Google AdSense vs. Kevel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AdSense
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Google AdSense provides a way for publishers to earn money from their online content. AdSense works by matching ads to your site based on your content and visitors. The ads are created and paid for by advertisers who want to promote their products. Since these advertisers pay different prices for different ads, the amount you earn will vary. AdSense displays relevant ads to your site visitors next to your content and allows you to customize the look and feel of ads to match your site.N/A
Kevel
Score 6.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Kevel's (formerly Adzerk) APIs is designed to make it easy for engineers and PMs to build their own server-side, fully-customized ad server. E-retailers and user communities can use Kevel to build ad servers to promote anything from native ads to internal content to sponsored listings (where vendors and sellers pay for their organic listing to be promoted in search and browsing results). According to the vendor, engineers reliably see a significant reduction in dev time using Kevel’s APIs…N/A
Pricing
Google AdSenseKevel
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AdSenseKevel
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing is customized based on feature needs, support needs, and monthly request volume.
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Community Pulse
Google AdSenseKevel
Features
Google AdSenseKevel
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Google AdSense
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Ratings
Kevel
10.0
1 Ratings
31% above category average
DSP integration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
Google AdSense
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Ratings
Kevel
10.0
1 Ratings
24% above category average
Ad campaign creation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ad deployment00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Display advertising00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Google AdSense
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Ratings
Kevel
9.2
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Ad dashboards00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Ad performance reports00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Cross-channel ad management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Google AdSenseKevel
Small Businesses
Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
Score 7.7 out of 10
Criteo Commerce Growth
Criteo Commerce Growth
Score 8.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
Amazon Advertising Sponsored Products
Score 7.7 out of 10
The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
Score 8.5 out of 10
Criteo Commerce Growth
Criteo Commerce Growth
Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google AdSenseKevel
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(7 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google AdSenseKevel
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
I think any company selling a product or service can benefit from Google AdSense advertising as long as they come with a strategy of who to target with their Ad campaigns. If you just blanket anything and everything with your Google Ads it won't be as effective, and you will be wasting your spend
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Kevel
For ad serving, implementing client-side header bidding with prebid was actually easier with Kevel than it is with Google Ad Manager in most cases, particularly for display advertising. I found though that with more complex integrations (like video), there were more solutions and code snippets available with other larger ad servers (Google).
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Pros
Google
  • Excellent Ads type and useful content
  • Excellent follow up and analytics
  • Secure your particular ads by following the plagiarism bloggers who steal your content. It happens to me and Google AdSense aware about these thief's by tracking my Google Adsense particular ad code
  • Excellent revenue for the bloggers who are honest about their content
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Kevel
  • More personable team that can address customizations needed to the product.
  • Easy to use interface.
  • Frequent product updates with notifications via email.
  • Well documented API.
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Cons
Google
  • Google AdSense should monetize mobile applications
  • Google AdSense should monetize Mac native applications and games
  • Google AdSense should pay out more for a click for tier 1 countries traffic
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Kevel
  • User interface could be faster to load.
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Usability
Google
I feel that Google AdSense has a plethora of features and detailed options for you to utilize when building campaigns. I do think there is room to make it more user friendly for beginning users. I had to request help from my Marketing team to build campaigns. Ultimately, that improvement would push my scoring to a 10.
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Kevel
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Google
In addition to Taboola, we also looked at Amazon Associates. I believe the latter could have a place as a source of revenue for many small websites. As stated earlier, Adsense is simply the largest and easiest to use service out there for small to medium-sized websites. It offers the best tools and easiest path to monitization.
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Kevel
Kevel was an easier initial implementation for header bidding with prebid. The team worked alongside us to make sure everything was operating as intended. We ultimately switched to Ads Manager to access AdX demand and other features that were not possible with Kevel (for instance, EBDA). There are benefits to both but I appreciated the attention we got from Kevel support when we were first working through the implementation. We are still using Kevel for many things, just not as our primary display advertising ad server.
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Return on Investment
Google
  • Helps us strategize better around potential ad revenue models
  • Helps us evaluate the impact of ads on the user experience on the front end
  • The optimization recommendations have generated an improvement revenue-wise
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Kevel
  • Kevel enabled us to get up and running with client side header bidding when our team was still small and the technology was still new. This improved our ability to monetize our inventory.
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