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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adform FLOW

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdform, 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

    Google Campaign Manager 360

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AReplacing DoubleClick, Google Campaign Manager 360 is a web-based ad management system for advertisers and agencies, used to manage digital campaigns across websites and mobile. This includes features for ad serving, targeting, verification, and reporting.N/A

    Post Affiliate Pro

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Post Affiliate Pro is designed to run an entire affiliate program from top to bottom, with the exception of processing the financial transactions. However, most payment processors and shopping carts can be fully integrated with Post Affiliate Pro. According to the vendor, this solution is intuitive, fast, effective, and infinitely expandable, and designed to grow with the user’s needs. This solution is targeted for any merchant or business who wants to start a successful affiliate program.

    $129

    per month

    Pricing
    Adform FLOWGoogle Campaign Manager 360Post Affiliate Pro
    Editions & Modules
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    PRO
    $129
    per month
    ULTIMATE
    $249
    per month
    NETWORK
    $599
    per month
    STARTER
    $4,900
    one-time fee
    ELITE
    $12,900
    one-time fee
    NETWORK
    $24,900
    one-time fee
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adform FLOWGoogle Campaign Manager 360Post Affiliate Pro
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Adform FLOWGoogle Campaign Manager 360Post Affiliate Pro
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adform
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    Google
    Chose Google Campaign Manager 360
    Google Marketing Platform had greater reach, was easily added to our other Google platforms and had a great support system. Our staff was more familiar with the platform as it has similarities to other Google products, hence it was easier to use. Whilst the other platforms had …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Adform FLOWGoogle Campaign Manager 360Post Affiliate Pro
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Adform FLOW and Google Campaign Manager 360 and Post Affiliate Pro
    Feature
    Adform FLOW
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Google Campaign Manager 360
    9.0
    29 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Post Affiliate Pro
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    Ratings
    Data Transfer8.84 Ratings9.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    DSP integration8.04 Ratings9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Adform FLOW and Google Campaign Manager 360 and Post Affiliate Pro
    Feature
    Adform FLOW
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Google Campaign Manager 360
    8.8
    33 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Post Affiliate Pro
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation7.54 Ratings8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment7.74 Ratings10.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising9.03 Ratings10.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation8.04 Ratings9.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting8.03 Ratings7.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Adform FLOW and Google Campaign Manager 360 and Post Affiliate Pro
    Feature
    Adform FLOW
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Google Campaign Manager 360
    9.2
    33 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Post Affiliate Pro
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    Ratings
    Ad dashboards9.03 Ratings10.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports8.04 Ratings9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking7.54 Ratings9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.54 Ratings9.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-channel ad management8.73 Ratings9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization7.52 Ratings9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
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    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    8.0
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    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    6.0
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Adform FLOWGoogle Campaign Manager 360Post Affiliate Pro
    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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    Google
    I feel pretty neutral about Google Marketing Platform. For the longest time, my company wasn't using it because each of the features (Data Studio, Analytics, etc.) could be accessed separately. In fact, most of the time, I don't even go into Google Marketing Platform because it's easier to directly navigate to the individual platforms. There are very few features about GMP that can only be accessed from the GMP UI. The Integrations Center is probably the main feature I utilize from the GMP UI, which allows me to see a summary of the integrations I have in place across all my client properties and accounts.
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    QualityUnit, LLC
    Post Affiliate Pro is suitable for any online business that's interested in more sales that come from affiliate partners (and are willing to pay them commission from sales).
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    Pros
    Adform
    • Reporting Dashboard
    • Database integration
    • Ease of scheduling & running campaigns
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    Google
    • Bringing together data from multiple channels and engines and allows you to visualize the data in an easy to use platform. This saves time from using multiple logins for the different platforms.
    • Auto bidding tools save time from manual bidding, as it allows you to set the specific terms around what levels you want to cap your CPCs at. You then let DoubleClick adjust your bids to gain the most conversions from the cheapest CPCs. This frees up time to do other in-depth analysis and strategy.
    • DoubleClick also has the ability to track conversions and clicks on any page using their floodlight tags. This is good for tracking certain actions on yours or a client's site and is especially good if they do not use any other tools, such as Google Analytics or Adobe, to track conversions and user actions on site. You can also use these in conjunction with the auto bidding tools.
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    • Tracking works brilliantly.
    • Split commission feature is great.
    • Multiple tracking methods, SEO friendly links are included.
    • SaaS version - didn't have to install anything.
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    Cons
    Adform
    • Bugs
    • UX of DSP Panel
    • Performance
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    Google
    • The process for on-boarding new users can be difficult if they do not already have a Gmail or Gmail-linked account.
    • Difficult to troubleshoot technical issues (with the platform, with tags, etc.) because of the lack of customer support. Unclear if the agency has a dedicated team or individual to assist, and often have to deal with out-sourced support teams.
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    • Does not provide out of the box integration with Salesforce/HubSpot
    • Requires knowledge of PHP in some use cases
    • User interface and on-screen instructions are not always user friendly
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adform
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    Google
    Due to its adapting behavior with industry ad formats and seamless integration with publishers and DSP's, I don't see myself moving away from DCM. As we see the display advertising is getting more programatic and automated due to the rise of DSP and concept of RTB, Double Click has evolved with new advanced best practices
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    QualityUnit, LLC
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    Usability
    Adform
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    Google
    The Doubleclick interface is easy and simple to get a hang of. The options are slightly limited compared to other DSPs. But, for a simple campaign, this is a great DSP to move forward with. They have a ton of data and can plug into a lot of different partners
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    It takes some time to learn how to use it. I do believe it could be a little more usable, but the support helps every time. Even new partners learn to use it relatively fast, and as the time goes by, you can help them yourself and they do not need to reach reach out to customer service.
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    Support Rating
    Adform
    Reasons are already given in past. They are really slow in support service.
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    Google
    They do not have strong support team. It is tough to get answer when I need it. They always refer you to an online guide and not an actual person. If so, the person is based out of an offshore team in India and does not know the specific client goals .
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    QualityUnit, LLC
    Post Affiliate Pro has excellent support. It has improved over time and has a great customer support, if you have any problems. They respond quickly and so far have solved all of our problems. There could be more languages besides English, but it still works great. I can tell that the costumer service staff has a lot of experience.
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    Implementation Rating
    Adform
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    I would highly recommend asking clients to provide 3PAS tags or use an internal 3PAS
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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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    Google
    Marin takes a lot more time for everything, mainly for the campaigns setup. This also leads to many mistakes, which impact the performance. I've used Marin on a couple of previous clients and we've had many problems with it, mainly with correct conversion tracking and account optimizations. Besides, Marin is behind all the new features available on AdWords, which makes the tracking also not very flexible.
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    QualityUnit, LLC
    Basically both are great. Post Affiliate Pro has more integration features with CMS and Payment solutions (Joomla, Drupal etc.) but has the drawback of not integrating with Salesforce and required PHP knowledge in some cases. On the other hand, Referral Rock integrates well with Salesforce and required no coding knowledge as far as I know.
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    Return on Investment
    Adform
    • CPA reduction 20% in some clients
    • ROAS driven decisions
    • DSP Cost reduction
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    Google
    • DS3 has improved ROI considerably due to its ability to make the work of a team of digital marketers to go further and improving internal efficiency.
    • There is a notable improvement in account performance for those integrated with DoubleClick as opposed to not, with better tracking, new bid strategy options, and a more responsive interface.
    • The additional fee on top of media spend is a considerable expense for a large advertiser, but the necessity of a product/solution such as this means that there is always likely to be some comparative cost.
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    QualityUnit, LLC
    • Started using it several month ago; I can see that I can profit
    • Gained the trust of my customers, as they see it is rock-solid software
    • It is very flexible; it can adapt to your business needs
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