LiftIgniter Real-time Personalization Platform vs. Wunderkind

LiftIgniter is well suited for:

• Media companies without the resources to develop their own content recommendations systems.
• eCommerce companies who want to get product recommendations live onsite quickly.

LiftIgniter is less appropriate:

• Organizations with a shallow content set onsite.

BounceX is well suited if you want to boost list/customer base growth, but a tricky aspect of it for me is that I don't know the benefit smaller companies would get from BounceX to accelerate growth without having an existing customer base.

Incentivized

• It does a good job recommending content that is related to the current story a user is on.
• It does a good job not recommending content the user has already viewed.
• It does a good job being a recommendation engine for disparate sites with related content.

• Personalization in email - they have a great ability to surface products in email directly tied to what a past customer was browsing on the site
• Great account management and fast turnaround times to address evolving needs we have
• Very robust site experience capabilities to accommodate a lot of different use cases

Incentivized

• Manually controlling certain undesired results is not straight forward and seems to often result in a lower CTR or conversion rates.
• The LI Dashboard has limited features.

• Support is awful
• Management will not work with you to make things right
• Tool is buggy. It went down for 50 hours during our Black Friday sale resulting in substantial amount of lost revenue.

Beware if you buy from them you are committed for a year. It is too expensive for the offering and they offer no solutions for you to manage the process/tool at a discounted rate. Will not renew my contract, that’s for sure.

It's the best. Our only other option was rolling out our own and LiftIgniter was easier to implement and performed better for related content.

We've used both Emarsys and Klaviyo as our ESP, while using Wunderkind to handle email/SMS acquisition and abandonment emails. Wunderkind has proven to be able to capture more emails and send more behavioral emails with the contact matching technology.

Incentivized

• Increased time on site
• Decreased bounce rate
• 5-15% CTR for users which saw recommendations

• For the email campaigns we had an original agreement for them to produce a 5X return on ad spend and thus far they have produced a greater than 8X return

Incentivized