Optimizely Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single, AI-powered workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and execute campaigns.
In my experience, no match, please do not use Kapost
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The only advantage to using Adobe Target is that our company uses Adobe products and they are easily integrated and provide deeper insights and integration capabilities. Optimizely does offer robust a/b testing and experimentation with it's personalization tools designed to …
I use mainly Microsoft Dynamics, CRM, customer insights, journeys for marketing, email automation or marketing automation. I use Seismic. We're looking to launch an events platform, which I'm not using yet, but that will be a tool that I will want to integrate with the other …
To be fair, I never used another product like it. I was brought in my current role just to roll out the use of CMP across the business. They had it for a year or two and they didn't have a dedicated resource to help roll it out across the organization. I had no experience with …
Honestly, I'd rather use Smartsheet paired with a digital asset management tool. It’s more flexible, easier to navigate, and better suited for mid-size teams that need to move quickly without the overhead and complexity that comes with Optimizely. We currently have Optimizely …
I think for a full picture view and collaboration and organization for project managment that monday is the preference. However, I liked the options to build workflows in Optimizely which is something I struggle with more on the Monday side (that said, it could be I'm just not …
Cheaper, and it has its own location finder tool, promotion codes can also be set up directly in Optimizely Content Marketing Platform as it also has an e-commerce setting. Redirections can be managed within Optimizely Content Marketing Platform, as well as vanity URLs or short …
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We haven't yet explored the CMS or other products within the suite but we see the potential to move all of our tools to Optimizely One. I see this really helping us gain clarity in the end to end content lifecycle, and help us use our resources and bandwidth more strategically.
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform is continually developed and improving and is part of the larger suite of Optimizely products. Kapost has not been competitive since they were acquired by Upland.
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform is better for shared content development and approval processing. It provides better transparency and history for a specific piece of content than Asana, Trello and Smartsheet, though it competes closely with Monday in this regard. The …
I think both of them are great tools but we saw ourselves performing efficiently and with a great turn around time with Optimizely Content Marketing Platform. I have also used the other tool for a very brief time so was unable to explore the features completely to evaluate. …
Ultimately I think monday.com with Canva works a bit better for our organization. It is more versatile. I enjoy being able to use forms from outside sources. Canva is very versatile in images and design. Hootsuite works well for posting to multiple social accounts but recently …
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform allows users to perform A/B testing for their marketing campaigns which isn't available in Hubspot and Sprinklr. This helps to gather valuable data and insights on what works best in their campaigns and what doesn't. Optimizely Content …
CMP is purpose built for content creation and delivery, not a general-purpose or developer platform hacked to manage content development. This specificity helps to assure users are focused on the purpose of the platform as well as the embedded tools to assure the work is done …
The other digital asset management platforms did not offer a task collaboration feature at the time. The other task management platforms do not offer digital asset management. Both were truly needed for our business.
A 7 only because I think there's question marks around customization. However, I've seen very similar tools in the past where stakeholders have been skeptical, but as you get to know it and use it, you'll find actually you realize those benefits. I just think Optimizely could help its stakeholders and clients see those benefits early on versus later on. However, that's not to say it's not possible, so a 7 at this stage, but I think it's got potential in future. If you are a marketing firm who wants a centralized system for managing workflows and campaigns, it's great. It does that. However, there are better competitors fill in some of the gaps better than optimized leaders does. It could do better. I think for me, visually when I see, when I create a workflow or a campaign, I can see all the tasks associated with it and I've seen the way that our parent company uses it. It's just a list of all the tasks you see in one view. I think visually it needs improving. However, the purpose that it serves fundamentally, it's got potential, if that makes sense. It's going in the right direction, but I think competitors are doing some of it better than Optimizely is. I think they, like I was saying earlier, if they really want to realize the benefits of the product visually there needs to be some improvement. And then the controls element that I mentioned earlier as well, hopefully that answers both of your questions.
The CMP really is useful for us not only to manage the processes behind how we create content that we serve in different platforms like websites, landing pages, emails, social media, but it also help us as a team that is scattered around the globe to be able to be connected all the time to be able to see what we're working on, to be able to share assets as well. We are not reinventing the wheel to be able to show to other people within the organization what is happening at any given point. We use it not only for assets now, but we use it also for things like planning our webinars, planning our face-to-face events, so it truly is the heart of our marketing organization within the business.
One thing that could be improved is some of the promotions that happen in platform. For example, there's a Opal AI little bubble at the bottom right of the corner, which you can't move across the screen. So if you're trying to change the status of a step or you're trying to update a description within a step, that can be a bit challenging and as it seems to be quite an easy fix.
I would love to see a capability in terms of having visual representation that we can share out with stakeholders that don't necessarily need access to CMP. But for that level of detail, we don't want it to go too granular, but we do want to be able to share in a quick and visual manner some of the activities that are happening so we can keep everybody in the loop without having to create different variations via different tools.
As a Content Operations Manager, I find the customizable task views and calendar views to be most helpful in the Plan Module. This allows me to have visibility into each team's overdue tasks, and determine where my time is best allocated to help in content production. The Library is a easy to access and highly used function as well for sharing assets across teams
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's performance is generally good. Nothing that has impacted production. Page load speed doesn't typically lag longer than a few seconds. Reports take some time but not any longer than we're used to with other platforms. We have not experienced lag when integrating with other platforms
Training was clear and concise. It was intuitive and helped me understand how to navigate the platform. Options to dive in on each action or skip to learn about areas of regular use. Resource links available to when I had additional questions or needed more training in a specific area. Overall, the training allowed me to use the platform without interruption
Honestly, I'd rather use Smartsheet paired with a digital asset management tool. It’s more flexible, easier to navigate, and better suited for mid-size teams that need to move quickly without the overhead and complexity that comes with Optimizely. We currently have Optimizely because an investment has been made in the tool.
Optimizely is generally a reliable platform for A/B testing and digital experience management. It's helpful for it's stability, flexibility, and comprehensive features, which is helpful when managing an enterprise website
The program has allowed us to meet our content goals more easily (e.g.: we publish X articles per month and track where each article is at).
It's helped us improve the accuracy of our information. We have SEO, content strategists, and legal teams involved in the workflow now because it's easy to manage.
