Adobe Marketing Cloud vs. Brandfolder

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Marketing Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Adobe Marketing Cloud is a suite of products including analytics, social, advertising, targeting and web experience management. It comprises foremost the popular integrated web content management and digital asset management (WCMS / DAM) solution Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Campaign's cross-channel campaign management and marketing resource management capabilities (based on technology acquired with Neolane in 2013), the Adobe Audience Manager data management platform, analytics, and other…N/A
Brandfolder
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Brandfolder, from Smartsheet since the 2020 acquisition, supports brands' content and creative assets with adigital asset management software that helps organize, control, create, distribute and measure creative assets across hundreds of formats including 8K video, documents, images and 3D.N/A
Pricing
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Marketing Cloud
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Ratings
Brandfolder
7.3
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data exportability00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Content analytics00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
DAM Features
Comparison of DAM Features features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Marketing Cloud
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Ratings
Brandfolder
7.9
1 Ratings
3% below category average
Uploading assets00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Downloading assets00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Categories00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Asset storage00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Asset sharing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Asset search00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Tagging system00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Content editing00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Embed codes00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Metadata00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Collections00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
User access00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Workflow automations00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Related asset discovery00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(13 ratings)
9.6
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
If you have a rather large budget and/or several clients to take advantage of the AMC, you would likely benefit from its all-in-one solutions. There are a myriad of excellent tools for digital marketing professionals to take advantage of within the suite, and creating a campaign becomes much more manageable for collaboration and execution through to reporting thanks to the suite's vertically integrated nature.
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Smartsheet
It is so well suited for a cloud based DAM. It's loads so fast, works well in every browser. With remote work now it is so easily for our team to upload, organize, share, and view analytics on our assets. The best feature is the templating system which allows your designers to take what they design in Adobe Indesign and denote which areas are editable and it keeps the formatting, style, and fonts to the end user. The only other options on the market would require the designer to rebuild the design on a separate platform like Canvas. I wish the platform did more to help with handling videos. It doesn't display the runtime on a video, the specs, or play captions inline with the video. I also wish it would do media pushing to social media platforms.
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Pros
Adobe
  • Content Analysis - Between the Pages report and the participation metrics which show what percentage of conversions a page was involved with, you get an excellent analysis of what content is important and effective, and what is not. With the ability to add up to ten metrics side by side, drill downs, and power tools like Ad Hoc Analysis, you will know exactly where you need better content.
  • Pathing - Adobe Analytics captures every single path of every single visit of every single visitor and puts it at your fingertips. There are tools to aggregate common paths so you find out how frequent they are, lots of good page flow reports, and tools to pick out specific paths that will keep you from being overwhelmed. This has been absolutely invaluable to us as we have learned about how our customers are using our sites and which paths are leading to exits rather than converions.
  • Customization - There are so many custom metrics and dimensions you can add and you can create segments based on all of them, along with the out of the box metrics and dimensions. You truly get an implementation that is specific to your company, your needs, your strategy, and your site.
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Smartsheet
  • Documents such as contact lists and cooperative programs
  • Featured listings, agents, and maps are just a few examples of creative advertising concepts
  • Provides organization
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Cons
Adobe
  • Customer services could be improved for smaller clients. Adobe Marketing Cloud provides great support for most of its customers, however, it may not work well enough for smaller engagements.
  • Adobe could offer multiple price options based on the usage, which is missing at the moment.
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Smartsheet
  • If you have a large collection of images, like we do, and you go 2 or 3 pages deep and select an image, then close the image, the collection snaps back to page 1. It's pretty frustrating.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
Although a powerful tool, Google Analytics has been catching up in capabilities and is much simpler to use. As analytics move to the spotlight, more sections in a company want to have access to it. However, creating straightforward reports/dashboards and sharing them with different groups is not a strength of Adobe Marketing Cloud.
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Smartsheet
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
In comparison to other services, Adobe is particularly robust, and the platform is better suited to customers with a high level of maturity in the digital environment, who need a platform to overcome and solve day-to-day problems.
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Smartsheet
Brandfolder has the best UI/UX for the end user and the administrator. The UI/UX is modern and not just a recreation of a folder system like old OS file systems. Brandfolder is so visual based and loads so quickly that makes it easy for users to find their assets quickly. The templating is totally unique when compared to other options on the market. The tagging system, duplicate detection, collections, and stacking files into an asset makes the platform efficient to manage and use
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • It has helped us track our ROI better and see costs versus revenue coming in directly from emails.
  • A/B testing is very helpful to ensure the best email is being chosen to get sent out.
  • Our deliverability has improved a lot.
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Smartsheet
  • Cut down on time doubling time on assets
  • It took a long time to set up and train.
  • It is very expensive.
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