Optimizely Content Marketing Platform vs. Syndic8

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Optimizely Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single, AI-powered workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and execute campaigns.N/A
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Score 0.0 out of 10
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Pricing
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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 FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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In my experience, no match, please do not use kapost
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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 …
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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 …
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good user experience, good price, scope of features
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I don't think it would be fair to conduct a truly fair comparison, as I have had limited use of the product.
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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 …
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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 …
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Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill), Sender and Klaviyo
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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.
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information is easier to find. better connected so that you can see everything you need without needing to break into Jira tickets for more details
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It makes campaign based workflow process possible, which Trello did not accomodate.
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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.
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good so far---I've heard monday and click up might better than this one
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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 …
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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. …
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I haven't used other ones yet
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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 …
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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 …
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Clarizen Go
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Welcome
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Sprout Social, Hootsuite and Loomly
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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 …
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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.
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Reporting is easy to access and use with Optimizely Content Management System, HubSpot is used as our CRM.
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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
4.0
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65% below category average
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Ideation4.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval workflows4.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Content collaboration5.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Content calendar3.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Network for content licensing/production2.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
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4.1
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63% below category average
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Content hub3.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Forms / Gated content3.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Embedded CTAs4.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Content distribution4.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Content promotion4.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Content automation4.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
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Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
3.2
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80% below category average
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Audience profiling and targeting8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting2.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content performance analytics2.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard1.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitive analytics1.80 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
4.1
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Likelihood to Renew
1.0
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Usability
3.7
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Support Rating
8.0
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User Testimonials
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I think it's really well suited for organizations that have either big marketing teams that are scattered across different regions and different time zones because it helps everyone be aligned in terms of what is happening at any given time. That to me is one of the best things it can offer. The second thing is the management of the processes. You are not constantly reinventing the wheel when you work in marketing, you tend to have a process for doing certain jobs. For example, if you need to do an email or if you need to do a webinar, you will know what steps you need to take in order to deliver that. If you have lots of stakeholders that need to review things and need to approve things before they can go live, the CMP is the best tool for this because it keeps track of everything that is happening. You can assign steps to your legal team or your regulatory team and they have to go into the platform, be able to review whatever it is that you need them to review or approve. It keeps track of when that happened. There's no guesswork. You eliminate having to send things by email, by teams, by smoke signals. It's all in one place and if you ever needed to go back into things, everything gets saved there as well. All your working files up to your final files are all saved within the platform. You can manage your versions, you can reuse things in the future. There's so many possibilities for it. It depends on what you're trying to do, but at bedtime, if I do anything, no matter what you're trying to do, you'll find the right application within the platform to be able to make your job alive easier.
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Pros
  • Customer Service: They'll contact you with a "we're looking at your issue" email within the hour, even on weekends and holidays. Beyond solving your issues/problems with the software, they'll also follow up later to make sure you don't have additional associated issues.
  • Live Analytics: You're given a snapshot of how your blog content is doing at any point in time, since they've been tracking your posts/content. You can compare this month's traffic to last year's trafffic during this same month. Other data points include: Unique Visitors, Average Attention Time, Pageviews, Engagement Rate, etc...and you'll even get referral traffic source. There's much more that I'm leaving out here.
  • CMP User Interface (UI): Love the easy to use interface to upload blog posts, to use for editing and publishing content, and broadcasting social shares. Besides easily identifiable icons, you can create/edit content in the WYSIWYG or use the html view to make sure everything looks exactly how you prefer. Another cool thing is that the CMP auto-embeds live links of social updates (like Youtube, Twitter, Instagram) for more dynamic blog posts.
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Cons
  • Remove the preview option when clicking once. It'll be nicer if we click and being provided with both options instead.
  • Provide the option to download an entire folder of docs without entering to the folder itself.
  • 'Watch' option for specific docs, not just for folders...
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Likelihood to Renew
The tool is over-engineered and overly complicated. It makes my job much harder and not easier. There's much simpler tools for a lot less money
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Usability
The editorial calendar is the one I check multiple times every day. It gives me a clear picture of what's in progress, what's due, and where things can be moving faster. And, there's no need to open a separate doc or ask anyone for a status update.
Also, the workflows are another super useful thing. Being able to assign specific reviewers to specific steps and know that nothing moves forward until they've acted has eliminated many repetitive processes.
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Reliability and Availability
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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Performance
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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Support Rating
The NewsCred team is very responsive and helpful with any technical issues.
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Online Training
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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Alternatives Considered
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 systems I'm using. Customer Insights Journeys is probably the biggest other tool that I use that I'm trying to be an SME in.
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Scalability
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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Return on Investment
  • It certainly has helped. I think there is guardrails in how you use CMP, what you are putting in. It needs to be the right way of how you want to work, otherwise you're going to create a mess within CMP. So creating that framework outside and implementing it into the system I think is quite important. Again, that's our way of working, but I think it has helped us.
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ScreenShots

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Optimizely Opal: Opal, Optimizely's AI, is an extension of the marketing workforce. From building comprehensive campaign and content briefs and suggesting how to best execute a campaign, to creating on-brand content for any channel and providing suggestions for ongoing optimization, Opal's capabilities and AI agents make "doing more with less" a reality.Screenshot of Marketing Work Requests: Dynamic intake forms, automatic routing, and integrated workflows ensure that requested work gets completed, fast.Screenshot of Library (Digital Asset Management): With Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's DAM, users can automate the management of brand-approved assets, all within the same platform where content creation, collaboration and publishing take place.Screenshot of The Editor, with Embedded AI: Content is created for multiple channels with the help of Opal, Optimizely's native AI.Screenshot of Calendar: This provides visibility into planned and scheduled content and campaigns with the ability to save and share views.