GroundTruth vs. Yahoo Ads

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GroundTruth
Score 6.2 out of 10
N/A
GroundTruth (formerly xAd) headquartered in New York offers location-based mobile advertising technology.N/A
Yahoo Ads
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Yahoo Ads supports mobile, native and search engine marketing and advertising, and is a solution for placing ads where visitors are. The marketplace offers search and native advertising in one advertising platform.
$25
per month
Pricing
GroundTruthYahoo Ads
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Yahoo Gemini!
$25.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GroundTruthYahoo Ads
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
GroundTruthYahoo Ads
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(3 ratings)
5.0
(16 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
5.4
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
GroundTruthYahoo Ads
Likelihood to Recommend
xAd
It's fantastic for targeting an audience when you know where they will be for a very low CPM. However, it's hard if you are a brick-and-mortar and want to truly measure the results. You need to get creative in ways to attribute site visits and purchases back to the campaign (unique coupon codes, etc.)
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Yahoo!
Good for instances where search campaigns are driving poor overall traffic. Campaigns for awareness work well, and you have pretty good control of how your ads look without having to do too much work. We've used this successfully for law, financial services, and political campaigns effectively. With Twitter banning political ads, and Facebook becoming increasingly strict on their approval guidelines, this may turn into the best alternative. Would not necessarily recommend for ecommerce campaigns, or lead based campaign where keeping cost per conversion down is a primary objective.
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Pros
xAd
  • Launch digital ads campaigns
  • Change creatives and rollout campaigns in minutes
  • Target specific user personas for great conversions
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Yahoo!
  • Offers extensive solutions to reach a high volume of users and create new reach outside of major networks like Google and Bing.
  • Provides unique ways to differentiate advertisers in top positions on search results pages.
  • Creates unique tactics to utilize on display networks (carousel and video takeovers).
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Cons
xAd
  • Adding a save option sometimes when you don’t hit next the work you are using is lost.
  • Adding in app recommendations
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Yahoo!
  • No traffic -- despite a high ROI, the lack of overall spend led to us eventually remove support for the channel from our services.
  • Nothing to differentiate it from other paid platforms -- Gemini didn't particularly offer anything new or novel that made it worth using over Bing and Google.
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Usability
xAd
No answers on this topic
Yahoo!
One of my main pain points with yahoo gemini is that the product is very difficult to use and the UI seems like they took a skeleton of a similar product and made it bare bones functional for the purpose of generating ad spend. It is a huge barrier for new customers and I feel one of the main reasons they have new customers at all is all the free trial dollars they offer.
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Support Rating
xAd
No answers on this topic
Yahoo!
They were always super helpful during training and demoing and would answer any questions we had. We didn't have a direct account manager, which would have been nice, but I just don't think their size accommodates for that type of set up. They are very knowledgeable and help guide you through a set up for each particular client.
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Alternatives Considered
xAd
GroundTruth was recommended to us by a vendor and was the only product we evaluated
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Yahoo!
Yahoo Gemini! does stack up well against its competitors in the smaller spending realms. We've never been able to justify the ROI when we try to scale it up to even 10% - 15% of our spend. No, we've found that it's much better as a tangential win than a mainstream channel.
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Return on Investment
xAd
  • Helps improve conversion by 20%
  • Time to create and rollout campaigns is reduced by half
  • Help optimise and rationalise the operational overheads and costs
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Yahoo!
  • It has created a more comprehensive understanding of the audience to whom a client is marketing.
  • It allows clients to target and reach audience members on all major search platforms.
  • It provides data and reporting to understand and analyze campaign success and optimize campaigns towards client goals.
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