Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is a cross-channel advertising solution for search marketing, social media and online advertising. The product aims to give advertisers and agencies the control and automation needed to make better investment decisions across search marketing and online advertising.
$10,000
Starting Price
TransUnion TruAudience
Score7 out of 10
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TruAudience from TransUnion, which contains technology from Signal Tag Management and Neustar Marketing, is a solution that aims to help marketers, web analysts and agencies establish autonomy from IT development cycles, accelerate the launch of new data-driven initiatives and campaigns while significantly improving website performance.
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Pricing
Skai
TransUnion TruAudience
Editions & Modules
Kenshoo
$10,000
Starting Price
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Pricing Offerings
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TransUnion TruAudience
Free Trial
No
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
Required
No setup fee
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Features
Skai
TransUnion TruAudience
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Skai and TransUnion TruAudience
Feature
Skai
7.1
10 Ratings
4% below category average
TransUnion TruAudience
-
Ratings
Data Transfer
8.510 Ratings
00 Ratings
DSP integration
5.75 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Skai and TransUnion TruAudience
Feature
Skai
6.1
11 Ratings
25% below category average
TransUnion TruAudience
-
Ratings
Ad campaign creation
7.611 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad deployment
7.611 Ratings
00 Ratings
Display advertising
4.310 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation
4.810 Ratings
00 Ratings
Sequence targeting
6.39 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Skai and TransUnion TruAudience
Feature
Skai
7.3
12 Ratings
6% below category average
TransUnion TruAudience
-
Ratings
Ad dashboards
7.612 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad performance reports
9.812 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking
6.712 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting
7.611 Ratings
00 Ratings
Cross-channel ad management
5.910 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization
6.211 Ratings
00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Skai and TransUnion TruAudience
Feature
Skai
-
Ratings
TransUnion TruAudience
9.0
2 Ratings
7% above category average
Role-based user permissions
00 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Tag Management
Comparison of Tag Management features of Skai and TransUnion TruAudience
Feature
Skai
-
Ratings
TransUnion TruAudience
8.4
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Tag library
00 Ratings
7.02 Ratings
Tag variable mapping
00 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Ease of writing custom tags
00 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Rules-driven tag execution
00 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Tag performance monitoring
00 Ratings
10.02 Ratings
Page load times
00 Ratings
7.02 Ratings
Mobile app tagging
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Library of JavaScript extensions
00 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Data Management & Integrity
Comparison of Data Management & Integrity features of Skai and TransUnion TruAudience
Kenshoo would be a good tool if your client has extremely high budgets with low CPCs. For small, geo-specific accounts the capabilities have not be built out. Therefore, the tool could not budget pace our 250+ accounts. The main reason we had chosen Kenshoo was because of its budget pacing capabilities. Unfortunately, it did not save us time and created additional budget pacing issues with over pacing our accounts.
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Well suited to campaigns and smaller task teams of less than 100. For these sizes, the group conversations work well, and the ability to search conversations and multimedia is perfect for finding previous information. For larger groups, information could very easily get lost, and requires a break-up into groups that would defeat the purpose of such a group chat.
Kenshoo Search bid policies make bid optimization easy and automated. Optimizations are based off of sophisticated algorithms rather than simple bid rules (although Kenshoo Search also offers these). There are many different policies to choose from. Simply choose your type of goal (example: awareness vs. ROI), choose your metric, and assign to your campaign(s) and/or account.
Kenshoo Search reporting offers a large selection of reporting templates that are easily exported to Microsoft Excel. In addition, they also offer dashboard reporting with a variety of different widgets that are easily customizable. This feature makes it extremely easy to view metrics that may normally require manual excel work.
Kenshoo Search has a Desktop Editor tool similar to Google Adwords Editor that makes bulk optimizations easy and time efficient. This is a huge resource win for me and my team!
Populating your library with new tags is simple whether you're duplicating an existing tag or creating an entirely new one.
Creating the firing conditions for a tag.
Adding users to different groups with limited or full admin permissions.
If you know JavaScript, you shouldn't have an issue with assigning values to the proper variables once your data layer is set up for each page and/or action.
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When working with large accounts, such as mine, the tool can be slow. There are a lot of times where the editor tool will freeze, and I'm not sure if I need to reboot or exit the tool. I wish it was a smooth process, much like the AdWords editor tool.
Kenshoo support can be slow to respond at times. In the ticketing industry, things are very much based on time of day or time of the week. If the product is down or not functioning during an on-sale or a major event, it can be difficult to get tech support on the phone.
Their reporting really doesn't set them a part from the competition. I've used social tools such as Marin and a few others, and they're all pretty similar as far as reporting. If possible, I think you're better off using Google Analytics for reporting, just so you have a common denominator.
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Placing quotes around variable names in the Tag Attributes, but not in the Event Handlers has caused me to mess up more than once.
Being able to search the account for all instances of certain text would be very helpful (e.g., search for s.eVar30 to find all places where I set that SiteCatalyst variable).
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We received great customer service from the Kenshoo Social team, they listen to feedback, and truly work to get things fixed. The tool works well and they are always working on ways to improve it to help improve performance for our clients
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Because of all of the previous benefits that I mentioned, GM has mandated that any DSP that we use for their campaigns must be integrated with BrightTag. Therefore we will have to use BrightTag for all future GM business
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Based on the features and current usage. It shows some buggy pages plus the service and support is really very slow. The updates are not regular and company needs to work on that. The usability is good and reporting of tags is accurate which is the best part. The pricing of the product is good and can be used by organizations of all sizes.
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Support is really slow and it takes days to resolve an issue. Plus we have to inquire regularly for the status of resolution. Company should definitely work towards that
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I think Skai beats the competitors with its advanced bidding management system, this is a unique feature of them that if you implement properly, your accounts will surely benefit from this, especially if you have tons of data that the algo can learn from and optimize accordingly. In terms of reporting, they are the best we've got so far, scheduling options are great.
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Most of the tag solutions I've worked with were not nearly as robust. Most systems will let you load another tag not directly placed on the site, but none provide all the different firing levers that BT does
ROI is harder to track due to reporting/column & time frame default tech in my humble opinion but generally better results when compared to other products
Since the interface is difficult to navigate and paid search is a reactive medium, can produce barriers to change.
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