Adobe Campaign vs. Campaign Monitor by Marigold

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Campaign
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Adobe acquired Neolane in July 2013 and later re-named the product Adobe Campaign. Adobe Campaign provides both marketing automation and marketing resource management functionality such as spend & financial management, workflow, and asset management.N/A
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
Score 7.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Campaign Monitor by Marigold enables users to create, send, and optimize email marketing campaigns.
$11
per month
Pricing
Adobe CampaignCampaign Monitor by Marigold
Editions & Modules
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Lite
$9
per month
Essentials
$19
per month
Premier
$149
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe CampaignCampaign Monitor by Marigold
Free Trial
NoYes
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
Adobe CampaignCampaign Monitor by Marigold
Considered Both Products
Adobe Campaign
Chose Adobe Campaign
In the end we didn’t go with Adobe Campaign.
Although it offers great a great tool set that is very flexible. You do need someone on staff that know Adobe products to get the full utilisation out of it. Ultimately what it came down to for us was that because we had a small team, …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign lets you customize the tool to your needs. These other platforms only provide the basics. Adobe gives you the power to integrate how you want to.
Campaign Monitor by Marigold

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Adobe CampaignCampaign Monitor by Marigold
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
8.8
92 Ratings
13% above category average
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
8.0
24 Ratings
2% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor9.586 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Dynamic content9.692 Ratings7.022 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content9.687 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Landing pages8.084 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing8.888 Ratings7.022 Ratings
Mobile optimization9.586 Ratings00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.090 Ratings10.01 Ratings
List management6.392 Ratings00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences9.781 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
6.7
6 Ratings
14% below category average
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
-
Ratings
Lead nurturing automation7.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
Data quality management6.36 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
8.5
86 Ratings
11% above category average
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
-
Ratings
Calendaring9.686 Ratings00 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
7.9
4 Ratings
5% above category average
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
-
Ratings
Social sharing and campaigns8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Social profile integration7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
8.5
92 Ratings
13% above category average
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
10.0
1 Ratings
25% above category average
Dashboards8.091 Ratings00 Ratings
Standard reports8.891 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Custom reports8.887 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
8.3
88 Ratings
9% above category average
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
-
Ratings
API8.879 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals9.682 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability9.585 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.463 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.750 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM6.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
-
Ratings
Campaign Monitor by Marigold
7.4
4 Ratings
13% below category average
Spam Testing00 Ratings7.44 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe CampaignCampaign Monitor by Marigold
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(97 ratings)
7.0
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(41 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.6
(40 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe CampaignCampaign Monitor by Marigold
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
Multi-Channel Campaign Management: I have found Adobe Campaign to be excellent for managing campaigns across multiple channels, including email, mobile, social media, and web. Its centralized platform allows me to plan, execute, and track campaigns effectively, making it ideal for organizations with diverse marketing channels. For example, when I was running a campaign to promote a new product launch across email, SMS, and social media channels, Adobe Campaign provided me with the tools to orchestrate and track the campaign seamlessly. I could ensure consistent messaging and a cohesive customer experience across different channels.
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Marigold
Campaign Monitor is undoubtedly one of the best software for managing email marketing campaigns; it is a robust platform and can be adapted to any company. If you are not a developer and don't know any code, it has many pre-made templates to use. I highly recommend Campaign Monitor; it is perfect, does what needs to be done, and is very easy to use.
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Pros
Adobe
  • It allows me to capture leads through various sources, such as website forms or landing pages.
  • It offers a centralized repository where I can securely store and manage customer data, encompassing contact information, preferences, transaction records, and additional relevant data.
  • It provides robust analytics and reporting capabilities.
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Marigold
  • Campaign Monitor’s support is great. They have a great help page built out to help answer all your questions, and if you do have a question or issue that needs extra support, their support team responds within a couple hours to help resolve the issue.
  • The email builder is very clean and easy to use. It makes A/B testing, personalization, and dynamic content easy to implement.
  • I appreciate the insights reporting that Campaign Monitor provides. We use that regularly for our quarterly reporting to track list growth, as well as campaign performance from a high level.
  • The automation is very straight forward and has truly transformed our marketing. The learning curve is pretty low, so my entire team knows how to use it to create and edit automated email journeys.
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Cons
Adobe
  • Adobe Campaign does not have a high enough sales intelligence to let us know which landing page format would be the most optimal for the proper development of our mass marketing operations, which in the long run would also help with customer collection.
  • Does not directly track the number of people who enter our website, beyond sending them automated messages depending on whether they entered a certain section of the site. This problem is important, because it does not allow us to get complete tracking results in that area.
  • The platform does not do social media marketing extensively enough to let us create dynamic evaluations on the results of interactions that are obtained within social networks, which creates a huge margin of error in our analytical results messages, and so we have stopped applying social marketing.
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Marigold
  • Managing different subscriptions requires some thinking and setup with custom fields/lists/segments. It's not really 'out of the box' to set up.
  • The WYSIWYG editor is pretty locked down, which makes it idiot-proof, but would be great to have a little more control over padding, line height, kerning, etc.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
Once you go for Neolane you are a bit stuck with it, so we will most likely stay with Neolane. Cost of investment and training are the main factors at work here. We havesimply have invested too much in the product to stop using it after 2 years. That said, my score of 8 does not imply that the product is worthy of getting an 8 but reflects our willingness to renew. Given that upgrading to a new version will cost again a substantial sum, we most likely will keep using the current version we are on which is 6X.
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Marigold
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Usability
Adobe
Thanks to this tool we are taking more internal control of the creation and deployment of campaigns with less dependency on an ESP. We can pre-program marketing publications, being able to concentrate on the target audience. It helps me manage email campaigns with real-time tracking.
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Marigold
The templates, while useful, are very locked down, This makes it very usable from a novice's standpoint, but also very inflexible from a designer's standpoint. Creating several version of the email campaign and using A/B testing was a powerful and easy-to-use feature, and the system also provides the option of automating the sending of emails once an A/B testing criteria is reached
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Reliability and Availability
Adobe
Aside from frequent error prompts, the program is quite dependable
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Marigold
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Support Rating
Adobe
Although there is a lot of material available on the internet to answer questions, I still feel a lack of commitment and delay in the responses of the support, but as a whole, it leaves nothing to be desired. I believe that, in the great majority, companies sin in the desired support, but we cannot generalize. But this one, in particular, has a wide range of specialists and well-qualified management, but I believe that it is not so bad.
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Marigold
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
As we tried to centralise the marketing automation platform within the enterprise, Adobe Campaign can plug into several instances of Salesforce.com for lead management queues. All other marketing automation platforms can only plug into one instance of Salesforce.com. Adobe Campaign was also able to handle the complexity and challenges of our enterprise data which are a result of years of legacy, mergers and acquisitions and data aggregation.
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Marigold
The ability to track the effectiveness of email marketing campaigns in real-time is what makes Campaign Monitor interesting to use. All the vital features that we need to run professionally designed email campaigns that look wonderful on any device so that we boost our business are included in this platform.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Adobe
Not everything was great at all times. It was handled accordingly, pricing was reasonable for what was purchased. It was the best value on the market at the time of purchase.
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Marigold
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Talking about profits can be subjective if you don't take into account the periodic variations between net and gross profit margins, but fortunately with Adobe Campaign, it is easy to notice these differences quickly.
  • Results have always seemed relative to us, as they vary greatly depending on how much is invested.
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Marigold
  • Because it's easy to use, we can design and send out newsletters easily and quickly, spending little time.
  • It's a great tool for aggregating all of the things our organization is up to and making sure people are aware of them.
  • Sometimes I wonder how many emails are sent to the Spam folder, but there are great tools to see how many opens you get.
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