HubSpot Content Hub vs. Optimizely Content Marketing Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HubSpot Content Hub
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Hubspot Content Hub is used to take control of content assets. The unified platform is used to manage, update, and distribute content from a central location, ensuring everyone has access to the most up-to-date and relevant materials.
$20
per month
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single, AI-powered workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and execute campaigns.N/A
Pricing
HubSpot Content HubOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
Editions & Modules
Starter
$20
per month per seat
Content Hub Professional
$500
per month 3 seats included, $50 for each additional seat
Content Hub Enterprise
$1500
per month 5 seats included, $75 for each additional seat
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HubSpot Content HubOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAnnual commitment required. A discount is offered for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
HubSpot Content HubOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
Considered Both Products
HubSpot Content Hub

No answer on this topic

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
Chose Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
Reporting is easy to access and use with Optimizely Content Management System, HubSpot is used as our CRM.
Features
HubSpot Content HubOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
HubSpot Content Hub
-
Ratings
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
5.0
47 Ratings
45% below category average
Ideation00 Ratings5.234 Ratings
Approval workflows00 Ratings5.744 Ratings
Content collaboration00 Ratings6.343 Ratings
Content calendar00 Ratings4.439 Ratings
Network for content licensing/production00 Ratings3.324 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
HubSpot Content Hub
-
Ratings
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
4.9
42 Ratings
47% below category average
Content hub00 Ratings5.235 Ratings
Forms / Gated content00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
Embedded CTAs00 Ratings5.427 Ratings
Content distribution00 Ratings6.036 Ratings
Content promotion00 Ratings4.930 Ratings
Content automation00 Ratings5.131 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
HubSpot Content Hub
-
Ratings
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
4.0
36 Ratings
61% below category average
Audience profiling and targeting00 Ratings8.23 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting00 Ratings2.929 Ratings
Content performance analytics00 Ratings3.233 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard00 Ratings2.929 Ratings
Competitive analytics00 Ratings2.919 Ratings
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Vyond
Vyond
Score 8.6 out of 10
Vyond
Vyond
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
HubSpot Content HubOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(18 ratings)
5.5
(50 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.8
(8 ratings)
4.9
(45 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HubSpot Content HubOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
HubSpot
If you want all your marketing activities to be in one place, where your CRM and customer data exist, go for Hubspot's entire suite, which could include CMS, depending on your needs. If you have to create a company blog, marketing landing pages for events or lead generation, or send decently designed newsletters, Hubspot does the job well. Any company that has grown to enterprise level or has fragmented marketing should probably not use Hubspot CMS because of the fragmented activities that might occur. Hubspot's reporting can also break. Also, if you want your designed pages to be very creative with many animations, Hubspot CMS is probably not the way to go. But for anyone who is still finding their footing, go for it.
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Optimizely
A 7 only because I think there's question marks around customization. However, I've seen very similar tools in the past where stakeholders have been skeptical, but as you get to know it and use it, you'll find actually you realize those benefits. I just think Optimizely could help its stakeholders and clients see those benefits early on versus later on. However, that's not to say it's not possible, so a 7 at this stage, but I think it's got potential in future. If you are a marketing firm who wants a centralized system for managing workflows and campaigns, it's great. It does that. However, there are better competitors fill in some of the gaps better than optimized leaders does. It could do better. I think for me, visually when I see, when I create a workflow or a campaign, I can see all the tasks associated with it and I've seen the way that our parent company uses it. It's just a list of all the tasks you see in one view. I think visually it needs improving. However, the purpose that it serves fundamentally, it's got potential, if that makes sense. It's going in the right direction, but I think competitors are doing some of it better than Optimizely is. I think they, like I was saying earlier, if they really want to realize the benefits of the product visually there needs to be some improvement. And then the controls element that I mentioned earlier as well, hopefully that answers both of your questions.
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Pros
HubSpot
  • Asset control is super easy if your willing to create folder structures that make sense
  • Drag and drop building elements are great, even if you create custom blocks
  • control of domains and how they link into your main system is super easy
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Optimizely
  • The CMP really is useful for us not only to manage the processes behind how we create content that we serve in different platforms like websites, landing pages, emails, social media, but it also help us as a team that is scattered around the globe to be able to be connected all the time to be able to see what we're working on, to be able to share assets as well. We are not reinventing the wheel to be able to show to other people within the organization what is happening at any given point. We use it not only for assets now, but we use it also for things like planning our webinars, planning our face-to-face events, so it truly is the heart of our marketing organization within the business.
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Cons
HubSpot
  • Although you can integrate it with Google Analytics, there is still a significant difference between what each tells you about [a] number of visitors to a given page, etc.
  • There's a lot to the program and it's not always intuitive where to go for a feature. Though the help center and academy are good and usually have the answers, having to look things up isn't.
  • It's expensive.
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Optimizely
  • One thing that could be improved is some of the promotions that happen in platform. For example, there's a Opal AI little bubble at the bottom right of the corner, which you can't move across the screen. So if you're trying to change the status of a step or you're trying to update a description within a step, that can be a bit challenging and as it seems to be quite an easy fix.
  • I would love to see a capability in terms of having visual representation that we can share out with stakeholders that don't necessarily need access to CMP. But for that level of detail, we don't want it to go too granular, but we do want to be able to share in a quick and visual manner some of the activities that are happening so we can keep everybody in the loop without having to create different variations via different tools.
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Likelihood to Renew
HubSpot
I don't think we justify the amount of usage we have of CMS Hub professional. We might discontinue it to save some bucks. But if we ever need an extensive solution, we'll come back to it, as we already other products of Hubspot (Sales Hub, Reporting, Automations)
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Optimizely
No answers on this topic
Usability
HubSpot
HubSpot CMS HUB is well-rounded and brings a robust list of capabilities while maintaining an ease-of-use that beginners can engage. HubSpot is by far the best at doing this among the half-dozen or so CMS platforms I've used in my 20+ years experience. It turns glorified business card websites into purposeful marketing machines that become a key part of a marketing strategy rather than a complicated and frustrating mess.
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Optimizely
As a Content Operations Manager, I find the customizable task views and calendar views to be most helpful in the Plan Module. This allows me to have visibility into each team's overdue tasks, and determine where my time is best allocated to help in content production. The Library is a easy to access and highly used function as well for sharing assets across teams
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Reliability and Availability
HubSpot
As of now we didn't face any application errors and unplanned outages.
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Optimizely
I have not experienced any prolonged outages. From time to time there will be errors but nothing that significantly slows down production
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Performance
HubSpot
Yes the pages load fastly and this tool is pretty good in integration with other tools like zapier, calendly and so on.
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Optimizely
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's performance is generally good. Nothing that has impacted production. Page load speed doesn't typically lag longer than a few seconds. Reports take some time but not any longer than we're used to with other platforms. We have not experienced lag when integrating with other platforms
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Support Rating
HubSpot
They are always there to help in any way possible. Our account manager works out any situations we may encounter during business hours
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Optimizely
The NewsCred team is very responsive and helpful with any technical issues.
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Online Training
HubSpot
Pretty easy and resources available at fingertips.
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Optimizely
Training was clear and concise. It was intuitive and helped me understand how to navigate the platform. Options to dive in on each action or skip to learn about areas of regular use. Resource links available to when I had additional questions or needed more training in a specific area. Overall, the training allowed me to use the platform without interruption
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Implementation Rating
HubSpot
Yes, recreation of landing pages, forms and email templates.
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Optimizely
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Alternatives Considered
HubSpot
We have about 10 seats that were needed. Wanted a sales platform that had good status and reputation. HubSpot was the best choice for me given Salesforce not being the best in the past. Price was appealing and our team liked the overlay. Other options do not provide the same ability with data
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Optimizely
Honestly, I'd rather use Smartsheet paired with a digital asset management tool. It’s more flexible, easier to navigate, and better suited for mid-size teams that need to move quickly without the overhead and complexity that comes with Optimizely. We currently have Optimizely because an investment has been made in the tool.
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Scalability
HubSpot
Because it aligns with our goals and streamlined all the hubspot at one place.
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Optimizely
Optimizely is generally a reliable platform for A/B testing and digital experience management. It's helpful for it's stability, flexibility, and comprehensive features, which is helpful when managing an enterprise website
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Return on Investment
HubSpot
  • When I was using it I couldn't see the direct return on investment since I was only seeing web development.
  • Practicality when creating articles and content
  • Efficiency when creating landing pages, basically content and interactions, but no return on investment in money.
  • Cuando lo estuve usando no pude ver el retorno de inversión directa ya que solo veía desarrollo web
  • Practicidad al momento de crear artículos y contenido
  • Eficiencia al momento de crear landings, basicamente contenido e interacciones pero no retorno de inversion en dinero
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Optimizely
  • The program has allowed us to meet our content goals more easily (e.g.: we publish X articles per month and track where each article is at).
  • It's helped us improve the accuracy of our information. We have SEO, content strategists, and legal teams involved in the workflow now because it's easy to manage.
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ScreenShots

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Opal, Optimizely's AI, which acts as an extension to the marketing workforce. Use cases include building comprehensive campaign and content briefs, suggesting how to best execute a campaign, creating on-brand content for any channel and providing suggestions for ongoing optimization.Screenshot of Marketing Work Request Prioritization. This streamlines and prioritizes marketing requests with dynamic intake forms, automatic routing, and integrated workflows to ensure that requested work gets completed.Screenshot of Digital Asset Management. With Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's integrated asset repository, marketers can upload, organize, and share assets within the same platform where content planning, creation, and collaboration take place.Screenshot of a Visual Calendar. Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform provides visibility into marketing activities - from content to events to campaigns - with flexibility to support changing timelines.Screenshot of the Calendar. This offers visibility into planned and scheduled content and campaigns with the ability to save and share views.