Google Tag Manager vs. Tagger

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Tag Manager
Score 9.4 out of 10
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From Google, the Google Tag Manager is a tag management application that facilitates creating, embedding, and updating tags across websites and mobile apps. It is a free option, vs. the company's enterprise-tier Google Tag Manager 360.
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Tagger
Score 6.0 out of 10
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Tagger is a 360 Influencer Marketing solution platform from the company of the same name in Santa Monica, designed to allow brands, agencies, and media companies to maximize their influencer strategies throughout the planning, discovery, activation, and reporting phases.N/A
Pricing
Google Tag ManagerTagger
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google Tag ManagerTagger
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Google Tag ManagerTagger
Features
Google Tag ManagerTagger
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Google Tag Manager
8.3
58 Ratings
1% below category average
Tagger
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Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.358 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Product A and Product B
Google Tag Manager
8.6
68 Ratings
6% above category average
Tagger
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Ratings
Tag library8.863 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag variable mapping8.855 Ratings00 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags6.867 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution7.662 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring10.056 Ratings00 Ratings
Page load times8.649 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app tagging9.434 Ratings00 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions8.638 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Management & Integrity
Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Product A and Product B
Google Tag Manager
7.5
69 Ratings
8% below category average
Tagger
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Ratings
Event tracking8.666 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile event tracking9.047 Ratings00 Ratings
Data distribution management8.741 Ratings00 Ratings
Universal data layer8.258 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated error checking3.045 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Google Tag ManagerTagger
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(73 ratings)
8.6
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
2.0
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.8
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google Tag ManagerTagger
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
I have found Google Tag Manager as the go to solution for managing all of your event and conversion tags for your website. Not only does it make it easy to manage all of your tags in the one place, it is fairly intuitive to use and there is plenty of videos and help documentation online to help set up what ever you need. No scenarios come to mind at the moment on where it is less appropriate to use.
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Sprout Social
I might want to find in Tagger a similar report where they show
the after-effects of a few or other influencers when the relegated errands are
done, this could help us in further developing dynamically for our publicizing
efforts doubtlessly getting a considerably more exact outcome.
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Pros
Google
  • Selecting elements on a site [object, class, cookie, etc] (to later fire an event, send some data, etc) is very easy with triggers. Want to add an event when someone clicks on a button? Super easy. It was many many DOM selectors and you can even add custom functions if you need to do something more specific
  • In general, firing events in different circumstances is very easy mixing triggers and tags. You can track almost any element of the DOM and do whatever you want with it.
  • Testing is a great functionality. Only you can see what's on the site and you can debug it easily by seeing which events or tags were triggered and all the DOM elements involved (and why they matched the trigger).
  • Working in environments (staging, production) and versioning is easy to do, deploying changes in 2 clicks.
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Sprout Social
  • User-Friendly Platform
  • Great Customer Support
  • Enables Collaboration
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Cons
Google
  • There are several good integrations, but there can always be more. Native tracking for call tracking solutions, analytics providers, non-Google advertisers would be top of my list.
  • Documentation is just dreadful. Luckily there are some awesome folks out there doing crowdsourced tutorials (shout out to Simo Ahava) but by and large the Google Tag Manager instructions are worth what you pay for them.
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Sprout Social
  • Although it relates very well with most social networks we wish they could soon include TikTok in the tool, one of the fastest growing in recent times and where we could find many more influencers with different skills that fit the needs of our consumers.
  • I would like to see in Tagger Media a comparative report where they show the results of some or other influencers when the assigned tasks are finished, this could help us in improving decision making for our advertising campaigns surely getting a much more accurate result.
  • It would be interesting to see the information of the tasks of the influencers we hire in real time, i.e., if we contact 5 influencers, we could see a real-time flowchart with the current status of their tasks and thus be able to keep a better relationship of time and performance in our projects.
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
I haven't found another option for us to use especially one that is free. Down the road we may go a different route but for now GTM is a good option and does what we need it to do. It'd be nice to get more support or more integrations but with the free version there's only so much one can expect to get I suppose.
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Sprout Social
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Usability
Google
No difficult obstacle to overcome but Google Tag Manager can still be difficult for many users to deploy. Sure the basic HTML script can be deployed quite easily, but when you start to require triggers, variables, etc, it can be a little daunting.
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Sprout Social
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Support Rating
Google
GTM does not provide support. This is one of GTM's biggest issues but it's due to the level of customization for each website. If your team thinks they would heavily rely on the need for a support staff it is probably better to invest in a paid service with a team that can support your needs.
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Sprout Social
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Online Training
Google
I thought there was a little bit too much emphasis on AdWords stuff, not enough on the generic application of GTM.
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Sprout Social
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Implementation Rating
Google
Planning and communication will help greatly with an in-house implementation. If there are large teams, try to limit the number of people involved to 1-2 developers (back-end dev may be necessary depending on your platform), one analytics marketer and one project manager.
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Sprout Social
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Alternatives Considered
Google
We moved to GTM from a standard Google Analytics implementation. GTM is much more flexible and easier to make changes, especially as the changes relate to multiple sites and environments. While there is a learning curve when figuring out how to use GTM, I believe the change has been worth it because it helps us understand at a more fundamental level how our tracking works and gives us a lot more control over what we track and how.
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Sprout Social
Out of the other influencer management/SaaS platforms I've used, Tagger is my favorite. I trust the numbers I see and use within Tagger, whereas other platforms I'm a bit more cautious of that are scraping data. I also have to say that Tagger's customer support is fantastic, my representative is always friendly, patient, and responsive, providing thorough answers to any question we send her way. Additionally, there is a live chat feature within the platform that is also easy to use and someone always responds fairly quickly, whereas other services I've used have taken days to get a response to a simple question.
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Return on Investment
Google
  • GTM is very useful to determine if a particular element on the site is useful (i.e. is it being watched, is it being clicked, does it help customers navigate through more pages). As an SEO person, I can use this information to decide what to optimize for but also to track progress and see improvements in engagement.
  • With the use of Google Tag Manager, I was able to easily inject an A/B testing tool which lead to several improvements in lead generation.
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Sprout Social
  • With the program, the executives and results estimation Tagger can send important data of potential influencers that can be of extraordinary assistance to us.
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