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What is Google Marketing Platform?

Google Marketing Platform (a combination of former DoubleClick advertiser tools and Google Analytics 360 Suite) is a set of tools for marketers to manage their advertising campaigns. DoubleClick was acquired by Google in 2008. It focuses on uploading ads and…

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DoubleClick

8 out of 10
September 03, 2021
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Easiest to Use

9 out of 10
January 16, 2020
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Google Marketing Platform (GMP) is the main platform used by my agency across the whole organization - by multiple departments. We use it …
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Google Marketing Review

3 out of 10
October 07, 2019
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Our media division uses DCM to produce ad tags for our partners/publishers and to measure conversions via floodlight. We're also connected …
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    7.3
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Features related to creating and deploying ad campaigns.

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Features related to reporting on and analyzing advertisements.

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Google Marketing Platform (a combination of former DoubleClick advertiser tools and Google Analytics 360 Suite) is a set of tools for marketers to manage their advertising campaigns. DoubleClick was acquired by Google in 2008. It focuses on uploading ads and reporting their performance and also provides forecasting tools to help predict future campaign needs. Bid optimization tools help manage pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns across search engines (e.g. Bing, Google, Yahoo!).

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The most common users of Google Marketing Platform are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Tegan Jenner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use several Google products within our organization that [is] part of the Google Marketing Platform -- specifically, Google Analytics, Data Studio, Tag Manager, Campaign Manager. We had been using these products individually to run ads, manage site tags, and check website traffic performance. We are also heavy utilizers of Google Data Studio (in combination with Improvado and Google Big Query) to provide live performance dashboards to our clients that show performance from Google and non-Google platforms.
  • Acts as a hub to access all your most common Google Products.
  • Tag Manager in particular simplifies website tag implementation and centralizes the information.
  • Allows for better data sharing/connectivity between your Google products (ex: Search ads and Google Analytics).
  • I find the Campaign Manager menu + UI to [be] very inconvenient to use. You end up opening several windows just to access different information from the same platform. They break up Campaign Manager 360 into Trafficking, Planning, and Reporting & Attribution. I would prefer if these 3 sections were more seamlessly integrated together. They almost act as separate UIs.
I feel pretty neutral about Google Marketing Platform. For the longest time, my company wasn't using it because each of the features (Data Studio, Analytics, etc.) could be accessed separately. In fact, most of the time, I don't even go into Google Marketing Platform because it's easier to directly navigate to the individual platforms. There are very few features about GMP that can only be accessed from the GMP UI. The Integrations Center is probably the main feature I utilize from the GMP UI, which allows me to see a summary of the integrations I have in place across all my client properties and accounts.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Partnering with Search Ads 360 for Smart Bidding allowed us to take our paid search activity to the next level. Implementing Smart Bidding has been a game-changer for us and we’re excited to see further development in the feature.
  • Smart bidding.
  • Campaign management.
  • Audience targeting.
  • Microsoft integration.
  • Day parting.
Our teams work together in one environment where we can see audience insights, what creative we’re running and where, how it’s performing, and make changes almost in real-time.
September 03, 2021

DoubleClick

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DoubleClick is being used as a platform that firstly, brings together data from multiple advertising engines, such as AdWords (Google), Bing Ads, Facebook, Google Analytics and the like. Bringing the data from these platforms allows for easy analysis of data and performance of our campaigns. In addition to this, DoubleClick has a wide variety of tools such as auto bidding tools, the creation, and tracking of floodlight tags and attribution tools that allows for in-depth analysis of information and the types of traffic that your adverts are driving.

We use DoubleClick across the majority of the company, especially for clients who are multi-channel and/or engine. As explained above, it gives us one platform to browse all our data and also enables us to use auto bidding tools and rules, which helps with performance and also frees up time to do more in-depth analysis
  • Bringing together data from multiple channels and engines and allows you to visualize the data in an easy to use platform. This saves time from using multiple logins for the different platforms.
  • Auto bidding tools save time from manual bidding, as it allows you to set the specific terms around what levels you want to cap your CPCs at. You then let DoubleClick adjust your bids to gain the most conversions from the cheapest CPCs. This frees up time to do other in-depth analysis and strategy.
  • DoubleClick also has the ability to track conversions and clicks on any page using their floodlight tags. This is good for tracking certain actions on yours or a client's site and is especially good if they do not use any other tools, such as Google Analytics or Adobe, to track conversions and user actions on site. You can also use these in conjunction with the auto bidding tools.
  • Integration using social media engines such as Facebook is a bit complicated, I would like to see this improved.
  • Syncing with AdWords and other engines only occurs once a day at the early hours in the morning, this means changes in AdWords is not picked up in DoubleClick, which means there is a gap in the metrics, which could lead to incorrect or mislead optimizations. Maybe allow for more frequent syncing.
DoubleClick works very well if you are running a search or programmatic campaigns, especially with search campaigns, you are able to consolidate your campaigns from multiple engines and apply its bidding tools to improve your performance and get the greatest amount of conversions for a reasonable CPC. However, these tools are not best suited when it comes to mobile advertising.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
GMP is used to manage ad delivery for a number of our clients across 9 countries in Asia. It's mainly used for display and video campaigns. We use DV360 and campaign managers regularly, and spend over $1M USD annually. It enables us to manage ad delivery across multiple networks from a single platform with excellent targeting options.
  • Custom targeted audiences (for qualified accounts) allows us to target specific audiences with relevant ads.
  • Very good brand safety options with built-in brand safety and additional safety options available to purchase.
  • I would like to see an easier reporting process similar to the reporting service in the Adwords platforms.
Very good with medium to large budgets that want reach across multiple ad networks with good brand safety. Hard to justify use on smaller budgets due to tech fees charged.
January 16, 2020

Easiest to Use

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Google Marketing Platform (GMP) is the main platform used by my agency across the whole organization - by multiple departments. We use it to manage our digital media.
  • Intuitive and easily navigable interface.
  • Widely used and recognized.
  • Support is sometimes lacking when it comes to more complex situations.
  • There needs to be more options for exporting information.
I have used several other ad servers and have found them to be either greatly lacking in features that GMP provides, or so un-intuitive that navigating through and using the ad server was extremely frustrating and time consuming. While not perfect, GMP is currently the best relative to other platforms.
Collin Berg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We prefer to use it over other media marketing platforms because of it's easy, well documented and professional support. As advertisers, we upload the media that gets pushed to creative and it is much easier to do it on Google Marketing Platform than on Sizmek. This allows us to document and keep track of creative and ensures that when we push it to the advertisers or buyers, that our packages are accounted for, rather than lost in email threads.
  • Preview links are very helpful and easy to generate for previewing single or groups of media. You can even preview them inside of websites so get a better understand of how the ad interacts with the rest of the content around it.
  • It also allows you not only to track display media but search as well. Being a Google company consolidates both display and search invoices for clients together which makes it easier for billing purposes.
  • Able to exclude poor performing sites.
  • Some of the bid strategies can be a bit confusing in regards to how they're working.
  • One issue I often run into with Google Marketing Platform can be the editing tool in management. This tool allows you to update a number of things from placement or creative name to the landing page the creative should drive to.
Google Marketing Platform is the lead for advertising campaign management. We work with all sorts of large and small clients who use it to manage and track the creative we send. Wherever I've worked, it has been the most preferred data management platform for advertising channels. Google Marketing Platform made this integration easy and not working with multiple ad-servers.
October 07, 2019

Google Marketing Review

Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our media division uses DCM to produce ad tags for our partners/publishers and to measure conversions via floodlight. We're also connected to Google Ads and use DCM as the reporting portal for both display and search campaigns. We're also using click trackers to track clicks on social media campaigns as well.
  • Super granular reporting.
  • Seamlessly connects with other Google products.
  • Lots of delivery options for ad serving.
  • Clunky interface - Still angry that DFP got a facelift years ago but DCM looks the same as it always has. It makes trafficking awkward and time-consuming.
  • Need more "Edit Multiple" options for making campaign adjustments.
  • The help section is atrocious, as is trying to get support from the team. But if you've ever worked with Google, that won't be a surprise.
If you're working in a smaller agency and need a tool for trafficking ads and sending tags to publishers, DCM is a great choice because it's so widely used. However, the lack of support and updates over the years definitely shows and makes me wonder if there are newer, stronger options available out there.
Ouali Benmeziane | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At WebCongress, we have been using Google Marketing Platform for a long time now. We do a lot of consulting and training around all Google tools for our clients, mainly enterprise-size companies.
  • Get the best insights from our platforms.
  • Integrates all Google tools, data, and our websites.
  • Great optimization solutions and dashboards.
  • Some optimization features are missing that you can find at other tools.
  • Improve the integration with other platforms.
  • Analytics is a bit complex to navigate and some aspects are confusing.
I think today, where all businesses should organize & track their data, create smart dashboards, and constantly find opportunities to improve their web/app/conversions, all kinds of businesses should integrate Google Marketing Platform.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Google Marketing Platform within my team. It's great. We use this daily to set up ad campaigns and track their progress in addition to pulling analysis on how the campaign ran.
  • Trafficking ads
  • Allowing us to seamlessly upload content into the system.
  • Make quick edits to content without having to start the whole process over.
  • You can easily pull reporting within the system and make it customizable.
  • Small tweaks would be helpful. My team does not use some sections of Google Marketing Platform so having the ability to hide those areas would be nice.
  • In the geo-targeting, you have to type out United States every time instead of it auto-filling.
It's great for anyone trying to traffic their ads. You can also customize things within the system if you have a tech team to support that. This would be less appropriate if you are not working in ads and you're working on social platforms.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used Google Marketing Platform for client advertising campaigns. It has provided additional avenues for exposure for a number of service and product based businesses.
  • Google Marketing has been great for programmatic marketing
  • Google Marketing has provided access to better ad serving opportunities
  • Performance metrics and ROI is much easier to analyze in Google Marketing Platform
  • For new marketers, or those new to programmatic, it can be difficult to grasp
  • We've had problems with quality of ads and websites served; has had spam issues in the past, which lowers overall trust
It is great for large brands, or agencies looking for more advanced capabilities. For smaller companies, or beginners, it can be a daunting platform.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DoubleClick is being used to place and track ads on performance by segments. In addition, reviewing how CRM and PMP are performing. It also used to for retargeting certain segments.
  • I'm able to drill down to the exact link and click of the ad.
  • Review performance by day and time
  • Able to spot click fraud
  • Able to exclude poor performing sites.
  • A lot of bugs, setting up ads doesn't work sometimes.
  • Some tracking options aren't available.
  • Updating an ad is a long and tedious process.
It's well suited if you want to target people in your database on a 1 on 1 relationship.
March 07, 2018

DoubleClick

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DoubleClick is the third-party ad server used across our entire digital media department. Using DCM allows us to track and monitor the performance of digital campaigns. With these metric insights we can not only track delivery of the campaign but also set up specific conversions for the campaign or client. Doubleclick gives our organization more control of the digital media that is running on various sites.
  • One of the biggest advantages of using DoubleClick is the conversion/pixel platform. The platform allows you to customize variables for conversions and then send to your clients' site manager or developers. A huge plus in using DCM floodlight conversions is that they track both views and click through which Google Analytics does not.
  • DoubleClick also allows you not only track display media but search as well. DCM being a Google company consolidates both display and search invoices for clients together which makes it easier for billing purposes.
  • The overall DCM platform is very user-friendly and allows you to update creative assets very easily. This has often been a time-consuming process in our ad servers that I've used in the past. I feel as though DCM is very easy to navigate and learn in general. Prior to my position now, I had never used DCM and only took a few weeks to learn.
  • One issue I often run into for DoubleClick can be the editing tool in management. This tool allows you to update a number of things from placement or creative name to the landing page the creative should drive to. The problem that occurs is you're unable to click on the tool and typically to close your browser and restart DCM or your computer. This can be an inconvenience when you are in the midst of trafficking a campaign.
  • When I first started using DCM, you could upload HTML5 creative assets on the campaign level which worked great. As of late they no longer allow you to upload to campaign but rather to advertiser. Adding this step, you have to upload creative from the advertiser to campaign which adds another step in the process of trafficking.
  • Within DoubleClick Managment (DCM) there are placements, ads, and creatives. The ads are created after a creative unit is assigned to the placement. I've noticed sometimes the ads default to "inactive" which doesn't allow you to track the unit. I have not figured out how to prevent this rather I just ensure all ads are set as "active".
DoubleClick is a great platform to use if your clients are interested in seeing a number of metrics outside of the standard clicks/impressions from a campaign. It would also be necessary for the digital display campaigns you have running that have significant budgets as DCM is billed on a CPM basis. For video specific campaigns you can track a number of granular metrics that you would otherwise rely on the site to provide.

I wouldn't suggest trafficking display campaigns that don't have significant budgets because there won't be much insight to gain from minimal budget or dollars spent.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The data received from the DBM sales funnel helped optimise our spend on display and focus more different audiences in social media. It saves us a lot of time on optimizations, reporting and tracking, which we invest in working more towards growing our client's accounts. Its better than any other similar solution I've used in the past.
  • Setting up tracking URLs is very easy and it also helps us identify if any errors have occurred with it. This allows us track all types of conversions to the most granular level.
  • Accessing all accounts from Double Click significantly reduces the hours we spend on reporting. Any level of detail could be easily pulled out from the reporting tab.
  • A very big strength of Double Click is that it's integrated with other publishers, too, besides AdWords.
  • Automated bidding is available.
  • Maybe if everything could be instantly synced with AdWords, this would also save time on the execution side of things and will decrease the possibility of errors.
  • It's only available for big companies, because it's expensive. If there was a bit more limited version of it for smaller companies to be able to use it at a lower price, this could open doors to small agencies and companies, too.
I'd recommend it 100%, there is Google support if any help is needed, there are tutorials and certificate for the ones, who want to become experts and use the platform to its highest potential. Smart bidding strategies really improve account performance. Data attribution tracking has changed the game for search specifically entirely. Having Double Click on all channels allows tracking overall performance, so it's best suited for big companies, where there are different channels involved. It's less appropriate for small companies, who don't really have much to spend and only have 1 account on AdWords, since they could simply use AdWords features to manage it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's used by the search, display, social advertising teams for multiple clients. The main reason to use it is that it makes it easier to access data on all channels, track performance and create reports. It's easy to sync with any publisher, the platform is very easy to use, speeds up our work and offers many opportunities for performance improvement. Wherever I've worked, DoubleClick has been the most preferred data management platform for advertising channels.
  • Syncs up data very quickly
  • It's very easy to manage multiple accounts and report on their performance
  • Bidding strategies and automatic rules are easy to set up
  • Tracks performance on all URLs, not just the paid media
  • Bidding strategies based on revenue would be a nice improvement
  • Being able to easily access remarketing audience from different channels would make advertiser's life easier
  • Easier integration with Adobe Analytics would be a good improvement
Well suited for search and social channels integration, however, integrating with Adobe analytics is not clearly explained anywhere. Sharing audience lists between channels is not an easy task, if possible at all
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DoubleClick is used by the media department to execute display, mobile and video campaigns through DCM and DBM. DoubleClick allowed the agency to bring programmatic media buying in-house at a reasonable expense. It also allows agency to track direct buys through DCM thereby keeping an eye on the performance of media dollars being spent outside the agency.
  • The relationship between DCM and DBM allows for a seamless integration between adserver and DSP.
  • DBM has great third-party and custom audience segments.
  • DBM's reporting suite offers an array of metrics and dimensions to report on.
  • Having the cost of DBM flow easily back through to the DDM reporting suite would be very helpful.
  • Being able to traffic and serve native assets through DCM the same way a display ad is served.
  • If DBM had keyword targeting capabilities that mirrored AdWords keyword structures.
DoubleClick is well suited for general display, mobile and video campaigns. I am not sure how it would work for a retail of CPG client.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use DoubleClick Bid Manager to purchase digital network inventory without the vendor middle man. DoubleClick Bid Manager allows clarity on inventory and data segments to know we are getting what we pay for.
  • Targeting clarity.
  • Inventory verification.
  • Brand safety.
  • Budget pacing is a little quirky, doesn't take into account gaps in campaign pacing.
  • Easier screenshots and verification.
  • Better suggestions of optimizations.
For network ad buying we no longer use Undertone, Rocket fuel or Conversant as we get better overall performance from DoubleClick Bid Manager.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My organization uses DoubleClick products within the digital media department, excluding SEM (which uses Kenshoo). The specific tools we subscribe to include Planning, Trafficking, Reporting & Attribution, and Studio.

We use DoubleClick for trafficking our digital ads, generating insertion orders for publishers, reporting and billing, tag management, rich media development, and more recently, for ad verification (viewability and brand safety). It addresses the following business problems: third party ad tracking, media planning/flowchart building, consolidated reporting, tag management, and viewability monitoring.

DoubleClick is used at my company nationally for all of the previously mentioned functions.
  • Reporting - reporting interface is easy to use, and reports typically generate quickly.
  • Tag Management - creating Floodlight tags is very simple and allows customization through custom variables. In addition, it is very easy to append other tracking pixels (from publishers, attribution partners, etc.) to Floodlight containers. DoubleClick also makes it easy to append campaign-wide pixels for universal tracking tags, e.g. Brand Study tracking tags.
  • Seamless process with publishers - because most publishers are familiar with DoubleClick products, it is generally easy to grant reporting access to publisher contacts so that they can monitor campaigns and be proactive about making optimizations.
  • DoubleClick support could use some improvement. We submit questions/requests to a support alias, and often experience long delays in response time and less than thorough responses. Because DoubleClick uses an alias, we often have multiple support technicians involved in responding to our questions/requests, which can make it more challenging to get a clear response. It is difficult to get a support technician on the phone to help resolve highly technical issues.
  • Product updates - our DoubleClick client services team is not proactive about sharing new features available within DoubleClick. For example, DoubleClick has had an ad verification product for a few years now. When the product first came out, it wasn't up to standards with other third party verification products, in my opinion. My organization has been paying for another third party verification company due to assumed limitations of DoubleClick in this area. However, I recently requested that DoubleClick schedule a department-wide meeting to give updates, and learned that DoubleClick's offering in this area is actually on par with, if not better than, the other company we were paying for ad verification. DoubleClick's offering is included in my company's contract with DoubleClick, and I feel we could have accrued some savings had DoubleClick proactively shared this feature with us earlier.
  • Attribution - DoubleClick's attribution tool does not provide many valuable insights, in my opinion. For complex attribution, my organization still contracts with other companies.
From my experience, DoubleClick is the best tool out there for ad serving and third party reporting. As mentioned previously, I don't think DoubleClick is the best tool for attribution currently. However, I think it has made some strides recently in improving its verification product. Lastly, while I am not focused in SEM, the SEM team at my company feels that Kenshoo is a better product for SEM ad serving.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used it as the primary DSP for our Online Advertising Agency. Doubleclick Campaign Manager also served as our 3rd Party Adserver. We used Doubleclick Bid Manager with the majority of our clients. It provided us with a more substantial reach of inventory as well as providing pretty indepth analysis of our Media Spend
  • The detail of reporting capabilities is awesome. The data that we can pull really allows us to narrow down to our desired target audience.
  • The UI is improving every day. I like how it has become a much more visual platform with high level data.
  • While the UI is getting better, I think having the option to view the most important metrics directly in the platform rather than in .csv exports would be beneficial
  • The load time of the Platform can be slow at times
  • The performance of campaigns has been poor in comparison to other DSP's we have used.
I think it is best suited to agencies selling media at a flat rate for brand awareness campaigns
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Particular teams choose to use DoubleClick at Performics based on their clients' needs. I used it for one client but use a different third party source for another client so it varies widely but can be manipulated for all sizes for data. I think it works well but the overview tabs are not as consolidated and easy-to-read as Marin. I wish it could be simplified with rows and columns of data, almost like a spreadsheet.
  • Functionality in general. It works well and I have never had to question the accuracy of my data.
  • The real-time update is AMAZING, especially if you might expect a lot of traffic in a few campaigns.
  • The data manipulation and connectivity to other Google products is easy and smooth
  • Automated bid strategies are particularly confusing to set up compared to AdWords or Marin.
  • I wish there was a consolidated overview tab.
I guess it depends on what type of data and reporting is the client/campaign going to require? Certain dimensions and things are necessary for my client that DoubleClick wouldn't be able to integrate well.
Dana Berardi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DoubleClick is being used for the management of PPC campaigns and bid automation. Our team currently manages over $1 MM in ad spend and a large number of search accounts across multiple engines. Centralizing all those accounts in one place and having an automated solution for keyword bidding in place increased efficiency significantly.
  • Bid strategies based on a variety of goals for automated bidding.
  • Bid rules to automate bidding for lower volume campaigns.
  • Centralized reporting with all engines available in one UI.
  • Reporting for display campaign - currently DoubleClick for Search doesn't provide reporting on the placement level and data is only rolled up to the ad group level.
  • Yahoo is currently not supported, but it's supposed to be on the road map
  • Conversions are not being pulled in from the engines. It is required to implement DoubleClick's floodlights to track conversions.
We are a lead generation business mainly for B2B with a lead verification process that causes a delay in revenue that is coming in. DoubleClick allows us to insert offline conversion data and update that data multiple times which is extremely important for businesses that have a verification process in place and/or delayed revenue data availability. DoubleClick also has the option to use an 'availability time stamp' that tell the system what the latest available data is.
Brian Schlager | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DoubleClick is used by my organization for digital ad serving and data collection, on behalf of our clients. It is primarily used across our whole organization to streamline the management and delivery of various advertisements as a delivery tool. It is also used to collect various data on our ads, which are then used by our analytics teams and third-party partners to help our clients understand the impact of their digital media investment.
  • DoubleClick is widely accepted as the industry leader in digital ad serving and management, therefore allowing for a simple launch process with media publishers.
  • There is an ease of implementation and integration with other points in the tech stack due to DoubleClick's history as an industry leader and continuous development of the road map for this platform.
  • The user interface for DoubleClick is very intuitive, allowing for ease of use for anyone who is familiar with any other Google products.
  • Somewhat frequent bugs and data delays or loss can result in major problems when working with clients who demand to know all details about their ads.
  • Being owned by Google, clients frequently question the safety of their data, typically requiring an extensive legal process to ensure all detail remains proprietary.
  • There are a number of media partners, primarily in the social space, that do not allow for tracking or ad serving via DoubleClick. This results in a fragmented view of client's media programs since everything cannot be served and tracked through a single platform.
DoubleClick is suitable for both small and large business, however, the management of ad tracking and analytics resources to help interpret the large amounts of data that ads generate, is a major consideration. Advertisers typically underestimate the amount of man hours that are required to set up, manage, and analyze large scale media programs via DoubleClick.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
DoubleClick usage varies between different teams. The business problem it addresses is the simplicity of managing multiple campaigns at the same time.
  • User friendly interface
  • Quick response times
  • Pushes changes to Google and Bing quickly
  • The reporting templates are horrible
  • Bulk uploads always have issues
  • Cannot segment by publisher in an easy and efficient way
Any search team can utilize the functions of DoubleClick depending on their needs.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Doubleclick is used by most of the ad ops teams for tagging and tracking campaigns. It is also used by some of the programmatic teams for programmatic buying. Doubleclick allows us to see performance, optimize on a granular level and report back to the client with spend and impressions that can be used for billing purposes.
  • Doubleclick allows me to operate many silos in a single platform.
  • Doubleclick integrates with many partners to allow a large scale on my campaigns.
  • Doubleclick benefits from utilizing Google Data from search and audiences.
  • Doubleclick could benefit from better customer service.
  • The tool that shows why you lost an impression is often inaccurate.
The platform is particularly easy to use when Doubleclick for Advertisers is being utilized as the ad server. It allows the creative tags and floodlight tags to easily port into the system which make for a very easy campaign set up. I would not recommend DBM when recency is necessary for the campaign since you would need a different line item for each time differential.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
DoubleClick BidManager is utilized at VivaKi to implement, manage and optimize hundreds of online display media campaigns for brands across many verticals. Depending on the client's objectives, needs, and success metrics, we often select Doubleclick BidManager as the preferred DSP since it offers robust targeting capabilities, numerous inventory sources, an intuitive interface and solid support. DoubleClick BidManager allows advertisers to easily reach millions of users more efficiently and provides an endless amount of possibilities to reach each client's unique or custom goal.
  • Target the right user - DoubleClick BidManager offers thousands of thousands of third party data segments to easily identify and reach the target audience
  • Full transparency - Robust reporting to see exactly where the creatives are serving and how they are performing. All associated fees and exact costs are reported so there are no surprises for our company or the end-client.
  • Integrated with DFA Ad serving - Creatives, user lists and reporting are automatically and easily available in Doubleclick BidManager. This removes room for error and saves an ample amount of time.
  • Not all capabilities are available across other channels, including mobile and video. The DPS is built primarily for display.
  • Increase "real time". Data is recorded and shown within 4 hours - 24 hours, which causes delays and mis-judgments in optimizations.
  • Algorithm needs improvement as it not always delivers the most efficient and strong results.
- Well suited for large advertisers with considerable advertising dollars to spend towards digital media. Ask if budgets will limit delivery and/or performance before selecting Doubleclick BidManager.
- Ask what targeting capabilities are possible for the channel (display, mobile, video)
- Make sure the publishers and exchanges that are employed by BidManager will accept the brand. For example, alcohol-related brands will not be accepted and as a result, the DSP will not be able to serve the creative.
Namit Narain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
DoubleClick is an ad-server, which we use for serving display ads in various formats (such as rich media, etc.) for our clients across multiple publishers. These publishers can be direct media buys or DSP's. Most of the publisher and DSP's do accept DFA tags, hence it was the best and easy pick for us. DCM made this integration easy and not working with multiple ad-servers.
  • Trafficking of banners are easy and simple. It involves a little bit of technical knowledge but those challenges can be resolved over a period of time. It also helped me to add click trackers on specific emails and outbound links for an ad campaign.
  • Double Click Studio helped us to create and traffic rich media, video, and expandable creatives. DCM and Double Click Studio are seamlessly integrated, hence it is easy for a creative team to pick up with the technology.
  • Implementing FloodLight Container Tags and Reporting is so easy that it helped us to derive attribution models for our clients. Again setting up proper conversion tracking and attribution models in this tools is simple and easy. You can place as many third party publisher conversion pixels as you want in FloodLight containers.
  • Also, since it is a Google Product - hence the technology is always updated, with new industry methods of Display advertising. The tool is not a laggard rather it adopts really quick, keeping IAB standards into consideration.
  • Double Click needs to give direct access to the small advertisers and agencies rather than small players getting access only through resellers.
  • The pricing model should be only based on impression volume or CPM not with respect to the type or size of creative you serve. This is a huge pain in the neck when a client or advertiser really needs to move forward with new formats or size of creatives and they have to redo their math on platform fee/spend level. Hence it is a simple case of cost-benefit analysis.
  • The UI of trafficking needs to be a little more tidy rather making it complex and comprehensive.
  • Also, the support for direct advertisers, small agencies or client's needs improvement. Rather, than all these small players going to the support team of resellers, they need to have a direct touch point access from Google itself.
  • For example, I reached out directly to the sales team of Double Click as a representative from my agency, where I needed to move away from my reseller rather to have the direct Double Click access, I never received a response from Google back on the request.
There are plenty of rich media trafficking and ad-server competitors out there such as PointRoll, etc. Before picking up with the tool, the major question you have to ask yourself as an advertiser is, do you or your team have expertise to get on board with the tool? Second major question is - Have you or your client as an advertiser evaluated the creative specs or formats? And last but not the least - what is the depth of reporting and attribution you are looking for?

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