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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Demandbase One

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Demandbase is presented as a pipeline AI platform used by GTM teams to automate growth. It creates a unified view of data, insights, actions, and outcomes, so B2B enterprises can align and execute their account-based GTM strategies.N/A

    LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ALinkedIn Marketing Solutions is a recently (2015) expanded marketing platform for reaching audiences through the popular Linkedin work-oriented social network that includes modules like the Lead Accelerator (supporting segmentation features to improve conversion), Sponsored Updates, LinkedIn Onsite Display, LinkedIn Network Display, and Sponsored InMail. While still at its core a social marketing engine, Linkedin Marketing Solutions now presents a more comprehensive B2B advertising platform. The…N/A
    Pricing
    Demandbase OneLinkedIn Marketing Solutions
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    Pricing Offerings
    Demandbase OneLinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe Demandbase One for Sales and Marketing platform fee covers the essential software and services. In addition, there’s a flat fee per user.
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    Demandbase OneLinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Considered Both Products
    Demandbase
    Chose Demandbase One
    I consider Demandbase One to be a more enterprise and mature account based marketing solution. It has a lot of features that are helpful, but only if you have the team, the plan, and the budget to take full advantage of them. I often recommend that clients start with a more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Demandbase One
    Demandbase's targeting is a bit less specific, but reporting is much clearer and easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Demandbase One
    I have used Marketo much longer and know how to do a lot more in that platform so I prefer that more at the moment but am willing to grow in my knowledge/ use if I can understand more how to better utilize Demandbase and be more cost effective and efficient.
    Incentivized
    Chose Demandbase One
    The price is much better, and the capabilities of integrations are also better.
    Incentivized
    Chose Demandbase One
    I am not too sure why we chose Demandbase One over RollWorks. I believe it was the holistic offering that our team liked and how it worked well with our systems such as Salesforce/Pardot. In the end, I am happy with the selection and taking the learnings we have from the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Demandbase One
    We still use LinkedIn for accounts that Demandbase does not have enough contacts to target. Overall the tracking on engagement is much better on Demandbase.
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    LinkedIn
    Chose LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    There is no cost to create a business account and get access to the Campaign Manager platform, so from a price perspective, this is a competitive advantage for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions compared to other platforms like Bombora or Terminus, which have technology licenses …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    115 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    83 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    11 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    118 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    74 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    69 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    Demandbase OneLinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Demandbase One and LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Feature
    Demandbase One
    6.0
    47 Ratings
    19% below category average
    LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    -
    Ratings
    Automated routing and prioritization6.439 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories6.443 Ratings00 Ratings
    Syndicated content4.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Personalization6.240 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement data tracking6.847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Demandbase One and LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Feature
    Demandbase One
    6.5
    34 Ratings
    10% below category average
    LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
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    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation6.732 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising7.132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising6.525 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising5.726 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad reporting and analytics6.433 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Demandbase One and LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Feature
    Demandbase One
    6.7
    50 Ratings
    6% below category average
    LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
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    Standard visitor segmentation6.949 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation6.746 Ratings00 Ratings
    ABM sales intelligence6.548 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intent Data
    Comparison of Intent Data features of Demandbase One and LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Feature
    Demandbase One
    6.6
    51 Ratings
    5% below category average
    LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
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    Ratings
    3rd party intent signals6.547 Ratings00 Ratings
    Downstream intent signals6.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account identification6.851 Ratings00 Ratings
    ABM Integrations
    Comparison of ABM Integrations features of Demandbase One and LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Feature
    Demandbase One
    6.9
    44 Ratings
    8% below category average
    LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    -
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    Automated workflow & orchestration6.944 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Demandbase OneLinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Small Businesses
    Terminus ABM Platform
    Score8 out of 10
    X Ads
    Score4.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Terminus ABM Platform
    Score8 out of 10
    X Ads
    Score4.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    6sense
    Score8.3 out of 10
    X Ads
    Score4.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Demandbase OneLinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (225 ratings)
    9.9
    (48 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.7
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.6
    (94 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (50 ratings)
    8.6
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Demandbase OneLinkedIn Marketing Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Demandbase
    Demandbase One is well-suited for ABM Marketing, providing intent-based account details, account scoring methods, and understanding account intent. It also enables creating a list of accounts and individuals for retargeting based on specific filters. Easy to integrate with Salesforce, LinkedIn, Google Ads, and multiple other channels. Advertising through the Demandbase channel is more effective for advertisers who use retargeting with the intent list.
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    LinkedIn
    Although it offered great features, we didn't really see a lot of traffic or results from the ads we placed. Working in hospitality, we had to strategically time and place our ads around holiday seasons and it can be difficult to predict a marketing campaign. Depending on your market, LinkedIn may not be the best avenue to advertise with.
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    Pros
    Demandbase
    • The Demandbase UI is user-friendly, easy to navigate and super intuitive.
    • Ad Targeting and budgeting is very concise, the platform tells you how much reach and spend you can expect for each campaign.
    • Person-based ad targeting, they are one of the only platforms that offers this which is a game changer.
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    LinkedIn
    • Targeting - they have done a great job of allowing you speak to ideal audiences
    • Support - dedicated customer service and account advising is always accessible and very responsive
    • Curation of professional audiences - one of the biggest advantages to the platform is that its users are for the most part are professional
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    Cons
    Demandbase
    • Under the "highlighted" section there are only 6 accounts to see. It would be nice to have more than 6.
    • The engagement is rated in "minutes" while that's not really what is being scored. It's a little confusing as to how their engagement is scored.
    • It would be nice to be able to mute or hide of some contacts that we have already spoken to so that it opens space for other prospects.
    • Overall happy with the product
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    LinkedIn
    • The Campaign Manager is not good. It seems like the Campaign Manager (where you create and manage your self-serve ad campaigns) is buggy and doesn't have a good flow. Contrast with FB Ad Manager of the Google Adwords/Ads interface, which has a much more simple process to create and edits campaigns, ad groups, ads, keywords, audiences, budgets, etc. LinkedIn Campaign Manager seems to actively work against you trying to make changes to your campaigns.
    • LinkedIn Campaign Manager offers three options: sponsored content, InMail, and text ads. LinkedIn used to offer other ad services that you couldn't access unless you had a "managed ad account" run by LinkedIn Staff with a dedicated monthly ad spend. It seems most of those "hidden" features have disappeared, though you still have to contract with LinkedIn to offer dynamic ads. It would be better if LinkedIn empowered marketers to create the ads they want. (Perhaps with a dedicated acct. manager like how Google Ads works.)
    • This is silly, but it isn't easy to navigate to Campaign Manager. I have a bookmark for Campaign Manager because if you want to click there through LinkedIn, it takes 2 or 3 different screens to get to Campaign Manager. In my opinion, when you click the "Work" dropdown from the LinkedIn header (by your profile picture) you should have a link to Campaign Manager.
    • LinkedIn, in recent months, has made substantial changes to the Ads platform and Campaign Manager. Though these changes work to address some of the above issues, LinkedIn still has quite a ways to go before their platform is on par with their competition.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Demandbase
    Relatively inexpensive service for a decent current awareness service. They have added little in sales functionality in the past year as they focused on building a marketing version of the product. Except for the addition of broader European coverage last spring (thin Equifax records), the database was static over the past year.
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    LinkedIn
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    Usability
    Demandbase
    InsideView was extremely user-friendly. I was able to quickly understand how to efficiently use the software and get the most out of the service. I only had a short time to quickly learn how to use the functions offered by InsideView, and I felt confident within the first day of my understanding and ability to successfully use this tool.
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    LinkedIn
    in terms of promoted content reporting and usability, the platform is not as flexible or easy to use compared to more established social platforms like Facebook. However, it does offer plug-ins to Google Data Studio which makes pulling and manipulating data easier. My main usability gripe comes when looking at organic performance of a company page. There isn't an easy way to export organic performance data.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Demandbase
    Seems to always work.
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    LinkedIn
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Demandbase
    It's pretty fast.
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    LinkedIn
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    Support Rating
    Demandbase
    We had an intro session with a customer success rep and were given a rundown of the platform and it was absolutely perfect. The rep was able to show us advanced search options and shortcuts that cut our search time.
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    LinkedIn
    So, everything what I just said previously adds up to the value of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. Definitely recommending it to a friend. It has its things to improve but its nothing major or nothing to worry about. So I give a 9 because it still has that, some user interface glitches that can be improved but do not damage the experience that you have with it.
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    In-Person Training
    Demandbase
    She was fine, but we only had one session
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    LinkedIn
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Demandbase
    Seeing the demo during the sales cycle, not much training was needed due to this application being plug and play.
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    LinkedIn
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    Implementation Rating
    Demandbase
    We had to work with InsideView for some custom configurations example we have a custom field in Salesforce called ha location that needed let's say NJ to spell out New Jersey and make certain fields mandatory. They were easy to work with though.
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    LinkedIn
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    Alternatives Considered
    Demandbase
    We selected Demandbase based on their premium B2B DSP, their integrations with third party ad sites and our CRM and tech stack. Their intent signals and ability to integrate the data we have in Demandbase to GCP through their DataStream product to build our own models and leverage in our own dashboards has been extremely beneficial
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    LinkedIn
    If you want more precision in B2B targeting, then LinkedIn is without question the better alternative. However, as I established before, I've rarely seen LinkedIn campaigns be successful for anything other than brand awareness/thought leadership. And that's almost 100% what Twitter is for. Twitter campaigns almost always have a cheaper CPC AND CPM than LinkedIn and accomplish the same thing, so I would say go with Twitter. At times LinkedIn campaigns are just so you can tell someone at a higher level that you did precise targeting to the exact audience they wanted and check that box, because it's easier for them to understand how you'd do well on LinkedIn, and more difficult to tell that story on Twitter. But I honestly prefer Twitter and its platform for B2B awareness campaigns. Heretic, I know, but it's how I feel after several years of experience with both. Facebook is bottom of the barrel for B2B in my mind, so I'm not really going to discuss it. I would take LinkedIn over Facebook for many reasons, but Facebook is an option too, but more for SMB and just covering all bases, not as a primary choice for B2B marketing.
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    Return on Investment
    Demandbase
    • Save me time doing company research from an average of 25 mins to an average of 7 mins for large ICP accounts.
    • Save me time by integrating the contact research without jumping out of InsideView to do it in a separate app.
    • A morning 10 mins scan of the target company news feed gave me a high level view of the most important news that I need to know regarding my prospect accounts and their respective industries.
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    LinkedIn
    • We have seen a marked increase in inbound agent calls since we began LinkedIn marketing.
    • LinkedIn marketing is an excellent way to put your content in front of people that are actually going to read it, this has led to a major increase in our content being consumed and acted on.
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    Demandbase One Screenshots

    Screenshot of Demandbase's B2B DSP, used to optimize for B2B outcomes with Self-Serve and Managed options that allow for complete control over who, how, and where ad impressions are targeted and delivered to accounts.Screenshot of Demandbase One™'s account-based GTM command center, powering the revenue stack. Its AI-driven engine unifies first and third-party data, streamlines cross-channel execution, and connects all marketing tools with the same data, insights, and workflows.Screenshot of the sales intelligence interface. Account executives and SDRs/BDRs can be more timely and more relevant with sales intelligence, engagement insights, and accurate company and contact data.Product screenshotScreenshot of where AI can be used to find and prioritize accounts looking to buy products and solutions. The AI helps to identify accounts that fit an ideal customer profile (ICP) with a Qualification Score. It then displays which accounts are showing patterns of buying behavior with a Pipeline Predictive Score. And lastly, it displays accounts showing interest in products and competitors using intent data derived from more than 1 trillion B2B signals a month.Product screenshot