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AdHawk
Despite its shortcomings, AdHawk is a neat, useful tool that provides tactical information for developing solid Facebook ad campaigns. AdHawk is great for managing smaller Facebook Ad budgets. You're able to select a truly actionable guideline in an easy to view format for decision-making. You can really optimize an ad to perform best using the data AdHawk generates
Digital Marketing Manager
Caradonna AdventuresHospitality, 11-50 employees
Marin Software
It's well suited when you have to integrate it with another data source, like an FTP for example. The dimensions you can assign to campaigns or ad group levels help for easier performance management and reporting.What makes it difficult is that everytime you need to update anything on the account, you can't use the publisher but have to do it through Marin. This makes the whole process very time consuming and causes more mistakes. Also if you have paused anything on the publisher and you don't remember to sync marin after, all changes on the publisher will get lost if you make new changes on marin

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Account Manager in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 51-200 employeesFeature Rating Comparison
Ad Network Integration
AdHawk
10.0
Marin Software
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Data Transfer
AdHawk
10.0
Marin Software
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Ad Reporting & Analytics
AdHawk
10.0
Marin Software
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Ad dashboards
AdHawk
10.0
Marin Software
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Ad conversion tracking
AdHawk
10.0
Marin Software
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Cross-channel ad management
AdHawk
10.0
Marin Software
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Ad forecasting and optimization
AdHawk
10.0
Marin Software
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Pros
- Great UI
- Accurate reporting
- Strong data points
Digital Marketing Manager
Caradonna AdventuresHospitality, 11-50 employees
- Bidding strategies based on position or conversions, or revenue are very helpful for improving the performance of all campaigns and saving money
- It keeps the data easily accessible within one place. Pulling reports, being able to do a web query report, being able to integrate with many data sources makes the platform very useful. Also Marin reps are very helpful
- Marin offers a live chat, which is very helpful when you have an urgent question.
- Tracking templates are easily adjustable

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Account Manager in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 51-200 employeesCons
- Ability to look at two campaigns at once (comparative stats)
- Only available for Facebook or G+
- No export feature for reporting
Digital Marketing Manager
Caradonna AdventuresHospitality, 11-50 employees
- It would be really nice to have a solution to some annoying tracking problems like Bing revenue data and side by side publisher/marin tracker data.
- Allowing the upload of DSP or other non-supported platform data would let us use Marin as a reporting suite
Senior Media Manager
Search DiscoveryMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
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Marin Software7.6
Based on 23 answers
We're all trained on the platform and love the new features that keep rolling out. Our support staff are awesome.
Senior Media Manager
Search DiscoveryMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Usability
AdHawk10.0
Based on 1 answer
AdHawk is extremely easy to use. Not many buttons to click to get to any area of importance. It's also very clean and sophisticated in design which makes for a pleasant experience. The optimization features even explain to you the value of going with the suggested strategy. Overall, AdHawk is a great software for managing Facebook and Google Ads
Digital Marketing Manager
Caradonna AdventuresHospitality, 11-50 employees
Marin Software8.9
Based on 5 answers
As mentioned previously, the bidding setup is confusing, with way too many settings that can make or break your campaign.
Manager of Paid Media
ethologyMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
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Marin Software8.2
Based on 5 answers
Statisticians that will go above and beyond to explain the way marin works. Great support

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Professional in Marketing
Online Media Company, 51-200 employeesOnline Training
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Marin Software9.0
Based on 1 answer
Interactive helpful videos, summaries, and quizzes help a user learn the platform in demo-mode. The only challenge was that once you clicked certain buttons per instructions, you couldn't necessarily go back to retake notes without redoing the entire module.

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Strategist in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employeesImplementation
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Marin Software9.8
Based on 5 answers
Not too much comes to mind for key insights regarding the implementation. Marin made the process as smooth as they could with the large account that we were working on. Once we had everything into the account, they walked us through the basic processes of the system and made sure everything was working properly.

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Analyst in Marketing
Marketing and Advertising Company, 201-500 employeesAlternatives Considered
AdHawk is far better than the other products regarding how simplified the reporting of ad results are. AdHawk is cleaner and easier to understand. Allows for easy comparing of conversion points within a campaign. Other products are simply not as easy to use. Also, optimization is not a feature available with many services
Digital Marketing Manager
Caradonna AdventuresHospitality, 11-50 employees
Marin rolls out updates and features at a pace that is unparalleled. Their operations teams work with us to integrate tracking.
Senior Media Manager
Search DiscoveryMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
- Ad optimization data
- Simplified ad management
- Audience understanding
Digital Marketing Manager
Caradonna AdventuresHospitality, 11-50 employees
- Improve campaign management efficiency
- Improve bidding efficiency
- Customer support is often great

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Analyst in Marketing
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesScreenshots
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Pricing Details
AdHawk
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
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—Marin Software
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No