MatchCraft AdVantage vs. Rakuten Advertising

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MatchCraft
Score 10.0 out of 10
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MatchCraft 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
Rakuten Advertising
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Rakuten Advertising (recently Rakuten Marketing), includes the former DC Storm and its services, and is an affiliate marketing network and solution for publishers and advertisers including programmatic display and retargeting technology.N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
WordStream Advisor
WordStream Advisor
Score 7.1 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
WordStream Advisor
WordStream Advisor
Score 7.1 out of 10

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Enterprises
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Score 8.8 out of 10

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User Ratings
MatchCraft AdVantageRakuten Advertising
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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8.8
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User Testimonials
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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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Rakuten Group
Great company, clear communications, fast quarterly distributions and a fun way to get paid for shopping that you are already doing. I highly recommend this service. Why would you pass up the opportunity for free money? And the Chrome extension is a wonderful add-on! Great way to remind yourself when you are on a site that Rakuten honors.
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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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Rakuten Group
  • Setup is also very easy. on-time payments and responsive support
  • They make sure to offer means to the difficulties of each entrepreneur.
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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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Rakuten Group
  • Analytics could be more graphical instead of just a bunch on tables with numbers.
  • After sale services can be improved to take detailed customer feedback.
  • More options to customize currently available marketing solutions.
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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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Rakuten Group
N/A. Rakuten is the only one I've used.
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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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Rakuten Group
  • Reliable tools to facilitate its promotion and optimize conversion, for the promotion of products through your websites, it is the most recommended
  • If a product has a good approval, it will give you more chances to get sales through the system
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