Adobe Campaign vs. Mailchimp

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
Mailchimp
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Mailchimp is the email marketing and marketing automation platform. Most email marketing platforms tell you how your campaigns perform, but Mailchimp goes a step beyond and tells you why by analyzing the data from half a billion emails sent through the platform every day to offer personalized recommendations for improving content, targeting, automations, and driving revenue using emails
$0
per month
Pricing
Adobe CampaignMailchimp
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe CampaignMailchimp
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Adobe CampaignMailchimp
Considered Both Products
Adobe Campaign
Chose Adobe Campaign
MailChimp is more user-friendly, is a bit easier to use, and is a more affordable product in comparison to Adobe. However, with Adobe Campaign one can produce more professional looking products since it tends to be used by more advanced users. Also, the analytics on Adobe is …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign is a little more robust than Mailchimp and it seems to have a little more capacity.
Chose Adobe Campaign
We selected Adobe Campaign because we are using more products of this company and we thought that this will help connecting all our marketing tools with designers and the marketing department, but the most important reason is that Adobe Campaign workflow tools are more powerful …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Both Mailchimp and this work really well, but I think in this comparison, for versatility and expandability, Adobe Campaign just tips the win. If you're looking for something relatively simple, Mailchimp might be the way to go, but with fewer features being available for free, …
Chose Adobe Campaign
We've also used Mailchimp for email marketing. It's simple and easy to use for only email sending but as your business grows and your marketing needs and goals grow then you'll want to move to a full suite like Adobe Campaigns. It's reporting alone is worth the change. Being …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign has a lot more features as compared to Mailchimp. While Mailchimp allows you to send a lot of communication to a lot of recipients, Adobe Campaign lets you set variables in the workflow, and send email at different times with a lot more customization. Adobe …
Chose Adobe Campaign
The platform is much more complex and much more suited for complicated applications. While Mailchimp is an easier all rounded solution for starters it doesn’t allow the system integrator to do customization of the workflows and more complicated tasks. I would say that in my …
Chose Adobe Campaign
One of the major resons was already having AEM and creating a highly cohesive tech stack. Adobe Campaign fit the criteria.
Chose Adobe Campaign
All these applications are very similar, adobe has a differential for the company's expertise, for the way cloud services and their specialists are treated. I believe that it also has a differential in the metrics and management of flows where it is possible to have a broader …
Chose Adobe Campaign
  • Easy to install
  • Free trails
  • Lesser cost as compared to others
Chose Adobe Campaign
The main reason why we decided to acquire this service for our organization, is that it offers more functions than other platforms, is very easy to use and provides excellent performance to all marketing teams that implement it. Even though there are currently many services …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign is very powerful and complex and can manage thousands of users and email workflows, deliveries, programs, campaigns, etc. It also is part of the whole Adobe Experience Cloud which we use other products for, so it was a natural fit. It also syncs with our master …
Chose Adobe Campaign
After several reviews, we decided to buy Adobe Campaign for its price and ease of integration with our salesforce CRM.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign is a much more robust and feature-rich option for greater engagement.
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.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign offers unmatched customization but is definitely the least intuitive and user-friendly marketing automation tool I have ever used. We selected Adobe Campaign because we use other Adobe Marketing Cloud Products (Analytics and Target) but the integration with those …
Chose Adobe Campaign
ACS is an Organizational tool, not a stand-alone email system. Having a single point for email addresses across ministries and being able to offer a tool with very high deliver-ability make ACS a very attractive tool to other ministries.
Mailchimp
Chose Mailchimp
Mailchimp offers a free option so you can try before you buy and has an easy-to-use interface with options to customize your lists at a granular level. With the instance of Adobe Campaign I have used, the system is so locked down I can't customize and test like I was used to in …
Chose Mailchimp
Used a few other platforms that perform the same tasks as Mailchimp. These platforms, while are much more robust than Mailchimp, have a much steeper learning curve. Yesmail and Adobe Campaign have alot more to offer that would work great for teams that need more automation and …
Chose Mailchimp
We had been using Constant Contact before moving to Mailchimp for several years. I decided to switch to Mailchimp after evaluating a number of features that at that time Constant Contact did not have. These included:

WYSIWYG editor
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Adobe CampaignMailchimp
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
8.8
92 Ratings
12% above category average
Mailchimp
8.0
475 Ratings
3% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor9.586 Ratings8.1440 Ratings
Dynamic content9.692 Ratings7.8423 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content9.687 Ratings7.9404 Ratings
Landing pages8.084 Ratings7.5327 Ratings
A/B testing8.888 Ratings8.0358 Ratings
Mobile optimization9.586 Ratings8.1434 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.090 Ratings8.5462 Ratings
List management6.392 Ratings8.1462 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences9.781 Ratings7.7319 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
6.7
6 Ratings
14% below category average
Mailchimp
9.1
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Lead nurturing automation7.16 Ratings6.22 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading7.35 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data quality management6.36 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks6.05 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
8.5
86 Ratings
11% above category average
Mailchimp
8.1
50 Ratings
6% above category average
Calendaring9.686 Ratings8.445 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing7.46 Ratings7.836 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
Mailchimp
8.2
44 Ratings
9% above category average
Social sharing and campaigns8.04 Ratings8.342 Ratings
Social profile integration7.74 Ratings8.135 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
8.5
92 Ratings
13% above category average
Mailchimp
7.6
460 Ratings
1% above category average
Dashboards8.091 Ratings7.7123 Ratings
Standard reports8.891 Ratings8.0458 Ratings
Custom reports8.787 Ratings7.250 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Campaign
8.3
88 Ratings
9% above category average
Mailchimp
7.4
44 Ratings
2% below category average
API8.879 Ratings7.833 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals9.682 Ratings6.57 Ratings
Customizability9.585 Ratings5.62 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com7.563 Ratings8.421 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM7.750 Ratings7.618 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM6.56 Ratings8.12 Ratings
Third-party software integrations00 Ratings7.639 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Adobe CampaignMailchimp
Small Businesses
Vbout
Vbout
Score 9.5 out of 10
Vbout
Vbout
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
PFL Direct Mail Platform
PFL Direct Mail Platform
Score 9.3 out of 10
PFL Direct Mail Platform
PFL Direct Mail Platform
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
PFL Direct Mail Platform
PFL Direct Mail Platform
Score 9.3 out of 10
PFL Direct Mail Platform
PFL Direct Mail Platform
Score 9.3 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Adobe CampaignMailchimp
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(97 ratings)
8.0
(499 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(5 ratings)
8.5
(51 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(41 ratings)
8.4
(373 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.5
(6 ratings)
Performance
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
7.7
(40 ratings)
7.9
(15 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(22 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(6 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe CampaignMailchimp
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
With Mailchimp we are able to revive and enhance our personal connect with the customers. The easy-to-use tools allows us to personalize the email content, segregate and target important leads & send relevant messages. Also, it offers interactive analysis on the performance of a particular campaign. We can judge the effectiveness of our mailers in real time.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
  • Mailchimp allows you to manage your mailing list really well. You can subscribe people, unsubscribe people manage the mailing list directly into segments, and what not.
  • Mailchimp has features where you can create campaigns based on your mailing lists and send out newsletters to your subscribers based on a multitude of parameters that you can setup. Such as send email daily, weekly, monthly and they also have event based mails that you can send out.
  • Mailchimp also has a feature where you can design your emails. The look and aesthetics are very important when sending emails to your subscribers and all those needs are addressed here.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
  • The interface remains a cluttered, non-intuitive mess. That's true from the haphazard way features are organized to the actual email layout.
  • Analytics have never been a priority, and I don't see that changing with Intuit's new ownership. I'm very frustrated over the limited choices for reporting, even when using third-party solutions. If I needed that function, I would not use MailChimp.
  • I would love to develop a workflow screen that lets me focus on the things that I use all the time. Customizing the interface where the content actually goes into the software would help.
  • I never understood why we couldn't import a document into a MC template. At best, we're spending time copying-and-pasting from one app into MC.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
We've had Mailchimp for about ten years, I want to say. I started with the company about four years ago, and I don't see us ever diverting to another source. It's easy for us to use, and we have all our clients already built into the database. I imagine we'll use them for as long as we have the company.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
Our team use Mailchimp almost every week. Overall UI is simple for anyone to get started with it. The resource library around using particular features is also there, so we don't have to train our team on this product. We also used a lot of other features as well.
Read full review
Reliability and Availability
Adobe
Aside from frequent error prompts, the program is quite dependable
Read full review
Mailchimp
I have, in the 4+ years that I've used Mailchimp, never seen an issue that restricted the use of their software/tools. I don't know of a single time when they're system crashed or went down. I could be wrong, but I honestly haven't experienced any issues with outages, errors or unplanned downtime
Read full review
Performance
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Mailchimp
I haven't noticed any slow speeds from Mailchimp or their tools. I think the landing pages load quickly and look nice. The email reports and editing operates smoothly and doesn't take time to load. Additionally, when I use Mailchimp in conjunction with Zapier + Hubspot I don't notice any drag between any of these tools
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
Website tools were easy to use and understand so a novice can easily meet or exceed their client's expectations! Loved that we were able to totally customize so that the e-mail we created conveyed our client's overall messaging consistent with their branding! Client love that we can provide turnkey services to support their sales and marketing teams!
Read full review
Implementation Rating
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Mailchimp
It's pretty easy to get up and running! There's a slight learning curve on a few things, but once you find where everything is located, you can import your list and send your first email. It really makes our clients feel great to see how quickly they can get that first email out.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a means to an end and a way to stay within GDPR laws. We may not use it if this wasn't a requirement. Other platforms are better for design or management of contacts, but Mailchimp offers that secure storage of data that is required. I have not tried other bulk mail applications, so am unable to compare these.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Adobe
No answers on this topic
Mailchimp
Mailchimp over the years I've used it has grown in leaps and bounds. They have added so many additional features than were previously available. They are truly an all-in-one marketing platform now. If you're a small operation and just want to add email to your marketing efforts, they're there for you. If you're a larger operation and want to start sending postcard advertisements, they can do that. If you'd good with that and want to kick up your marketing by going social, you can do that on their platform. They are truly able to be as small as you need, but also get quite large in whatever it is you'd like to do through their system.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Mailchimp
  • Mailchimp has allowed us to communicate effectively with thousands of customers with ease.
  • Mailchimp's use during our second year of business helped us expand our list of brands considerably (almost 30% YTD) because of regular interactions that we've launched.
  • Mailchimp ramp-up time is minimal for new users so I can turn things over to junior staff - saving me time and money.
Read full review
ScreenShots

Mailchimp Screenshots

Screenshot of Mailchimp's advanced analytics and reporting tools. These are used to monitor trends, track performance, and get actionable insights that help users to create better campaigns and drive customer engagement.Screenshot of Mailchimp's precise audience segmentation. Its AI simplifies the workflow by generating complex customer segments for highly personalized campaigns.Screenshot of omnichannel marketing. Campaigns can be built across multiple channels, and then managed from one convenient place.Screenshot of marketing automations with the Customer Journey Builder. This is used to reach the right people with the right message at exactly the right time, which helps to drive more repeat business, increase customer retention, and see more orders.Screenshot of Mailchimp's SMS marketing. SMS can be integrated into email, automations, and social campaigns.Screenshot of Mailchimp's AI, used to deliver relevant content faster. It can generate professionally written, on-brand marketing emails with the press of a button. The user only needs to review, edit, and send.