Bound vs. Dynamic Yield

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bound
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Bound (formerly Get Smart Content) is a website segmentation and targeting platform that enables marketers to read a website visitor's digital body language and serve relevant content based on the person's stage in the buying journey. Using behavioral, demographic, and firmographic data, Bound creates personalized web experiences for both anonymous and known website visitors to increase the effectiveness of marketing efforts and dramatically reduce the buyer's path to conversion. Bound partners…N/A
Dynamic Yield
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Dynamic Yield is presented as an AI-powered Experience Optimization platform that delivers individualized experiences at every customer touchpoint: web, apps, email, kiosks, IoT, and call centers. The platform’s data management capabilities provide for a unified view of the customer, to allow the rapid and scalable creation of highly targeted digital interactions. Marketers, product managers, and engineers use Dynamic Yield for: Launching new personalization…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
BoundDynamic Yield
Considered Both Products
Bound
Chose Bound
It has the inability to export subject line or ISP complaints that require manual pulling by each campaign when needed. Results from variable tests are also reported only as a percentage of chosen KPI (opens, clicks, etc.). There's no ability to see hard numbers from the tests …
Chose Bound
Get Smart Content is what we primarily use to serve up segmented content. The only other method or tool we've used to do so while leveraging our Demandbase variables is Optimizely. We selected Get Smart Content because they make the process of segmentation using Demandbase …
Chose Bound
Get Smart Content is quite cost effective, simple to use with great support. The support systems and simplicity based on other products used and evaluated is the best in the industry.
Dynamic Yield
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield is leaps-and-bounds beyond other platforms when it comes to advanced capabilities. If all you want is to A/B tests two separate landing pages, it is probably overkill. If you want to optimize your customer's digital experience across audience-types, including …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Better Product Recommendations, Ease of Use, Affinity based Personalisation, Predictive Targeting and out of the box templates.
Chose Dynamic Yield
We selected Dynamic Yield because of Better Support & Partnership Experience, Superior Experimentation Capabilities, All-in-One Platform for Personalization, Testing, and Targeting

Its better suited then other tools with A/B testing, better hyper personalization, AI - driven …
Chose Dynamic Yield
It's mostly the speed and efficiency that make Dynamic Yield the go-to platform. It's very customizable, and tracking can be done in real-time, which is a strong point. Built-in component testing enables all team members to view and track changes easily. Not only that, it is a …
Chose Dynamic Yield
While each of the other platforms may have certain features or aspects that are stronger than Dynamic Yield, Dynamic Yield is certainly the best platform I've used of the ones listed. The ability to do both experimentation and personalization in one platform (and to have a tool …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield has many more features than Google Optimize so this allowed us to hit many more use cases which may have previously been out of reach. We switched to Dynamic Yield after Google Optimize was shut down.
Chose Dynamic Yield
We can do a lot more with Dynamic Yield with not just the testing side of things but the product recommendations, personalisation and the out of the box features.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield provides far more capability and ready-to-go templates for small-medium sized businesses, as well as decent API implementation for businesses who want to have a deeper integration. The ease of implementation and faster time-to-market is why we chose Dynamic Yield.
Chose Dynamic Yield
DY is easier to understand, has much better support than any of the other products i've used, and much easier to setup / integrate
Chose Dynamic Yield
I have used homegrown recommendation tools in the past. DY is more robust than anything I could build in house.
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Optimizely Web Experimentation
Chose Dynamic Yield
No contest between Convert and Optimizely - those are very decent A/B test programs but also standard. The biggest contender was A/B Tasty and we chose DY due to the ease of client vs server side implementation within the platform and robust analytics/product recommendation …
Chose Dynamic Yield
You get a lot more for the amount you pay compared with similar offerings. The out of the box templates also make it easier to get started especially if there is limited engineering resource. Like that it supports testing / personalization / recommender at the same time.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield has proven to surpass my experiences with both Optimizely and Braze in many ways - notably with contact time and support from the team, which has made a huge difference to the success of the tool for us. But also in my experience, I've found there to be a much …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield was the most robust, flexible, and intuitive option, as well as the best fit for our Single Page Application environment.
Chose Dynamic Yield
I have not used other products in the same space as DY.
Chose Dynamic Yield
We've used product recommendations through our website platform and while it was a couple of years ago and I can't remember exactly who we reviewed, we did compare Dynamic Yield to two or three other competitors before deciding to move forward with them.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Because you can use both personalization and A/B testing in one platform was the biggest reason for moving forward with Dynamic Yield. Also having a dedicated customer success manager was also a reason to move forward.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield is easier to use and the customer support hands down is the best we have ever encountered. The out-of-the-box campaigns are greater and easier to use on Dynamic Yield.
Chose Dynamic Yield
DY can be linked to the product feed allowing use cases that are not possible on a simple testing solution.
Also, DY is simple to use for the marketing team, there is no need for technical knowledge to set most of the experiences. To conclude, DY can be used as a CDP with a …
Features
BoundDynamic Yield
Testing and Experimentation
Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Product A and Product B
Bound
9.7
Ratings
14% above category average
Dynamic Yield
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a/b experiment testing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Split URL testing9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multivariate testing9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-page/funnel testing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-browser testing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app testing9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Test significance10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual / WYSIWYG editor10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced code editor10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Page surveys10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Visitor recordings9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Preview mode10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Test duration calculator10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment scheduler9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiment workflow and approval10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Dynamic experiment activation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Client-side tests10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Server-side tests10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mutually exclusive tests10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Product A and Product B
Bound
9.8
Ratings
11% above category average
Dynamic Yield
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Standard visitor segmentation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Traffic allocation control9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Website personalization10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Bound
9.4
Ratings
8% above category average
Dynamic Yield
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Heatmap tool10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Click analytics10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Form fill analysis10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Conversion tracking8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Goal tracking9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Test reporting9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Results segmentation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
CSV export10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Experiments results dashboard9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
BoundDynamic Yield
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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9.4
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Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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Usability
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9.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
BoundDynamic Yield
Likelihood to Recommend
I think the customer service and relationship we have with Get Smart Content is great
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It's ideal for testing continuous improvements in user experience - we're achieving good results from A/B testing and multivariate testing, and tracking the impact is very slick and compelling. We currently don't have any Dynamic Yield integrations set up for our app due to the complexities involved. We are also unable to track user behavior on platforms nested outside our domain (such as CTAs on our site that link to external booking engines).
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Pros
  • Tracking/Data Analysis
  • Unique experiences
  • Reaching many demographics
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  • Product recommendations are easy to set up, and powerfully personalizable through either hands on refining or automated A/B testing
  • Customer insights are easy to set up and can be applied retroactively to data
  • A/B testing anything from different graphics to copy to page layouts is easy to set up and implement site wide
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Cons
  • There are some additions we would like to see, such as a better experience in the Performance section. It'd be great if we could see an overall view of the metrics instead of having to drill down. We do a monthly KPI report which takes me a while to create due to the back and forth nature of comparing metrics within Get Smart Content. I also have to use Google Analytics to help with this.
  • We had some issues with the tool not updating Eloqua contacts, but that has since been resolved. The process for discovering the cause of the problem was lengthy and frustrating.
  • It would be great if you could see metrics of an A/B test within the campaign/rule, instead of having to go to the Performance section and find it. A small snapshot of info would be very helpful and it would allow us to compare and update the rule without leaving that page.
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  • The impact (either positive or negative) of potentially overlapping campaigns, especially the UX personalization or custom code campaigns, may not be easily identifiable.
  • It would make more sense for the new deep-learning and machine learning (ML) driven strategies be made part of the standard offering, as opposed to positioning them as add-on subscription, given that many other completing services are baking in ML as part of their platform evolution.
  • The documentation on the API and custom code implementation can be fleshed out further.
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Likelihood to Renew
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implementation took a long time but also, DY has really proven that they are transforming and adapting their platform to be more user friendly and the right technology choice for their brand or company
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Usability
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Overall, the interface is not difficult to understand. Although to create campaigns or define strategies for recommendations, some study is required.
Also, some reports are hidden, you really need to know where to look in order to see them (e.g. strategies performance or email campaigns performance).
Also, there is a lack of context help that would improve a lot the usability, especially when you face a feature or a report for the first time.
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Support Rating
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Allison Schwartz, Customer Success Manager at Dynamic Yield has been nothing less than amazing and stellar! She really sets the standard for customer success and support. Their technical support is fast and reliable, and their educational resources are top of the line
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Alternatives Considered
Get Smart Content is what we primarily use to serve up segmented content. The only other method or tool we've used to do so while leveraging our Demandbase variables is Optimizely. We selected Get Smart Content because they make the process of segmentation using Demandbase variables easy
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We selected Dynamic Yield because of Better Support & Partnership Experience, Superior Experimentation Capabilities, All-in-One Platform for Personalization, Testing, and Targeting Its better suited then other tools with A/B testing, better hyper personalization, AI - driven capabilities, low - code, better support
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Return on Investment
  • Allows to set up automations for several different scenarios.
  • Allows tracking links and the display of the stats/reporting.
  • It has ability to duplicate campaigns, which saves me a lot of time.
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  • Dynamic Yield supports us in our CRO offering as our optimisation platform of choice - we are leveraging this tool heavily in the application of these services - allowing us an ongoing income stream.
  • Dynamic Yields adds value to our clients - we can confidently recommend DY's recommendations and AI as better than those that are offered "out of the box" within Shopify. As a Shopify Plus agency, leveraging this better technology is often a quick way in which we can show almost immediate value to new clients to improve their conversion rate and revenue per user.
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ScreenShots

Bound Screenshots

Screenshot of Campaign viewScreenshot of Segment viewScreenshot of Segment list

Dynamic Yield Screenshots

Screenshot of The Dynamic Yield Dashboard, which offers a high-level overview of personalization campaigns, site performance, audiences, product updates, and more. With customers building and managing dozens, sometimes even hundreds of concurrent campaigns, the Dynamic Yield dashboard provides a snapshot of key information and surfaces items for potential optimization from campaigns that require action.Screenshot of Dynamic Yield's customer segmentation engine, used to unify customer data across digital and offline touchpoints. Data can be onboarded from multiple sources to create one cohesive dataset from which to power experiences. Users can collect, store, categorize, and synchronize data from a CRM, ESP, DMP, APIs, or POS.Screenshot of The interface to create cross-touchpoint personalization campaigns and experiments at scale. Users can coordinate independent personalization experiences to deliver a cohesive, consistent customer journey from start-to-finish.Screenshot of Dynamic Yield's Predictive Targeting capabilities, which provides machine-learning optimization. Dynamic Yield’s Predictive Targeting engine will continuously analyze and identify opportunities to serve the most relevant content for each audience segment.