Branch vs. Kochava vs. MessageGears

Branch well suited: Branch links are perfecting for embedding into our email service provider (SendGrid), paid media channels (Facebook, Google, ASA), organic media (Instagram, Facebook, content marketing, referral) and push notification platform (OneSignal) to be able to evaluate actions taken from users that clicked on those branch links. No matter the data from these links, they are accurate and are easily exported to our database and CRM to determine ROI, and find weak points in our major funnels.

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Beneficial
for creating a quarterly report of top-quality campaign data sources for the
company's marketing department, integrated with networks and publications.



It
is a marketing solution that is being used to manage and analyze data from
mobile application campaigns.



You're
also helping employees accomplish difficult tasks while keeping company data
protected.

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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.

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• Click tracking: it integrated well with Facebook, Google, Clevertap, product, etc. to allow multiple stakeholders to use this one platform for tracking.
• Sale attribution: it has a robust fraud detection and event deduplication in place to attribute sales correctly.
• Smart URL: it offers different deeplinks to support basic user platforms, thus making the URL behavior smart and personalized for users.
• Referrals: it's a ready-made platform to easily launch your refer and earn program, with all checks of fraud detection in place.
• Social sharing: it offers various goats and cards for how a link will appear on various social media channels if shared, which is particularly helpful for marketing teams.

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• Kochava is a full attribution tracking system that includes the ability to track mobile apps and browser versions. It has a well-organized dashboard that provides us with useful information.

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• The MessageGears Support team is very helpful.

• Multiplayers redirection is important feature. In our marketing process for [our] Ace Tutor app https://www.acetutor.io, we have a referral reward campaign for which we want to aggregate clicks from lower level links to higher level links. For example, we created unique Branch Links for 10 marketing interns, and each intern wanted to create Branch Links for their own 10 delegates, the clicks of the Branch Links from these delegates would be automatically rolled up to the right intern's Branch Link, so we can make payment following the aggregation paths. Currently, Branch Links do not support this kind of multiplayer or multi-layer redirections.

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• Hard to pull reporting
• often tracking issues, and advertisers seem to have a hard time integrating
• lack of visibility on many events, and poor fraud detection

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

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It's very usable. Multiple teams in the company are using it, and it never takes more than 5 mins to explain to someone how to use this.

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Not user friendly, poor reporting.

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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

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We have never had any issue with support response yet. In fact, they have a local POC in our city too, who routes the urgent matters to their escalation matrix.

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They have been a bit slow in responding, that's the only reason for the low rating. Otherwise, they are smart and helpful.

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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.

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Branch's links are the most consistent in the mobile space. They work across desktop and mobile, where AppsFlyer and Deeplink's didn't consistently perform in both places. Branch's measurement is more consistent across all customer touch points as well, which gives our marketing and growth teams the answers they need without any struggle.

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It is a wonderful option
with favorable virtues to be applied in the company's marketing process, it
allows us to obtain information through consultation and analysis, they are attentive
and friendly when offering their service and support, it also includes
functions such as a fraud tool for the management of push consent, very useful
for additional reports in analysis teams, is also competitive because it is
providing adequate payment alternatives.

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.

• Branch had given a profound impact on the way our users share their content.
• Users now have more easy access to content created.
• Users feel more motivated in creating content because they know that it is easy to share and get their content in the eyes of the target public.

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• Kochava is important because it helps us to study and track smart connections useful for evaluating the success of the marketing process.
• Kochava provides us with several benefits, including the ability to collect all campaign performance data, as well as the ability to measure how much money we spend on our campaigns.
• We can also use Kochava's app links and QR codes to boost our conversion.
• Kochava's BI and third-party solutions provide real-time analytics and excellent reporting.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized