Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing is a generative AI-first application that lets marketing teams create their own ads and emails to drive personalized marketing campaigns.
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Ion Interactive
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Ion is an enterprise-grade content experience platform that empowers modern marketers and designers to create no-code interactive content experiences integrated with their CRM or marketing automation tools.
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Pricing
Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing
Ion Interactive
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Managed Services + SaaS
Custom
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing
Ion Interactive
Free Trial
No
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
$5,500 per customer
Additional Details
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ion’s Build Anything SaaS platform provides organizations with an entirely new and agile interactive content marketing capability. It enables non-technical marketers and designers to create, test and measure an unlimited number of all types of interactive content marketing experiences. It includes unlimited seats, experiences, tests, customization, phone and email support, analytics and more.
Like with many things AI generation is a tool that can be utilized but should not be solely relied on. Sometimes you need to tinker with the results, go back and modify things, help the program learn YOUR VOICE and what YOU need to share. Not everything is going to be perfect the first time you try, but the more you use the product and work on adjusting to how you want things to be, Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing is the perfect solution to many problems.
If you want to choose a quick start template and fill in the fields with your content, Ion will be fantastic for you. We've done this with whitepapers and quizzes and it's been great and extremely easy to use. If you have an exact idea of what you want, and a background in web development, you may get frustrated. Ion has some quirks that make it tricky to fully customize - everyone once in a while I really just want to go into the HTML and make some changes, but can't. If you are looking to reuse a piece of content for specific targeting (industry or account-specific), Ion is great. The dynamic substitutions are great and very helpful.
As with most products, PfM is in its early stages. There is a great foundation with a focus on core needs, but there are clear areas where growth (and connection) with other marketing solutions will open new frontiers for marketing growth. I expect the iterations to this solution will continue building on the current functionality and continue to exponentially increase its value.
This feels like a solution that is designed and marketed to enterprise clients, but does miss a significant gap with smaller organizations or marketing agencies. It would be fantastic to see this robust solution become attainable by smaller orgs, as these are the ones who will be able to transform their current operations into robust marketing programs.
Ion University, while stacked with a wealth of information, is difficult to navigate from a troubleshooting perspective. The tutorial videos are all very helpful, but they are also very long. Sometimes I would want to search for how to address a particular issue I was struggling with and it would be a two-minute segment buried in a 45-minute video.
Again, getting back the self-guidance side of things. I think a lot of the tutorials are set up in a way that makes sense to Ion, but not as much to the end user.
I think the controls admins use when creating new users could be a bit more straightforward.
We use it for every landing page and we plan on only doing more dynamic content creation. We dont see that option coming in-house any time ever in the future. ION has a very robust platform for us to work with that really allows us to do more for our customers in regards to having the one-to-one conversation.
Overall it is high on usage basis as customer’s experience is the top goal of our organisation. It helps generate dynamic prompts to customers based on their app journey and inputs. Also it is compliant to governance standards which reduces risk and improves usage. The marketing campaigns through advertisements and emails is useful
Usability is straightforward, with extensive documentation and tutorials provided to ensure landing pages are built to specifications and can be optimized for performance. Built-in platform funnels give insight into customer dropoff, success/failures, and conversions (at a glance). Setting up a landing page can be done quickly and easily, with numerous integrations (CRMs like SalesForce, for instance) supported
The ION support team is amazing. There has not been a single issue they they could not solve for me. If there is a feature or request that they do not have, they have even, on occasion, created custom scripts for our team. *Update 6/5/17 - ION has continued to delight on multiple occasions. I appreciate their attention to detail and ability to solve whatever issue I have. After 3+ years of use and support, ION still has my full endorsement.
They offer a great amount of online training, videos, articles, etc. There is usually an answer available if you run into an issue. I would recommend taking advantage of the online training they offer. I wish I would have done it sooner.
There were a lot of things we learned about the tool once we really got in and got our hands dirty. Being hands-on was essential for our team to be able to utilize ION in the most effective manner.
I have been a long time Adobe user and I trust Adobe products and this was the only kind of product that I have even bothered looking into. I'm sure there is other things out there, but I am satisfied with what I have seen with Adobe GenStudio for Performance Marketing.
I was not the decision maker to choose this over Uberflip, but the UI is much more appealing to me. It's incredibly easy to use, clean, and from a backend standpoint, it requires little to no tech savvy'ness. Our team has really enjoyed using it and has required no training what-so-ever.
Separate client portfolios enable scalability, however, some elements are still grouped for all accounts so it's difficult to scale for an ad agency with multiple clients. Would prefer totally separate sections of the platform for all clients with each element housed separately.
Though we have not had the service long enough to see any measurable outcomes, we've been able to create interactive web content faster than ever before
The speed with which we can build interactive pages and re-use assets has been critical as projects we've done with Ion have made their way around and more and more internal clients have said "me too" for their own projects
It is very pricey at $28K for the base annual subscription (dropping to $24k after the first year), so depending on your budgetary situation, that may make no sense for your team--but we had contract money set aside for a company to build us a microsite for around the amount, so we just used it for Ion instead and will now be building the microsite ourselves using it
