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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Fullstory

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AFullstory’s behavioral data platform helps technology leaders make better, more informed decisions by injecting digital behavioral data into their analytics stack. The technology's behavioral data transforms digital visit into actionable insights.N/A

    Microsoft Advertising

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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
    FullstoryMicrosoft Advertising
    Editions & Modules
    Business
    Contact Sales
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FullstoryMicrosoft Advertising
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    FullstoryMicrosoft Advertising
    Considered Both Products
    Fullstory
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    66 Answers
    68%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    46 Answers
    70%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    68 Answers
    65%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    59%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    FullstoryMicrosoft Advertising
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Fullstory and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Fullstory
    6.2
    19 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Microsoft Advertising
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    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile App Analytics6.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Fullstory and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Fullstory
    9.2
    49 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Microsoft Advertising
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    Ratings
    Heatmap tool9.937 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics9.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form fill analysis9.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking9.928 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking7.923 Ratings00 Ratings
    Funnel Analysis8.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation10.043 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Fullstory and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Fullstory
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.5
    6 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings5.95 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings4.95 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Fullstory and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Fullstory
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.6
    8 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings6.28 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings6.87 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings5.85 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Fullstory and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    Fullstory
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FullstoryMicrosoft Advertising
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Contentsquare
    Score7.5 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Glassbox
    Score6.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    FullstoryMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (72 ratings)
    7.4
    (70 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.7
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (61 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (56 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FullstoryMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fullstory
    It was extremely useful in identifying places in our product where things weren't functioning, or where it looked like action was available to the end user but in reality, it was not and therefore caused lots of confusion. It doesn't help as much in other scenarios to see what catches a user's Eye or where they go if they leave our application as well as an actual in-person interview would help with eye-tracking software.
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    Microsoft
    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
    Fullstory
    • Tracks users' online experiences from start to finish.
    • Makes it easy to share a customer's experiences with the rest of my team.
    • Allows me to use different methods to find evidence of a customer's experience.
    • Shows page insights via segmentation that help me know where to improve my site.
    • Tracks error clicks and dead clicks for quick insights into site improvements.
    • Integrates with HelpScout for easy access to customer problem-solving.
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    Microsoft
    • 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
    Fullstory
    • The ramp-up time to learn the entire product can take a little while. There are just so many absolutely wonderful tools and different ways to look at the same type of information that it can take a new user a few weeks to understand and then more time to master. However, FullStory has a ton of training resources to help with that! A lot of my own teammates have taught themselves FullStory through those training resources.
    • The UX of the product is totally wonderful, but there are tiny things that make getting to certain parts of the product slightly more challenging (like clicking into a modal in a modal). Sometimes buttons or links are placed out of my field of view, but those are minor things I notice because I work in UX.
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    Microsoft
    • 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
    Fullstory
    It's been a phenomenal tool for us; every department that uses it has found something new and unexpected that it can do that they're really excited about. Even if we *only* used it for bug triage, it would be worth our time and money. The fact that we can use it for so many other things as well--gauging how customers interact and use our site, identifying UI problems, etc.--is above and beyond
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    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
    Fullstory
    Because everything seems to be easy to find and it doesn't take long at all to learn how to use the product
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    Microsoft
    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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    Reliability and Availability
    Fullstory
    We've never had issues with availability
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Fullstory
    It seems the performance is really good and always loads quickly
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Fullstory
    They have been overall pretty responsive and proactive. The tool is pretty straightforward to use. Most of the questions we have had to work with them on our how to use new features or adjust our integration to ensure we are gathering all the data from all of our tools.
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    Microsoft
    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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    Implementation Rating
    Fullstory
    To successfully implement FullStory, it is important to plan your implementation carefully by defining your goals and user segments. You should also use tags and filters to analyze your user data, train your team to use FullStory effectively, and use FullStory in conjunction with other analytics tools to get a more complete picture of your user's behavior. By following these tips, you can gain valuable insights into your users' behavior and experiences, and use this information to improve your website or application.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Fullstory
    Smartlook is software that records users on a website
    and mobile app. Finding useful information within thousands of recordings is
    made quick and easy with features that help you accomplish this. I have chosen FullStory because it is easier to use and has more advanced features compared to Smartlook.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    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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    Scalability
    Fullstory
    Full story was easy to scale with the growth of our teams and organisation
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Fullstory
    • Triage for front end bugs - FullStory can sometimes help you spot a bug in action much more quickly than trying to recreate it on your own
    • Observing customers use new features and understanding why a new feature may be performing better or worse than expected
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Fullstory Screenshots

    Screenshot of AI-generated Summaries used to Take Action More QuicklyScreenshot of a Visualization of Behavioral Data with Custom DashboardsScreenshot of Ready-made for AI Behavioral Data Straight to the organization's Data EcosystemScreenshot of Fullstory's Session Replay, Combined with Dev ToolsScreenshot of Mobile App Behavioral Data