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Criteo Retail Media vs Google Ads

Criteo Retail Media
2 Ratings
Google Ads
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1112 Ratings

Criteo Retail Media

2 Ratings
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Score 6.7 out of 100

Based on 2 reviews and ratings

Google Ads

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Score 8 out of 100

Based on 1112 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • Retail Media by Criteo is rated higher in 2 areas: Usability, Support Rating
  • Google Ads (formerly AdWords) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

6.4

Criteo Retail Media

64%
1 Rating
7.3

Google Ads

73%
110 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Criteo Retail Media

N/A
0 Ratings
6.0

Google Ads

60%
20 Ratings

Usability

9.1

Criteo Retail Media

91%
1 Rating
2.1

Google Ads

21%
6 Ratings

Performance

Criteo Retail Media

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Google Ads

90%
2 Ratings

Support Rating

6.4

Criteo Retail Media

64%
1 Rating
1.0

Google Ads

10%
9 Ratings

Online Training

Criteo Retail Media

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Google Ads

90%
1 Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

Criteo Retail Media

Well suited--customizable enough to go to market efficiently and quickly. Not well suited--Plug-in multiple demand sources, improved targeting integrations with first-party data.

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Google Ads

Clients who are selling products such as dresses, clothes, jewelry, beauty products, etc., generally work well. Also, in some cases, it doesn't fetch a good ROAS for very small business owners. If a client is already doing well in SEO, the probability for it to perform well over Google Ads is always enhanced, and if it doesn't have a good organic reach, Google Ads also suffers.

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Pros

Criteo Retail Media

  • Intuitive dashboards and reporting
  • Custom templates for display media
  • Flexibility in terms of setting guardrails for targeting

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Google Ads

  • Keyword Research - Google Ads has a handy built in tool that helps determine important keywords to target both for Ads & SEO
  • Intuitive Analytics Dashboad - Google Ads makes it fairly simple to see and analyze important metrics on how your ads are running week after week
  • Intuitive Setup - Google Ads makes it easy to figure out how to run ads with little to no training (although training is highly recommended to run effective ads), as their interface is clean and easy to figure out (unlike competing products).

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Cons

Criteo Retail Media

  • Exportable insights at a brand, page, and placement level
  • Segmentation API service to better manage first-party data
  • Opportunity for non-custom implementation to allow for scalable solutions, such as programmatic backfill

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Google Ads

  • 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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Pricing Details

Criteo Retail Media

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

Starting Price

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Google Ads

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

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Criteo Retail Media

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Google Ads

Google Ads 6.0
Based on 20 answers
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

Criteo Retail Media

Criteo Retail Media 9.1
Based on 1 answer
Intuitive and easy to use.

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Google Ads

Google Ads 2.1
Based on 6 answers
I suspect that Google Ads is not for the novice user. I told my 'Ad Specialist' that I was not the best on computers and apprehensive about my ability to maneuver the website. He told me on more than one occasion that "I work for you...I'm your sherpa...call me any time or send me an email"!
The sales and service representatives for Google Ads are very well trained, though not much integrity. Despite that I told my Google Ad Specialist that my website was incomplete the ad was published live anyway! Beware that the 'talk' is good, but it ain't cheap!

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Support Rating

Criteo Retail Media

Criteo Retail Media 6.4
Based on 1 answer
Retail Media by Criteo's support at the start (with ERMS and Hooklogic) was pretty poor, with support SLAs exceeding 72 hours. This has changed over time to having a dedicated team--therefore the 7 rating and not 8.

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Google Ads

Google Ads 1.0
Based on 9 answers
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

Criteo Retail Media

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Google Ads

Google Ads 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.

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Alternatives Considered

Criteo Retail Media

Cost of integration is low with Retail Media by Criteo, and Criteo's network of sponsored products is strong.

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Google Ads

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

Criteo Retail Media

  • Increased net revenue
  • Increased profit
  • CTR is unchanged (but this can be improved with better opportunities for targeting)

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Google Ads

  • 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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