ActiveCampaign vs. Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ActiveCampaign
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
ActiveCampaign is presented as an AI-first marketing platform for marketers, agencies, and entrepreneurs. It uses Active Intelligence for goal-aware automation and personalized experiences across email, SMS, and WhatsApp. ActiveCampaign integrates with 950+ apps and generates insights to optimize every workflow.
$15
per month
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 8.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Bloomreach is presented as an agentic platform for personalization. Powering autonomous search, conversational shopping, and autonomous marketing, Bloomreach personalizes the entire customer experience. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses can use Bloomreach to create experiences that drive growth and loyalty. Bloomreach states that they currently drive personalization for 1,400+…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Starter
$15
per month
Pro
$49
per month
Plus
$79
per month
Enterprise
$159
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ActiveCampaignBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
Additional DetailsBloomreach pricing is quote-based. Bloomreach pricing is customized to the number of customers served, product catalog size, and the number of events executed – such as how many emails or SMS messages are sent.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
ActiveCampaign
Chose ActiveCampaign
With ActiveCampaign, you can centralize a significant part of your marketing operations and give your customers a better overall experience than alternative technologies.The customer support staff is very efficient and their knowledge base is particularly informative and easy …
Chose ActiveCampaign
At the end of the day it comes down to the fact that which platform matches most of your criteria, and for our scenario it was ActiveCampaign.
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Way better control over how data are tracked, stored and used. We have never met any limitations regarding our campaign creativity vs Bloomreach capabilities.
Chose Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach Engagement insights you reveal. No other tools has this out of the box integration of analytics and campaings.
Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCampaign
8.6
688 Ratings
12% above category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.1
96 Ratings
6% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor8.3605 Ratings8.483 Ratings
Dynamic content8.0539 Ratings8.492 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content8.0488 Ratings7.791 Ratings
Landing pages7.0356 Ratings6.753 Ratings
A/B testing8.8398 Ratings8.592 Ratings
Mobile optimization8.8545 Ratings8.883 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting9.0654 Ratings8.894 Ratings
List management9.3673 Ratings7.679 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences10.0594 Ratings8.069 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCampaign
8.6
541 Ratings
9% above category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
77 Ratings
0% below category average
Lead nurturing automation9.1507 Ratings8.166 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading8.5370 Ratings8.261 Ratings
Data quality management9.5413 Ratings8.072 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks8.3365 Ratings7.041 Ratings
Lead segmentation and distribution7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCampaign
9.7
388 Ratings
26% above category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.4
71 Ratings
1% below category average
Calendaring9.9308 Ratings7.365 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing9.4291 Ratings7.550 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCampaign
7.1
295 Ratings
4% below category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.4
52 Ratings
0% above category average
Social sharing and campaigns7.4262 Ratings7.145 Ratings
Social profile integration6.8257 Ratings7.836 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCampaign
8.0
650 Ratings
9% above category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
7.8
94 Ratings
6% above category average
Dashboards8.1619 Ratings7.094 Ratings
Standard reports7.9607 Ratings8.390 Ratings
Custom reports7.9394 Ratings8.290 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ActiveCampaign
9.1
509 Ratings
20% above category average
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
8.1
121 Ratings
8% above category average
API8.7407 Ratings8.2115 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals8.6278 Ratings8.775 Ratings
Customizability7.9435 Ratings8.284 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com9.397 Ratings7.411 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM9.964 Ratings7.812 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM9.859 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Third-party software integrations9.137 Ratings7.859 Ratings
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User Ratings
ActiveCampaignBloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(699 ratings)
9.1
(180 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(25 ratings)
9.1
(10 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(62 ratings)
8.6
(54 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(5 ratings)
8.4
(18 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(5 ratings)
8.0
(17 ratings)
Support Rating
1.3
(41 ratings)
8.1
(144 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.4
(2 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.5
(14 ratings)
7.2
(4 ratings)
Configurability
6.4
(4 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(4 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
1.0
(5 ratings)
8.4
(18 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.4
(4 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.3
(4 ratings)
7.9
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
ActiveCampaign
I've been using ActiveCampaign since around 2018-2019 and I've always been satisfied with the software. It's simple to use, connects with the other tools I use and makes it easy for me to duplicate automations, email templates and workflows as I need to. On top of that, any time I've had an issue (which I think is around twice in the past 5/6 years), the customer service has always been super helpful and my issue has been resolved quickly.
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Bloomreach
One scenario Bloomreach is particularly suited for is omnichannel abandonment campaigns. We have scenarios that look whether a customer has been into one of our stores, and then if they are subscribed, we can send them more information about the products they have viewed. That wouldn't be possible without Bloomreach. Another scenario that Bloomreach is well suited for is price drop - we can alert users that an item they've viewed has dropped in price, and this has been a really successful campaign for us.
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Pros
ActiveCampaign
  • Collects and filters emails from various lead magnets exceptionally well (especially if a user wants to re-sign up to the same lead magnet and go through it again, they can)
  • Super easy to use email creation that is aesthetically pleasing and user friendly
  • Easy email sequences and user classification from a large range of opt in trigger options
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Bloomreach
  • The product recommendations engine allows for us to create a personalised experience for every customer across the 3m emails we send each month. This ensure that our customers remain connected to our brand.
  • The customer data platform attached to Bloomreach Composable Personalization Cloud provides an all-in-one solution for our business intelligence needs. Allowing up-to-date purchasing, behaviour, and engagement reporting from our email to website activity.
  • The ability to integrate with Meta and other paid ad formats allows for us to create a connected omnichannel experience for users, ensuring we are providing the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the right place.
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Cons
ActiveCampaign
  • It took me a while to get to understand where to find things, and I used a free online course from a consultant who specialises in AC to help me get the foundations set up more easily. That said, there were lots of onboarding workshops, which were good. It just felt like it required a lot of different angles of learning to just get started.
  • The customer support took longer than other software to get back to me via email, though once I found the chat option for my most recent query, that was fast.
  • I've ended up switching to another programme where more software is more naturally integrated, and the AC equivalent is included in the price, along with many other types of software. However, design-wise, ActiveCampaign is much better.
  • I also had a problem with a form used on my WordPress website, which has a BuddyBoss platform - the colours on the form would be overridden by colour choices for the website, so they were hard to read (pink text on purple background instead of the gold text it was meant to be)
  • I couldn't always find the templates I was looking for or how to access them for automation-based emails. I think when I used it, there was a new type of template for newsletters that weren't available for automations, so I had to recreate it, which added time.
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Bloomreach
  • Could improve some of the dashboarding to make reporting on emails more time efficient
  • Could offer a way to easily combine email templates if they already exist separately
  • A way to allow multiple people to work in a scenario at the same time and all saves be registered
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Likelihood to Renew
ActiveCampaign
I am committed at the moment. Rebuilding the automations I have would be a huge time drain. Plus the cost of learning a new system and the risk to deliverability of porting a 6,000 person list to a new platform. Also, AC offers everything I need ast a reasonable (but a little high) price. So, why not a 10? Because, early 2023, AC dropped a massive 2x price hike on long-term customers. They knew few would shift, so this feels like a cynical cash grab and left a bad taste, If they do something like this again, this camel will have a broken back.
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Bloomreach
We are extremely satisfied with Bloomreach. It is a central and indispensable pillar of our personalization and data-driven marketing strategy. The platform provides us with unparalleled scalability across 27 countries and guarantees high availability and stable performance, even when working with an enormous volume of data.The fact that the platform is intuitive and allows a wide range of our teams (from CRM to UX) to work effectively with personalization significantly reduces our dependence on IT support and accelerates campaign deployment.Given the robustness of the architecture and the positive results we are generating across channels, renewing the contract is a logical step to ensure our future organic growth.
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Usability
ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign has been the easiest marketing automation software we have ever used. They provide tips throughout the entire process of anything you are building. Their support team through LIVE CHAT has been extremely fast and helpful. The monthly meetings provided with the enablement team has helped us through several large and urgent needs.
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Bloomreach
In my time working with Bloomreach Commerce Experience Cloud, I always liked to work with it. It is crucial that you get support from experts from the beginning to show you how to work with the vast amount of options and activities to choose from. The learning curve is also well-rounded because of its user-friendly interface and highly skilled customer support.
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Reliability and Availability
ActiveCampaign
I haven't experienced application errors or unplanned outages at all. Active Campaign is ultra reliable and I would not be using them if that were the case. Also, the helpful emails they send are welcomed and informative, and present very practical tips and guidance for using the platform. They're always demonstrating new features and I'm thankful for that.
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Bloomreach
It has always been available with great response times. Honestly in almost 5 years there was like one outage and I have to admit that it was solved so quick that I don't even know if it's fair to even call it that. Bloomreach is extremely reliable, can't fault it.
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Performance
ActiveCampaign
Oh my gosh, Active Campaign's performance gets an A+++ in my book. The pages load quickly and so do the reports. I haven't noticed any slowdowns when it's integrating with other programs and it performs excellently on all levels.
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Bloomreach
ten out of ten, Bloomreach has revolutionised our marketing capabilities. It has allowed us to get real time data insights from our customers, and then put these into action. Previously it would be a very time consuming and slow process for us to get any sort of campaign out but not anymore, this has lead to increased conversions and revenue
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Support Rating
ActiveCampaign
This might be the best part. The chat support lady offered to make a video to help me solve my problem. I worked in customer service for years and I've never done that, lol. So, if they're offering things like that, I can only imagine that they'd be able to handle most any issue you throw at them.
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Bloomreach
The project team consistently delivers excellent collaboration and is always available whenever assistance is needed. Their responsiveness and commitment make working together smooth and efficient. Bloomreach support, which is included for free in the platform, can also be quite useful, especially for quick clarifications. However, the quality and speed of their responses can sometimes vary, depending on the issue.
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In-Person Training
ActiveCampaign
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Bloomreach
The Training was awesome
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Online Training
ActiveCampaign
No answers on this topic
Bloomreach
very informative and patient
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Implementation Rating
ActiveCampaign
Very satisfied with our implementation in our professional medical practice, allowing us to be on top of client service, and not miss out on crucial information and insights. Marketing is often neglected in professional practices and ActiveCampaign solved this problem with aplomb.
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Bloomreach
All the deployments were done on time
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Alternatives Considered
ActiveCampaign
I moved to ActiveCampaign from Mailchimp. Admittedly, I was using the free version of Mailchimp, but I had numerous episodes of subscriber data NOT being added to Mailchimp, despite using API to integrate with my mailing list. Obviously, I couldn't pay for clicks and not capture subscriber data, so I had to find something else. ActiveCampaign has been 100% reliable in testing.
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Bloomreach
Bloomreach is far superior than SFMC as that platform requires too much technical knowledge. Ometria is very good and I would say is quite similar to Bloomreach although I would say Ometria is a smaller company. Dotdigital is also very powerful but not more so than Bloomreach. This being said, Dotdigital and HubSpot does have telephone support which is amazing and something I would like to see from Bloomreach in future or at least shorter wait times for customer support live chat.
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Scalability
ActiveCampaign
My web designer told me about Active Campaign and although I don't recall which platform I had before, I LOVE Active Campaign and its user friendliness. The transition was seamless and I've never had a problem with functionality or server failure.
Active Campaign provides so many features, and makes it easy for non-techies to maneuver around the site with ease. They capture information and put it in an easy-to-read format.
At this point, I don't think I'd ever use any other platform!
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Bloomreach
there is an option of multiple projects per organisation, customers and assets can be copied across. Multiple sites can be managed in one project, different activities organized under initiatives. Splitting work into sensible units is therefore well possible. The billing is based on number of tracked and number of stored events, no package-based deals. It should therefore be well scalable from a small e-store to a large corporation.
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Return on Investment
ActiveCampaign
  • I haven't monetized my list yet so no clear ROI but great from a list-building perspective
  • The software is not cheap so at times I feel like I may not be getting the most out of the product because I'm not using all of the features
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Bloomreach
  • Emails, banners, and weblayers brought us an increase in conversion and additional profit.
  • From a marketers perspective, it allows us to reach far and wide and see how well a campaign is doing in real-time.
  • Knowing the customer allows improved communication and personalize our recommendations.
  • Bloomreach Engagement has created revenue uplift with acquisition and conversion.
  • The most effective tool out there when ROI is in question.
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Screenshot of funnels that simplify targeting.Screenshot of retention-based insights about impact of changes in a product and the impact of major marketing campaigns.Screenshot of web layers with A/B testingScreenshot of the drag and drop campaign editorScreenshot of the WYSIWYG Email editor & Fully customisable Email templatesScreenshot of the CRM with 360° customer behaviour history