Adform FLOW vs. AppNexus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adform FLOW
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Adform, headquartered in Copenhagen, offers an independent and integrated advertising platform built for modern marketing. Its enterprise technology – Adform FLOW – harnesses user experience and a scalable, modular and open architecture, to enable management of the whole campaign life cycle. It aims to provide clients with enhanced control and transparency across advertising operations, including ownership of all data from their campaigns.N/A
AppNexus
Score 8.9 out of 10
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AppNexus AppNexus offers online auction infrastructure and technology for data management, optimization, financial clearing and support for directly negotiated advertising campaigns. It integrates with advertising sources including Google's DoubleClick, Microsoft's AdECN, and aggregators.[3]N/A
Pricing
Adform FLOWAppNexus
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adform FLOWAppNexus
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Adform FLOWAppNexus
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
8.4
4 Ratings
13% above category average
AppNexus
8.5
8 Ratings
14% above category average
Data Transfer8.84 Ratings8.06 Ratings
DSP integration8.04 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
8.0
4 Ratings
2% above category average
AppNexus
8.0
8 Ratings
2% above category average
Ad campaign creation7.54 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Ad deployment7.74 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Display advertising9.03 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation8.04 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Sequence targeting8.03 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
8.0
4 Ratings
2% above category average
AppNexus
8.2
9 Ratings
5% above category average
Ad dashboards9.03 Ratings9.09 Ratings
Ad performance reports8.04 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking7.54 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting7.54 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Cross-channel ad management8.73 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization7.52 Ratings8.08 Ratings
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Adform FLOWAppNexus
Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
The Trade Desk
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Score 6.6 out of 10
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Score 6.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adform FLOWAppNexus
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(4 ratings)
8.0
(16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adform FLOWAppNexus
Likelihood to Recommend
Adform
One of the best available solutions available for RTB, if you do not have your own or use agency's DSP/DMP/etc. this is the one I would recomment. Lot of targeting options, ease of use, great support. Or just great and cheap tool for tracking your direct buys. Also Adform has excellent customer support.
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AppNexus
Appnexus is specifically well suited for CTV campaigns. They have the full technology stack to help you scale campaigns in any format, whether you need a lot of volume in traditional formats like banners and interstitials or if you need high-impact formats like video and other alternatives. Appnexus has a very strong set of unique publishers which makes it a great DSP for branding campaigns.
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Pros
Adform
  • Reporting Dashboard
  • Database integration
  • Ease of scheduling & running campaigns
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AppNexus
  • As per my experience they have strong support personnel. Solving the issues as and when required.
  • We can solve certain issues like campaign performance, inventory optimization and more with the help of AppNexus wiki. We get all the required information in the Wiki itself.
  • They have given the right platform to both buyers and sellers to workout and meet their digital marketing needs and goals.
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Cons
Adform
  • Bugs
  • UX of DSP Panel
  • Performance
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AppNexus
  • The platform is incredibly complex and requires a great deal of understanding of how the platform works that caught us by surprise.
  • The wiki is not enough and when we resorted to reaching out to AppNexus it was a nuisance of having several emails going back and forth.
  • No phone support is offered which would have made several things easier than exchanging confusing emails.
  • Video inventory is still not implemented.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adform
No answers on this topic
AppNexus
I love almost everything about AppNexus because I feel like the user data is easy to track because of the identifiers, you can see which adverts got clicked and which were ignored. We can track the location of the ad on the page fold and this makes it so much easier for future campaigns. The only thing I don't like is that the data is only kept for a year, and I'd like it for a longer period of time
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Usability
Adform
No answers on this topic
AppNexus
Because I think the interface is kind of confusing at the beginning and it confuses you a lot.
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Reliability and Availability
Adform
No answers on this topic
AppNexus
I've never had any problems with appnexus - the software is always available
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Performance
Adform
No answers on this topic
AppNexus
Yes, everything works great in that sense
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Support Rating
Adform
Reasons are already given in past. They are really slow in support service.
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AppNexus
Because the support team does give you support, they take 24hrs to get back to you but once they open a ticket they focus on resolving the issue for you. My only problem is that you don't have a specific account representative assigned to you.
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Online Training
Adform
No answers on this topic
AppNexus
Online training are not user friendly and not easy to understand
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Alternatives Considered
Adform
Adform was in some usecases similar to Xaxis, however, client preferred to use Adform.
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AppNexus
The TTD platform seems to have better CTV/OLV inventory, so that is typically preferred over AppNexus (APN). Usually, if clients have an internal desk, they will use TTD, which can often lead to us bidding against them, which is also another benefit of running campaigns within AppNexus (APN). Google DSP is typically used to increase the scale for display and build larger re-messaging pools.
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Scalability
Adform
No answers on this topic
AppNexus
Because it's a great DSP but not the best
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Return on Investment
Adform
  • CPA reduction 20% in some clients
  • ROAS driven decisions
  • DSP Cost reduction
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AppNexus
  • The 1 USD audit fee makes it very hard to A/B test creatives and improve performance, hurting ROI.
  • We have been able to reach some users that we weren't able to get before, increasing spending, which is good for ROI.
  • We can run campaigns on TV, which is a big boost for the business, and very ROI positive.
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