Optimizely Content Marketing Platform vs. Outgrow

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single, AI-powered workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and execute campaigns.N/A
Outgrow
Score 7.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Outgrow enables marketers to create calculators, recommendations, quizzes and polls to better acquire, qualify, and monetize leads. Outgrow is designed so marketers can build these tools without a developer or a designer in minutes. Common Examples of interactive content that you can build with Outgrow include: ROI calculators Cost Calculators Sales lift calculators Graders Knowledge tests Fun quizzes Product recommendations
$22
per month per user
Pricing
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformOutgrow
Editions & Modules
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Freelancer Plan
$22
per month per user
Freelancer Pro
$45
per month per user
Essentials Plan
$115
per month for 3 users
Business Plan
$720
per month
Enterprise Plan
Custom Pricing
Agency Plan
Custom Pricing
per Client
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformOutgrow
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsOutgrow also offers the option to build interactive content including calculators, quizzes, recommendations, polls and graded tests for clients. Pricing varies based on the number of experiences built and the complexity of each experience.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
5.2
47 Ratings
41% below category average
Outgrow
6.2
32 Ratings
24% below category average
Ideation5.534 Ratings7.031 Ratings
Approval workflows6.044 Ratings6.517 Ratings
Content collaboration6.543 Ratings5.025 Ratings
Content calendar4.639 Ratings00 Ratings
Network for content licensing/production3.624 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
5.1
42 Ratings
43% below category average
Outgrow
6.9
38 Ratings
14% below category average
Content hub5.535 Ratings5.527 Ratings
Forms / Gated content3.01 Ratings7.032 Ratings
Embedded CTAs5.627 Ratings6.334 Ratings
Content distribution6.336 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Content promotion5.030 Ratings7.030 Ratings
Content automation5.431 Ratings6.325 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
4.4
36 Ratings
52% below category average
Outgrow
6.3
39 Ratings
17% below category average
Audience profiling and targeting8.23 Ratings6.929 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting3.229 Ratings6.530 Ratings
Content performance analytics3.633 Ratings5.535 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard3.329 Ratings5.528 Ratings
Competitive analytics3.419 Ratings7.31 Ratings
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User Ratings
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformOutgrow
Likelihood to Recommend
5.8
(51 ratings)
7.6
(42 ratings)
Usability
5.2
(46 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.4
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformOutgrow
Likelihood to Recommend
Optimizely
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.
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Outgrow
Well suited: When you want (potential) customers to quickly determine if your product or service is right for them. I noticed that we could make a very honest calculation tool that shows how quickly our car sharing service is beneficial to customers. These types of calculations are difficult to convey in text. Less appropriate: The length of your calculation has to be in line with what the engagement people have with your product or service. We want to determine if a shared car is interesting, so we don't want 10+ questions. But if you're selling a house you can include more questions.
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Pros
Optimizely
  • 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.
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Outgrow
  • Outgrow provides a comprehensive knowledge base, which allows you to quickly become adept at using their platform.
  • They don't make any assumptions. When your quiz or calculator is ready to go live, they offer you an in-depth checklist of ideas to promote it.
  • They ensure that you have a high degree of creativity.
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Cons
Optimizely
  • 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.
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Outgrow
  • The UI is a bit elaborate, it seems a bit too much when I want something basic
  • The results emails were a bit confusing to setup but support was great in getting this fixed
  • Only one Admin can use the basic service
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Usability
Optimizely
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
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Outgrow
It is a no code platform that makes content creation very easy with pre-built templates and strong lead generation tools. However, customisation options are limited , complex logic can be tricky and better content organisation is needed for a large scale use. Overall, it's user friendly but needs improvement in scalability and flexibility.
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Reliability and Availability
Optimizely
I have not experienced any prolonged outages. From time to time there will be errors but nothing that significantly slows down production
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Outgrow
No answers on this topic
Performance
Optimizely
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
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Outgrow
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Optimizely
The NewsCred team is very responsive and helpful with any technical issues.
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Outgrow
Support is very responsive and is quick to respond to questions and problems. Outgrow sometimes changes their pricing and plan structures and add/remove options without properly relaying the info to customers. They could do a better job with communications and being upfront with the pricing plans people sign up for.
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Online Training
Optimizely
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
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Outgrow
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Optimizely
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.
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Outgrow
The previous tools we used had no ability to make numerical calculators and limited logic jump features within surveys (if someone answers question one a particular way, skip question two, etc.) and more limited ability to direct people toward different outcomes based on how they answered questions in the surveys. Many of them didn’t have native integrations with Marketo either. These were critical features that we needed so we decided to switch to outgrow.
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Scalability
Optimizely
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
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Outgrow
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Optimizely
  • 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.
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Outgrow
  • Outgrow has helped me sell more life insurance through the use of interactive calculators.
  • Outgrow has helped me attract more referral partners thus helping my agency grow.
  • Outgrow saved my agency money because I was able to cancel subscriptions to other services which offered fewer features.
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ScreenShots

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Opal, Optimizely's AI, which acts as an extension to the marketing workforce. Use cases include building comprehensive campaign and content briefs, suggesting how to best execute a campaign, creating on-brand content for any channel and providing suggestions for ongoing optimization.Screenshot of Marketing Work Request Prioritization. This streamlines and prioritizes marketing requests with dynamic intake forms, automatic routing, and integrated workflows to ensure that requested work gets completed.Screenshot of Digital Asset Management. With Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's integrated asset repository, marketers can upload, organize, and share assets within the same platform where content planning, creation, and collaboration take place.Screenshot of a Visual Calendar. Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform provides visibility into marketing activities - from content to events to campaigns - with flexibility to support changing timelines.Screenshot of the Calendar. This offers visibility into planned and scheduled content and campaigns with the ability to save and share views.

Outgrow Screenshots

Screenshot of Results Page of a Calculator with Lead Generation form and CTAScreenshot of Analytics Tab: Funnel Visualization of a Completed QuizScreenshot of