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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)

    Score5 out of 10
    N/ACapabilities of the former DiscoverOrg product are now supplied by ZoomInfo, since the merger of DiscoverOrg and ZoomInfo into a single brand in 2019.N/A

    Google Ads

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Ads (formerly AdWords) is Google's pay-per-click online advertising program. With Google Ads users set their budget and choose where their ads appear in search listings, and on partner websites. Google Ads uses cost-per-click (CPC) bidding.

    $500

    in Ads credit in the first 60 days

    Pricing
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)Google Ads
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Offer A
    $500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer B
    $1500
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offer C
    $3000
    in Ads credit in the first 60 days
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)Google Ads
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)Google Ads
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    81%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    63%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    Features
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)Google Ads
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of DiscoverOrg (discontinued) and Google Ads
    Feature
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)
    8.1
    104 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Advanced search8.6104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Identification of new leads8.4101 Ratings00 Ratings
    List quality7.6104 Ratings00 Ratings
    List upload/download8.498 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting7.3100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Load time/data access8.5103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of DiscoverOrg (discontinued) and Google Ads
    Feature
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)
    8.1
    103 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Contact information8.6103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company information8.0103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Industry information7.7101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of DiscoverOrg (discontinued) and Google Ads
    Feature
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)
    7.8
    104 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Lead qualification process6.481 Ratings00 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations7.085 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salesforce integration8.989 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company/business profiles7.8101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders7.787 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data hygiene7.899 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh8.188 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tags7.876 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation8.493 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of DiscoverOrg (discontinued) and Google Ads
    Feature
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)
    5.0
    42 Ratings
    39% below category average
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Sales email templates5.038 Ratings00 Ratings
    Append emails to records5.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of DiscoverOrg (discontinued) and Google Ads
    Feature
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings7.511 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings7.210 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of DiscoverOrg (discontinued) and Google Ads
    Feature
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings7.511 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.211 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings6.911 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of DiscoverOrg (discontinued) and Google Ads
    Feature
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)Google Ads
    Small Businesses
    Owler
    Score9.7 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)Google Ads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (106 ratings)
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DiscoverOrg (discontinued)Google Ads
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Uses [of DiscoverOrg] include searching for prospects in accounts. Getting all of the relevant contact information in one place. Using the export button saves time by allowing you to select one or more leads to import into CRM. Sophisticated search allows for you to build lists, and export as above. Good support with various experts available to help you get started and get better at using it.
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    Google
    Google Ads is a useful advertising tool to build brand exposure and generate lead volumes for your chosen product. Whilst it can be costly at times due to competitor bidding strategies and requires constant monitoring to ensure campaigns perform as expected, it typically provides the desired quality and quantity of leads for custom budgets.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Prospecting Lists/Lead Gen - Discover Org does this very well because of it's ability to provide current information (email/phone) on an individual at a company. It's easy to segment & drill down by categories - to find the right targets to reach out to.
    • Insights - DiscoverOrg is great at providing insights or "scopes" on prospects as well. Meaning it will show who is handling what project (Decision-Maker) and what projects they are particularly interested in at the moment/what initiatives. For example, the scopes may show that they are interested in AI initiatives or a Merger & Acquisition or Digital Transformation & will say who is in charge of the initiative.
    • Stellar filtering capabilities - you can filter lists in so many ways. You can go by function, or even look at companies with small marketing teams (let's say less than 10), or you can search for companies with an "x" amount of $ budget for IT spend. Or even companies that use a specific HR workplace management system.
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    Google
    • Automated targeting via Smart Shopping campaign. It's one of the best campaign types in Google Ads. In the beginning, you may see lower revenue and ROAS, but once you give some meaningful time to your campaign, it is most likely to perform well.
    • Smart bidding strategies: Google Ads has developed some really great bidding strategies such as maximizing conversion and maximizing conversion with ROAS settings. Based on one's requirement and their goal with revenue and target ROAS, they can choose the appropriate bidding strategy.
    • Reporting: A business owner and advertising must know about their audiences, how their campaigns have been performing, what's working and what's not, and for that reason, powerful, effective reporting is needed, and Google Ads provides rich details reporting that covers almost every aspect of a business.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Speed - it can be quite slow at times.
    • Improvement on the search capabilities - since there is so much to search (which is a plus) it makes it harder to do this in a timely manner. You have to dedicate a certain amount of time to be able to pull a proper, useful and clean list.
    • Make it more user friendly - there are so many different tabs, search buttons, pull down, etc. I think it can be quite confusing to a new user.
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    Google
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    The tool is simply better than most other lead/company data repositories, and they are dedicated to keeping their data clean, even if they are far from accomplishing this task at present. The tool works, and it is relatively easy to use. Overall, DiscoverOrg provides the level of lead/contact, customer, and even industry level data the sales orgs have come to expect from this sort of tool in a format that is fairly easy to use. They do also provide support for sales teams looking to use the tool effectively, which is great!
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    Google
    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
    Discontinued Products
    Straight forward
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    Google
    This is more of a subjective rating, because I think it can be increased with how much our ad spend is. The more of an ad spend, the more visibility we can get, and therefore all features can climb. With an overall larger presence the usability is that where we can get messages out quick, and that's the main thing we try to do with our campaigns.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Great customer service and support team.
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    Google
    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
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    ZoomInfo acquired DiscoverOrg and I believe legacy DiscoverOrg will phase out in the near future. ZoomInfo is 100x better than DiscoverOrg and are very pleased with it's functionality and easy of use. We only selected DiscoverOrg because we were on an auto-renewal contract and did not unsubscribe in time. We did not plan to renew DiscoverOrg. But since then we have been upgraded to ZoomInfo and are finding much more value in that platform than we did in DiscoverOrg.
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    Google
    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
    Discontinued Products
    • After using DiscoverOrg, our lead are now well qualified and suitable. We are able to generate good and qualified. This is the positive impact.
    • After using DiscoverOrg, our sales team is now able to cold call the target contacts, the number provided by DiscoverOrg, the interaction held is now increased and we are able to produce good leads.
    • After using DiscoverOrg, we are able to understand better because of their reports and dashboards which is very informative.
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    Google
    • 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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    ScreenShots

    DiscoverOrg (discontinued) Screenshots

    Screenshot of Customizable Dashboard with WidgetsScreenshot of Continuous Data RefreshScreenshot of Arial ViewScreenshot of Technology Stack InsightScreenshot of Buying TriggersScreenshot of Org Charts with direct dials, email addresses, and reporting hierarchy.