Adobe Audience Manager vs. TransUnion TruAudience

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Audience Manager
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Audience Manager is a recognized data management platform (DMP) that is integrated into the Adobe Marketing Cloud.N/A
TransUnion TruAudience
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
TruAudience from TransUnion, which contains technology from Signal Tag Management and Neustar Marketing, is a solution that aims to help marketers, web analysts and agencies establish autonomy from IT development cycles, accelerate the launch of new data-driven initiatives and campaigns while significantly improving website performance.N/A
Pricing
Adobe Audience ManagerTransUnion TruAudience
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Audience ManagerTransUnion TruAudience
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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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Adobe Audience ManagerTransUnion TruAudience
Data Collection
Comparison of Data Collection features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
8.6
16 Ratings
6% above category average
TransUnion TruAudience
-
Ratings
Collection of first-party data8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
Collection of third-party data8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
Access to Third-party Data Providers9.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Classification
Comparison of Data Classification features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
7.3
16 Ratings
14% below category average
TransUnion TruAudience
-
Ratings
Audience taxonomy7.916 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag Management6.215 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Analysis Dashboard7.816 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
8.9
16 Ratings
11% above category average
TransUnion TruAudience
-
Ratings
Data Transfer8.916 Ratings00 Ratings
DSP integration8.815 Ratings00 Ratings
DMP Analytics
Comparison of DMP Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
6.8
16 Ratings
15% below category average
TransUnion TruAudience
-
Ratings
Campaign Analytics5.516 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Analytics8.116 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
-
Ratings
TransUnion TruAudience
9.0
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
-
Ratings
TransUnion TruAudience
8.4
2 Ratings
5% above category average
Tag library00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Tag variable mapping00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Page load times00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Mobile app tagging00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Data Management & Integrity
Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
-
Ratings
TransUnion TruAudience
9.0
2 Ratings
8% above category average
Event tracking00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Mobile event tracking00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Data distribution management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Universal data layer00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Automated error checking00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Audience ManagerTransUnion TruAudience
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(16 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(10 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.8
(10 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Audience ManagerTransUnion TruAudience
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
If you are already using multiple other pieces of the Adobe Experience Cloud stack, adobe audience manager is an easy choice. It allows for quick and easy data activation for your first and potentially brokered 2nd party data. However this product will likely be absorbed into the adobe experience platform (AEP) soon. In the end I would wait to see where adobe is truly headed with this product before investing heavily without additional heavy adobe investments.
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TransUnion
Well suited to campaigns and smaller task teams of less than 100. For these sizes, the group conversations work well, and the ability to search conversations and multimedia is perfect for finding previous information. For larger groups, information could very easily get lost, and requires a break-up into groups that would defeat the purpose of such a group chat.
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Pros
Adobe
  • We are able to generate reports that provide valuable insights into potential customer behavior, allowing us to better focus our marketing efforts.
  • By allowing us to understand who are key audiences are and how they overlap with other brands and products, AAM allows us to get a fuller picture of how we should target our audience.
  • Reporting in AAM is wonderful in that it is easy to understand and exportable. The use of graphics and updates make it easier to share insights with various team members--even those with minimum experience in marketing and analytics.
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TransUnion
  • Populating your library with new tags is simple whether you're duplicating an existing tag or creating an entirely new one.
  • Creating the firing conditions for a tag.
  • Adding users to different groups with limited or full admin permissions.
  • If you know JavaScript, you shouldn't have an issue with assigning values to the proper variables once your data layer is set up for each page and/or action.
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Cons
Adobe
  • Biggest challenge we faced is teaching the use of it to our employees how to use it. The UI Should be easy and to understand for all fields.
  • The AdWords integration is not easy to do.
  • UI is sometimes slow and doesn't load Analyticals for more than 24 hours.
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TransUnion
  • Placing quotes around variable names in the Tag Attributes, but not in the Event Handlers has caused me to mess up more than once.
  • Being able to search the account for all instances of certain text would be very helpful (e.g., search for s.eVar30 to find all places where I set that SiteCatalyst variable).
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
No answers on this topic
TransUnion
Because of all of the previous benefits that I mentioned, GM has mandated that any DSP that we use for their campaigns must be integrated with BrightTag. Therefore we will have to use BrightTag for all future GM business
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Usability
Adobe
Overall usability is great, as are most of Adobe's software. Maybe a UI refresh could make it a bit easier to do advanced functions or reporting but, overall, it works very well. This is something you take for granted with Adobe solutions because when you try another vendor you realize how bad it can be.
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TransUnion
Based on the features and current usage. It shows some buggy pages plus the service and support is really very slow. The updates are not regular and company needs to work on that. The usability is good and reporting of tags is accurate which is the best part. The pricing of the product is good and can be used by organizations of all sizes.
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Support Rating
Adobe
AAM has good support, but the support is not as available, due to waiting time and queue. The instructions presented are available, but it navigation is not easy between pages. However, instructions are usually direct and straightforward, but any underlying thoughts or questions won’t be easily answered without support from their service.
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TransUnion
Support is really slow and it takes days to resolve an issue. Plus we have to inquire regularly for the status of resolution. Company should definitely work towards that
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
I personally like the Adobe Audience Manager interface and it's easier to use for beginners. It also has some features that Google does not, nor do its other competitors. It is worth the money and time spent, overall. I feel like it gives a bigger and more in-depth picture to our company's audience than other programs.
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TransUnion
Most of the tag solutions I've worked with were not nearly as robust. Most systems will let you load another tag not directly placed on the site, but none provide all the different firing levers that BT does
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Overall a Positive Return for Business who go All in on the Adobe Stack
  • Solid work for brokering and anonymously sharing data between first and second parties
  • The death of TRUE 3rd party data has lessened the effectiveness of all DMPs
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TransUnion
  • Wonderful for ensuring we meet our logistical and record-keeping requirements
  • Negative at being the best at quality-of-life options, like specific muting
  • Great at allowing a casual work environment in having chats for memes, pets, etc.
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