TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AdDataExpress

    Score7.3 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    AdDataExpress is an intuitive online sales intelligence tool that helps marketers and sales people identify prospects at advertising companies. The value proposition is that AdDataExpress empowers users to prospect more productively and accelerate new business relationships. Acccording to the vendor, AdDataExpress helps users quickly identify and engage the right decision-makers at America's top national advertisers. The platform provides access to data…N/A

    Owler

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AOwler is a sales intelligence app developed by the company of the same name San Mateo and acquired by Meltwater June 2021, providing competitive insights, company information, and other sales relevant information.

    $8.25

    per month

    Pricing
    AdDataExpressOwler
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Plus (personal use)
    $99
    per year
    Pro
    $420
    per year
    Teams
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AdDataExpressOwler
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    AdDataExpressOwler
    Considered Both Products
    List Partners
    No answer on this topic
    Meltwater
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    AdDataExpressOwler
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of AdDataExpress and Owler
    Feature
    AdDataExpress
    6.8
    2 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Owler
    7.1
    16 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Advanced search8.01 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Identification of new leads7.02 Ratings6.114 Ratings
    List quality8.02 Ratings6.114 Ratings
    List upload/download5.01 Ratings6.09 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting8.02 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Load time/data access5.02 Ratings8.713 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of AdDataExpress and Owler
    Feature
    AdDataExpress
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Owler
    7.9
    16 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Contact information7.02 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Company information6.02 Ratings7.916 Ratings
    Industry information8.02 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of AdDataExpress and Owler
    Feature
    AdDataExpress
    5.9
    2 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Owler
    6.2
    15 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Lead qualification process7.02 Ratings5.311 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations6.01 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Salesforce integration5.02 Ratings5.06 Ratings
    Company/business profiles7.02 Ratings5.314 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders6.01 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Data hygiene4.02 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh5.02 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Tags6.01 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation7.02 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of AdDataExpress and Owler
    Feature
    AdDataExpress
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Owler
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Sales email templates7.01 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Append emails to records7.01 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AdDataExpressOwler
    Small Businesses
    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    AdDataExpressOwler
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AdDataExpressOwler
    Likelihood to Recommend
    List Partners
    When using tools like AdDataExpress, demographics are key when trying to identify new relationships. Being able to segment out the population by many demographic fields is absolutely necessary to try and optimize what we are spending. Trying to use this as a pure CRM is probably not the greatest idea, but using it in parallel with one would be good.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Meltwater
    This is a free service, so it should be compared to free and low cost alerting (e.g. Google Alerts) and PE/VC funding profile (e.g. Crunchbase) services. Owler is well suited for competitive intelligence professionals, named account reps, and marketing professionals tracking company news (web mined company mentions and press releases) and social media (blogs, Video, YouTube). The alerts are high precision and tag for three key events (M&A, Funding, Exec Changes). It is the alerting and social media tools which are the key strength of the service. The company claims two million profiles, but only has 60,000 with full address information. Content includes competitors, user polls, and funding / M&A data. Owler should be viewed as a free complement to other online company research tools, but it lacks the depth to replace subscription services. Missing content includes long business descriptions; financials and discrete sizing data; family tree linkage, and executive profiles (only the CEO is covered) While they offer list building functionality, it is quite thin and non-downloadable. As such, I would not recommend Owler for sales and marketing prospecting at this point. A unique feature is a set of company polls about the direction of the company and CEO performance. Unfortunately, the response rates are often too low to be statistically meaningful.
    Read full review
    Pros
    List Partners
    • Provides email addresses - essential when doing cold email outreach.
    • Provides agencies for each brand/company.
    • Provides media spend for parent company and brand.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Meltwater
    • Owler enables the user to quickly find the data and information that he or she needs.
    • I appreciate the customizable dashboard where you can set alerts and track companies you select.
    • The latest news regarding the funding rounds of startup companies is especially helpful.
    • The top competitors to companies provided by Owler often give me a great point of reference for my competitive analysis.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    List Partners
    • Filtering is not optimal
    • Integration with other products is not intuitive or even there
    • Keeping data up to date automatically
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Meltwater
    • The information provided is useful but at times the variation with other websites and tools is substantial which makes it difficult to rely solely on owler
    • Information only about bigger companies is available not for smaller and research on smaller ones are important as there are not many tools that do that
    • There are few companies that appear as defunct or do not exist but in the actual market there is a lot going on with them and being in market intelligence industry owler needs to capture that
    • It would be great if they provide revenue or growth of the in the past three years or so. As it would save our time and efforts to some extent
    • They need to maintain the database in aperiodic manner with precise information
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    List Partners
    No answers on this topic
    Meltwater
    Not really an applicable question as this is a free service, but if they charged $100 / year (GageIn's price) I would still license the service.
    Read full review
    Usability
    List Partners
    No answers on this topic
    Meltwater
    I think it's well designed but always room for improvement. Maybe more customization in layout or information presented. Maybe even a layout that allows comparison and ranking of companies in a similar industry or vertical, or company size, and geography
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Reliability and Availability
    List Partners
    No answers on this topic
    Meltwater
    I have yet to see the platform down or running slowly, but there have been multiple instances recently (Q2 2015) when the user links to a news story and Owler gives an Oops message. Users simply click on the story a second time and the story is displayed. This is a nuisance bug. I also have a sense that the system is not processing alerts as quickly as before, but I haven't tracked this closely, so I could be wrong about it.
    Read full review
    Performance
    List Partners
    No answers on this topic
    Meltwater
    The news precision, which is the most important feature for me, is very accurate. They have editors review the news to ensure it is properly tagged by company and event type.
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    List Partners
    No answers on this topic
    Meltwater
    Problems have been closed quickly and professionally.
    Read full review
    Implementation Rating
    List Partners
    No answers on this topic
    Meltwater
    Focus on setting up companies that have limited news coverage first. Public companies are well covered and it is easy to track them. Furthermore, the surfeit of news around public companies can crowd out smaller companies with less news. It is smaller companies where you are most likely to see a benefit in their tracking of news, blogs, press releases, and videos.
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    List Partners
    Winmo allows more dynamic and functional searches, and puts agency and brand contacts in one place. It also allows exports based on spend and in general, is much more dynamic of a software.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Meltwater
    I believe Lead411 and Owler go hand in hand, rather than one over the other. I believe Lead411's contact generation is far stronger based on the cost, but Owler allows you to broaden your horizon for prospecting whereas Lead411 is more of a user-driven search rather than an platform-driven search.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    List Partners
    • Expanded lead horizons
    • Agencies provided for each company
    • Efficiency of potential partners
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Meltwater
    • The personalisation of emails has definitely helped us to earn a higher reply rate, with the knock-on that this will be helping with future deals.
    • Keeps us very relevant in our conversations with contacts. They are often impressed by the research and knowledge we have on their company and how we have aligned ourselves to help. Again, small differences at the start of calls but this will be helping with the number of opportunities created.
    • Reduces SDR prospecting time. Quick and easy to get updates allowing them to process a great number of accounts on a daily basis.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    AdDataExpress Screenshots

    Screenshot of Profiles featuring targeted media, marketing and sponsorship decision-maker lists.