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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Piano Analytics

    Score7.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Piano Analytics, formerly AT Internet, provides digital analytics to help customers measure their audience, optimise their digital performance and create value. From data collection to exploration, activation, and the sharing of actionable insights, the Piano Analytics Suite is designed to provide reliable high-quality data to enhance decision-making company-wide. Adapted to e-commerce, media, finance/banking, and corporate websites & mobile apps, the vendor promises an easy-to-use solution…

    $430

    per server calls consumption

    Pricing
    Google AdsPiano Analytics
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Business
    $430
    per server calls consumption
    Premium
    Contact us
    per server calls consumption
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google AdsPiano Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$430 per server calls consumption
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    Community Pulse
    Google AdsPiano Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Piano Software
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    26 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    28 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    69%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Google AdsPiano Analytics
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Google Ads and Piano Analytics
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.2
    11 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Piano Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising7.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contextual advertising7.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social advertising6.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Google Ads and Piano Analytics
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Piano Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Ad dashboards7.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking7.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization6.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of Google Ads and Piano Analytics
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Piano Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Amplitude Analytics
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Amplitude Analytics
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Amplitude Analytics
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google AdsPiano Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    8.0
    (120 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (98 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google AdsPiano Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Piano Software
    When it comes to web analytics AT Internet is well suited. We introduced AT Internet in 2017 after an evaluation project with other professional analytics solutions. Starting with our corporate website we quickly rolled it out to our customer experience platform, our webshops, and our corporate intranet based on SharePoint 2013. Especially the use in our intranet brought significant improvements over the standard analytics features SP 2013 is offering. The ATI tag systems with their flexibility allow us to include company-specific properties and thus making it possible for us to analyze our intranet usage on segments such as locations, branches, and so on.
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    Pros
    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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    Piano Software
    • A very strong, supportive team who are keen to develop the relationship and deliver business value
    • Excellent 'real-time' data availability through rapid data processing
    • Powerful tools for analysing content consumption and usage patterns
    • A range of API options to deliver data in the format required
    • A process of continuous evolution in the data tools provided
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    Cons
    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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    Piano Software
    • Integrations with outside vendors: there are many ways to integrate data from outside vendors, however you can't display this information in every application unless you create a custom field, which can sometimes be limiting.
    • Access rights: there are two places to assign access rights and each place has slightly different functionality. You can get really granular with what each person has access to, but it is easy to miss a check box and have to go back and correct it.
    • Visualizations across applications: there are some really cool visualizations in the oldest application they support that includes predictive traffic estimates, automatic multi-period variations, etc., that aren't available yet in the newer applications.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Piano Software
    I gave this rating because I think that AT Internet is a good tool, user-friendly easy for onboarding and simple dashboards, however the majority of people use Google Analytics, especially media agency, it is easier for them to use Google Analytics.
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    Usability
    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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    Piano Software
    Overall the experience is very good, it's quick, relaiable and does everything I would want. The only problems I have are matching the correct stats to what I want. It can be painful trying to find the right thing and the explanations are not always the clearest. That's the only issue i've found though.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Piano Software
    I don't have any exemple in mind where AT Internet interface hasn't been available, i have always been able to use AT Internet when i needed it. The only issues to notice is that it happens sometimes that real time or D-1 datas are partially delayed.
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Piano Software
    All excel reports are downloaded very quickly, even if the query is more than 20 000 lines.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Piano Software
    I have not used the Support Team thereby I am unable to review how their Support Teams works. However, in an instance where I had an issue, my concerned department contacted their support team and I was provided with the solution of the problem I was facing within a short span of time.
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    In-Person Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Piano Software
    The in-person training unfortunately does not match to our expectations, was too much focus on digital basis and not on AT Internet functionnalties and how to use it. We paid for one day and only 15 minutes at the end was focused on our real needs in terms of media analytics.
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    Online Training
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Piano Software
    No online training
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Piano Software
    The support team helps us to implement AT Internet.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Piano Software
    AT Internet shows a deep understanding of our business objectives and provide us with ideas on how to solve them. They grant us enough time to try their tools and to be sure the tools are helpful. The data we've got in the Analyzer was manually checked and it was completely correct. Their roadmap was clean and aligned with our strategy
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Piano Software
    Regarding AT Internet possibilities, it could be adapted to small or large organizations, easy to set up. We can add sites in makets that we launch e-commerce.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Piano Software
    • Unfortunately, I do not have precise results to give, but the statistics provided by AT Internet make it possible to carry out in-depth analyses and to make good decisions.
    • You just have to know how to find the information and interpret it.
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