Demandbase Advertising vs. The Trade Desk

Overall, I would highly recommend the Demandbase ABX Cloud if you are interested in launching an ABM strategy. Demandbase Advertising Cloud helps you define your ICP, develop useful target account lists, distribute those accounts to your sales team with data, get a deeper understanding of those accounts, increase ad spend efficiency, and ultimately, generate more revenue for your business. It does take time to learn and train your team on the tool, but they have excellent support staff and resources to help you master the software in no time! Any company interested in launching or scaling its ABM engine has to purchase the Demandbase ABX Cloud!

After extensive research of DSP and DMP platforms in the market, our agency made the wise decision to license TTD's platform and develop a long-term partnership. TTD continues to innovate and offer cutting-edge media buying solutions, access to more audience data segments, and access to new and emerging media channels like CTV/OTT and digital-out-of-home. We couldn't be happier with TTD's technology and is one of the most advanced agency users of TTD is a key differentiator for our agency.

Incentivized

• Enables our marketing and sales teams to develop data-driven account lists to target.
• Strengthens the relationship between the marketing and sales teams.
• Creates more efficient ad spending by orchestrating audiences and targeting our ICP through their DSP.
• Allows for a deeper understanding of our target accounts for better prospecting efforts.

• User engagement - Cookie matching provides better engagement and effectiveness
• Reporting of campaigns - Great reporting on display advertising & platforms
• Dashboard reporting - Scalable to global deployment & campaigns

Incentivized

• Engagement minutes are complicated to set-up and could use additional platform inputs.
• The dashboard capabilities could be improved.
• Increase the ability of users to export data to develop their own reports/dashboards.

• Reporting platform leaves a lot to be desired. Requires a lot of trial/error to pull exactly what you need to drive optimizations/learnings.
• The "stop"/"continue bidding" feature for sitelists, devices, player sizes, etc is awful. When you set something up specifically, you should not have the AUTOMATIC option to serve beyond those parameters.
• Trafficking video (VAST/VPAID) tags requires a manual insertion of a click URL. Completely redundant ask and is not provided by advertisers as that URL lives within the ad tag. Should not require multiple actions traffic a video tag.
• Creative approval process (manual) doesn't seem necessary and is not a part of peers' platforms. There is no "pause/deactivate" feature for creative, you remove them or adjust the end date.

Incentivized

It's very intuitive. We had some training materials, but found that users were able to navigate through the software without needing many resources. Our only suggestion would be to add hover-over capability in the browser, so users can see a pop-up message further explaining what each button does.

Incentivized

We noted no issues with our limited interaction with support. The software operated just as expected and we found that we were able to navigate needs on our own. We understand that The Trade Desk offers excellent support, so we believe it will be a good resource to us in the future.

Incentivized

The Trade Desk is a much better product than AppNexus. Even though both products showed promise awhile back, AppNexus stopped innovating and The Trade Desk became specialists on data, cross site tracking and CTV inventory thus having a better and more unique product that actually adds value to your advertising efforts.

Incentivized

• Increased ad spend efficiency with a reduction in wasted ad spend.
• Increased retention rates.
• Higher ACV with lower CAC.

• The good thing about having an agency account is The Trade Desk lets you add your markups to the client billing.
• We had a very positive response from clients regarding their perceived ROI on their ad spend through The Trade Desk.
• We did not have many national clients, mostly local dealerships, so it was difficult for them to allocate a lot of funds to display advertising, even though the ROI yield was acceptable.

Incentivized