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MatchCraft AdVantage vs. Perfect Audience (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MatchCraft

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMatchCraft Advantage is a search engine marketing (SEM) platform for managing many paid advertising campaigns at once, ideally for agencies managing campaigns for a number of small to midsize businesses with their local marketing efforts. To that end it automates many elements of running Google Adwords and Bing Ads campaigns and offers bidding suggestions via Matchcraft's proprietary algorithms. AdVantage Display is a built in set of tools for targeted display ads, and AdVantage Remarketing…N/A

    Perfect Audience (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/APerfect Audience was a retargeting solution for X.com (Twitter), and part of Marin Software. The service is no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
    MatchCraftPerfect Audience (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MatchCraftPerfect Audience (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    MatchCraftPerfect Audience (discontinued)
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of MatchCraft AdVantage and Perfect Audience (discontinued)
    Feature
    MatchCraft AdVantage
    -
    Ratings
    Perfect Audience (discontinued)
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Data Transfer00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    DSP integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of MatchCraft AdVantage and Perfect Audience (discontinued)
    Feature
    MatchCraft AdVantage
    -
    Ratings
    Perfect Audience (discontinued)
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Ad campaign creation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Ad deployment00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Display advertising00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Sequence targeting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of MatchCraft AdVantage and Perfect Audience (discontinued)
    Feature
    MatchCraft AdVantage
    -
    Ratings
    Perfect Audience (discontinued)
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Ad dashboards00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Ad performance reports00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Cross-channel ad management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    MatchCraftPerfect Audience (discontinued)
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    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    AdRoll
    Score3.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WordStream
    Score6.9 out of 10
    Criteo Commerce Growth
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Criteo Commerce Growth
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MatchCraftPerfect Audience (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MatchCraftPerfect Audience (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Matchcraft
    If you have multiple campaigns running at the same time, you need your campaign setups to be quick and easy, or you have multiple users managing campaigns, then MatchCraft Advantage is right for you. It also performs well with both small and large budgets. If you want to do re-targeting but don't want/know how to implement the tag, MatchCraft has built-in features for that. However if you want to run video campaigns and campaigns in specific mobile apps, then for now MatchCraft will not work for you
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    I would recommend Perfect Audience to anyone who wants to use a 3rd party to scale up. I find the audience builder pretty terrible in Google AdWords so I was looking for something a bit easier to use and this fit the bill easily.
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    Pros
    Matchcraft
    • Automated bid adjustments for PPC campaigns. Manual bid strategies can be tedious to manage. MatchCraft's bidding system helps improve click throughs while keeping the click costs pretty low.
    • The report generation features of the platform MatchCraft platform are easy to use and provide actionable data from campaigns. PDF reports require only a few clicks and there is also an interactive dashboard that gives all the key metrics in a graphical format. Both features are customizable.
    • User management is a breeze in the MatchCraft platform. You can add, edit, activate, deactivate, and change the permissions as needed.
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    • Great to up your inbound marketing game
    • The bulk uploading feature is great and makes it easy to upload numerous ad campaigns
    • Can customize each ad easily
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    Cons
    Matchcraft
    • Not all Google/Bing features are available through the MatchCraft platform. Since they are limited to what is available in the API some features like video campaign management and specific app targeting are missing.
    • Customized report scheduling is not yet available for each campaign and the automated reports can only be sent to one email address. Additional recipients have to be sent their's manually.
    • Reports can take a little time to be generated. Not more than 1 minute but it can slow you down if you have multiple reports to send.
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    • Constantly left Googling how to do things because the system is sometimes confusing
    • Weak native reporting
    • Landing page editor needs work
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    Usability
    Matchcraft
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    Discontinued Products
    The bulk uploading feature is certainly my preferred feature of Perfect Audience. This tool has made creating new ad campaigns quick and easy. I used to have to upload facebook then Instagram then another social media page and instead I upload everything all at once and it certainly makes it easier for all of us.
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    Support Rating
    Matchcraft
    No answers on this topic
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    The support team could be a little more useful. After our implementation calls and getting everything setup, we did feel that they were not as responsive and I did find myself googling solutions to things that the support team could have helped us with.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Matchcraft
    The interface on MatchCraft is much easier to get started with than the native PPC provider interfaces. MatchCraft finds ways of maximizing ROI within current spend target rather than recommending 'increased budget' as the fix for all issues. the reporting dashboard is also easier to use and report generation takes only a few clicks. The main downside is that MatchCraft is limited to what the PPC providers allow through the APIs
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    I have used Google Ads which has a difficult interface to use as well as Ad Roll. Perfect Audience beats them both in functionality and usability.
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    Return on Investment
    Matchcraft
    • It has allowed the company to handle a higher volume of campaigns at the same time.
    • Click costs have been reduced across almost all campaigns while click rates have increased.
    • Budget management (under/overspending) has been improved.
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    • The convenience of Perfect Audience has made things smoother for us. This convenience means less time spent managing ads and more time focusing on running our business.
    • Re-marketing features have been superior to AdWords.
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