INFUSE vs. Metadata.io

I've recommended INFUSEmedia to colleagues in the past, primarily in situations where teams are looking to generate lead volume and either struggling to achieve that volume or looking to diversify the partners and channels that they run with. Based on my own experience, I have typically recommended INFUSEmedia for B2B teams as the contexts that I have worked with INFUSEmedia have been for that sector of clients. I would be less likely to recommend for B2C clients as my understanding is not that INFUSEmedia would be a good fit for that type of strategy.

Incentivized

Metadata is well suited when you have a really large ad budget (>50k per month at least). This is because the power of metadata lies in the ability to quickly set up and run a large number of experiments (combinations of channel, audience, creative, and conversion assets). To evaluate these variations, all of them need a large number of impressions, clicks, and conversions to be statistically relevant. If your budget is smaller, you will either have a very small number of experiments (not fully utilizing the power of metadata), or your experiments will not have enough clicks to make informed decisions. We had expected a better explanation of this from metadata before signing up.

Incentivized

• Service Level - Always ready to help and responds quickly to questions or ad hoc requests; Proactively reaches out for updates.
• Program Offers - Able to cater proposals to different client expectations.
• Lead Generation - Based on feedback from clients the leads generated are typically of quality and who they are looking for.

Incentivized

• Best paid ops tool I've ever used (and I've used a lot): we can launch a new LinkedIn & Facebook campaign in minutes.
• Lead gen ops: no more dealing with broken zapier zaps, we are able to automate pushing native lead gen leads directly to our CRM.
• Attribution: see influenced & triggered opportunities/CW deals
• Multivariate testing: Metadata scales audience, ad, creative testing so you learn what performs much faster than manual process

Incentivized

• If you can not integrate the leads into your CRM, they come over in batches and merging and distributing can be tricky.
• When we have used them to help drive registration for events, they get a lot of sign ups but, way more no shows than the industry average.

Incentivized

• If you don't have a large budget and audience it's hard to meaningfully optimize. If I have 4 ad creatives, to 2 audience groups on FB and LinkedIn, that creates 16 experiments, each of which needs an ample enough budget, say $40/day, that's now $640 per day or $19K per month.
• Limited ability to edit ads after they've been launched. You usually have to stop the ad, clone it, and launch a new campaign.
• Can't add new ads to existing campaigns which limits the ability to optimize. If I start an MD campaign with 4 ads, and in a few weeks we see that one is working well and the other 2 are not performing, I can pause those (or it can autopause by rules), but I can't add 2 more new creatives to the mix against the high performer. I'd have to either stop the high performer, and recreate it in a new campaign (losing likes and comments), OR - leave the high performer in the first campaign, and create. a second campaign with the new ones, which will only optimize against each other.
• Limited to a single conversion event on a landing page. I'm not able to choose either a Demo Request OR a Sign-Up conversion, I can only choose one.
• Google search ads are doable but aren't necessarily more feature-rich or easy-to use than native, so there's no value added to doing it through Metadata in my opinion aside from unifying ad reporting.

Incentivized

We are very satisfied with the services of Infuse Media. They are a high-level third party vendor.

Incentivized

Very easy to use. The documentation to connect our tools is very well done.

Incentivized

The team is cohesive and efficient. Everyone at INFUSEmedia is happy to help and support regardless of our account owner to resolve any new queries or issues that may arise. The communication is second to none and we don't have a long wait before we receive a response to last minute requests, which is imperative in the ever changing atmosphere of agency.

Incentivized

Metadata's customer support is a difference-maker! They really do care how well your campaigns perform and will help you improve them.

Incentivized

We frequently change up our vendors and rotate through. Compared to BrightTALK we found INFUSEmedia delivered higher-quality leads and was easier to work with at a far better price. DemandScience and INFUSEmedia are fairly level when compared with each other

Incentivized

We chose [Metadata.io] because it was a smaller company and could get more personalized attention. The price was better and they seemed more eager to support us. The feature set was what we were looking for and not more - it was exactly as robust as we needed it to be. Didn't want to pay for features we weren't going to use.

Incentivized

• Because it's content syndication, it's fixed CPL so it's easy to forecast demand and return
• A lot of leads generated are raw so they don't usually get to pipeline stage until at least 2 quarters, it's a long game for us
• High quality job titles, however like any CS provider, need to double check the titles to ensure the job titles generated are correct

Incentivized

• Huge decrease in CPLs, CPMQL and Cost Per Opportunity
• Big improvement in MQL to SQL rates
• 90%+ of our leads from paid social now have valid business emails, before it was like 30%
• Saving us hundreds of hours over the course of the next year doing daily manual optimization and budget management tasks for us so we can focus on strategy and testing new things

Incentivized