Klarity by DemandScience vs. Microsoft Advertising

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Klarity
Score 6.3 out of 10
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Klarity is a B2B marketing and sales prospecting tool used to build and view prospect lists with varying levels of features. It is backed by data cleaning and enrichment processes that ensure the contacts it provides are valid and reachable.N/A
Microsoft Advertising
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Microsoft 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
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Community Pulse
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Unlimited users and the intender data filter provided to us lead us to convert from ZoomInfo to DemandScience Intelligence.
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Price is a big point of choosing DemandScience Intelligence to supplement ZoomInfo. I actually use both platforms. I like ZoomInfo's larger database but the best thing about DemandScience Intelligence is confirmed connect, the ability to easily apply multiple filters, and apply …
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Kasper or other similar ones are more for targetted research. In terms of large lists DemandScience is fine just requires some combing through the data.
Microsoft Advertising
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Microsoft is the best if you want to target the USA business; it has a great standing against these other platforms.
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We're using both. Basically using directly importation from google to Microsoft Advertising. If you already run ads on google, it's very easy to copy the structure on Microsoft Advertising as well.
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In my opinion, Microsoft Ads is definitely inferior to Google Ads as a platform, but there's no reason you can't use both. We have never chosen Microsoft Ads solely over Google Ads, it's only a supplement because Google Ads provides so much more scale potential from its search …
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Because of duckduckgo we have to use Microsoft advertising and it turns out as the worst user experience given the company of this magnitude. Worst.
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This is a platform that had potential if only it was run by ethically minded people. It's not.
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Not a good experience I will you skippable ads on Youtube.
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Technically, there is no comparison with the above systems - just a lack of features and a bunch of technical bugs.
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The cost per click is definitely lower than Google Ads. But the drawback of it is that the audience size is smaller as well. The reason we picked Microsoft Advertising is that it is a good complementary solution to Google Ads. We use both of them with different budgets and we …
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Microsoft Advertising supports Google Ads integration, one of the efficient paid search engine extension. More so, Microsoft Advertising has a responsive, and informative live chat option, simplifying the customer help services. Microsoft Advertising supports conversion …
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Microsoft advertising is a creative, and diverse marketing option, which makes it preferred by many enterprises. The success rate of Microsoft advertising due to its stability and consistency is another huge merit, and this results to practical results. Finally, Microsoft …
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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 …
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Microsoft Advertising has more trustworthy and reliable keyword targeting, but the volume is much lower on Bing.com and related networks than on Google.com and related networks. The display capabilities and performance is lower on Bing as well. The import tool is easy to use …
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It's a smaller market and different demographic, but CPCs can be lower so your ROI can be decent. Overall the interface feels a bit clunky and it's hard to find some features, but that may be because I spend most of my time in Google Ads.

We picked Microsoft Ads because it's …
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[Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads)] has access to superior traffic volume and ability / capability to spend ad dollars. [Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads)] is really the only paid search advertising option that competes with google ads in any capacity whether …
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Unfortunately, I don't think anyone has been able to properly and effectively compete with Google. They are the mammoth in the space - so therefore, I don't think either Bing or Gemini have had a fair shot to showcase their potential worth.
Again, I have found it very difficult …
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Bing Ads has a bit less traffic, however, its syndicated network is preferred because we can see where traffic is coming from. I would like to see custom mods for publisher sites to become a feature.
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You have lower volume on Bing ads but the traffic is usually better and you get lower CPC with higher conversion rates.
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Bing Ads works similarly to Google Ads (Formerly AdWords) in the fact that it is search engine marketing. It differs in how it reaches a slightly more educated audience, has lower CPC (less competition) and often a better ROI. "Green technologies", solar, wind, etc. work …
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Bing Ads is an excellent complement to Google Ads because most likely, it is reaching a different audience. Depending on where your traffic is coming from, one search engine may be better to focus on than the other.
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Less cost than Google Ads but smaller audience. The interface is not as user-friendly and it is somewhat slow. The Bing Ads audience is smaller as they only have about 20% of the search market place. So you are limited by the number of searches vs. budget usually.
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In general, Bing Ads as an alternative to Google Ads is pretty weak. As mentioned, while it does have its use cases, many times these are limited as well. With Bing, it seems like there is always a large drop off in the quality of traffic versus advertising products, which …
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Bing is definitely most comparable to Google; in terms of audience sizes, it has about 30% of the traffic that Google Ads can drive; however, its costs are much more efficient, and this additional inventory is less competitive. Additionally, Bing has some features not available …
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As mentioned, it is overall more cost effective and you cannot afford to ignore all that Search traffic.
Features
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Ad Campaigns
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Microsoft Advertising
6.5
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1% above category average
Ad campaign creation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad deployment00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Display advertising00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Sequence targeting00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Contextual advertising00 Ratings5.60 Ratings
Social advertising00 Ratings4.90 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
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Microsoft Advertising
6.6
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4% below category average
Ad dashboards00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Ad performance reports00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Ad Auctions
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Microsoft Advertising
7.3
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14% below category average
Ad bidding00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Usability
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
It might be suited for someone with a straightforward product based in the US. With a simple proposition that aligns with BI categories on the platform. Someone who has time to check if the data for the leads is correct. Less so for those based abroad or with limited resources.
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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
  • Identifies companies within a particular industry
  • Presents intent data
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  • 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
  • Better UI for selecting fields within a filter interface E.G., tech Install, and have the fields appear immediately.
  • Be able to deselect a filter box without needing to deselect sub-filter features within.
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  • 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
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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
Fine but could be improved. There are some issues with selecting contacts etc. that could be sorted out without much fuss.
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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
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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
Price is a big point of choosing DemandScience Intelligence to supplement ZoomInfo. I actually use both platforms. I like ZoomInfo's larger database but the best thing about DemandScience Intelligence is confirmed connect, the ability to easily apply multiple filters, and apply confirmed connect - which is one of the best features.
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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
  • connection rate is increasing providing SDR's with more opportunities to have conversations, learn messaging quicker and navigate through the company to find the correct poc
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  • 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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