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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)

    Score4.3 out of 10
    N/AThe former LinkedIn Lead Accelerator was based on the technology acquired with Bizo in 2014. Bizo no longer exists as a separate entity, and LinkedIn Lead Accelerator has since been discontinued. Linkedin now offers LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, an advertising driven solution.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

    Outbrain

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AOutbrain, headquartered in New York with offices globally, is an internationally known native advertising platform for curating and publishing content across a variety of channels and media spaces, containing editorial controls, analytics for judging impact, and related features.N/A
    Pricing
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)Google AdsOutbrain
    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
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)Google AdsOutbrain
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details———
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)Google AdsOutbrain
    Considered Multiple Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)
    As I described above, LinkedIn Lead Accelerator does a much better job on professional targeting. Neither Twitter Ads nor AdWords offers such a good segmentation when it comes to particular industry, company type, job position or level of job experience. We are still using Twitt…
    Incentivized
    Chose Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)
    There are many including Facebook, Twitter, Adwords however LinkedIn has been the foremost professional social media platform with great filtering and as a result is low cost per click compared to the others.
    Incentivized
    Google
    Chose Google Ads
    Google Ads large Data on users help create very specific and effective campaigns. Also, the new machine learning campaigns have proved to be useful and time-saving, with great results. These kinds of campaigns have helped me to increase conversion rates and other useful …
    Incentivized
    Outbrain
    Chose Outbrain
    When we're recommending a Native campaign, Outbrain is our platform of choice. Taboola is pretty comparable, but the setup with Outbrain is a little easier, difficult to comment on the quality of traffic they drive, but know that Outbrain is acceptable. Yahoo Gemini does a few …
    Incentivized
    Chose Outbrain
    outbrain and Taboola both offer similar services. Outbrain had a larger network of quality sites where higher quality backend users were expected.
    Incentivized
    Chose Outbrain
    Outbrain's reporting is not as robust as Taboola's. I have also seen better conversion results through Taboola. Though I believe it depends on the vertical you are advertising for.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    81%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)Google AdsOutbrain
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued) and Google Ads and Outbrain
    Feature
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Outbrain
    -
    Ratings
    Data Transfer8.83 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    DSP integration7.93 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued) and Google Ads and Outbrain
    Feature
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Outbrain
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation9.03 Ratings8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment8.03 Ratings7.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising9.03 Ratings7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation8.22 Ratings7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting9.13 Ratings6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings6.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued) and Google Ads and Outbrain
    Feature
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)
    7.9
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Google Ads
    7.4
    11 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Outbrain
    -
    Ratings
    Ad dashboards7.93 Ratings7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports7.93 Ratings7.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking8.83 Ratings7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.93 Ratings7.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-channel ad management7.93 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization6.93 Ratings6.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued) and Google Ads and Outbrain
    Feature
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Outbrain
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)Google AdsOutbrain
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    1.5
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bizo / LinkedIn Lead Accelerator (Discontinued)Google AdsOutbrain
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    In my opinion, LinkedIn Lead Accelerator is very well suited for B2B companies that want to target their B2B clients. If the company is B2C oriented, it would be pretty expensive for them to find and acquire sufficient amount of clients, it is better to use other platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Outbrain
    If your client or organization is running a high volume awareness campaign, Outbrain would be a platform to diversify your mix with. Pretty low maintenance and easy to set up, you can get ads running in a few minutes. If your primary goal is conversions, there are probably better channels you can use where the targeting is a little more transparent and would likely see a higher avg conversion rate.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • It auto-populates the application forms with information from users’ LinkedIn profiles and allows them to instantly submit those forms thereby saving us time in gathering the additional information.
    Incentivized
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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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    Outbrain
    • Website network: Outbrain provides high-quality websites in its network so that you can get a quality audience.
    • Affordable pricing: The CPC offered by Outbrain is relatively cheaper than other alternatives.
    • Content dashboard: The dashboard allows you to edit the content before publishing it on Outbrain's platform.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • As an integration partner the only challenge we faced was coordinating our strategic services teams to provide a single recommendation/plan to mutual clients. This was easily addressed through a communication plan agreed to by both parties.
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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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    Outbrain
    • Customer Service - Speaking to a human is nearly impossible, there is no "chat" function, and no phone number immediately available. Ultimately, I've had to email a generic CS contact and wait several days before heading back.
    • High Number of Guidelines - The number of guidelines one must meet before using Outbrain is much higher than any other ad platform I've used. Most of them are highly specific and not necessarily items that a website would have out-of-the-box.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I am using them as a customer rather than a partner at my new company, Poppin. We are are marketing to B2B prospects and customers and see Bizo as a key partner.
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    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.
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    Outbrain
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Outbrain
    The use case is very obvious, brand awareness and low cost conversions because of its reach in billions. The platform is easy to use, well sorted and defined with good click optimized algorithms and brands can use it without hesitation. If monitored well and optimized accordingly, this can prove to be one of the best advertising channels.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Outbrain
    We had an account manager assigned to us, but they really didn't offer too much help outside of the financial side of things. We used the self-serve platform with mild suggestions every few weeks from our reps amounting to "spend a bit more here."
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Outbrain
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    They (Bizo) were able to reach actual business prospects as opposed to others that reached more consumer prospects. As a result, our ROI is much better.
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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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    Outbrain
    Here at AdRizer my personal ad sources primarily revolve around Google Ads & Outbrain. Taboola is extremely similar to Outbrain minus the fact that strategies are dictated on the account level unlike by campaign with Outbrain
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • With LinkedIn Lead Accelerator we've found a pretty good amount of qualified leads
    • It saves a lot of time when you can do such a detailed targeting
    • Although the LinkedIn Lead Accelerator prices are quite high, we had a positive ROI
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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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    Outbrain
    • None. My perspective is that further testing is needed as well as additional tracking capabilities applied to be able to assess value. However, it's a CPC model and relatively inexpensive in regards to additional reach, especially if it's packaged in with an Earned media push into the marketplace.
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