Nielsen Marketing Cloud vs. Snowflake

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Neilsen Marketing Cloud includes a Data Management Platform (DMP), Media Planning and Optimization, Data as a Service (DaaS), Multitouch Attribution Analytics, Inflight Analytics, and integrations to different digital media channels as well as to content marketing, creative testing, search, email and social media platforms. It's designed to enable marketers to plan, execute, and report on all of their marketing activities from one place.N/A
Snowflake
Score 8.7 out of 10
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The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
Pricing
Nielsen Marketing CloudSnowflake
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Nielsen Marketing CloudSnowflake
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
Nielsen Marketing CloudSnowflake
Considered Both Products
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Nielson Cloud helps businesses find, recruit, and create new advertiser client bases, as well as stand out in a crowded public space. Measure linear and digital media metrics across channels aids in giving insights in an efficient manner. Nielson Cloud also assists businesses …
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Nielson has a larger section of databases, so there are multiple options while integrating third party datasets. Even though Adobe Creative Cloud is more focused on creative agencies, the Nielson Marketing Cloud puts more emphasis on data-driven ad agencies, which works really …
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Atomized is great for visualization and is better in that area. However, Nielsen Marketing Cloud is much more in-depth and has many more features available that allow for a larger variety of types of analysis and other capabilities. It is a much better overall product in this …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
We have tried a myriad of other survey companies and have found that customization does not exist in the way we like to utilize it in the prefabricated platforms. We liked Nielsen better than SurveyMonkey because there was no forced branding page at the end that would force …
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I honestly think the capabilities of AAM surpass NMC from building and syndicating audiences to running overlap analyses. I didn't select NMC myself but I know our team has a lengthy list of complaints against their platforms.
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
I like exelate better than boomerang but unfortunately I like BlueKai more than Exelate. Bluekai offers more segments which gives me more options - if exelate can just release more segments from time to time I can see them running neck and neck with BlueKai.
Snowflake
Chose Snowflake
We use these tools for applications they are better suited for vs a Snowflake. For e.g. MS Fabric has powerful agentic AI capabilities; Redshift is our go to choice for the TMT vertical within the organization and Databricks is the default choice for AI/ML applications.
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake provides various features, such as integration with Python using Snowpark. The reporting feature that caters to your small reporting needs is Snowsight. The Snowflake data marketplace is where you can get multiple data for free and even some of the data which you can …
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These are comparable products that can make sense depending on the specific needs of your organization. All are certainly serviceable and have varying pros and cons. Snowflake seems to provide the greatest degree of flexibility and easy scalability as new data gets brought into …
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Snowflake stacks up well against many of the other players in the space. We used Teradata before and it seems to perform better.
Chose Snowflake
We needed scalability and a new way of organizing our data; Snowflake allowed us to have a clearer view of our data warehouses and schemas. Snowflake is also way superior in terms of speed and quick insights from the raw data you query, which is very valuable to us.
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake has an attractive pricing model with auto-suspend and auto-resume and pay per use. AWS Redshift requires higher administrative efforts to maintain and scale the platform whereas with Snowflake those admin tasks are not needed or automatically taken care of.
Chose Snowflake
Cloud -Native architecture, Separation of Storage and Compute provides flexibility, Scalable Compute, Cost and Data Security
Chose Snowflake
We had a MS SQL server with over 2 TB of ram & 51 processors that we were using, that could no longer handle our workload. Snowflake can handle 3 times that workload with ease and efficiency.
Chose Snowflake
Snowflake is much faster and easier to write queries and pull data. But the visualization part of Snowflake is not as good as them. Also, Snowflake only supports SQL queries but not python or other languages. So basically Snowflake is the expert in its field but not suitable …
Chose Snowflake
We particularly liked Snowflake's security model as well as its unique storage (whereby everything is essentially a pointer to immutable micro-partitions, which is the key behind its zero-copy cloning, its secure sharing, its time travel, etc.). and also how it separates …
Chose Snowflake
While Snowflake is more open to cloud eco system, SAP integrated well with SAP eco system products like SAP ECC or SAP S/4. So for people who have invested heavily in SAP eco system including SAP ECC or S/4, it makes sense to go with SAP DWC which is also evolving very rapidly. …
Chose Snowflake
In my opinion, the other tools have similar and some different features; however, when I ran proof of technologies between Synapse and Snowflake. Snowflake did things better or just had functionality that the other tools did not. One that stuck out at the time was scale up …
Chose Snowflake
Each of the other solutions were cloud vendor specific, Snowflake can ride on either Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. The fact that they are ANSI-sql compliant and have an effective means of offloading data makes them portable and easy to sell to teams …
Chose Snowflake
Azure and Snowflake compared very similarly, but Snowflake provided more options to integrate and connect with tools/companies that were not partners. It seemed to be a more flexible environment. The barrier for entry on Oracle and Google we just too complicated. In particular, …
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I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system …
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Snowflake has won the match because it is giving an excellent performance with its efficient features and reliable results. This is a totally secure program for our precious and important data.
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Our initial data warehousing solution was Treasure Data. We had issues with the costly pricing model, which would be exhorbitant if we want to hold our data in memory and query using Presto. As a result, some heavy lifting was done in Hive (managed by Treasure Data); …
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Snowflake beats these other products in every category it was rated against
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In my experience running the data management practice at InterWorks, we believe that cloud data warehouse products will eventually serve the majority of data warehousing use cases and power data analytics at most companies. Of this cohort, we believe that Snowflake is the best …
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Redshift compute and storage can be scaled up/down together (though they added some features recently, they don't quite add up). I haven't tried Avalanche or Firebolt but would love to in the near future, due to their pedigree or revolutionary billing methods.
Chose Snowflake
- Cost was the main aspect on the decision.
- Performance was in par or better compared to other tools in the market.
- Snowflake in my opinion stacks better than other tools I have used in the past.
Chose Snowflake
Accommodates future data types such as JSON and XML. Scalability is another advantage. Pay per use is beneficial for organizations like yours. Direct connectors with AWS help us to go with it. No limit on user creation and clone data not eating up extra disk space are a few …
Chose Snowflake
Since we switch from amazon redshift to Snowflake, we found Snowflake is much better than redshift in many ways, including the data integrate and data pull. However, comparing directly pull data from amazon s3, Snowflake is quite slow in terms of data pull speed and the more …
Chose Snowflake
Compared to Amazon Redshift, Snowflake is slightly easier and faster to achieve ROI but based on the user's perspective, the two tools have very little difference since both are leveraging SQL to pull data from AWS S3. Snowflake is also working with Microsoft Azure but it is …
Chose Snowflake
Our issue with Redshift was that it was very expensive. On top of that, queries were still slow and if we used more of Redshift's memory, then it would have cost even more. Snowflake is not cheap, but less costly for us. Plus, the performance was much better. Also, we got to …
Features
Nielsen Marketing CloudSnowflake
Data Collection
Comparison of Data Collection features of Product A and Product B
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Collection of first-party data8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Collection of third-party data8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Access to Third-party Data Providers7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Classification
Comparison of Data Classification features of Product A and Product B
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.6
Ratings
4% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Audience taxonomy8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Tag Management8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Analysis Dashboard9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
7.9
Ratings
1% below category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Data Transfer7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
DSP integration7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
DMP Analytics
Comparison of DMP Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.6
Ratings
9% above category average
Snowflake
-
Ratings
Campaign Analytics8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience Analytics8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Nielsen Marketing CloudSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
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8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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7.0
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Usability
8.0
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9.0
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Support Rating
5.0
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9.9
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User Testimonials
Nielsen Marketing CloudSnowflake
Likelihood to Recommend
It helps you evaluate the success of your marketing initiatives and make real-time changes using built-in analytics and Nielsen Artificial Intelligence. It also helps businesses find, acquire, and create new advertiser client bases, as well as stand out in a dynamic public realm. Measure linear and digital media metrics across channels aids in giving insights in an efficient manner.
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If you need a quick query, snowflake is the way to go. It's super simple and scalable; we were struggling before with Azure, and with Snowflake, everything runs smoothly, and we have more control over our schemas and warehouses. Snowflake, in my opinion, is the next step when you want to scale your business and manage data. If your company is still small, there may be cheaper options.
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Pros
  • Audience building is completely intuitive and easy to do!
  • The audience planner tool helps easily assess duplication across segments and audiences
  • The NMC team is always there to lend a helping hand
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  • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
  • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
  • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
  • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
  • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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Cons
  • This software program is the maximum often down of any that I even have to get right of entry to. For being an enterprise standard, I assume the reliability can be significantly improved.
  • It has a restricted guide on mobile. I dislike the pricing version and the contracts which can be required for users. I might choose a monthly agreement alternative that could now no longer lock us in.
  • Data discrepancies are common, there is most effective month-to-month reporting available, and no keyword seek gear to use.
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  • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
  • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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Likelihood to Renew
I still use exelate every day for my media plans that are either direct response or extremely geo-targeted.
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SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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Usability
Very easy to utilize. Features are basic. Again just not too much in the way of involved customization
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The interface is similar to other SQL query systems I've used and is fairly easy to use. My only complaint is the syntax issues. Another thing is that the error messages are not always the easiest thing to understand, especially when you incorporate temp tables. Some of that is to be expected with any new database.
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Support Rating
I am rating this as neutral due to having minimal interaction with them
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We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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Alternatives Considered
Atomized is great for visualization and is better in that area. However, Nielsen Marketing Cloud is much more in-depth and has many more features available that allow for a larger variety of types of analysis and other capabilities. It is a much better overall product in this realm of expertise.
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Snowflake provides various features, such as integration with Python using Snowpark. The reporting feature that caters to your small reporting needs is Snowsight. The Snowflake data marketplace is where you can get multiple data for free and even some of the data which you can buy according to your needs. And the integration options with various tools like Sigma are add-ons.
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Return on Investment
  • We are using it for analytics, statistics control, and for a single pane of glass and reviews for our senior leadership. We fetch significant insights from this device which can be then provided to our stakeholders to higher understand the achievements and loopholes.
  • We can make Marketing strategies with the help of this. Also, it is benefiting financially and getting productive.
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  • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
  • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
  • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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