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    Dotdigital

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADotdigital is a Marketing Automation platform for building automated customer journeys, managing customer data, and coordinating personalized campaigns across email, SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, mobile push, web, advertising, and retargeting channels. Its Cross-Channel Campaign Management capabilities help marketing teams plan, execute, and analyze campaigns across customer touchpoints.N/A

    Dynamic Yield

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ADynamic Yield is presented as an AI-powered Experience Optimization platform that delivers individualized experiences at every customer touchpoint: web, apps, email, kiosks, IoT, and call centers. The platform’s data management capabilities provide for a unified view of the customer, to allow the rapid and scalable creation of highly targeted digital interactions. Marketers, product managers, and engineers use Dynamic Yield for: Launching new personalization…N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    DotdigitalDynamic Yield
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Usability
    7.3
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    DotDigital has a drag-and-drop email builder and many good templates. Using automation, I was able to send out emails with ease. During the onboarding process, you will also be able to speak with real people. We use it to create modern and engaging emails for customers, whether abandoned cart or post-purchase. It has excellent reporting modules, but it lacks a few fundamentals, which can be frustrating. As a whole, the partnership has been a success so far.
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    Dynamic Yield by Mastercard
    For us, it is well suited for personalization. Since we are hospitality brand, we have different rooms sales inclusion based on different segmentation like Mem or Non-mem, Global or UAE, we have to personalize our landing pages accordingly so that we show the relevant information to relevant audience. The inactivity pop up box and newsletter signup popups work good for us. It does not work well in some scenario like Dynamic Yield offers built-in analytics focused on campaign and test performance, but it’s not a replacement for tools like GA4, Adobe Analytics. It lacks deep funnel tracking or complex reporting capabilities.
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    Pros
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    • Email Campaigns are simple and easy to crease
    • We use the SMS to alert our customers to any technical issues
    • Good support from account managers
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    Dynamic Yield by Mastercard
    • Provide fantastic support, both in relation to strategy/best practice and troubleshooting.
    • An easy to use interface, as a user who is relatively new to Dynamic Yield I find that it is an intuitive platform to use.
    • The ability to segment and drill down on data allows for really specific insights which, whilst not necessarily being leveraged on a testing basis, can be super valuable from a greater marketing perspective.
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    Cons
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    • API limits: There is a hardcoded limit on how many API calls you can make per hour, and to raise it, you have to pay.
    • The API set is very limited in general.
    • The API set is very limited in general
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    Dynamic Yield by Mastercard
    • Brand templates could need complex CSS/custom code.
    • We'd like to see a little "i" next to specific labels, which elaborates on what is meant. For example, when I hover over "Dynamic allocation," I get something like "An advanced form of A/B testing where the best-performing variations receive higher traffic."
    • Jargon (for example, for audience targeting) can be overwhelming for new users; therefore, clearer, user-friendly explanations are needed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
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    Dynamic Yield by Mastercard
    implementation took a long time but also, DY has really proven that they are transforming and adapting their platform to be more user friendly and the right technology choice for their brand or company
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    Usability
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    DotDigital is not difficult to use, however, the user interface could use some optimization. There are certain elements that can be challenging to find, and the menus are not always intuitive. However, the tool makes up for that with easy to use features, like creating segments, and allowing many rules to specify these particular groups.
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    Dynamic Yield by Mastercard
    Setting up strategies, audiences, and experiences is simple and fast. It is incredibly easy to modify the appearance of your site and optimize every aspect with the Dynamic Yield Personalizations. However, while the data visualization on an experience level is easy to modify and analyze, exporting the data in meaningful ways is time consuming.
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    Support Rating
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
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    Dynamic Yield by Mastercard
    Overall, the support is very good. If you are a partner (my case), they assign you a customer success manager, that helps a lot. Also, there is a technical person to provide support to the partners, again a great help.
    My only "complain" is that with some complex issues, the support may delay in providing you with a solution. Sometimes that can cause some tension with your client.
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    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    DotDigital's platform is simple to use for essential email marketing campaigns. Setting up Programs (action-driven automation) is simple. It gives you the ability to design stunning campaigns with a wide range of customizability. To better understand our customer base, it analyzes each email sent out. In every situation, the support team has been responsive and helpful.
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    Dynamic Yield by Mastercard
    Dynamic Yield provides far more capability and ready-to-go templates for small-medium sized businesses, as well as decent API implementation for businesses who want to have a deeper integration. The ease of implementation and faster time-to-market is why we chose Dynamic Yield.
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    Return on Investment
    Dotdigital EMEA Limited
    • Maintenance costs due to integration limits.
    • API tiers (now formalized in the documentation) were discovered after the initial purchase, so there are more recurring costs.
    • In general, a raise of costs in the IT compartment, while it can benefit marketing.
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    Dynamic Yield by Mastercard
    • Most tests have had a positive impact on either revenue or conversion rate - quite often in double digits.
    • Dynamic Yield has also helped us to stop some particular initiatives through direct interaction with the customer base via questionnaires or by a test proving negative quicker than rolling out a permanent feature.
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    Dynamic Yield Screenshots

    Screenshot of The Dynamic Yield Dashboard, which offers a high-level overview of personalization campaigns, site performance, audiences, product updates, and more. With customers building and managing dozens, sometimes even hundreds of concurrent campaigns, the Dynamic Yield dashboard provides a snapshot of key information and surfaces items for potential optimization from campaigns that require action.Screenshot of Dynamic Yield's customer segmentation engine, used to unify customer data across digital and offline touchpoints. Data can be onboarded from multiple sources to create one cohesive dataset from which to power experiences. Users can collect, store, categorize, and synchronize data from a CRM, ESP, DMP, APIs, or POS.Screenshot of The interface to create cross-touchpoint personalization campaigns and experiments at scale. Users can coordinate independent personalization experiences to deliver a cohesive, consistent customer journey from start-to-finish.Screenshot of Dynamic Yield's Predictive Targeting capabilities, which provides machine-learning optimization. Dynamic Yield’s Predictive Targeting engine will continuously analyze and identify opportunities to serve the most relevant content for each audience segment.