Airship vs. MessageGears

For Vodafone, the major advantage is to use customized push notifications for different user groups, and this enables us to use segment and use target based notifications for a given sample of users. We believe we have not fully explored or used the potential of Airship for other use cases yet

Incentivized

MessageGears can be a solid, inexpensive email solution and you can be able to send millions of emails per year. In 2020, we delivered over 235 million emails at a fraction of what that would cost with any other email service provider. We worked with MessageGears on a custom solution with our database.

Incentivized

• Simple setup of push messages + automations
• Most important push + reporting features available
• Friendly and individual customer support
• Regular launch + optimization of features
• High customer engagement over Airship

Incentivized

• The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.

• Make it easier to manager an account with multiple apps
• Data in PA tool often loads very slowly
• Streamline journey steps

Incentivized

• Multivariate testing
• WYSIWYG email builder
• SQL audience error report
• Native reporting

Incentivized

The interface takes a bit getting used to in order to know how to take advantage of everything. Some of the analytics that are available are particularly hard to find, so it's important to pay attention when customer support reviews everything, but everything I'd want and need in terms of Push and In-App messaging is all there.

Our situation is unique so I believe we are working on a semi-outdated UI which needs a tune up / version upgrade. Similarly, our custom connection means that we do not have access to the full feature set so I've never experienced MessageGears' best functionality

Incentivized

I have not had to interact much with customer support as I have been able to find the vast majority of the answers I'm looking for within their documentation, which I very much appreciate because it saves me a lot of time. Customer support has been responsive and helpful for the most part during the couple of interactions I've had.

MessageGears support is always quick to respond when we have an issue, which is rare. Gail has been our main rep and she has been great. We don't have many issues so luckily, we don't need to lean on their customer support team much. That said, it would be beneficial to hear from upper management more.

Incentivized

Airship is superb in customer support against all others. Even though I feel CleverTap may be a better choice but probably will not be as easy as Airship when setting them up and operating it. As for MoEngage, the last experience I had was simply not good enough, but that was more than two years ago in my region.

Incentivized

MessageGears doesn't come close to Salesforce Marketing Cloud. We chose MessageGears based on how data was accessed. We never really got a good preview of how the system works or what was available, so we didn't know everything that it was lacking until we started using it.

• It's had a positive impact on engagement.
• It helps lend credibility to our product given that major sites like CNN, AP, ESPN, etc. have push notifications.
• I have not come across any negative impacts.

Incentivized

• Sending more email!
• Onboarding handoff was a little rough
• Great control on who we are sending to
• Dynamic content is very easy!

Incentivized