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January 18, 2020
We use AdRoll to get broad retargeting reach across most of the web to capture leads or sales that would've otherwise fallen through the cracks due to customers forgetting to finalize things on their end. Especially after we have spent money on digital ads to drive prospects to sales pages, we want to maximize the ad pay by using AdRoll to close a few more sales.
- ROI
- Low CPC
- No ability to pre-populate the previous 30 days of customer data, only starting from the day the tag is installed.
November 18, 2019
As an agency, our digital paid media department uses AdRoll for our web and social retargeting for e-commerce clients. It's relatively low maintenance and provides a modest ROI. We actually prefer the AdRoll interface to running retargeting in the Facebook ad manager due to the speed, simplicity, and ease of implementation. It saves us a good amount of time and is less expensive than most other comparable tools.
- Much easier to set up dynamic retargeting than AdWords
- Customer service is fairly responsive and is standard with all accounts
- New reporting features are an upgrade and no longer require use of excessive filters
- The "attribution" model is a little suspect. We use just a 1-day lookback window, as "view-thru" conversion value is difficult to measure.
- For Facebook ads, you have to contact customer service to edit any ads. The approval of ads is unnecessarily long.
- There is not a lot of control over the bidding and the actual fees are a little unclear.
November 08, 2019
AdRoll is used by our marketing department to target and retarget customers. When someone visits our site, they will see customized ads from us on other websites once they leave. It helps remind them of who we are and what we offer and invites them back to check us out again, especially if they have been looking at certain products or services.
- Customized ads so you can showcase what you want.
- Flexible marketing by setting a budget.
- Great analytics to see what works and what doesn't.
- Some parts of the platform are hard to use for beginners.
- Delayed updates on ad performance.
- Support may take some time to get back to you for any issue.
October 08, 2019
Aspen is in the early stages of developing an e-commerce B2C business after 25+ years primarily focused globally on B2B sales. AdRoll was used by our B2C business for retargeting. We used AdRoll to follow up with website visitors that didn't convert on the initial visit.
- The interface is easy to use and quick to learn.
- Extensive variety of templates for ads.
- Ads are easy to customize.
- Reports to evaluate the performance of campaigns.
- Pricing is a challenge; while using there wasn't a fixed fee. Fees are based upon interactions with ads and emails.
- It takes a good month to get clear and accurate reports. I would like more real-time reporting.
AdRoll is part of our programmatic tech stack for display advertising and is currently being primarily used as a tool for retargeting and prospecting for new audience members. The technology has worked so far and the quality of audiences discovered by AdRoll is of a significantly higher quality when compared to other technologies.
- Retargeting.
- Remarketing.
- Customer support.
- API integration is difficult.
January 09, 2020
Our digital media team uses AdRoll for dynamic retargeting across a variety of clients. It serves display banners that we provide on sites and social based on audience pools and interest. It is most successful in targeting an audience who has already searched for our specific client's products. It also provides accessible reporting dashboards that we can use to report on metrics to our clients.
- The reporting dashboard that is accessible to AdRoll clients is very clean and easy to use. The transparency of these dashboards allows for detailed reporting that can be extended to your client.
- The AdRoll account reps are very responsive.
- The dynamic retargeting that AdRoll provides in a digital setting can target at a very granular level.
- AdRoll tracking on our end has been having issues lately. We are not sure if our tags have not been implemented correctly, or if there is currently a glitch in the system.
- Unfortunately, sometimes the account reps and internal technicians do not communicate efficiently enough when an issue arises. This causes a slow turnaround for troubleshooting.
- The overall understanding that the account reps have of their own system needs improvement.
The digital media team uses AdRoll for a few of our clients. We used to use it for many more clients however, the product itself has been malfunctioning a lot recently.
- Dynamic retargeting.
- A team of people who do try.
- Finicky systems for dynamic retargeting.
- Long wait times for actually getting things escalated.
October 13, 2019
AdRoll is being used in the digital media department across two of our clients. It has allowed us to do dynamic re-targeting for a small client of ours that has several events on any given day.
- Dynamic Retargeting -- We have not been able to find another partner that has allowed us to do this in the same way.
- Customer service: sometimes the response times are not the best.
- Fixing problems: a lot of times if we have a problem AdRoll reaches out to a lot of their engineers and they are unable to find a solution.
- Management: we have had issues with our AdRoll team and really taking the time on our accounts.
We use AdRoll for our website retargeting advertising.
- Easy to use.
- Instant analytics, know what your spend and revenue for that spend is.
- Always working.
- Design phase takes a little time, but this doesn't have to be done all the time.
We use it for a variety of Broadway and attractions to drive high CTRs and awareness. We do use a variety of KPIs, but mainly focus on ROI, revenue, and CTR. Our clients have been very happy with our usage of AdRoll. We do find our reps difficult to work with, but the product is strong.
- We use it to drive awareness through a high CTR.
- We drive revenue to our ticketing sites in order to drive a high ROI.
- Getting invoices paid on time can be an issue because of the delay in receiving said invoices, and our reps are normally not super understanding.
We use AdRoll across the entire organization and it’s one of the requirements for working with us from a consulting standpoint. We've found that AdRoll is the easiest third-party remarketing marketing tool to implement.
- Track conversions are extremely simple. The interface is clean and easy to navigate.
- AdRoll will custom create banners if you ask them.
- They have clear and detailed instructions on how to do everything.
- Their support goes above and beyond and makes me feel confident that they can get the job done.
- I would like to see more reporting on where my ads are showing.
- Would like to see a native ad-builder where I could create ads myself.
- Would like to see if client reports could be emailed to me weekly.
February 12, 2019
We are using AdRoll to deliver and display advertising to our remarketing and matched email audiences. In the past, we have also used the platform to deliver advertising on social media platforms; however, for the time being, we are focused on more traditional display units. We are also using the platform to help measure attribution for our display advertising.
- AdRoll's interface is intuitive to use and easy to learn.
- AdRoll's feature set exceeds the capabilities of Google's display platform in some respects (especially as it relates to minimum audience sizes).
- Nice reporting capabilities help with evaluating campaign performance.
- AdRoll's pricing is opaque. While it's nice that there's no platform fee, it's not possible to see what markup AdRoll is adjusting pricing by.
- Some features have been deprecated in the AdRoll platform (ie. SFDC integration), so that they can start to offer them through their other products, which come at a much higher commit.
- Some reporting options are slow to run and there appears to be quite a lag on the metrics.
The marketing department uses AdRoll to retarget users who visit our site as well as prospect lookalike users who have not visited. The problem we are addressing is the ability to capture and follow users as they browse the web. AdRoll allows for support of Facebook and Instagram retargeting/prospecting, which is key as we also attempt to grow our social following.
- Retargeting
- Prospecting
- Trackability
- Management of old campaigns
- Ability to delete drafts
- More social integration
February 09, 2018
We have used AdRoll for a variety of purposes, including prospecting and retargeting through the web display and Facebook. It's used primarily by our marketing team. The main business problem it addresses has to do with how we do brand and awareness marketing, and supplement our other marketing efforts, especially with retargeting.
- Provides a unified interface for running Facebook and web prospecting and retargeting campaigns
- Very solid reporting tools
- Excellent and helpful account managers who really help you get the most out of the product
- Conversion reporting would be the big one. Some aspects of what they do are obfuscated, so you can't always get the best reporting depending on what channel you're running (web or facebook, retargeting, etc).
- Better integration with Facebook creative units. Right now it feels like you don't get access to all of the same newer formats and capabilities you get when running with Facebook direct.
- Better creative management. It can get a bit unwieldy managing many different variations of creative.
February 07, 2018
We utilize AdRoll for remarketing events, new products, solutions, and featured content to previous website visitors. This is currently only used by marketing but is integrated into both customer and new prospect marketing. This helps us to target people who come to our main website but haven't taken a 'hot' action yet.
- Remarketing specific pages to a target audience within our wheelhouse. We can quickly and easily set this up; no wasted time is accumulated.
- The ad sizes are constricting. If you want to have a gif file, you're going to have to use the bare minimum in design.
- Support is not the best. They are not helpful and has resulted in multiple calls to support.
February 06, 2018
Currently, AdRoll is being used solely for retargeting purposes which is managed by our demand gen marketing team. We have not explored the prospecting or email capabilities. We selected AdRoll due to their background in B2B marketing and ability to access multiple ad exchanges.
- Ease of use
- Robust segment abilities
- Reach across multiple ad exchanges
- B2B targeting capabilities (company size, job function/role)
February 06, 2018
We are a company that does marketing specifically in the healthcare sector. Due to this, we run into a lot of issues using remarketing through the Google AdWords interface. AdRoll has helped solve those issues by allowing us to purchase remarketing directly. The return on investment we've seen has been amazing.
- Remarketing campaigns
- Streamlined implementation for new campaigns
- Great analytics and insights
- Not as much functionality as I've seen with other software. The software is designed to be easy to use and streamlined so this leaves out some of the customization that you see with others.
- Transparency on where your ads are displayed and how they're interacted with could be much better.
AdRoll is a network of websites to show banner ads across . It’s larger than Google’s display network so it includes all kinds of websites!
- Size of network
- Ease of uploading materials
- Ease of management
- Billing is difficult on an agency level
- Higher click costs
March 14, 2017
We were looking for a programmatic ad platform to help manage and optimize our larger clients' remarketing campaigns. Initially, we started with a couple clients who were interested in testing out the platform, or who had experience running it the past.
- Campaign management
- Access to premium inventory
- Cross-platform management in a single UI
- Full service management was the biggest selling point for us, but not a single campaign went live through our AdRoll reps without tracking errors, billing issues and lack of follow-through from their account teams. Our spend levels were high, which makes me wonder how much worse the customer service would have been if we were just spending a few thousand dollars per month.
- Despite what they claim, AdRoll's interface is outdated (has not materially changed since 2012) and inefficient. We had to rely on their unresponsive account teams to do even the most basic updates.
- Slow response time, despite clear service level commitments. Almost every element of our experience with their customer service can be summarized by "over-promise and under-deliver." When things went wrong, they were quick to apologize and make excuses, but the quality of service and response times never improved.
- Attribution models are very generous to AdRoll campaigns. In one case, they attributed over a quarter of a million in eComm revenue to one of our clients based off less than $10k in ad spend. Even after adjusting down the view-through attribution windows, they still gave their campaigns a disproportionate amount of credit.
- Finance team is not customer-facing. If you run into payment or refund issues, it will take months and many hours of back and fourth to get them resolved. We had to go through our account reps to get anything resolved, which took far more time that is would have directly with Google, Bing or Facebook.
- Lack of billing transparency. AdRoll does not tell advertisers this, but they pre-bill for the following period's ad spend. This means that when advertisers put campaigns on pause, they will see a "credit" for future advertising, which is actually their own money. This comes across as deceptive and shady, especially given how hard it was to get refunds processed. For context, no other ad platforms we've used pre-bill for future advertising.
AdRoll supports our retargeting efforts domestically and abroad. Compared to other retargeting vendors, I find that AdRoll puts a lot of emphasis on providing its clients with a robust account team that does 90% of the heavy-lifting to manage the campaigns. From campaign set-up to ad creation and reporting, you can rely on AdRoll to be an extension of your marketing team. We communicate with them on a weekly basis and have bi-monthly calls. All this at no extra cost. If you have a small in-house marketing team, this can be very valuable.
- Dynamic retargeting ads have been very effective with AdRoll. And they've allowed us to slice and dice our catalog very effectively.
- Segmentation! Segmentation! Segmentation! From behavioral audience segmenting, to URL based segments, or CRM audiences, there's a lot of flexibility in the platform.
- Reporting by geo would be nice.
- Integration with enterprise-level ESPs. Updating CRM lists is currently inefficient.
September 06, 2016
We use it as remarketing tool both for display and for remarketing on Facebook. The company is very serviceable and wants to develop your business as well as their own. They have good communication through their web interface. I also been in touch with their specialists which were helpful and professional.
- Essy to use
- Good overview of your campagins
- Solid analytics and easy tracking pixel install process.
- Well I wish I had time to do better follow ups and initiate more campagins with them.
March 24, 2016
We use AdRoll in our marketing department to retarget visitors to our website who did not complete one of our key forms. The AdRoll banners are used to attract visitors back to our site in hopes of converting them into a lead to pass to our sales department.
- Simple, easy to use interface and dashboard for reporting on metrics.
- Easy access to support via a chat button button in the lower right corner of the screen.
- Uploading artwork is simple, just drag and drop.
- Setting up visitor segments can be a bit confusing, each time we need to make changes we have to reach out to our AdRoll rep.
- Needs more integrations. Would like to integrate AdRoll with Pardot and possibly our CRM.
- I would like our AdRoll rep to reach out to us more often to check in, help with things, or offer best practices to help us get the most out of their solution.
July 29, 2018
AdRoll is being used across our organization by the marketing team for retargeting ads. It is cheaper than using AdWords and more efficient in reaching a larger range of audiences. We didn't have a method to express remarketing ads, so this was perfect for us.
- Customizability of visual ads is easy and efficient. I can make it look the way I want it with the words I need to use.
- I think the reach not being limited to just Google but rather accross multiple channels is an advantage for AdRoll.
- Has a great support team that is always ready to help out. They were particularly helpful when we were first trying to set up our first ad campaign.
- They could make their documentation more easy to understand such that it is more user-friendly for first time users, so we don't have to reach out to support for more information.
- They could have the functionality of more design options on the page. I had to externally make the ad have the background I wanted and upload it. But having editing capabilities on site would be easier.
- I would like to see them expand into other aspects of advertising, not just remarketing and retargeting ads.
February 09, 2018
When I worked on the agency side, AdRoll was used by my entire Digital Marketing team of about 5-6. Where I'm currently at, a few Digital Marketing Specialists on our Corporate Marketing team use Adroll. It's a great tool for streamlining retargeting ad management, provides robust insights and reporting capabilities and integrates with our Marketing Automation platform, HubSpot.
- Simple retargeting via integration with Marketing Automation platforms
- Cross-platform ad personalization capabilities
- Simplified campaign management and optimization
- Improved level of support during the technical setup process would really improve the onboarding process
- Consistent, proactive account management is key with organizations like AdRoll. A dedicated rep goes such a long way.
- More granular reporting would help with back-end optimization and client recommendations
Adroll has boosted our remarketing efforts across the whole company due to it's ease of use and quick set up. The easy set up and metrics make it simple to explain to marketing teams, and track and show results.
- It has easy set up, you can have a campaign set up in minutes.
- The metrics are easy to read and provide the information we're looking for.
- The support team have been helpful and responsive.
- Their invoicing process can be confusing. The invoices do not provide enough information, such as an itemized list of the amount spent on each campaign in that invoice, which campaigns are included in the billed invoice, and a date range.
- Editing campaigns (dates, budget, etc) can be difficult once a campaign has started.
- The "campaigns purchased" vs. "deliveries billed" invoices can get confusing at times.
AdRoll Scorecard Summary
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What is AdRoll?
Categories: Social Media Advertising, Ad Serving & Retargeting
AdRoll Integrations
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AdRoll Competitors
AdRoll Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
- Entry-level set up fee?No
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | |
| Essentials | $12 | per month |
| Growth | $25 | per month |
AdRoll Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application: | No |