Likelihood to Recommend Moat is well suited to implement into digital placements that are being served through third-party ad servers (
Campaign Manager , Flashtalking, etc). It holds your publishers accountable from a viewability standpoint. If you are running high dynamic or site serving placements with 1x1 or click trackers, you aren't able to measure viewability and are at the mercy of publishers providing viewability metrics.
Read full review Good for instances where search campaigns are driving poor overall traffic. Campaigns for awareness work well, and you have pretty good control of how your ads look without having to do too much work. We've used this successfully for law, financial services, and political campaigns effectively. With Twitter banning political ads, and Facebook becoming increasingly strict on their approval guidelines, this may turn into the best alternative. Would not necessarily recommend for ecommerce campaigns, or lead based campaign where keeping cost per conversion down is a primary objective.
Read full review Pros Breaks down how well each creative has done in a campaign. Allows us to see the progress of a campaign through its time live. Can easily be organized to pull the data you're looking for. Can export into an excel doc to then dig deeper and format and look at data outside of Moat. Read full review Offers extensive solutions to reach a high volume of users and create new reach outside of major networks like Google and Bing. Provides unique ways to differentiate advertisers in top positions on search results pages. Creates unique tactics to utilize on display networks (carousel and video takeovers). Read full review Cons I’ve experienced some issues exporting reports into an Excel doc and have to manually copy and paste data with can be very time-consuming. You have to manually wrap video tags with the MOAT pixel which can be a tedious process. Video and display are in separate interfaces so you have to export separately and then consolidate into one report. Read full review No traffic -- despite a high ROI, the lack of overall spend led to us eventually remove support for the channel from our services. Nothing to differentiate it from other paid platforms -- Gemini didn't particularly offer anything new or novel that made it worth using over Bing and Google. Read full review Usability One of my main pain points with yahoo gemini is that the product is very difficult to use and the UI seems like they took a skeleton of a similar product and made it bare bones functional for the purpose of generating ad spend. It is a huge barrier for new customers and I feel one of the main reasons they have new customers at all is all the free trial dollars they offer.
Read full review Support Rating They were always super helpful during training and demoing and would answer any questions we had. We didn't have a direct account manager, which would have been nice, but I just don't think their size accommodates for that type of set up. They are very knowledgeable and help guide you through a set up for each particular client.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Moat gives our team more insight into how campaigns are running. They give a more detailed breakdown per creative whereas other platforms only touch upon the limited or more specific information.
Read full review Yahoo Gemini! does stack up well against its competitors in the smaller spending realms. We've never been able to justify the ROI when we try to scale it up to even 10% - 15% of our spend. No, we've found that it's much better as a tangential win than a mainstream channel.
Read full review Return on Investment It has given the media and analytics team more granular metrics to measure for campaigns that may have awareness objectives and no KPIs. Measuring view ability ensures that clients media dollars are being viewed by the targeted audience. Moat allows you to gain metrics that can be very insightful and how users are interacting with placements, creative, etc. Read full review It has created a more comprehensive understanding of the audience to whom a client is marketing. It allows clients to target and reach audience members on all major search platforms. It provides data and reporting to understand and analyze campaign success and optimize campaigns towards client goals. Read full review ScreenShots