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    Acquisio

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAcquisio is a performance marketing solution that enables digital marketers to manage, report, and optimize on all digital advertising initiatives in one easy-to-use dashboard, across search, social, and display. According to the vendor, this solution provides the most powerful optimization algorithm on the market which enables users to set more accurate bids and deliver more clicks at a lower cost per click. The vendor’s value proposition is that this unique high frequency, predictive…N/A

    Microsoft Advertising

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) contains Microsoft's advertising solutions. Advertising formats include search (Microsoft Search ads), Display and Native ads, Retail Media, and Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads. Services include Performance Max, the company's conversion optimization AI assistant and guide.N/A
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    AcquisioMicrosoft Advertising
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    AcquisioMicrosoft Advertising
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AcquisioMicrosoft Advertising
    Considered Both Products
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    Chose Acquisio
    Although Kenshoo might be a good fit for some agencies, Acquisio is an infinitely better fit for ours. Acquisio has allowed us to automate and scale in a way that simply would not have been possible with Kenshoo. Also, in my opinion, Acquisio offers a far superior bid …
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
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    68%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    70%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    65%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    59%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    67%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AcquisioMicrosoft Advertising
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Acquisio and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Acquisio
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    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.5
    6 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings5.95 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings4.95 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Acquisio and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Acquisio
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.6
    8 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings6.28 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings6.87 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings5.85 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Acquisio and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Acquisio
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
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    AcquisioMicrosoft Advertising
    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    AcquisioMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (15 ratings)
    7.4
    (70 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.4
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AcquisioMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    Acquisio is ideal for marketing agencies, especially those that focus on serving a specific market. If your Agency has access to client data, depending on the data, Acquisio's software could be a powerful way to deliver that data in the form of online ads. Acquisio might be too powerful for a small business looking to manage campaigns in-house.
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    Microsoft
    Despite using our account for advertising with every other social media company, Microsoft flagged ours as fraudulent. After dealing with them for weeks, we finally got to a manager, who said that they didn’t know anything, couldn’t provide any information, and was unable to do anything about it. It seems odd, but it would flagger account every time we try to upload the campaigns from Google directly into their ad manager. I would suggest if you try and use their platform, don’t tell them you’re using Google cause they seem to have a thing against it. Once your account is flagged, they have no reasonable way of resolving it, nor they are able to offer any support. You’re better off to just try a different way. Ultimately, just don’t use Microsoft advertising if you can possibly avoid it. Hopefully soon DuckDuckGo will have their own advertising platform and we can eliminate Microsoft given the terrible time we have working with this one of many, social media platforms.
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    Pros
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • Provides multiple methods of viewing and sharing campaign data. It is definitely an upgrade from the basic PPC reports. Fully customizable and new features are being added regularly.
    • Acquisio now provides support for the importation of the video campaign data. This saves her company lots of time as we used to have to do this process manually.
    • Aquisio now has instant chat support in the platform which saves a lot of time as you can get quick answers to any problems you may be having.
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    Microsoft
    • Familiar interface, offers editor for bulk changes, adding negative keywords is much easier than in Google Ads
    • Nice reporting tools within the interface, detailed reports can be made fairly easily
    • Had very nice tools to help import/export ads directly from Google Ads, which saves a ton of time
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    Cons
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • Facebook management: You cannot manage Facebook directly through Acquisio. You can only see the data in the platform.
    • Campaign automation: The rules and algorithms takes a lot of time to be applied if you managed them manually.
    • LinkedIn: No LinkedIn integration available
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    Microsoft
    • Bing's ad platform could definitely use some improvements - it hasn't been updated in a long time, and it feels very outdated.
    • We feel that the optimization algorithms don't always perform as well for Bing Ads as they do in Google Ads (optimize for conversions, etc.).
    • It would be great to have even more integrations with LinkedIn audience targeting offered - right now, you can just make some bid optimizations in a couple of areas; we'd really like to get more robust options there, and maybe even things like cross-platform tracking.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    I think the platform, with the latest release updates has a lot of great potential. The main decision, currently, is price and how that gets passed on to our clients. There has to be a conscious decision made on platform cost vs client spend and overall budget vs revenue.
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    Microsoft
    We have had good success with it over all of our clients. We continually recommend bing to reach "the rest of the searchers".
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    Usability
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    The updates they have recently made have been time consuming to keep up with
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    Microsoft
    It's very easy to use overall. It has an import from Google Ads to make things simpler. Overall, I would say you can get up and running very quickly. It's similar to other platforms, so if you have used them, it's intuitive.
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    Support Rating
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    Within the interface there is an instant chat support feature that you can use to get help right away without having to pick up the phone or look for an email address. We have have an account manager who responds to emails quickly and is always helpful. Anytime issues require further tech support we are kept up to date on the progress of the issue and they are usually resolved the same day.
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    Microsoft
    Our Bing Ads reps are very good and attentive. They've offered good recommendations and are quick to resolve unexpected issues and problems. Occasionally they have roped in technical support folks that have been friendly and helpful too. The general helpline for Bing Ads is also very good, especially when compared to Google's customer support.
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    Implementation Rating
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    They handled it well.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    We have started using Domo since we began using Acquisio and are extremely happy with Domo. We will continue to use Acquisio though because of the ability to directly manage paid search ads and the ability to create simple reports quickly. Also considering the cost of Domo, unless you specifically need reports with more sources of data, Acquisio is all you really need.
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    Microsoft
    Obviously Google is a huge competitor. Typically Google is top of the game for many advertising solutions including search. Microsoft ads has a lower scale and reach compared to Google. However, Microsoft ads audience does not overlap much with Googles, providing incremental reach. Although Microsoft ads lags a bit behind in adapting the new updates that Google comes out with, their customer service is very good and they are likely to go out of their way to adapt their platform to your needs whereas their competitor does not
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    Return on Investment
    Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
    • Acquisio let us create reports on the fly, saving us lots of time; time that was better spend optimizing client campaigns.
    • Acqusio's Bid and Budget Management tool (BBM) helped a struggling client achieve desired traffic and conversion results with little to no work from our agency.
    • Acquisio's quick customer service responsiveness let us get our questions answered quickly.
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    Microsoft
    • We've had a very hard time spending our budgets on Bing which has caused us a lot of extra work on our end. We've essentially had to move that money back to Google or other platforms.
    • It does have an easy import from Google so you're not doubling efforts.
    • The CPCs tend to be less expensive than Google - which is always good for business owners.
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    Screenshot of Client Center, view of Key Performance Metrics targets