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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BannerFlow

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ABannerFlow provides the ability to build ad campaigns without design help in seconds, not weeks. BannerFlow removes the ad production process. Customers create one single initial banner and the tool will create the sizes for them in a few seconds. Changes can be done in real-time simultaneously and remotely on the fly on all campaign ads.N/A

    Google Ads

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.

    $500

    in Ads credit in the first 60 days

    Pricing
    BannerFlowGoogle Ads
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Offer A
    $500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer B
    $1500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer C
    $3000
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BannerFlowGoogle Ads
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAfter a consultation, we will set up a demo of the platform to showcase the features that suit your needs best. We do not have standard pricing packages as our offers are customised to you and your company's needs.—
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    Community Pulse
    BannerFlowGoogle Ads
    Considered Both Products
    BannerFlow AB
    No answer on this topic
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    81%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    Features
    BannerFlowGoogle Ads
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of BannerFlow and Google Ads
    Feature
    BannerFlow
    7.5
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Data Transfer7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    DSP integration7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of BannerFlow and Google Ads
    Feature
    BannerFlow
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Ad campaign creation8.92 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Ad deployment8.42 Ratings7.610 Ratings
    Display advertising9.52 Ratings7.410 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation8.92 Ratings7.511 Ratings
    Sequence targeting7.12 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings6.45 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of BannerFlow and Google Ads
    Feature
    BannerFlow
    8.4
    2 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Google Ads
    7.4
    11 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Ad dashboards8.92 Ratings7.511 Ratings
    Ad performance reports8.92 Ratings7.811 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking9.52 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.02 Ratings7.211 Ratings
    Cross-channel ad management8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization7.52 Ratings6.911 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of BannerFlow and Google Ads
    Feature
    BannerFlow
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
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    BannerFlowGoogle Ads
    Small Businesses
    AdRoll
    Score3.7 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Criteo Commerce Growth
    Score8 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Criteo Commerce Growth
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    BannerFlowGoogle Ads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BannerFlowGoogle Ads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BannerFlow AB
    Bannerflow works great for organisations who produce thousands of creatives in different formats every month and run creatives based advertising across multiple online channels- it helps you save redesign time and costs across your team by making the process easy and efficient. It also helps directly run ads and experiments and analyse the results using creative focussed data
    Incentivized
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    Google
    Google Ads is a useful advertising tool to build brand exposure and generate lead volumes for your chosen product. Whilst it can be costly at times due to competitor bidding strategies and requires constant monitoring to ensure campaigns perform as expected, it typically provides the desired quality and quantity of leads for custom budgets.
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    Pros
    BannerFlow AB
    • Designs can be easily copied and adapted to different sizes to save time
    • Extensive processes for collaboration and approvals within the tool
    • allows you to share direct links to advertiser
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    Google
    • Automated targeting via Smart Shopping campaign. It's one of the best campaign types in Google Ads. In the beginning, you may see lower revenue and ROAS, but once you give some meaningful time to your campaign, it is most likely to perform well.
    • Smart bidding strategies: Google Ads has developed some really great bidding strategies such as maximizing conversion and maximizing conversion with ROAS settings. Based on one's requirement and their goal with revenue and target ROAS, they can choose the appropriate bidding strategy.
    • Reporting: A business owner and advertising must know about their audiences, how their campaigns have been performing, what's working and what's not, and for that reason, powerful, effective reporting is needed, and Google Ads provides rich details reporting that covers almost every aspect of a business.
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    Cons
    BannerFlow AB
    • It can be a bit slow at times.
    • More flexibility in design templates.
    • Occasional bugs.
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    Google
    • If you don't know what you're doing, it will be a costly mistake. You need to target ads, and it is difficult the first time to do that.
    • There isn't a feature to run an add for a couple set date spans, just hours you want to run them or a single date span.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BannerFlow AB
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    I think Google Ads is good for getting your company out there and becoming more visible to potential customers in general. However, for specific product launches, social media advertising might be a better fit. Also, our user base is younger so social media is a better channel for our target audience.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    BannerFlow AB
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    This is more of a subjective rating, because I think it can be increased with how much our ad spend is. The more of an ad spend, the more visibility we can get, and therefore all features can climb. With an overall larger presence the usability is that where we can get messages out quick, and that's the main thing we try to do with our campaigns.
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    Support Rating
    BannerFlow AB
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    We have not yet had an account rep who hasn't tried to bully me or other employees to raise our budgets. At the same time, several years ago, one attempted to help refine our ads and ended up changing the ads to be something we were not affiliated with
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    Online Training
    BannerFlow AB
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Alternatives Considered
    BannerFlow AB
    BannerFlow is much better than handling everything in-house (i.e. creating advertisements yourself and manually adding them to each social media platform). It doesn't require the same bandwidth and time requirement as creating everything in-house, along with analyzing advertisements. Everything is accessible in one place, the creation, the publishing, the A/B testing, etc. so it is much simpler.
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    Google
    Our agency invests heavily in Google Ads (particularly paid search advertising) on behalf of our clients relative to competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo because Google is the top search engine in the world. Google collects the most search data which enables the company to improve its AI to drive better performance for agencies and brands. As such, our paid search and app install campaigns always start with Google. If a client has a large budget, we will allocate media dollars to other search engines, but in some cases, the entire search budget goes to Google because we see the best returns.
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    Return on Investment
    BannerFlow AB
    • Saved us many man hours in redesign
    • Helped us launch campaigns faster
    • Saved us collaboration costs for marketing agencies
    • Helped maintain brand guideline consistency
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    Google
    • Google Ads is often one of our highest ROI channels, especially when you factor in branded ads.
    • Depending on the stage your business is in, search ads can be really powerful from an ROI perspective, providing an investment with a very high spend cap.
    • If you do not manage the campaigns well though, you can quickly spend a lot of money on nothing. So make sure someone is keeping an eye on your account.
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