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Acoustic Campaign
Formerly Silverpop / IBM Watson Campaign Automation

Overview

What is Acoustic Campaign?

Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) is a scalable, SaaS-based, cross-channel, digital marketing platform providing digital marketers the ability to implement and manage email, mobile, social, and lead management campaign processes.

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Recent Reviews

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Users have found Silverpop Engage to be a valuable tool for their mass mailing and global program campaigns. It has also been used for …
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I Love Silverpop!

10 out of 10
June 17, 2015
We use Silverpop for marketing, retention, and transactional emails. Prior to Silverpop we had very little insight into the performance of …
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Marketing evolution

10 out of 10
February 25, 2015
Silverpop Engage is used for all of our customer-facing marketing emails and is administered by the Email Marketing team. Marketing …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Email deliverability reporting (10)
    8.0
    80%
  • A/B testing (10)
    7.0
    70%
  • Dashboards (10)
    4.2
    42%
  • WYSIWYG email editor (10)
    4.0
    40%
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Pricing

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What is Acoustic Campaign?

Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) is a scalable, SaaS-based, cross-channel, digital marketing platform providing digital marketers the ability to implement and manage email, mobile, social, and lead management campaign processes.

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

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Features

Email & Online Marketing

Using software to manage lists, send emails, automate email campaigns, and track results.

7
Avg 7.8

Lead Management

The process of tracking and managing prospective customers from lead generation to conversion.

7.4
Avg 7.7

Campaign Management

Users can schedule campaigns and/or events with reminders, announcements, etc.

7
Avg 7.6

Social Media Marketing

Using social media networks to help amplify marketing endeavors.

6.3
Avg 7.5

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

4.5
Avg 7.5

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

5.7
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is Acoustic Campaign?

According to the vendor, Acoustic Campaign is a comprehensive platform designed to enhance businesses' understanding of customer behavior on both a personalized and large-scale level. The product provides various tools for insights, planning, and implementation that enable data-driven experiences across multiple channels. By leveraging these features, brands aim to develop enduring connections with customers while driving revenue through tailored and impactful interactions based on individual preferences. Integration capabilities with existing tools and systems offer marketing processes flexibility, efficiency, and optimization. Although no specific industries or professions are explicitly mentioned, it can be assumed that any business desiring enhanced marketing efforts and increased customer base may find value in utilizing this platform.

Deep Insights and Personalization

The product is designed to provide marketers with the necessary tools to deliver personalized experiences across various interaction points, both online and offline, in order to enhance customer retention and establish enduring brand allegiance. The vendor asserts that by utilizing behavioral data, Acoustic Campaign enables marketers to construct meaningful and timely messages, fostering long-term connections with customers. Through its real-time personalization functionalities, the product aims to empower marketers to deliver compelling experiences that promote customer advocacy and drive revenue expansion.

Integration and Efficiency

The product is designed to enhance operational efficiency and streamline business processes through its advanced technology and extensive capabilities. The vendor claims that Acoustic Campaign delivers a user-friendly experience, supported by cutting-edge technology, enabling users to navigate the platform effortlessly. By seamlessly integrating with existing tools and systems, the product aims to simplify workflows, eliminating manual data transfer or redundant procedures. This integration also facilitates smooth collaboration between teams, ensuring a seamless marketing process from initiation until completion. Ultimately, Acoustic Campaign equips businesses with the necessary resources to optimize returns on investment and effectively achieve their marketing objectives.

Acoustic Campaign Screenshots

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Acoustic Campaign Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Acoustic Campaign (formerly IBM Watson Campaign Automation) is a scalable, SaaS-based, cross-channel, digital marketing platform providing digital marketers the ability to implement and manage email, mobile, social, and lead management campaign processes.

Constant Contact, Oracle Marketing, and Emarsys are common alternatives for Acoustic Campaign.

Reviewers rate Dynamic content and Email deliverability reporting and List management highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of Acoustic Campaign are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found Silverpop Engage to be a valuable tool for their mass mailing and global program campaigns. It has also been used for automated lead nurturing and mass mailing. Marketing teams have utilized the platform to administer customer-facing marketing emails, while marketing communications managers have accessed it to track the performance of their individual email campaigns. Large enterprises like Texas Instruments have been able to engage with customers across different locations using Silverpop Engage. Its relevant and responsive marketing automation capabilities have enabled users to engage with customers at the right time based on their actions on the site. The platform has been widely used for emails, landing pages, marketing automation tracks, and lead scoring within global marketing organizations. Sales teams have benefited from its features by being able to rank leads based on their actions and qualify them accordingly. E-commerce departments have relied on Silverpop Engage for powering their entire email programs, including promotional messages, browse behavior, confirmation emails, and more. With its versatility, Silverpop has assisted organizations in communicating quickly and effectively with customers, leading to improved revenue generation. Additionally, the web tracking functionality of Silverpop allows for deeper insights into subscriber interactions with websites, leading to more targeted messaging based on opens, clicks, and interactions.

Toggle between HTML and Design views: Users have appreciated the ability to toggle between HTML and Design views for creating emails. This feature has been mentioned by several reviewers, making it easy to update photos and hyperlinks in emails.

Newly added features for test emails: Reviewers have mentioned that the newly added features for test emails have made it easier to ensure the accuracy of the email before sending it out. This improvement has been well-received by users, who find it valuable in preventing errors and mistakes.

Thorough examination process before sending: Users have commended the thorough examination process of the email before sending it, which helps prevent it from getting stuck in junk mail and ensures proper rendering on different platforms. Several reviewers have highlighted this aspect as a positive attribute of the product.

Outdated Usability: Users have consistently mentioned that Engage's usability is outdated and cumbersome, with confusing user interfaces, cryptic notifications, and old-style drop-down menus. Some users even reported browser lock-ups when editing signup forms.

Limited Email Creation Engine: Several users expressed frustration with Silverpop's email creation engine, which requires manual HTML coding instead of offering advanced Ajax or jQuery based creation engines like other ESPs. This limitation hampers flexibility in layout design and adds complexity for users.

Confusing Reporting Tools: Many users criticized the overall reporting in Silverpop, stating that it is confusing and lacks flexibility. They found it difficult to generate comprehensive reports, as well as extract contact information for opens/clicks. The presence of two different reporting engines, one legacy and one new, further added to the confusion.

Users have provided several recommendations for IBM Watson Campaign Automation. The three most common recommendations are:

Consider the software for organizations: Users recommend considering IBM Watson Campaign Automation for organizations, especially those with a limited marketing budget. They believe that the software has an edge over competitors like Adobe campaign and Salesforce marketing cloud in terms of intuitiveness and quick setup.

Use the software for marketing automation: Users highly recommend using IBM Watson Campaign Automation for marketing automation and automating inbound and outbound campaigns. They find it great for creating and managing end-to-end campaign management.

Seek help and support from IBM: Users advise seeking help and support from IBM when using IBM Watson Campaign Automation. They recommend hiring an Acoustic Partner consultant for implementation and training to ensure better long-term results. They also suggest reaching out to tech support for assistance before considering switching to another program.

Overall, users recommend considering IBM Watson Campaign Automation for organizations, utilizing it for marketing automation, and seeking help and support from IBM throughout the process.

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • List segmentation based on behavior - It was very easy to pull an "openers" list or "non-opener" list, then re-market accordingly.
  • Also, as previously mentioned, lead scoring with online behavior was easy to set up and post to Salesforce.com.
  • Some of the improvements that they made to setting up the Lead Nurture programs I wanted weren't available until the next product roll-up.
  • If you didn't test your processes thoroughly, strange errors could happen, like a lead never receiving an email, or receiving the initial email but not the second email in the workflow.
  • The biggest ROI/KPI that we monitored was the quality of leads, which was something that the sales team had expressed frustration with.
  • After implementing, marketing was able to identify "pain points" along the sales process, taking the data from the lead scoring model and identifying points when interest began to decline (due to lack of follow up, wrong information, or decision making role). We were able to tweak our marketing programs to better appeal to the actual decision maker, yet arm those doing research for a decision maker with the proper tools to understand our products and present our solution.
The system is easy to use and the support team at Silverpop were very easy to work with.
5
Marketing
1
Marketing
  • Lead Scoring - Helping sales team categorize and prioritize leads based on information given (form submission) and a lead's activity on our website. Overall, more focused sales team leads to bigger opportunities to pursue, rather than following up with a lead to first qualify interest, then qualify the opportunity.
  • Created lead ranking program, allowing sales to categorize their highest priority sales leads and manage their follow up accordingly. Leads that had both higher interest via interactions with our site, along with a fit score for the ideal prospect, were given the highest rank.
  • Implemented a lead disqualification process through email interactions. If someone opened one email, then no emails X amount of sends later, they were removed from our database. This allowed us to both clean our database and focus on targets that were truly interested in our brand and product line.
Previously to implementing Engage, the company did not have a marketing automation system.
  • Eloqua
  • ExactTarget
We chose Engage because of the ability to integrate with our Salesforce.com system, the intricate lead scoring and lead nurture programs that could be implemented on this system. Scoring was very important to our sales team, as they had been utilizing a Hot, Warm, Cold manual system in Salesforce.com. We replaced this manual process with the lead scoring, with great success.
  • Vendor implemented
  • Online training
Training was very easy to follow, with lots and lots of session options.
When I used the system, it wasn't plug and play with Salesforce.com, so the Silverpop team needed to do work (which we were charged extra for) in order to integrate with our CRM.
No
The Silverpop team is fantastic, easy to work with and are pretty technical. They get back to you right away when you have trouble using the system.
Besides the initial cumbersome nature of the workflows, Engage was a very easy system to learn and implement.
The throttle time for sending emails would vary depending on how many other campaigns were going out that day, which I found inconsistent.
  • Salesforce.com
API build out was needed in order to integrate, not out of the box.
Sales process was pretty long, we had lots of questions about capabilities. Post sales process was a little lack luster, I hardly ever heard from my salesperson again after I was handed off to the implementation team.
My biggest pointer would be to make sure that you understand what the system is capable of doing out of the box and how this will fit into your current processes, instead of trying to create processes to fit the system.
Becca Ray | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My company uses Engage to email product alerts and event notifications to our existing customer base. Our sales department is the primary user and has full control of the tool for the organization. Email marketing accounts for 46% of our yearly online sales. It allows us to run a welcome campaigns, post purchase treatments, cart abandonment campaigns, etc.
  • Automation was a big plus for us. Allowing us to set daily record uploads freed up resources and added integrity to our customer service.
  • Throttling the emails allowed us to relieve the load on our website on high traffic days without having to cancel email campaigns.
  • A/B testing gave us invaluable insight into our customer response rates.
  • Programs allowed us to control a sequence of emails to customers based on trigger points such as their profile, purchase behaviour, site behaviour, etc.
  • The reporting functionality falls short of my expectations. The API with our web analytics tool is sufficient so we use it instead of Silverpop.
  • I was disappointed that mobile marketing is a separate module from email marketing. Considering the growing trends, we wish to tie them together on campaigns but will have to pay more for the features.
The ease of use and the reliability of Engage set it apart from other solutions. The features and functionality are geared to revenue increases and customer engagement.
  • Past solutions were resource intensive. Silverpop allows for automation that relieves the need for many resources.
  • With Programs in Engage, we can trust that a customers touch points were relevant and timely.
  • Breakdowns in reporting and data made for a very unstable Cart Abandonment program.
  • Constant Contact,Webtrends Analytics,SurveyMonkey,Adobe SiteCatalyst,thindata
As an Email Service Provider, it blows Constant Contact and Thindata out of the water. But as a reporting tool, it's difficult to navigate and lacks metrics.
Because we're happy customers!
No
The training provided allows us to gain the product knowledge we need to get the majority of our campaigns off the ground.
The response time is always fast. The only breakdown seems to be when calls are escalated but or account representative is very helpful.
No
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Heavy duty interface allows us to support multiple brands.
  • Extensive API allows us to integrate with our data warehouse.
  • Has all the standard marketing automation bells and whistles.
  • Nice drag and drop program interface.
  • Reliability has been a huge issue. We have had multiple outages where our redirect links in our emails no longer send visitors to our website but instead send them to some sort of backup site designated by Silverpop. Unfortunately, this backup site has a message regarding anti-SPAM. So when Silverpop's service is down it looks to our users like we're spamming them!
  • API documentation often differs meaningfully from how the API actually operates. Sometimes you have to actually do what the API documentation says NOT to do to get it to work.
  • Their database infrastructure is lacking. Huge problems with the database fragmentation.
  • None, really. No better off than on Eloqua.
Changing vendors is hard. Sometimes it's better to re-implement what you have than switch to a different system that's going to have its own pitfalls.
  • Email marketing platform.
Eloqua v9
PulsePoint
ExactTarget
  • Implemented in-house
Based on recommendations from Silverpop we made some implementation decisions that we later regretted pretty substantially. In hindsight we should have started a pilot implementation earlier so we could learn and then start over. The big issue for us was that Silverpop recommended a non-keyed database, or at least a database that doesn't use email address as primary key. This is resulted in a large number of duplicate email addresses so that the end user is forced to unsubscribe multiple times to stop receiving emails.
  • Online training
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
This is a pretty complicated product. training is pretty much a necessity.
Yes
Our account rep is great. Unfortunately technical support is not always great.
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