, it would kick-off after the system was back active. There were a few unplanned system down times, but it was a rare occurrence and those times were also short in duration.
Marketing Manager
Stens CorporationFurniture, 5001-10,000 employees
Performance
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) 7.0
Based on 2 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 employeesSalesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio 2.0
Based on 2 answers
Exact Target performs well and is relatively easy to learn. It handles subscriber management well, and is easy to organize lists and segregation of those subscribers. Emails are easy to classify and group together for re-use or resending to different demographics of the recipients. The product is reliable, and metrics of the campaign results are easy to obtain and interpret.
Marketing Manager
Stens CorporationFurniture, 5001-10,000 employees
Support Rating
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) 5.9
Based on 5 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio 1.0
Based on 5 answers
They're fast and knowledgeable. You will always know what's the status of your request and they usually follow up with phone calls to ask you questions or provide updates. Sometimes it takes them a couple of days to investigate, especially if you have custom "situations" like my company usually does but at least they are very good at managing time expectations.
Digital Marketing Lead & SalesForce Marketing Cloud Administrator
TELUSTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees
Online Training
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) 7.4
Based on 4 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 employeesSalesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio 7.9
Based on 2 answers
Easy to implement, with simple emails and solutions initially created. More advanced usage of the tool and more advanced subscriber attribute usage was implemented during later phases when the knowledge of the tool increased. Monitoring success and results of email campaigns were done at a high level initially, but not fully used until the tool and email marketing as a whole was better understood in the corporation.
Marketing Manager
Stens CorporationFurniture, 5001-10,000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
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 employeesSalesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
I have used Epsilon and I have evaluated Silverpop, e-Dialogue and Yesmail. From my analysis Salesforce MC is far more superior in flexibility, scalability and freedom to custom built initiatives. The AMPscripting is one of the driving forces in allowing the previous mentioned abilities. However, I can see from a marketers perspective where they simply want to send emails and segment easily. But given that effective email marketing requires a lot of different components and there is no simple way of doing it and I found that most companies that offer the out of the box solutions do a good job but there is no one size fits all and if you are trying to be really good at it which includes integrating your business such as registration, stats, CMS, API, etc. This is a much better solution.
Lead Technical Developer
WebMDHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees
Scalability
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio 9.0
Based on 1 answer
We had approximately 20,000 recipients of most email campaigns, with some higher amounts and some smaller campaigns. The tools is easy to use and the recipient list size is really not a factor in the complexity or work to create and email campaign. Our campaigns could just have easily been sent to many more people, with virtually no additional work.
Marketing Manager
Stens CorporationFurniture, 5001-10,000 employees
Return on Investment
Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation)
- 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
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
- Better execution/monitoring - when multiple steps are involved, IMH is great at dashboarding.
- Facilitates exploratory campaigns - it is great at instilling confidence when you're trying a new facet of a campaign, due to the process transparency.
- Cloud - can be a double-edged sword. Allows for on the go access, but isn't truly mobile-friendly, and can sometimes sputter. But certainly will improve with time.
Email Marketing Specialist
AnsiraMarketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
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General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Email Studio
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No