Google 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.
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Marin Software
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Marin Software is a cloud-based cross-channel advertising campaign management platform which integrates many tools and functions, and it is the name of the company in San Francisco that issues the software. Marin touts cross-display (including mobile-optimized) advertisement retargeting, social marketing management, and many other tools to manage complex marketing and paid-advertising (PPC) efforts.
A free trial of this extensive platform is available. Marin Software maintains a client list…
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Google Ads
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Chose Google Ads
Against Bing, Adwords is the better platform, because many more users search on google instead of bing. This means the reach is quite restricted to Bing. As a whole, AdWords gives much better experience and support than Bing. Google Analytics is an additional tool to AdWords, …
AdWords is the dominant player. Being associated to Google they have a far larger share of search volume access, compared to Bing, Yahoo, and others. Furthermore, they've done everything right with their user interface, so other alternatives are just trying to catch up with the …
Much easier to use than Bing. Costs are dependent on vertical. Reporting is more sophisticated. More volume/opportunity than Bing
Marin Software
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Chose Marin Software
Kenshoo Search is definitely the most customizable auto bid tech for lease and sale, however Marin Software blows them out of the park when it comes to ease of use, customer support, and reports. If you have a fair number of cookie-cutter accounts with limited special issues, …
Double click is easier to use as it offers a couple of clicks syncing with Adwords, while the process with Marin is longer. Besides, you can do any changes in both DoubleClick and Adwords, it doesn't really matter, while it maters with Marin. Speed of Marin is also an issue …
Marin is a must have for any enterprise-level PPC account. The time savings from task automation and the very sophisticated bidding platform can help any advertiser or agency effectively scale any account. In both AdWords and Bing, the bulk editing and automated bidding features …
Marin pulls reports on a much faster basis than the previous bid management program I used. It also allows me to work faster with its bulk-editing capabilities, where I can raise bids, pause/activate campaigns, change destination URLS, etc, all within the UI.
I've used Doubleclick Search for bid management and account aggregation, but I prefer Marin as its bid management tool is way better and provides a better ROI. Marin also offers a back-end integration option as well as much better customer service. I felt that our account …
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Account Manager
Chose Marin Software
I have actually used both Marin and Omniture with the same client- both are beneficial in different ways. We used Omniture to pull in all revenue data as we didn't want Google to be pulling in rev info for privacy reasons.
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Program Manager
Chose Marin Software
I evaluated Kenshoo, Acquisio, and Efficient Frontier at the same time as Marin Software. While all platforms had unique capabilities and areas where their functionality purportedly outperformed the others - Marin seemed to achieve the right balance for all of our needs (i.e. …
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Manager
Chose Marin Software
DoubleClick has gotten better, but Marin is easier to use and the service is better. This includes the help section and our Marin reps.