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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

    Microsoft Advertising

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) contains Microsoft's advertising solutions. Advertising formats include search (Microsoft Search ads), Display and Native ads, Retail Media, and Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads. Services include Performance Max, the company's conversion optimization AI assistant and guide.N/A
    Pricing
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerMicrosoft Advertising
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerMicrosoft Advertising
    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 ManagerMicrosoft Advertising
    Considered Both Products
    Commanders Act
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    68%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    70%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    65%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    59%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerMicrosoft Advertising
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Microsoft Advertising
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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 Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Microsoft Advertising
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    Ratings
    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 Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Microsoft Advertising
    -
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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 Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.5
    6 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings5.95 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings4.95 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
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    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.6
    8 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings6.28 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings6.87 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings5.85 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
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    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerMicrosoft Advertising
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    Score9.5 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    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 ManagerMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (70 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Commanders Act Enterprise Tag ManagerMicrosoft Advertising
    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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    Microsoft
    Despite using our account for advertising with every other social media company, Microsoft flagged ours as fraudulent. After dealing with them for weeks, we finally got to a manager, who said that they didn’t know anything, couldn’t provide any information, and was unable to do anything about it. It seems odd, but it would flagger account every time we try to upload the campaigns from Google directly into their ad manager. I would suggest if you try and use their platform, don’t tell them you’re using Google cause they seem to have a thing against it. Once your account is flagged, they have no reasonable way of resolving it, nor they are able to offer any support. You’re better off to just try a different way. Ultimately, just don’t use Microsoft advertising if you can possibly avoid it. Hopefully soon DuckDuckGo will have their own advertising platform and we can eliminate Microsoft given the terrible time we have working with this one of many, social media platforms.
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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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    Microsoft
    • Familiar interface, offers editor for bulk changes, adding negative keywords is much easier than in Google Ads
    • Nice reporting tools within the interface, detailed reports can be made fairly easily
    • Had very nice tools to help import/export ads directly from Google Ads, which saves a ton of time
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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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    Microsoft
    • Bing's ad platform could definitely use some improvements - it hasn't been updated in a long time, and it feels very outdated.
    • We feel that the optimization algorithms don't always perform as well for Bing Ads as they do in Google Ads (optimize for conversions, etc.).
    • It would be great to have even more integrations with LinkedIn audience targeting offered - right now, you can just make some bid optimizations in a couple of areas; we'd really like to get more robust options there, and maybe even things like cross-platform tracking.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Commanders Act
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    Microsoft
    We have had good success with it over all of our clients. We continually recommend bing to reach "the rest of the searchers".
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    Usability
    Commanders Act
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    Microsoft
    It's very easy to use overall. It has an import from Google Ads to make things simpler. Overall, I would say you can get up and running very quickly. It's similar to other platforms, so if you have used them, it's intuitive.
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    Support Rating
    Commanders Act
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    Microsoft
    Our Bing Ads reps are very good and attentive. They've offered good recommendations and are quick to resolve unexpected issues and problems. Occasionally they have roped in technical support folks that have been friendly and helpful too. The general helpline for Bing Ads is also very good, especially when compared to Google's customer support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Commanders Act
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    Microsoft
    Obviously Google is a huge competitor. Typically Google is top of the game for many advertising solutions including search. Microsoft ads has a lower scale and reach compared to Google. However, Microsoft ads audience does not overlap much with Googles, providing incremental reach. Although Microsoft ads lags a bit behind in adapting the new updates that Google comes out with, their customer service is very good and they are likely to go out of their way to adapt their platform to your needs whereas their competitor does not
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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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    Microsoft
    • We've had a very hard time spending our budgets on Bing which has caused us a lot of extra work on our end. We've essentially had to move that money back to Google or other platforms.
    • It does have an easy import from Google so you're not doubling efforts.
    • The CPCs tend to be less expensive than Google - which is always good for business owners.
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