Joomag vs. Ion, by Rock Content

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Joomag
Score 7.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Joomag offers a suite of solutions for content marketing, digital publishing, corporate communications, and sales engagement. The company says that 500,000 businesses both large and small are creating, distributing, tracking, and monetizing their online content from a central platform, streamlining workflows and becoming more productive in the process. The vendor says key capabilities include: Content Creation: Create interactive digital…
$19
Ion, by Rock Content
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Ion is an enterprise-grade content experience platform that empowers modern marketers and designers to create no-code interactive content experiences integrated with their CRM or marketing automation tools. Ion helps enterprises to build brand awareness and increase conversions and lead generation enriching their contact database with declared, high intent data. Ion helps brands launch quizzes, ROI calculators, assessments, interactive infographics, and other interactive formats in…N/A
Pricing
JoomagIon, by Rock Content
Editions & Modules
Starter
$19.00
Pro
$79.00
Business
$149.00
Enterprise
N/A
on request
Managed Services + SaaS
Custom
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
JoomagIon, by Rock Content
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$5,500 per customer
Additional Detailsion’s Build Anything SaaS platform provides organizations with an entirely new and agile interactive content marketing capability. It enables non-technical marketers and designers to create, test and measure an unlimited number of all types of interactive content marketing experiences. It includes unlimited seats, experiences, tests, customization, phone and email support, analytics and more.
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Community Pulse
JoomagIon, by Rock Content
Top Pros
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Features
JoomagIon, by Rock Content
Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Joomag
7.7
2 Ratings
5% below category average
Ion, by Rock Content
7.5
105 Ratings
7% below category average
Ideation8.02 Ratings10.099 Ratings
Approval workflows7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content collaboration8.01 Ratings5.094 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Joomag
7.5
2 Ratings
8% below category average
Ion, by Rock Content
8.7
120 Ratings
7% above category average
Content hub8.02 Ratings10.0104 Ratings
Forms / Gated content7.02 Ratings10.0107 Ratings
Embedded CTAs7.02 Ratings10.0108 Ratings
Content distribution8.02 Ratings8.093 Ratings
Content promotion7.02 Ratings8.086 Ratings
Content automation8.02 Ratings6.090 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Joomag
8.0
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Ion, by Rock Content
8.5
118 Ratings
9% above category average
Audience profiling and targeting7.02 Ratings6.091 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.02 Ratings8.095 Ratings
Content performance analytics8.02 Ratings10.0116 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard9.02 Ratings10.0107 Ratings
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User Ratings
JoomagIon, by Rock Content
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(135 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(22 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(17 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(18 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
JoomagIon, by Rock Content
Likelihood to Recommend
Joomag, Inc.
We are mostly using Joomag in the content creation for Ads and public presentations. The development time is less when we go for the templates reference. The user interface is what we like most. The Easy steps of developing the content is very goog. To Joomag, they should start improving and put more feature in the content creation options, other market competitors are more focused on feedbacks and improving their solution
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Rock Content
If you want to choose a quick start template and fill in the fields with your content, Ion will be fantastic for you. We've done this with whitepapers and quizzes and it's been great and extremely easy to use. If you have an exact idea of what you want, and a background in web development, you may get frustrated. Ion has some quirks that make it tricky to fully customize - everyone once in a while I really just want to go into the HTML and make some changes, but can't. If you are looking to reuse a piece of content for specific targeting (industry or account-specific), Ion is great. The dynamic substitutions are great and very helpful.
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Pros
Joomag, Inc.
  • Minimal learning curve.
  • All in one solution for digital publishing.
  • Great selection of templates.
  • Highly responsive! Product looks fantastic on every device!
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Rock Content
  • Quick Starts make it so easy to get started.
  • Real-time updates are awesome and save a ton of wasteful process.
  • The combination of user friendliness for simple things and the flexibility to do more complex things is great.
  • Chat support is excellent and deeper-dive support has been super helpful.
  • The ability to use these tools in the cloud or embedded has given us tactic flexibility.
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Cons
Joomag, Inc.
  • The Annual AMC cost is what is directly affects the revenues. They should come up with some content based subscription.
  • They should provide the word suggestion AI
  • It would be a cherry on the Top if have the spell check AI
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Rock Content
  • Ion University, while stacked with a wealth of information, is difficult to navigate from a troubleshooting perspective. The tutorial videos are all very helpful, but they are also very long. Sometimes I would want to search for how to address a particular issue I was struggling with and it would be a two-minute segment buried in a 45-minute video.
  • Again, getting back the self-guidance side of things. I think a lot of the tutorials are set up in a way that makes sense to Ion, but not as much to the end user.
  • I think the controls admins use when creating new users could be a bit more straightforward.
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Likelihood to Renew
Joomag, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Rock Content
We use it for every landing page and we plan on only doing more dynamic content creation. We dont see that option coming in-house any time ever in the future. ION has a very robust platform for us to work with that really allows us to do more for our customers in regards to having the one-to-one conversation.
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Usability
Joomag, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Rock Content
Usability is straightforward, with extensive documentation and tutorials provided to ensure landing pages are built to specifications and can be optimized for performance. Built-in platform funnels give insight into customer dropoff, success/failures, and conversions (at a glance). Setting up a landing page can be done quickly and easily, with numerous integrations (CRMs like SalesForce, for instance) supported
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Performance
Joomag, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Rock Content
Sometimes the editor can be a little slow.
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Support Rating
Joomag, Inc.
Outstanding support! The chat feature works great, I always get a fast response and they are relentless! Add to that the Joomag Academy, Blog, Case Studies, and White Papers, there is always an answer to a question and we've had some complicated ones over the years. You are never left wondering; they have a great customer communication system in place.
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Rock Content
The ION support team is amazing. There has not been a single issue they they could not solve for me. If there is a feature or request that they do not have, they have even, on occasion, created custom scripts for our team. *Update 6/5/17 - ION has continued to delight on multiple occasions. I appreciate their attention to detail and ability to solve whatever issue I have. After 3+ years of use and support, ION still has my full endorsement.
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Online Training
Joomag, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Rock Content
They offer a great amount of online training, videos, articles, etc. There is usually an answer available if you run into an issue. I would recommend taking advantage of the online training they offer. I wish I would have done it sooner.
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Implementation Rating
Joomag, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Rock Content
There were a lot of things we learned about the tool once we really got in and got our hands dirty. Being hands-on was essential for our team to be able to utilize ION in the most effective manner.
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Alternatives Considered
Joomag, Inc.
In the market you have so many free options, and you can refer them. But the Quality in content making is not on the side of being free. Joomag interface doesn't promote ads for their reveneues. The free softwares are filled with ads and unnecessary contents and interfaces. Joomag provides the exact amount of guide requires and have a good support hierarchy.
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Rock Content
I was not the decision maker to choose this over Uberflip, but the UI is much more appealing to me. It's incredibly easy to use, clean, and from a backend standpoint, it requires little to no tech savvy'ness. Our team has really enjoyed using it and has required no training what-so-ever.
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Scalability
Joomag, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Rock Content
Separate client portfolios enable scalability, however, some elements are still grouped for all accounts so it's difficult to scale for an ad agency with multiple clients. Would prefer totally separate sections of the platform for all clients with each element housed separately.
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Return on Investment
Joomag, Inc.
  • Simplified the process of publishing.
  • Increased conversion rates for both us and our advertisers.
  • Works seamlessly with our marketing platforms.
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Rock Content
  • Though we have not had the service long enough to see any measurable outcomes, we've been able to create interactive web content faster than ever before
  • The speed with which we can build interactive pages and re-use assets has been critical as projects we've done with Ion have made their way around and more and more internal clients have said "me too" for their own projects
  • It is very pricey at $28K for the base annual subscription (dropping to $24k after the first year), so depending on your budgetary situation, that may make no sense for your team--but we had contract money set aside for a company to build us a microsite for around the amount, so we just used it for Ion instead and will now be building the microsite ourselves using it
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ScreenShots

Joomag Screenshots

Screenshot of 500.000+ Customers WorldwideScreenshot of 300+ Fully Customizable TemplatesScreenshot of Boost Conversions with the Power of InteractivityScreenshot of Lead Generation Made EasyScreenshot of Never Stop Improving with AnalyticsScreenshot of Joomag Integrations

Ion, by Rock Content Screenshots

Screenshot of ion empowers your other marketing technologies to deliver higher fidelity, data-driven scoring, targeting, segmentation and personalization.Screenshot of The types of interactive experiences the ion platform can create is near-endless. These are the most common types used by our customers: Assessments, Calculators, eBooks, Interactive Infographics, Interactive White Papers, Landing Pages, Lookbooks, Quizzes, Resource Library, Solution Finder.Screenshot of See what our customers are saying about our platform and services!Screenshot of Starting at $2,000 per month, you get an unlimited, scalable interactive content platform with our full feature set. Including: Unlimited experiences, unlimited use of Quick Starts, Unlimited Seats/Users, Unlimited A/B/n Testing, Unlimited Sell-Side Experiences, Unlimited Phone, email & chat support, unlimited analytics... PLUS a FREE custom-branded theme that can be applied to all of your experiences.Screenshot of You have the option to start from a template or entirely from scratch. Our Quick Start template library includes more than 100 fully tested, responsive and flexible interactive experiences you can brand, customize and launch.Screenshot of ion is the only interactive content platform that provides the scalable foundation to grow from one interactive experience to one thousand interactive experiences. With ion, interactive content development complexity, long timelines, high costs and maintenance problems are replaced with freedom and agility.