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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Canto

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/ACanto delivers digital asset management capabilities while offering an intuitive experience for teams. Canto's AI Visual Search enables users to search their brand libraries using natural language.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
    CantoGoogle 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
    CantoGoogle Ads
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCanto's platform, supported by a flexible and transparent pricing structure, caters to a diverse array of industries. It empowers companies ranging from teams of 50 employees to global enterprises to fuel their content delivery, maximizing their ROI.—
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    Features
    CantoGoogle Ads
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Canto and Google Ads
    Feature
    Canto
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards6.810 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports6.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content analytics6.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Features
    Comparison of DAM Features features of Canto and Google Ads
    Feature
    Canto
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Uploading assets7.623 Ratings00 Ratings
    Downloading assets8.424 Ratings00 Ratings
    Categories7.423 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset storage8.223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset sharing8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset search7.724 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tagging system7.323 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content editing6.416 Ratings00 Ratings
    Embed codes7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata6.820 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collections7.621 Ratings00 Ratings
    User access6.823 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Integrations6.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM API7.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow automations5.99 Ratings00 Ratings
    Related asset discovery6.713 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Canto and Google Ads
    Feature
    Canto
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings7.511 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Canto and Google Ads
    Feature
    Canto
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings7.511 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.211 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings6.911 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Canto and Google Ads
    Feature
    Canto
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
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    CantoGoogle Ads
    Small Businesses
    Adobe Bridge
    Score8.5 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cloudinary
    Score9 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Acquia DAM (Widen)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CantoGoogle Ads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (253 ratings)
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (18 ratings)
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (95 ratings)
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.6
    (157 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    3.6
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CantoGoogle Ads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Canto
    Canto is an excellent tool for organizing assets and searching for them in one location. I also really enjoy using the mobile version of Canto on my smartphone when I am on the go. Canto is robust and fast and it has been a major advancement in the way that my organization stores and shares assets.
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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
    Canto
    • Ability to manage several portals and allow different users access to each.
    • Ability to customize each Canto platform or portal to suit all needs.
    • The platform is very easy to use, and while there are more complex components to the platform, users are able to use only the basics and remain very successful.
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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
    Canto
    • The brand templates add-on is very difficult to use. It sounds great on paper, but when you actually try to use it you find out it's very clunky and limited.
    • Adding fonts to style guides is difficult. Would love to see some sort of integration with Adobe and Google fonts.
    • Duplicate finder only finds exact duplicates, so if a file has been run through processing of any sort it doesn't find it (ie Photoshop, Lightroom). Would be great if it could have some sort of optical duplicate finder.
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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
    Canto
    It's a fantastic product and we get a lot of mileage out of Canto. I would 100% say that we plan to renew our subscription and have not explored any other digital asset management tools. It has all the tools we need, seamlessly connects with Adobe products (out primary design tool) and continues to innovate.
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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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    Usability
    Canto
    Canto is about as easy to use as it gets. I have personally trained a handful of employees who are unfamiliar with DAM/marketing SaaS technology on how to use the platform for their needs. These trainings only take about half an hour (given they are using a very limited set of Canto's features), and afterward, they are pretty well-equipped to use the platform.
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    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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    Reliability and Availability
    Canto
    Canto is usually available, though sometimes goes down for 30 min - 1 hr. Usually resolved quickly
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Canto
    I've satisfied with the performance
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Canto
    I think Canto's onboarding process was really helpful. Our employees were able to utilize the system without excess training sessions which isn't always the case with some software. I also think that their customer support has proven to be super helpful when minor issues arise
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    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
    Canto
    Very knowledgable and accommodating trainers who listen to what you're asking and provide detailed yet simple instructions.
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    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Implementation Rating
    Canto
    We didn't have a thorough enough plan for ownership of uploading and tagging and some of our tags were inconsistent which led to some regression in our usage. We tightened up that plan on our end and spoke with support team on Canto's end to establish some best practices and have a much better workflow now.
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Canto
    Dropbox is not as organized as Canto is. This is very impactful to help us stay consistent and to stay proper when managing our digital assets. Moreover, the ease of navigation is a lot better than Dropbox ever was, this is a big reason why our company has been using Canto for SEVERAL years.We do not want to leave Canto!
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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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    Scalability
    Canto
    Canto is based on the West coast, so occasionally patches and planned outages happen during East coast working hours
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Canto
    • Covid: We all worked from home. It was a major impact for us to stop using a sketchy VPN that is slow and painful. We all became so much more efficient in our work.
    • Sharing assets: Our company has grown substantially in the past 3 years. Having Canto means that we can easily share assets with our worldwide divisions. We are leading the way on this as the companies we acquired are using archaic servers. We will bring everyone in the Canto world to better manage our assets.
    • Control: Prior to Canto, people were misusing images - not using the right ones, not using watermarks. Now it's all preventable and we are seeing better quality images used appropriately.
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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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    ScreenShots

    Canto Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Canto AI Visual Search to discover digital assets faster.Screenshot of asset discovery with AI Visual Search, using natural language to instantly find the most relevant images and videos in Canto.Screenshot of Canto's integrations, including Adobe Creative Suite, Hootsuite, Canva, and monday.com.Screenshot of sharing tools to push on-brand digital content to teams, channels, and platforms while maintaining control with access controls and digital rights management.Screenshot of the organized, searchable content hub, where everyone can always find what they need, when they need it.