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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACommanders Act offers Enterprise Tag Manager, a product designed to handle website tags - and also SDKs in a single SDK container - through a management interface without the need for technical expertise.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
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerGoogle 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
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerGoogle Ads
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerGoogle Ads
    Considered Both Products
    Commanders Act
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    81%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    Features
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerGoogle Ads
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Google Ads
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Google Ads
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    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Google Ads
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Google Ads
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    Tag library9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Management & Integrity
    Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Google Ads
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Google Ads
    -
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    Event tracking4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Universal data layer8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated error checking6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Google Ads
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    -
    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 Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Google Ads
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    -
    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 Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Google Ads
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
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    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerGoogle Ads
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    Google Tag Manager
    Score9.5 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Adobe Experience Platform Launch
    Score8.4 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerGoogle Ads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 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
    -
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    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerGoogle Ads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Commanders Act
    If you need a single place where you can handle all the third party pixels, this is a well-suited platform. As well as if you want to keep the deployment independent from all other (and more complex) deployments driven by IT. If you need a pixel to be fired not just when the page loads, but based on user actions, you should use the events and that's pretty complex to handle.
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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
    Commanders Act
    • Creating new pixels is very easy, as well as organizing all of them, handling prioritization between different partners' pixels.
    • Defining the perimeters and constraints where the pixels need to be fired is a breeze.
    • Deploying the container and keeping track of all the modification is very well done.
    • The configuration of the deduplication rule is pretty flexible.
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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
    Commanders Act
    • Reports. Tag Commander lacks in term of reports of what's happening. There is an additional module called Attribution Management System that gives you a lot of insights, but more basic reports to understand what has been fired will be useful.
    • Support. Tag Commander support is very low responsive. It took several days to have the first feedback and generally, it takes a lot of emails to get what you need.
    • Deduplication engine flexibility. The engine is there and it works pretty well, until you have a slightly different need. In that case you need to implement something custom in terms of implementation, reports, etc. A more flexible approach would be useful.
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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
    Commanders Act
    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.
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    Usability
    Commanders Act
    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
    Commanders Act
    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
    Commanders Act
    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
    Commanders Act
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Commanders Act
    • It let us deploy new pixels/fixes to pixels independently from the IT deployment process.
    • It let us easily turn on/off and sort the pixel execution based on partners' priority, assuring better data tracking for more important partners.
    • It provides out of the box pixel implementation for tons of partners, but really often we need to rewrite the pixel from scratch as they're not up to date.
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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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