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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HG Insights Platform

    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    The HG Insights platform provides a view into global industries, markets, and companies allowing users to identify the most valuable opportunities and build strategies to maximize revenue and accelerate growth.N/A

    Microsoft Advertising

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) contains Microsoft's advertising solutions. Advertising formats include search (Microsoft Search ads), Display and Native ads, Retail Media, and Video and Connected TV (CTV) ads. Services include Performance Max, the company's conversion optimization AI assistant and guide.N/A
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    HG Insights PlatformMicrosoft Advertising
    Editions & Modules
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    HG Insights PlatformMicrosoft Advertising
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    HG Insights PlatformMicrosoft Advertising
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    HG Insights
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
    68%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    70%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    65%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    59%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    Features
    HG Insights PlatformMicrosoft Advertising
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of HG Insights Platform and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    HG Insights Platform
    9.1
    36 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Microsoft Advertising
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    Ratings
    Company information8.336 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Research
    Comparison of Financial Research features of HG Insights Platform and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    HG Insights Platform
    8.3
    34 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Microsoft Advertising
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    Industry-Specific Information8.529 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search Tools8.130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Market Research
    Comparison of Market Research features of HG Insights Platform and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    HG Insights Platform
    8.1
    36 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Microsoft Advertising
    -
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    Competitor Research7.933 Ratings00 Ratings
    Market Insights and Reports8.334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of HG Insights Platform and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    HG Insights Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.5
    6 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings5.85 Ratings
    Contextual advertising00 Ratings5.56 Ratings
    Social advertising00 Ratings4.95 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of HG Insights Platform and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    HG Insights Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    6.6
    8 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings6.28 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings6.87 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings5.85 Ratings
    Ad Auctions
    Comparison of Ad Auctions features of HG Insights Platform and Microsoft Advertising
    Feature
    HG Insights Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Advertising
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Ad bidding00 Ratings7.37 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
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    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Comscore Ad Metrix
    Score8 out of 10
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sprinklr Insights
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HG Insights PlatformMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (43 ratings)
    7.4
    (70 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (41 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HG Insights PlatformMicrosoft Advertising
    Likelihood to Recommend
    HG Insights
    If you're trying to find or build prompts for your team to get the data they need to make them go ahead. For example, we use it to find our accounts and prospects who are using voice agents. It was very valuable to get that information. So yeah, definitely you can use that.
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    Microsoft
    Despite using our account for advertising with every other social media company, Microsoft flagged ours as fraudulent. After dealing with them for weeks, we finally got to a manager, who said that they didn’t know anything, couldn’t provide any information, and was unable to do anything about it. It seems odd, but it would flagger account every time we try to upload the campaigns from Google directly into their ad manager. I would suggest if you try and use their platform, don’t tell them you’re using Google cause they seem to have a thing against it. Once your account is flagged, they have no reasonable way of resolving it, nor they are able to offer any support. You’re better off to just try a different way. Ultimately, just don’t use Microsoft advertising if you can possibly avoid it. Hopefully soon DuckDuckGo will have their own advertising platform and we can eliminate Microsoft given the terrible time we have working with this one of many, social media platforms.
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    Pros
    HG Insights
    • It works great for seeing if the site or app for a company is hosted on AWS.
    • Intricately uses a different approach (vs the other tools we use) - which helps confirm from another angle.
    • It has a great google chrome plug-in.
    • UI/UX is modern and clean.
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    Microsoft
    • Familiar interface, offers editor for bulk changes, adding negative keywords is much easier than in Google Ads
    • Nice reporting tools within the interface, detailed reports can be made fairly easily
    • Had very nice tools to help import/export ads directly from Google Ads, which saves a ton of time
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    Cons
    HG Insights
    • integration with SFDC could be better
    • Sometime provides back an incorrect/no match when a better is available from an uploaded file, though this is getting slightly better
    • A way to gauge how many hits you will get off an intent topic before selecting them so you don't feel like one is going to waste could be useful.
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    Microsoft
    • Bing's ad platform could definitely use some improvements - it hasn't been updated in a long time, and it feels very outdated.
    • We feel that the optimization algorithms don't always perform as well for Bing Ads as they do in Google Ads (optimize for conversions, etc.).
    • It would be great to have even more integrations with LinkedIn audience targeting offered - right now, you can just make some bid optimizations in a couple of areas; we'd really like to get more robust options there, and maybe even things like cross-platform tracking.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    HG Insights
    We are using it to identifying Account that uses Support tool and it has been a huge game changer for our organization as it has helped Sales team when they are prospecting Accounts to target these Accounts with knowledge that gives them the edge to win the deal. Plus using it with clay integration is very helpful for us.
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    Microsoft
    We have had good success with it over all of our clients. We continually recommend bing to reach "the rest of the searchers".
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    Usability
    HG Insights
    It’s very easy to use, and the team is very responsive and friendly to work with. The information is unique and usable and can complement some of the data we get from call recordings. The integration with Salesforce is easy to implement and offers good insights into our database.
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    Microsoft
    It's very easy to use overall. It has an import from Google Ads to make things simpler. Overall, I would say you can get up and running very quickly. It's similar to other platforms, so if you have used them, it's intuitive.
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    Support Rating
    HG Insights
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    Microsoft
    Our Bing Ads reps are very good and attentive. They've offered good recommendations and are quick to resolve unexpected issues and problems. Occasionally they have roped in technical support folks that have been friendly and helpful too. The general helpline for Bing Ads is also very good, especially when compared to Google's customer support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    HG Insights
    - Sales Intel seems to be more of a direct competition. Their human research seems to be something interesting. Also the claim to focus on firmographics - We went with Bombora for intent technology in the past - We did not move forward with 6sense
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    Microsoft
    Obviously Google is a huge competitor. Typically Google is top of the game for many advertising solutions including search. Microsoft ads has a lower scale and reach compared to Google. However, Microsoft ads audience does not overlap much with Googles, providing incremental reach. Although Microsoft ads lags a bit behind in adapting the new updates that Google comes out with, their customer service is very good and they are likely to go out of their way to adapt their platform to your needs whereas their competitor does not
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    Return on Investment
    HG Insights
    • I don't massively get involved in financial matters, but the propensity models we use internally to help run our campaigns are certainly a big factor when our sales people approach our clients.
    • Every campaign sold now comes with a flat data fee for us to run and use a propensity model for the activity we complete on behalf of our clients.
    • Whilst the client will never see the raw data behind the model (of which HG does play a part along with our other data sources) they are briefed on the methodology and reasoning behind them.
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    Microsoft
    • We've had a very hard time spending our budgets on Bing which has caused us a lot of extra work on our end. We've essentially had to move that money back to Google or other platforms.
    • It does have an easy import from Google so you're not doubling efforts.
    • The CPCs tend to be less expensive than Google - which is always good for business owners.
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    HG Insights Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of the welcome screen.Screenshot of the HG Insights Opportunity Generator.Screenshot of HG Insights' Market Analyzer, used to interactively explore and act on your total addressable market, competitive dynamics, and whitespace with speed and confidence.