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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

    Sprinklr Social

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASprinklr Social is a Social Media Management platform for enterprise teams managing social publishing, scheduling, engagement, and employee advocacy. It centralizes social operations across more than 30 social and messaging channels for distributed marketing, communications, and customer-facing teams. The platform also supports Social Media Publishing, Employee Advocacy, and Social Media Analytics through content scheduling, approved employee content sharing, and…N/A
    Pricing
    Google AdsSprinklr Social
    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
    Custom Social Media Management Solution
    Custom, quote-based pricing
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google AdsSprinklr Social
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Pricing is completely custom, quote-based upon request.
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    Community Pulse
    Google AdsSprinklr Social
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Sprinklr
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
    42 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    76%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    79%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 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
    7 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    70%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    Features
    Google AdsSprinklr Social
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Google Ads and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Sprinklr Social
    -
    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 Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.3
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Sprinklr Social
    -
    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 Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    7.9
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Sprinklr Social
    -
    Ratings
    Ad bidding7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Google Ads and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.7
    57 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings8.450 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings7.753 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings7.354 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.253 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Google Ads and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.8
    57 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.854 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.249 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings7.647 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings7.851 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Google Ads and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    8.4
    56 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings8.348 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.454 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings8.552 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Google Ads and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.1
    49 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings7.135 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings8.241 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings5.936 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.243 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Google Ads and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    6.8
    60 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings9.457 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings7.458 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings6.344 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings6.230 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings7.257 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings5.930 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings5.242 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Google Ads and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    8.1
    59 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.055 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.458 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.041 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Google Ads and Sprinklr Social
    Feature
    Google Ads
    -
    Ratings
    Sprinklr Social
    7.6
    57 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.556 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings6.850 Ratings
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    Google AdsSprinklr Social
    Small Businesses
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Emplifi
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google AdsSprinklr Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (126 ratings)
    9.0
    (85 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    7.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    7.3
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (34 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google AdsSprinklr Social
    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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    Sprinklr
    In my perspective, I would say Sprinklr Modern Sales &
    Engagement is best suited for teams and organizations who are more involved in
    automating social media activities, getting a great analytical report on
    activity engagement, and generating lists and bolds that helps determine the
    trends and events, etc. One of the best tools that one could use for clients
    with every information they would need.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    • Customization - Through Sprinklr's rules and robust custom field creation, you really can create a lot of customization for every facet of your business.
    • Listening - Their Listening Engine and Explorer are fantastic ways to proactively find engagement-friendly conversations, in addition competitively research your brand.
    • Care - Using their case formatting, messages and customer contacts can be routed and assigned easily to available reps, and their bot builder can help to automate your contacts without sacrificing a personal touch.
    Incentivized
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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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    Sprinklr
    • Overall, Sprinklr rewards users to do a lot of digging on their own to get to the more in-depth functionalities. For instance, the asset manager feature leads you to a dashboard with all the content you ever published but doesn't tell you what to do next or how to organize it
    • Sprinklr offers basic social listening features, but it is much more limited than other pure social listening players like Crimson Hexagon or Brandwatch. It is perfectly usable for a quick search but I wouldn't recommend it as your sole social listening platform
    Incentivized
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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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    Sprinklr
    I really do feel that Sprinklr is the most complete enterprise social media program. It covers everything you would need to do to run a strategic social media program. On top of that, the success managers are really the best. Our success manager goes above and beyond for us and has been so helpful to us with setting up some very specific repots and profiles. Paul (our CSM) has been great about keeping us up to date on the latest features and functionality as well as helping us set up innovative dashboards as need
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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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    Sprinklr
    The user interface, training via Sprinklr university and detailed articles on almost every topic in the knowledge portal make Sprinklr a complete package. This is also GDPR compliant, helping us stay good with the info security. The layout of the navigation is easy and anyone new to the tool won't be overwhelmed
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Our account partners at Sprinklr are not only responsive to out needs, both domestically and internationally, but have consistently approached us with ideas on how to improve our communication and collaboration in a proactive manner.
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    Performance
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Perfornace is not aan issue. The issues/bugs with this software are few and far between. And when one pops up the 24/7 support team is helpful, quick and informative.
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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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    Sprinklr
    Support is amazing. We have had to reach out [to] them only a few times in the past few years. Each time, they were back in touch with us within the hour or two, no matter the time. We've always had our issues addressed quickly and promptly corrected. They are a great team to work with.
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    In-Person Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    I don't recall our training in detail. I know we met in person a few times, and did some over-the-phone product walk-throughs. It may have been somewhat informal -- I don't recall having any takeaways to refer to.
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    Online Training
    Google
    Daily use with advanced account structures. Familiarity with reporting/api and complex setups.
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    Sprinklr
    Through multiple webinars, easily accessible training documents, and ad-hoc sessions with my account manager I am never left in the dark when I have a question.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    The implementation personnel at Sprinklr are top-notch. They will work with you to make sure they setup Sprinklr in a way that best aligns with your structural needs
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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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    Sprinklr
    As much as I get frustrated with Sprinklr, Sprinklr is a much cleaner platform than others I have used and I do obtain good data from the reports due to my custom filters, allowing me to pass along education onto product teams in regards to their specific lines.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Sprinklr
    Always start simple with Sprinklr, e.g. one client. You can easily grow over time adding products/units/regions, etc
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Sprinklr
    • Reports can be customized and exported easily in many different formats. I especially like the PowerPoint version of reports. It quickly and professionally creates a custom slideshow to show the metrics of the platforms and time periods you choose. This is a great way to keep your company's C-level executives informed on your team's progress and investing in your efforts. This is especially true for executives that do not personally use or understand the value of social media.
    • Brand reputation management is always a great investment. The dashboard alerts you in real-time when your brand or product is mentioned across any of the platforms and offers a quick and efficient way to respond. The Sprinklr customer experience cloud can be implemented across your entire organization, including CRM and email systems.
    • If you're not growing you're dying. That alone helps me with the ROI of using Sprinklr for my client's business objectives.
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