Adform FLOW vs. Meta Business Suite

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
Meta Business Suite
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Formerly known as Facebook Business Suite or Facebook for Business, a solution for small businesses used to manage all business activity on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram from one place. It is presented as a one-stop shop where business owners can manage all marketing and advertising activities on Facebook and Instagram. It centralizes tools that help the user to connect with customers on all apps and get better business results.N/A
Pricing
Adform FLOWMeta Business Suite
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adform FLOWMeta Business Suite
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adform FLOWMeta Business Suite
Features
Adform FLOWMeta Business Suite
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
8.4
4 Ratings
14% above category average
Meta Business Suite
-
Ratings
Data Transfer8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
DSP integration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
8.0
4 Ratings
2% above category average
Meta Business Suite
-
Ratings
Ad campaign creation7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad deployment7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Display advertising9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Sequence targeting8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
8.0
4 Ratings
3% above category average
Meta Business Suite
-
Ratings
Ad dashboards9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad performance reports8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-channel ad management8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
-
Ratings
Meta Business Suite
6.3
14 Ratings
19% below category average
Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings6.39 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings6.011 Ratings
Sentiment analysis00 Ratings6.611 Ratings
Broad channel coverage00 Ratings6.213 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
-
Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.1
16 Ratings
13% below category average
Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
Audience targeting00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
Content optimization00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings6.311 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
-
Ratings
Meta Business Suite
6.7
13 Ratings
19% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings6.99 Ratings
Customer interaction histories00 Ratings6.412 Ratings
Bulk actions00 Ratings6.711 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
-
Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.2
16 Ratings
7% below category average
Lead generation00 Ratings7.215 Ratings
Content marketing00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Paid media management00 Ratings7.715 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.113 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
-
Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.9
14 Ratings
6% below category average
Twitter00 Ratings8.34 Ratings
Facebook00 Ratings8.513 Ratings
LinkedIn00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Google+00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
Instagram00 Ratings8.314 Ratings
Pinterest00 Ratings7.95 Ratings
YouTube00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
-
Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.7
16 Ratings
0% below category average
Campaign success analytics00 Ratings7.816 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings7.616 Ratings
Competitor analysis00 Ratings7.610 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Adform FLOW
-
Ratings
Meta Business Suite
7.3
14 Ratings
8% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings7.414 Ratings
Mobile access00 Ratings7.213 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adform FLOWMeta Business Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(4 ratings)
7.1
(109 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.3
(17 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adform FLOWMeta Business Suite
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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Meta Platforms Inc
Meta Business Suite has been highly effective in exposing our brand and our clients' brands to a large audience. It is also one of the most cost-effective ad platforms for B2B marketing campaigns. The issue is filtering out low-quality leads from a B2B lead generation process, as you often receive as many poor-quality leads as high-quality ones.
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Pros
Adform
  • Reporting Dashboard
  • Database integration
  • Ease of scheduling & running campaigns
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  • Segmentation is HUGE. You can segment by almost anything you want, be it demographic, sociological, behavioral... you name it. You can also create targets based on your visitors and their actions. Even custom lists.
  • They are very good at optimizing your campaigns automatically. This is so important because it will improve your ROI in several multiples otherwise
  • Managing ads in general works fine, and the data, even though is not exactly as accurate as Analytics, it's pretty decent.
  • Gives you placements and different ad types so you can get the most out of it.
  • Pixel and catalog integration are very powerful. You can almost instantly start tracking and catalog fetches your site daily for updates.
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Cons
Adform
  • Bugs
  • UX of DSP Panel
  • Performance
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  • The planner enables timings of others' posts to be seen easily, but an easier view of that content (eg by hovering over it) would be preferable
  • Insights gives detailed information on the performance of posts, but could be more intuitive - and it would be helpful if it flagged particularly good performers or practices.
  • Sometimes using @ tags is a little slow - and it's not always easy to tell which ones you want without opening another window and testing them yourself.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adform
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Meta Platforms Inc
We have to continue using this tool in order to be effective on this marketing platform. Though there are several changes I wish we could see, the fact is that we will still need to use this product to provide customers with the information they need.
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Usability
Adform
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
Meta Business Suite is a solid, centralized tool that covers the core needs of social media planning and publishing. However, some limitations — like inconsistent Reels functionality, clunky previews, and lack of creative asset organization — hold it back from being a seamless, end-to-end solution. There's a lot of potential with continued improvements.
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Reliability and Availability
Adform
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
I've only dealt with the API having issues a couple times, but as you can imagine an outage is not something an advertiser would find acceptable, especially during any ecommerce-heavy time of year. The overall platform could use some help with availability when it comes to authentication, as it struggles with consistency in authentication.
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Performance
Adform
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
There are a lot of shortcomings when it comes to performance. There are pages that I do not expect to have much information to load on the page, yet it takes an incredibly long time (10+ secondes). I have not had experience with the integration slowing other platforms down too much.
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Support Rating
Adform
Reasons are already given in past. They are really slow in support service.
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Meta Platforms Inc
I've found the Facebook for Business support to be hit or miss. For billing questions they're timely and helpful. For complex questions about specific services I've often received a longer wait and a less helpful experience. I'm often redirected to their docs, which are often not particularly helpful.
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Implementation Rating
Adform
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
Take all of the training offered through Facebook first before attempting to create a page on the platform. Learn all of the capabilities available to you. Learn about the different types of audiences who might be interested in seeing your page. Create short video clips as though they are viewed at a much higher rate than anything else. Offer free giveaways or raffles to further build to your list of prospects and drive traffic to your website
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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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Meta Platforms Inc
Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its industry-leading targeting functionality (which is a result of that massive user base!).
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Scalability
Adform
No answers on this topic
Meta Platforms Inc
This product is definitely able to run at scale, but it would be wise to have enough eyeballs to oversee it and the tools for keeping the campaigns, adsets, and ads organized could use some improvement. I can also see the UI interfering with usability at greater amounts of scale.
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Return on Investment
Adform
  • CPA reduction 20% in some clients
  • ROAS driven decisions
  • DSP Cost reduction
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Meta Platforms Inc
  • Overall positive ROI has been achieved using this platform. You must have a clear understanding of where your CPL maximums are to remain profitable and either optimize to success or pull the plug on campaigns that are bleeding spend.
  • This is a great platform to build new audiences or grow existing ones.
  • Building audience segments via pixel tracking is a huge win for this platform.
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