Optimizely Content Marketing Platform vs. Uptempo

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and flawlessly execute campaigns.N/A
Uptempo
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Uptempo is marketing planning software used by enterprise marketing teams to centralize campaign and budget planning, track spending, predict and monitor performance, and pivot plans in real-time to enable marketing agility.N/A
Pricing
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformUptempo
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformUptempo
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformUptempo
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformUptempo
Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
8.1
24 Ratings
0% above category average
Uptempo
-
Ratings
Ideation7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
Approval workflows8.821 Ratings00 Ratings
Content collaboration9.120 Ratings00 Ratings
Content calendar7.520 Ratings00 Ratings
Network for content licensing/production7.413 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
7.6
23 Ratings
6% below category average
Uptempo
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Content hub9.016 Ratings00 Ratings
Forms / Gated content3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Embedded CTAs8.713 Ratings00 Ratings
Content distribution8.818 Ratings00 Ratings
Content promotion7.713 Ratings00 Ratings
Content automation8.417 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
7.9
19 Ratings
1% above category average
Uptempo
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Audience profiling and targeting8.23 Ratings00 Ratings
Closed-loop tracking and reporting7.013 Ratings00 Ratings
Content performance analytics7.117 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitive analytics8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformUptempo
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(26 ratings)
8.0
(22 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(5 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(21 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
Optimizely Content Marketing PlatformUptempo
Likelihood to Recommend
Optimizely
Optimizely’s CMP has significantly organized out Marketing department’s workflow processes and ability to find current assets. The campaign function allows us to group together all the relevant tasks despite them being carried out by different teams. Assets are updated rather than duplicated. Tasks are collaborated on rather than siloed. Requests are seen rather than lost
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Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
Although the Analytics part is already available it could be improved. So for now Allocadia is very recommended if you are looking for a data maintenance software but less appropriate as a analysis tool. Ask yourself what is it you are looking for (analysis or controlling) and for which purposes (management level or specialists). The costs are very resonable and an absolute Plus!
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Pros
Optimizely
  • 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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Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
  • The user interface is clean, well-thought out, and easy for marketers to use. It behaves like their spreadsheets in all the right ways...without the baggage of having budgets locked into separate spreadsheets.
  • Allocadia knows that revenue attribution is important, and has great out-of-the-box adapters to flow actual spend and actual performance in to the tool.
  • The reporting engine is both substance and style. Data is accurate, can be sliced-and-diced, and is easy for marketers to get what they want in an ad hoc fashion, if a canned report does not already exist. The visuals are also excellent, which promotes the use of analysis.
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Cons
Optimizely
  • 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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Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
  • Integrate the marketing department closer to the other companies departments output.
  • Connect to more markets for customer acquisition and care as well as customer satisfaction and experience enhancements.
  • We think it can get even closer to SAP Marketing Cloud at less investments and more ROI.
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Likelihood to Renew
Optimizely
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Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
I am hesitant to comment on renewal in detail because we haven't been using the system for very long. But I am encouraged by the speed and ease of implementation, and look forward to getting to know the system better.
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Usability
Optimizely
Hands down the tagging and commenting. Easy way for us to keep a record of what's going on with each project. The ability to set different views is great. Filters are pretty good - I'd like to have some additional functionality there but happy with what's available. Reporting can be clunky but improvements happen often.
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Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
Easy to use and allows you to track just about anything that's important to your business
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Support Rating
Optimizely
The NewsCred team is very responsive and helpful with any technical issues.
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Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
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Alternatives Considered
Optimizely
We started with DivvyHQ and moved to Welcome for reasons that I cannot remember at this time. The migration was a couple of years ago now. I enjoyed both tools, but I do think Welcome makes it easier to track workflows, edits, and comments specifically. These are all key elements when dealing with content and it has made a huge difference.
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Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
We have just used Bynder for some time but when we compared its performance with Uptempo we instantly knew it was superior in most of the aspects. It had better data analysis accurate reports and helped us track and manage our budget, so overall we were really happy with Uptempo.
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Return on Investment
Optimizely
  • Marketing Teams can show the volume of work they produce
  • Input forms mean we are getting all the details we need up front (saves hours per month)
  • Users can prioritize and plan to make sure they are working on the right content at the right time
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Uptempo (Formerly BrandMaker, Allocadia, Hive9)
  • We have been able to more effectively look at our buys and see how they are performing on an ROI basis. Previously our spend data and leads were in two different places but this has allowed us to combine them.
  • We have only been in the software for five months so I think we will continue to see the ROI impact as we build out reports. Right now we're still trying to find the reports that will help us the most in our optimization.
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ScreenShots

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Integrated Workflows: Optimizely Content Marketing Platform enables teams to collaborate on content and campaign tasks with the use of flexible workflows.Screenshot of Intake: Marketing Work Request Prioritization: Streamlines and prioritizes marketing requests with dynamic intake forms, automatic routing, and integrated workflows to ensure that requested work gets completed.Screenshot of Library (Digital Asset Management): With Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's native asset manager, users can upload, organize, and share assets all within the same platform where content planning, creation, and collaboration take place.Screenshot of Visual calendars (List View): Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform provides visibility into marketing activities - from content to events to campaigns - with flexibility to support changing timelines.Screenshot of Calendar: Gain full visibility into planned and scheduled content and campaigns with the ability to save and share views.Screenshot of Screenshot of Editor with Embedded AI: Opal, Optimizely's native AI assistant.

Uptempo Screenshots

Screenshot of Uptempo's Marketing & Campaign Planning interface, which provides full visibility and control over activity planning across teams and channels.Screenshot of Uptempo's Impact Modeller, which translates planned activities into projected outcomes based on conversation rate and deal velocity data.Screenshot of Uptempo's Marketing Budget Management interface, which provides the ability to plan, iterate, control, and optimize budgets.Screenshot of Uptempo's Investments interface tracks actuals and reconciles them with planned marketing spend to ensure teams stay within budgets.Screenshot of Uptempo Work & Resource Management, the a central platform that manages, controls, and optimizes workflows across the marketing team's workload.Screenshot of Uptempo Brand Management, which forms the central platform to access, adapt, and order timely, correct, and brand-compliant media for every touchpoint.