Marketing Solutions by Criteo vs Sizmek Ad Suite

Likelihood to Recommend

Criteo Dynamic Retargeting is well suited for every kind of action related to hot leads / customers regarding your business. It's a good way to increase the conversion rates of the funnel and always works really well for that kind of audience. On the other hand, you need to ensure that you have built a minimum size audience to let the algorithm work properly.

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Quim Giralt Bosch

User Acquisition Specialist

Tangelo Games Corp.Gambling & Casinos, 51-200 employees

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I've use Sizmek as media analytics and reporting tool. Unless a site doesn't work properly with Google DoubleClick, I rarely recommend Sizmek over DoubleClick. It can do everything DoubleClick does, but with almost twice the hassle. One Area that makes it easier to track is that ads are given individual tracking ID's that creative can look up and search by when indexing and testing to make sure all ads are working and input.

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Collin Berg

Freelance Web Developer

SJI Associates | Design & AdvertisingMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Marketing Solutions by Criteo

Sizmek Ad Suite

Data Transfer

DSP integration

Marketing Solutions by Criteo

Sizmek Ad Suite

Ad campaign creation

Ad deployment

Display advertising

Ad display and retargeting segmentation

Sequence targeting

Marketing Solutions by Criteo

Sizmek Ad Suite

Ad dashboards

Ad performance reports

Ad conversion tracking

Ad attribution reporting

Cross-channel ad management

Ad forecasting and optimization

Pros

The first strenght of Criteo Retargeting is the user-friendly platform, where you can easily manage your budget and analyse the performance.
Secondly, the CPC based model is great advantage of Criteo compare to some competitors.
Finally, the post-click attribution. It is more trustworthy and tenable than post-view.

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Baptiste CROENNE

Responsable - SEA

Infopro digitalWriting and Editing, 1001-5000 employees

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Easy Dashboard Navigation - Search bar allows user to quickly locate details about any campaign
Insightful Analytics Tools - Platform provides users customizable graphs to leverage for reporting presentations
Extensive Reporting Metrics - Ability to pull ad performance reports on all aspects of campaign
Simple Creative Hosting - Easy upload and path location details for creative files

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Verified User

Manager in Other

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Level of control over ads - Most features of Criteo can't be managed directly in the dashboard. That can be a problem when you want ads adjusted quickly, for example, if you make a change to your logo. Customer Service has to be contacted in that case.
Cost - Of the several retargeting platforms we tried, Criteo was the most costly. This is in terms of cost per click and cost per conversion. In the end, we just couldn't justify paying substantially more for a similar ad network to Google just for the level of customer service.
Reporting - There is no reporting provided automatically, and user data is gated; it was difficult for us to ascertain anything about the audience we were serving ads to, and even basic geographic data wasn't available to us.

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Verified User

Employee in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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Sizmek's trading desk was a total miss when I tested it a few years ago.
I briefly used Abakus and did not find it intuitive, accurate or helpful. It has a long way to go before it can compete with the likes of VisualIQ.

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Verified User

Employee in Marketing

Consumer Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Marketing Solutions by Criteo 10.0

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Criteo is the only remarketing firm worth using for a retailer, in my opinion.

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Joe Preston

SEO

Pipeline Success IncRetail, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Marketing Solutions by Criteo 8.5

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Their UI and platform were super easy to use, their customer service was top tier, and the service they provide is pretty unique. I think this is a great solution for publishers to have in their mix. It has been a great experience overall and I would highly recommend working with them.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

Marketing Solutions by Criteo 9.0

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We had a great support team and dedicated account manager. They were always extremely responsive and answered all of our questions in a timely fashion. We really appreciated the 1:1 feel that they gave us and all of the customer and tech support they provided. It is a very customer centric company.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Marketing and Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I prefer AdRoll when it comes to retargeting. We selected Criteo due to the client requesting we test it out. Criteo is much harder to manage and to date has provided less than stellar ROAS. Criteo, however, is much better than using the Google Display Network on AdWords. Retargeting through Google was a nightmare to manage (so many inappropriate and irrelevant placements!) and led to very few conversions.

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Verified User

Strategist in Other

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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For me the main point here is the support, all the adservers offer more or less the same functionality and capabilities. The real advantage you will gain using Sizmek will be their customer support team and their open approach with other vendors.

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Paolo Manara

Head of Operations & Technology

GroupM Connect ItalyMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

Bad ROI at start (first month) - When you launch a new campaign, COS is very high for a few weeks. I thought it was going to take less time for the algorithm to be effective.
Good ROI after that - After a few weeks, our COS started to get better!
More traffic
Some people complain about being too much retargeted

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Textiles Company, 11-50 employees

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Sizmek has had a positive impact on ROI because it delivers the reports our clients want and need
Sizmek has had a postive impact on employee morale due to ease of use

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Lisa Cao

Digital Media Supervisor

AmobeeMarketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Marketing Solutions by Criteo

Sizmek Ad Suite

Marketing Solutions by Criteo

Sizmek Ad Suite

Marketing Solutions by Criteo

Sizmek Ad Suite

Marketing Solutions by Criteo

Sizmek Ad Suite

Likelihood to Recommend