AdRoll vs. Criteo

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AdRoll
Score 4.0 out of 10
N/A
AdRoll provides a platform, performance, and services to meet companys' marketing goals while streamlining marketing operation. Solutions technologies for brand awareness, retargeting, and abandoned cart recovery. And the AdRoll Cross-Channel Performance Dashboard displays campaigns holistically so users can analyze performance, run reports, gather insights.
$40
per month
Criteo
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Criteo Commerce Growth (formerly Criteo Marketing Solutions) helps users to achieve customer acquisition and retention objectives with simple yet powerful automated advertising for the open internet. It features an open commerce dataset to target continuously refreshed, high-intent audiences. The user's first-party datais enriched with commerce data from 22k advertisers & thousands of publishers to up-level how to engage existing customers. The solution enables users to…
$1
per month
Pricing
AdRollCriteo
Editions & Modules
Essentials
$12
per month
Growth
$25
per month
Starter
Free
Basic
$1
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AdRollCriteo
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is based on a CPC model and is dependent on traffic generated to a site
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Community Pulse
AdRollCriteo
Considered Both Products
AdRoll
Chose AdRoll
Adroll is slightly better than Criteo, in my opinion. Criteo, only does web ads right now, which is frustrating if you are also running social campaigns. Adroll continues to be a one stop shop for all advertising campaigns and is extremely convenient in that regard. Criteo …
Chose AdRoll
AdRoll has the ability to both utilize and customize ad creatives. Criteo forces customers to use their ad formatting and specs. quantcast only offers data in 30 day increments, ad roll allows for real time data analysis in a live dashboard that's easy to read, understand and …
Chose AdRoll
The reason why we chose AdRoll over Criteo is due to the superior seeming dynamic targeting of AdRoll.
Chose AdRoll
While I haven't used some of the other similar competitors such as Criteo or AdTheorent, many of our clients have before switching over. Being able to go into the accounts and look at the data, the results we've witnessed have been subpar. One platform our agency has had …
Chose AdRoll
AdRoll is perhaps the best for very small businesses (less the 50 employees), is the easiest to set-up and administer. Google Marketing I would rate the best overall tool - excels with future product direction, campaign management, and targeting. Criteo has perhaps the best …
Chose AdRoll
Again, AdRoll is a great platform for small to mid size businesses, but it doesn't offer every feature one might want. No platform really does. I'm having a lot of customers come to me know either using or wanting to use Criteo and the decision is generally between AdRoll or Cr…
Criteo
Chose Criteo
I prefer AdRoll when it comes to retargeting. We selected Criteo due to the client requesting we test it out. Criteo is much harder to manage and to date has provided less than stellar ROAS.

Criteo, however, is much better than using the Google Display Network on AdWords. …
Chose Criteo
We used AdRoll in the past but Criteo is a much more solid partner to work with. I wasn't in the company at the time they used AdRoll but from the performance that the team says Criteo had in comparison, it's a greater than AdRoll. They think it is essentially due to Criteo …
Chose Criteo
AdRoll doesn't even come close to stacking up with Criteo Dynamic Retargeting. The customer support is worse, the targeting options are not as clear, and the performance is drastically worse than Criteo. We will not be going back any time soon.
Chose Criteo
Returns at the same cost.
Chose Criteo
Consistently performing on display network campaigns focused on retargeting.
Chose Criteo
At the time, Criteo was the only one that charged on the click. I'm sure there are potential customers out there with the sophistication to segment their audience to see the real effect of different methods of attribution, but click attribution was something my organization …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
AdRollCriteo
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
AdRoll
6.7
21 Ratings
10% below category average
Criteo
-
Ratings
Data Transfer6.721 Ratings00 Ratings
DSP integration6.815 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
AdRoll
5.5
44 Ratings
35% below category average
Criteo
-
Ratings
Ad campaign creation3.443 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad deployment8.144 Ratings00 Ratings
Display advertising5.541 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation5.544 Ratings00 Ratings
Sequence targeting5.026 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
AdRoll
3.5
44 Ratings
76% below category average
Criteo
-
Ratings
Ad dashboards3.244 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad performance reports3.344 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking4.542 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting3.038 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-channel ad management4.531 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization2.828 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AdRollCriteo
Small Businesses
Google Ad Manager
Google Ad Manager
Score 8.6 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Medium-sized Companies
The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk
Score 8.0 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Enterprises
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Score 8.8 out of 10

No answers on this topic

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User Ratings
AdRollCriteo
Likelihood to Recommend
3.6
(49 ratings)
8.5
(58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(12 ratings)
Support Rating
1.5
(6 ratings)
8.5
(12 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AdRollCriteo
Likelihood to Recommend
NextRoll
Adroll is perfect for companies and situations in which you are trying to retarget customers with specific products. Their platform is perfect for dynamic content on their web and social ads. Also, if you are running multiple campaigns at once then the Adroll platform is perfect when organizing many different campaigns at once. If you are just running one or two social campaigns I feel it is easier to go directly to the source and you can probably leave Adroll out of the mix
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Criteo
Marketing Solutions by Criteo has a great track record that speaks highly of its reputation, we users of this program are happy with the performance and impact it generates in the cloud, in order to connect with new customers, added to this, This software offers us the appropriate tools to professionally manage all these processes and have total control of electronic commerce. Our case has been the protagonist in the increase in sales, that is why we are always willing to recommend this incredible program.
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Pros
NextRoll
  • A customer service rep can help us out with any campaign questions, any time during the work week.
  • The platform has a very transparent platform that provides great detail about analytics of the ads.
  • The platform shows what digital advertising mediums are working the best for your website, not just the ads that you run through them.
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Criteo
  • You are able to access to their data pool, to build audiences with just an email list (encrypted and hashed)
  • Easy to use platform and easy way to analyze data from the dashboard. Everyone could manage the dashboard easily enough to surf through the data and understand the performance. Also you have the help of your account manager.
  • The powerful algorithm drives good results for your company, without too much effort. And they are continuously improving with new features (design types, campaigns, platform, mobile / app products ...)
  • Support for testing all of the integration of the events to check if data is well received. Google Chrome extension, testing mode inside the dashboard with error detection and also the help of your account manager + technical stuff.
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Cons
NextRoll
  • Improved level of support during the technical setup process would really improve the onboarding process
  • Consistent, proactive account management is key with organizations like AdRoll. A dedicated rep goes such a long way.
  • More granular reporting would help with back-end optimization and client recommendations
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Criteo
  • I think if they had a free trial option, we would be able to better evaluate our need before signing up.
  • I wish there were more targeting features other than retargeting. Would love to target based on interests.
  • Video features are limited. Would love to see new products here.
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Likelihood to Renew
NextRoll
We like AdRoll as it's filling a hole in our advertising right now, but it's not our favorite platform for running our online ads. Google and Facebook especially are our favorites, as we can do much more with them than we can with AdRoll, hence the 7 out of 10 rating.
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Criteo
Criteo is the only remarketing firm worth using for a retailer, in my opinion.
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Usability
NextRoll
Once tags are given and things are set up, it is fairly easy to utilize the reporting dashboard and check in on your ongoing campaigns. Metrics are simple to follow and can be toggled for specific dates or other qualifiers
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Criteo
Criteo's platform is very easy to use from a marketing standpoint if you understand key terms. The frontend is very user-friendly and I personally had no issues. I enjoy being able to see key results and metrics being tracked from the dashboard. It is also easy to filter things as desired to break down data.
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Support Rating
NextRoll
We don't use AdRoll support much, but when we have it's been fine, in line with other advertising platforms where it takes a few days maximum to resolve an issue that you have with them. In general though, the platform is very self sufficient and we do not have to use their support much, which is a good thing.
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Criteo
I think Marketing Solutions by Criteo offers a very robust solution for an ad tech platform and their support team is very knowledgeable about their product. I would like to see, though, more webinars and training about the technology behind the product to give us more tools to talk to our customers with more information and better visuals.
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Implementation Rating
NextRoll
Implementation was easy, as all we needed to do was use Google Tag Manager's built in AdRoll tag type and input our client ID and we were up and running. If you're not using Google Tag Manager, I imagine the implementation would be relatively easy as well, as all that's needed is a basic pixel.
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Criteo
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Alternatives Considered
NextRoll
AdRoll is better than Taboola in that the ad creation process. I like how the ads have better retargeting than Taboola. Also, I can make the ads look more elegant and fit our brand more than Taboola. Adroll's analytics are also better than Taboola in my experience. Lastly, Tabool is relatively the same price as Taboola.
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Criteo
Criteo Dynamic Retargeting brings different value and possibilities compared to the others. It is a great addition to Google Ads, if you are not doing well with Display Campaigns and/or if you cannot use Dynamic Remarketing on Google cause your products are not "physical". Compared to other Retargeting solutions, its CPC based model and Post click attribution make all the difference. Finally, the account support is great plus it will help you in all aspects or difficulties.
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Return on Investment
NextRoll
  • Mixed - while the tool provides an invaluable productivity gain the actual ROI it provides is less certain. We found if used in combination with other revenue analytics it was useful to determine the impact it had on revenue from returning visitors. If data is used on its own the impact on revenue is less quantifiable.
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Criteo
  • More Impressions/Exposure - We wanted additional branding, and Criteo provided plenty of exposure to a relevant audience for us.
  • Benchmark for CPA - We tested several different retargeting providers, and Criteo provided a benchmark amount we should pay per CPA, when compared to other providers.
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Screenshot of CriteoDynamic Retargeting banner