Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dynamic Yield
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Dynamic Yield calls itself an AI-powered Experience Optimization platform that promises to deliver 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, allowing the rapid and scalable creation of highly targeted digital interactions. Marketers, product managers, and engineers use Dynamic Yield for: Launching new personalization…N/A
Monetate
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Monetate (formerly Kibo Personalization, powered by Monetate and Certona) is an ecommerce personalization software for consumer-facing brands. Monetate enables brands to create individualized experiences for site visitors, with the goal of improving engagement and business performance. Founded in 2008, Monetate services Adidas, Lufthansa, Office Depot, Reebok, Wolseley, and other companies.N/A
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
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Dynamic Yield
Chose Dynamic Yield
We previously employed Qubit as our personalisation partner - Dynamic Yield have out performed in all areas, but especially; ease of use, simplicity of implementation, account and customer support responsiveness, and price. I have also used Maxymiser, Optimizely and Monetate in …
Chose Dynamic Yield
  • Oracle Maxymiser is very clunky and hard to code with. Previewing changes was a challenge and development for fixes were slow
  • Optimizely - Great for coding. Fast and efficient. Everything worked great. They were limited at personalization triggers though and their costs were …
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Monetate is good also but I found learning to navigate round DY so much quicker and easier.
May sound silly but the platform is also a lot cleaner in its design.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield was the most robust, flexible, and intuitive option, as well as the best fit for our Single Page Application environment.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Compared to the other competitors, Dynamic Yield stands out for its ease of use! With most other platforms, you are more or less lost without technical skills and the ability to code. In Dynamic Yield, however, even a marketer without programming skills can easily create …
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  • Better and more local customer service.
  • More optimization options.
  • Trust in the team.
Chose Dynamic Yield
This alternative is cheaper and does its job. They appear to be new and hungry for business and therefore we were able to get more attentions from them. The reporting function is easier to understand than the above providers and we don't have to spend time trying to calculate …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield offered the platform most similar to what we were hoping for (a unified A/B testing and personalization/marketing platform that kept everything in one place) at a price point we were looking for.

We would have been more limited in A/B testing with some of the other …
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1. We saw the platform capabilities and it fit to our needs
2. We heard/read a great feedback
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When we've compared solutions, Dynamic Yiled impressed us as better in terms of their focus on e-commerce, built-in features, durability, value for money and agility.
Chose Dynamic Yield
First of all, the other tools we looked at was more focused on A/B testing and personalization but one of the that we loved immediately of Dynamic Yield was the recommendation engine: given that we were missing such a feature in our e-commerce, that really made the difference.

An…
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield is far more advanced than anything else we have evaluated. We can personalize our site, run tests and send targeted messages from one platform. I am unaware of another tool in the marketplace offering that capability.
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Dynamic Yield
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(99 ratings)
7.1
(105 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(5 ratings)
8.2
(24 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(18 ratings)
6.3
(17 ratings)
Availability
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
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10.0
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Support Rating
10.0
(47 ratings)
8.0
(16 ratings)
In-Person Training
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
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9.1
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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7.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield is great for just about any sized organization, though to get the best bang for your buck, I recommend having a front-end web developer well-versed in JavaScript. Additionally, a front-end web designer would be advisable as well as their templates have great functions but some have lackluster UI's that can't be tweaked without developer assistance. Were it not for the above + the occassional slowness on the console/admin-side of the platform, I'd give it a 10. If you have a front-end dev/designer, then it's closer to a 9.5. Ideal utilization scenarios could include: Personalization, CRO/UX/UI testing, and audience or user-level tailored digital experience.
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Monetate
Monetate is a fully functional space to generate multiple marketing campaigns for your company on the web, many of the functions found in this program are a contribution to manage your content correctly and give it the space you are looking for, we We recommend it one hundred percent. We feel very comfortable with everything we have been able to achieve thanks to this program.
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Pros
Dynamic Yield
  • 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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Monetate
  • Audience segmentation is relatively painless. They provide a robust way to granularly target visitors by device type, location, weather, demographics, etc.
  • Our CSM has been very engaged and detailed in supporting our partnership. She provides very prompt responses and clearly works hard to push the Kibo team when possible.
  • The User Interface to develop new actions is not terrible.
  • Supports Single Sign On, which is the preferred method of managing users at my organization.
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Cons
Dynamic Yield
  • The impact (either positive or negative) of potentially overlapping campaigns, especially the UX personalization or custom code campaigns, may not be easily identifiable.
  • It would make more sense for the new deep-learning and machine learning (ML) driven strategies be made part of the standard offering, as opposed to positioning them as add-on subscription, given that many other completing services are baking in ML as part of their platform evolution.
  • The documentation on the API and custom code implementation can be fleshed out further.
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Monetate
  • We'd like to be able to use the Monetate resources to help us set up tests that require web dev (to get it out of our backlog), but they also have wait times similar to our internal ones. I realize resources are hard to come by, but this is an area we'd love to be able to utilize more if the turnaround were quicker.
  • IE is always a problem. I know it's not Monetate-specific though, and many tools struggle with IE.
  • We have a large percentage of our users who use IE, and I'd like to provide more experiences in IE without and additional hassle.
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Likelihood to Renew
Dynamic Yield
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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Monetate
I had never worked within a company that had a tool like this. It made my life as a designer and a creative manager much easier with it's easy to use interface and limitless possibilities in terms of creative. I would highly recommend taking Monetate for a test drive, you will not be disappointed.
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Usability
Dynamic Yield
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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Monetate
Part of what I love about Monetate is how intuitive the tool is. Very very easy to use - based on the basics - Who/What/When/Where concept. Anyone can jump right in and start using the tool. And very easy to copy campaigns and tweak to continue to build experiences. We recently added Monetate on mobile and similar experience - easy to jump back and forth between platforms. Also love the analytics dashboard...easily quantifiable and easy to get tidbits that are digestible for others not as familiar with tool.
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Support Rating
Dynamic Yield
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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Monetate
Monetate support team meets with use weekly, answers emails daily and promptly. They are proactive about getting answers for us when we need it and offering suggestions based on observations they have or learnings they want to share from other partners. Monetate's support is top notch.
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Implementation Rating
Dynamic Yield
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Monetate
Monetate installs easily and sets up personalization with just a few clicks. We never used the recommendation engine but the multivariant testing was great.
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Alternatives Considered
Dynamic Yield
  • Oracle Maxymiser is very clunky and hard to code with. Previewing changes was a challenge and development for fixes were slow
  • Optimizely - Great for coding. Fast and efficient. Everything worked great. They were limited at personalization triggers though and their costs were expensive.
  • Monetate - Evaluated but their UI was hard to use.
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Monetate
At the time of selection, it was the best tool to fit our business needs. The day-to-day users were able to create some experiences on their own and did not require much oversight. We also had developer support built into our contract along with internal developer support so most experiences were achievable. We believed it was as good and in some ways better than the other comparable tools on the market.
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Return on Investment
Dynamic Yield
  • 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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Monetate
  • We are really starting to understand our audience and what they prefer on our website. One example is on our product display pages, we learned that our visitors convert about 35% more when content is laid out in one fashion versus another. Another example is our promotional banners perform better when it takes up the width of the page versus the margins pulled in more.
  • At first, Monetate was a negative ROI - we were paying for a service we weren't getting, and not understanding the full power of the program. With the new optimization firm however, we are now really able to churn out more tests, have a clean and direct test plan, and finally seeing tangible results.
  • As an aside, Monetate has helped us just save time and money on creating our promotional banners now so we don't have to get with our development team each time we want to put one up. Even without running a test, it has let us add content to our site when we need to (as we already have the experiments set up as we need it to and we can quickly duplicate it) without our developers getting in there to make those short-lived changes.
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ScreenShots

Dynamic Yield Screenshots

Screenshot of The Dynamic Yield Dashboard gives you a high-level overview of your personalization campaigns, site performance, audiences, product updates, and more. From here on out, actionability is the name of the game. 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. This allows you to streamline workflows, prioritize the most critical campaigns, and save time in managing your personalization campaigns.Screenshot of Use Dynamic Yield's customer segmentation engine to unify your customer data across all digital and offline touchpoints and use it to power your marketing ecosystem. Onboard data from multiple sources and create one cohesive dataset from which to power experiences. Easily collect, store, categorize, and synchronize data from your CRM, ESP, DMP, APIs, POS and more.Screenshot of Create cross-touchpoint personalization campaigns and experiments at scale. Coordinate independent personalization experiences to deliver a cohesive, consistent customer journey from start-to-finish.Screenshot of Uncover personalization opportunities with Dynamic Yield's Predictive Targeting capabilities and maximize uplifts with machine-learning optimization. Let Dynamic Yield’s Predictive Targeting engine continuously analyze and identify opportunities to serve the most relevant content for each audience segment.