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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Campaign

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AAdobe 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

    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AOptimizely Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single, AI-powered workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and execute campaigns.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe CampaignOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe CampaignOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe CampaignOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
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    Optimizely
    Chose Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    I think both of them are great tools but we saw ourselves performing efficiently and with a great turn around time with Optimizely Content Marketing Platform. I have also used the other tool for a very brief time so was unable to explore the features completely to evaluate. …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    43 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    47 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    31 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Adobe CampaignOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Adobe Campaign and Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Adobe Campaign
    -
    Ratings
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    3.6
    48 Ratings
    74% below category average
    Ideation00 Ratings3.635 Ratings
    Approval workflows00 Ratings4.145 Ratings
    Content collaboration00 Ratings4.944 Ratings
    Content calendar00 Ratings3.040 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production00 Ratings2.525 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Adobe Campaign and Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Adobe Campaign
    -
    Ratings
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    3.7
    43 Ratings
    71% below category average
    Content hub00 Ratings3.336 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs00 Ratings3.628 Ratings
    Content distribution00 Ratings4.337 Ratings
    Content promotion00 Ratings4.231 Ratings
    Content automation00 Ratings3.532 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Adobe Campaign and Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Adobe Campaign
    -
    Ratings
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    3.0
    37 Ratings
    84% below category average
    Audience profiling and targeting00 Ratings8.23 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting00 Ratings1.830 Ratings
    Content performance analytics00 Ratings1.834 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard00 Ratings1.729 Ratings
    Competitive analytics00 Ratings1.619 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Adobe CampaignOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (97 ratings)
    3.6
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (42 ratings)
    3.2
    (47 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (41 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 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 CampaignOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    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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    Optimizely
    A 7 only because I think there's question marks around customization. However, I've seen very similar tools in the past where stakeholders have been skeptical, but as you get to know it and use it, you'll find actually you realize those benefits. I just think Optimizely could help its stakeholders and clients see those benefits early on versus later on. However, that's not to say it's not possible, so a 7 at this stage, but I think it's got potential in future. If you are a marketing firm who wants a centralized system for managing workflows and campaigns, it's great. It does that. However, there are better competitors fill in some of the gaps better than optimized leaders does. It could do better. I think for me, visually when I see, when I create a workflow or a campaign, I can see all the tasks associated with it and I've seen the way that our parent company uses it. It's just a list of all the tasks you see in one view. I think visually it needs improving. However, the purpose that it serves fundamentally, it's got potential, if that makes sense. It's going in the right direction, but I think competitors are doing some of it better than Optimizely is. I think they, like I was saying earlier, if they really want to realize the benefits of the product visually there needs to be some improvement. And then the controls element that I mentioned earlier as well, hopefully that answers both of your questions.
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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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    Optimizely
    • The CMP really is useful for us not only to manage the processes behind how we create content that we serve in different platforms like websites, landing pages, emails, social media, but it also help us as a team that is scattered around the globe to be able to be connected all the time to be able to see what we're working on, to be able to share assets as well. We are not reinventing the wheel to be able to show to other people within the organization what is happening at any given point. We use it not only for assets now, but we use it also for things like planning our webinars, planning our face-to-face events, so it truly is the heart of our marketing organization within the business.
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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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    Optimizely
    • One thing that could be improved is some of the promotions that happen in platform. For example, there's a Opal AI little bubble at the bottom right of the corner, which you can't move across the screen. So if you're trying to change the status of a step or you're trying to update a description within a step, that can be a bit challenging and as it seems to be quite an easy fix.
    • I would love to see a capability in terms of having visual representation that we can share out with stakeholders that don't necessarily need access to CMP. But for that level of detail, we don't want it to go too granular, but we do want to be able to share in a quick and visual manner some of the activities that are happening so we can keep everybody in the loop without having to create different variations via different tools.
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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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    Optimizely
    The tool is over-engineered and overly complicated. It makes my job much harder and not easier. There's much simpler tools for a lot less money
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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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    Optimizely
    The editorial calendar is the one I check multiple times every day. It gives me a clear picture of what's in progress, what's due, and where things can be moving faster. And, there's no need to open a separate doc or ask anyone for a status update.
    Also, the workflows are another super useful thing. Being able to assign specific reviewers to specific steps and know that nothing moves forward until they've acted has eliminated many repetitive processes.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Adobe
    Aside from frequent error prompts, the program is quite dependable
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    Optimizely
    I have not experienced any prolonged outages. From time to time there will be errors but nothing that significantly slows down production
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    Performance
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's performance is generally good. Nothing that has impacted production. Page load speed doesn't typically lag longer than a few seconds. Reports take some time but not any longer than we're used to with other platforms. We have not experienced lag when integrating with other platforms
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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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    Optimizely
    The NewsCred team is very responsive and helpful with any technical issues.
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    Online Training
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
    Training was clear and concise. It was intuitive and helped me understand how to navigate the platform. Options to dive in on each action or skip to learn about areas of regular use. Resource links available to when I had additional questions or needed more training in a specific area. Overall, the training allowed me to use the platform without interruption
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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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    Optimizely
    We haven't yet explored the CMS or other products within the suite but we see the potential to move all of our tools to Optimizely One. I see this really helping us gain clarity in the end to end content lifecycle, and help us use our resources and bandwidth more strategically
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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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    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
    Optimizely is generally a reliable platform for A/B testing and digital experience management. It's helpful for it's stability, flexibility, and comprehensive features, which is helpful when managing an enterprise website
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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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    Optimizely
    • The program has allowed us to meet our content goals more easily (e.g.: we publish X articles per month and track where each article is at).
    • It's helped us improve the accuracy of our information. We have SEO, content strategists, and legal teams involved in the workflow now because it's easy to manage.
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    ScreenShots

    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of Optimizely Opal: Opal, Optimizely's AI, is an extension of the marketing workforce. From building comprehensive campaign and content briefs and suggesting how to best execute a campaign, to creating on-brand content for any channel and providing suggestions for ongoing optimization, Opal's capabilities and AI agents make "doing more with less" a reality.Screenshot of Marketing Work Requests: Dynamic intake forms, automatic routing, and integrated workflows ensure that requested work gets completed, fast.Screenshot of Library (Digital Asset Management): With Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's DAM, users can automate the management of brand-approved assets, all within the same platform where content creation, collaboration and publishing take place.Screenshot of The Editor, with Embedded AI: Content is created for multiple channels with the help of Opal, Optimizely's native AI.Screenshot of Calendar: This provides visibility into planned and scheduled content and campaigns with the ability to save and share views.