Adobe DTM Reviews

Dynamic Tag Management allows you to tag any data elements on a page in order to track every aspect of your customer's journey. Its ease of use and the ability to deploy tags without having to involve a web developer leaves marketing to iterate without the lag time of a code release. I haven't found any areas where improvement is needed.

If you're on the Adobe stack at all, you absolutely need DTM. It will make your life infinitely easier. It's so simple to update your Adobe Analytics code and have version control, and when we implemented Adobe Target, it took literally less than 15 minutes for me to do. I also think it's significantly simpler than Google Tag Manager. I went through all manner of difficulty when implementing tags on that and have not had similar problems on DTM. If you're frequently placing pixels, it's a great tool that will speed their deployment.

The only situation in which I think a tag manager is not appropriate is if you have a dev with too much time on their hands. Otherwise, get a TMS and get DTM.

It is well-suited most of time. However, as there is no support available for all types of users, sometimes it is very difficult to troubleshoot.

Key question: what will you be using it for? If your need is simply to maintain Adobe tags, it does what it says on the tin! There is an increasing trend to deploy another enterprise TMS alongside DTM (with different governance arrangements) for marketing tags.

DTM is best when you have a large enterprise, 10,000+ web pages to deliver and requires secure proprietary web data. It does require pre-planning, strategy and staff to implement, managed and test prior to going live. For smaller website implementations, Google Analytics is free, easy to implement and analyze.

It specifically saves tons of time by allowing you to use a tag based system for implementation of tracking pixels, in our case Adobe Media Optimizer, where before, we would have to write page specific javascript calling out each individual point of conversion, for the entire website. Now we can apply the universal tag management code throughout the site and simply create rules that trigger tracking pixels within AMO.