Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.9 out of 10

Score

6.9 out of 10

Community insights

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Pros

Activity Tracking and Task Management: Users have commended the platform for its exceptional ability to track activity progress and work assignments effectively, allowing individuals and teams to stay organized, prioritize tasks efficiently, and meet deadlines consistently. The detailed insights provided by the tracking feature have significantly improved workflow management for various projects. Calendar Planning for Scrum Processes: Many users have highlighted the calendar plan feature as a crucial tool in facilitating scrum processes. By providing a visual representation of project timelines and deliverables, this feature enhances collaboration among team members, ensures alignment on goals, and boosts overall productivity during sprint planning sessions. Improved Library of Content Access: The enhanced Library of Content has been positively received by users across different roles within organizations. With easier access to resources such as templates, guidelines, and best practices, employees can now quickly find relevant materials to support their projects or initiatives. This streamlined resource management process has led to increased efficiency in content creation and knowledge sharing among teams.

Reviews

52 Reviews

It Enables My Marketing Team to Keep on Track and Producing Content

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Optimizely Content Marketing Platform makes it possible to get our message out on time and as planned from the moment a campaign is organized until it is approved and published. I can ensure my marketing squad is on the same page when it comes to our blogs, tweets and email blasts. Every day I sign in to see my responsibilities, distribute the workload of the limitless content items and see what’s next in line.

Pros

Ease of visualizing upcoming campaigns and deadlines on each content calendar view.
Built in collaboration tools eliminate back and forth feedback email chains.
Content workflows and approval path save a ton of time when you need several departments to review campaigns.

Cons

Reporting is at times, lacking on the customization features, I also export data regularly to Excel for sorting and analyzing.
Setting up the tool was hard and needed more trial.

Likelihood to Recommend

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform manages a lot of content at once. But one thing is that small teams with simple workflows might find it unnecessarily complicated, otherwise I recommend it.

Shalini Purohit

Project Coordinator and Quality Analyst in Information Technology at SharpQuest (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Choose Optimizely Content Marketing Platform over Kapost

Rating: 7 out of 10

October 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

replacing Kapost, in my experience, the legacy player that is not innovating and is lacking AI capabilities. We'd like a system that allows marketers to collaborate efficiently and AI capabilities to do translation, derivative content and connect to other systems in our tech stack, also like to get analytics across web visits and content consumption. Optimizely Content Marketing Platform checks most of the boxes for us.

Pros

translation
derivative content
ai capabilities

Cons

steep learning curve for new users
unclear integration documentation
unclear pricing on integrations - build in-house vs using their integration platform, and recurring costs

Likelihood to Recommend

excels in translation, derivative content, content consumption analytics (combining visits tied to visitor's munckin cookie), great integration capabilities but documentation and pricing could have been clearer

Verified User

Administrator in Marketing (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Review

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 2, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The way that we use it is to manage campaigns efficiently for the marketing team. So for example, if you have an email automation request, instead of doing it via the normal Word brief, you would send a brief via Optimizely. The relevant personal team would get that request. For example, if it's email automation in customer insights, which is a Microsoft tool, I would get that request and it would say email type design, everything associated with the brief and how that email should look, including the delivery. We would want to manage that all via Optimizely so that it's clear what all the tasks are when we need to meet them. And then we include approvals as well. It's about automating our workflows so they're all contained in one system and we can manage those requests, prioritize them, and make sure that we have a one stop review of everything that's going on in marketing. But the email automation was just one example. You might have a request for a brochure or for a social media post or a web post. We've got a whole range of requests that marketing have, but the content management platform is a way to host the brief for each type.

Pros

It allows the user to create as many briefs as they want for different type of requests. So if you are a team that wants to break things down into lots of different pieces and you want to request for everything, it does that. Or you could group things under four categories and then that's enough. It just gives you that flexibility to design plan and deliver that's suitable to the team and to the firm.

Cons

At the moment, whilst there's flexibility for designing briefs and workflows for a financial services firm, there isn't on the other side enough restriction and controls. I want to be able to control the list of approvers so that only certain SMEs can approve a brief that comes through. At the moment, that request goes to a whole group of people instead of individual. I've seen other tools where you have a dropdown of people you can choose from and at the moment optimizely does not have that flexibility. I would say that overall we need better ways of using data and governance specific to the firm to have more controls around those workflows. It's great for collaborating and managing campaigns, but when it comes to controls, I think there's definitely lack there. Hence why our particular project has been brought to a halt and we can't meet a deadline for November. I think if the tool had more flexibility around that, then it'll be great.
At the moment, I think Optimizely is, it seems to have a generic setup for every type of firm versus honing down on, right? If you're a financial services type of firm, you probably want these requirements and this kind of setup, if that makes sense, because you are going to get clients who want to refine and customize workloads and campaigns specific to their use, but they don't want it on a request basis. They want it to be available from the get go. And there's a misunderstanding that Optimizely already offers that and that's not so clear. I think on a high level, yes, it does offer great things, but when it comes to the finer detail, it needs more work compliance. I think compliance and approvals is the biggest question mark that I've seen at the moment.

Likelihood to Recommend

A 7 only because I think there's question marks around customization. However, I've seen very similar tools in the past where stakeholders have been skeptical, but as you get to know it and use it, you'll find actually you realize those benefits. I just think Optimizely could help its stakeholders and clients see those benefits early on versus later on. However, that's not to say it's not possible, so a 7 at this stage, but I think it's got potential in future. If you are a marketing firm who wants a centralized system for managing workflows and campaigns, it's great. It does that. However, there are better competitors fill in some of the gaps better than optimized leaders does. It could do better. I think for me, visually when I see, when I create a workflow or a campaign, I can see all the tasks associated with it and I've seen the way that our parent company uses it. It's just a list of all the tasks you see in one view. I think visually it needs improving. However, the purpose that it serves fundamentally, it's got potential, if that makes sense. It's going in the right direction, but I think competitors are doing some of it better than Optimizely is. I think they, like I was saying earlier, if they really want to realize the benefits of the product visually there needs to be some improvement. And then the controls element that I mentioned earlier as well, hopefully that answers both of your questions.

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 2, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the CMP to manage all our marketing activities, so from the planning to the execution. Anything that we produce that has a customer facing asset, be it an email, a web page, a landing page, or a brochure, all gets managed through the platform. We use it to make sure that everything is centralized and also that all our teams are aligned and they know at any given point, what are we working on, what the deadlines are, what projects are dependent of one another. With the global organization, it's very hard to keep everyone in line. The CMP allows us to be able to do that.

Pros

The CMP really is useful for us not only to manage the processes behind how we create content that we serve in different platforms like websites, landing pages, emails, social media, but it also help us as a team that is scattered around the globe to be able to be connected all the time to be able to see what we're working on, to be able to share assets as well. We are not reinventing the wheel to be able to show to other people within the organization what is happening at any given point. We use it not only for assets now, but we use it also for things like planning our webinars, planning our face-to-face events, so it truly is the heart of our marketing organization within the business.

Cons

I'm not sure if this is room for improvement for the platform as such, but it's definitely an area of improvement for us. At the moment, there's a lot of talk around AI. There is Opal AI that has been added to the platform. I think that's the first platform from Optimizely that was given access to Opal and we've been very slow in adopting it, mainly for a couple of reasons, lack of knowledge, lack of resource. We are just starting to scratch the surface with that. So to us that's a big opportunity now to explore how Opal can help us not only streamline some of our processes, but also help us with repetitive tasks that perhaps are taking us a long time to do that are not necessary for a person to be sitting there and doing them that potentially can do for us. So we're excited about that.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it's really well suited for organizations that have either big marketing teams that are scattered across different regions and different time zones because it helps everyone be aligned in terms of what is happening at any given time. That to me is one of the best things it can offer. The second thing is the management of the processes. You are not constantly reinventing the wheel when you work in marketing, you tend to have a process for doing certain jobs. For example, if you need to do an email or if you need to do a webinar, you will know what steps you need to take in order to deliver that. If you have lots of stakeholders that need to review things and need to approve things before they can go live, the CMP is the best tool for this because it keeps track of everything that is happening. You can assign steps to your legal team or your regulatory team and they have to go into the platform, be able to review whatever it is that you need them to review or approve. It keeps track of when that happened. There's no guesswork. You eliminate having to send things by email, by teams, by smoke signals. It's all in one place and if you ever needed to go back into things, everything gets saved there as well. All your working files up to your final files are all saved within the platform. You can manage your versions, you can reuse things in the future. There's so many possibilities for it. It depends on what you're trying to do, but at bedtime, if I do anything, no matter what you're trying to do, you'll find the right application within the platform to be able to make your job alive easier.

Idania Borrero-Knight

Global Digital Planning Manager in Marketing at Ingredion Incorporated (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 2, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I would say in terms of planning and project management, it's really helping to facilitate holistically the whole plan and bring us all into one space and hold us accountable in terms of being able to have timelines, deadlines, and then assigning the right people. That's how we're using that. There is much more room in terms of some of the problems that we have that it can resolve as well, but we're in a crawl, walk, run phase at the moment.

Pros

I think I hit upon this earlier, but in terms of really highlighting where you are best investing your time, especially immediately. I come in every day and I know if I'm overdue on something, if something needs to be turned around that day or if there may be a bit of space and capacity within my schedule to explore and be a bit more creative and look at developing new ideas.

Cons

One thing that could be improved is some of the promotions that happen in platform. For example, there's a Opal AI little bubble at the bottom right of the corner, which you can't move across the screen. So if you're trying to change the status of a step or you're trying to update a description within a step, that can be a bit challenging and as it seems to be quite an easy fix.
I would love to see a capability in terms of having visual representation that we can share out with stakeholders that don't necessarily need access to CMP. But for that level of detail, we don't want it to go too granular, but we do want to be able to share in a quick and visual manner some of the activities that are happening so we can keep everybody in the loop without having to create different variations via different tools.

Likelihood to Recommend

I guess I can see from the way that we are utilizing it, it could be different functions. We are heavily using this as a marketing tool, but I do think there is scope where it could cross into other departments and essentially become a more centralized tool, providing a bit more sight into the other departments. Whether that's where we'd want to go, I'm not sure. That wouldn't be my call.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Improved collaboration and visibility

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

October 1, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, I use Optimizely Content Marketing Platform for content management and collaboration

Pros

manage the process via shared teams

Cons

In my experience, Optimizely Content Marketing Platform can be restrictive when creating campaigns and views

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked about Optimizely Content Marketing Platform, I think I am likely to tell a colleague that, in my experience, Optimizely Content Marketing Platform can be restrictive and it not already Opti other products might be better

Michelle Grainger

Content Strategist in Marketing at CIPD (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Optimizely has good elements but is confusing to use

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

September 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Optimizely for submitting tickets to the Corporate Marketing team and select items to our BU designer to help get assets accomplished. This includes creative requests (examples: data sheets, ebooks, etc.) and web-related tasks (examples: create a new page; updated content; get a vanity URL; etc.). There are more business problems/use cases beyond my scope.

Pros

Provides a single view into all tickets that I have open with Corporate Marketing
Shows status of tickets submitted to the marketing team
Easily see history of tasks previously submitted
All comments are included with the same job

Cons

The interface is difficult to navigate and isn't very intuitive. Having to open a request that turns into a work request is confusing.
Requests get stuck--sometimes no one looks at/accepts them if they don't follow the correct path; but it isn't intuitive to get the right path.
Deadlines and tasks are a mess, at least how we use it. A work request can sit on a step for a while if someone doesn't close out their step, which is frustrating when you are trying to move something along. Additionally, deadlines aren't accurate in the system.

Likelihood to Recommend

This could be the implementation at my company, but it is confusing to figure out how to use this software. Things change within the system, and I'm not notified of them. For example, workflows changed a month or so back and it was confusing to find the right one. I also have to email outside of the system to get an answer and move things along because I didn't get the right workflow, which added time.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

One Platform for Everything

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I’ve been using Optimizely Content Marketing Platform to manage everything from campaign briefs to final reporting. We also use it for blog submissions and consent tracking with CMP.

Pros

i like that I can structure everything—briefs, dialogue, assets—all in one place
the workflows and templates really help when we’re managing content across two continents
the direct contact with the Optimizely team is great—they actually listen and act on our feedback, like with Task Templates

Cons

it's not very flexible when I need to make quick changes
it was very challenging to set up at first

Likelihood to Recommend

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform is for teams who juggle multiple campaigns or have to collaborate across time zones, because it’s helped us stay organized and meet deadlines more easily. Although there’s a bit of a learning curve, but once you're in, it’s smooth, so I recommend it.

Malay Patel

Chief Operating Officer in Corporate at DotcomWeavers (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Good tool to optimize and simplify your communications

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

August 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Optimizely Content Marketing Platform for several activities:

- Sales activation and tracking, assign roles and permissions, generate KPI tracking and reports

- Create and Manage Campaigns: Plan and create communication campaigns, and manage workflows to ensure efficient content execution.

- Content creation - emails redaction - meeting minutes redaction - preparation and optimization of presentations

- Content optimization review of presentations, content and format

- Content analysis: Analyze company and brands reputation using Keyword Analysis: what is the critical and positive feedback we got on social media and in the survey we launched, and ask the tool to generate actions plans according collected content

According to topics and systems capacity of API, we integrate systems

Main issues to solve with it: save time, optimize quality and generate standardization

Pros

clients' communication support
presentations generation and optimization
tracking of communication actions

Cons

adapt the level of / type of wording to the interlocutor style
avoid too generic / formal wording
increase presentation visualization optimization

Likelihood to Recommend

great for outbound content for : Sales

activation and tracking, Campaigns creation and Management, Communications support creation

Could be optimized for reactive communication, capacity to customized to target, time of the day, period of the year, current deals with clients / other interactions etc

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Marketing (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Content platform connectivity .

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 27, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Optimizely is primarily used to connect the global and regional marketing functions across the business. It can be difficult to stay aligned with operations across the world, in different time zones. It enables campaigns to be driven at scale with a focus and purpose that collaboration brings. But it also gives the ability to ensure consistency of message across the marketing and communication spectrum.

Pros

Stay connected.
Brand consistency.
Detailed planning.

Cons

Faster updates.
AI functionality.
Improved workflows.

Likelihood to Recommend

It enabled a significant campaign to be delivered with minimum issues and maximum impact. It has never felt inappropriate, but improvements are always welcome, so that is never the case.

Verified User

Professional in Corporate (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 2, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

It allows the user to create as many briefs as they want for different type of requests. So if you are a team that wants to break things down into lots of different pieces and you want to request for everything, it does that. Or you could group things under four categories and then that's enough. It just gives you that flexibility to design plan and deliver that's suitable to the team and to the firm.

Cons

At the moment, whilst there's flexibility for designing briefs and workflows for a financial services firm, there isn't on the other side enough restriction and controls. I want to be able to control the list of approvers so that only certain SMEs can approve a brief that comes through. At the moment, that request goes to a whole group of people instead of individual. I've seen other tools where you have a dropdown of people you can choose from and at the moment optimizely does not have that flexibility. I would say that overall we need better ways of using data and governance specific to the firm to have more controls around those workflows. It's great for collaborating and managing campaigns, but when it comes to controls, I think there's definitely lack there. Hence why our particular project has been brought to a halt and we can't meet a deadline for November. I think if the tool had more flexibility around that, then it'll be great.
At the moment, I think Optimizely is, it seems to have a generic setup for every type of firm versus honing down on, right? If you're a financial services type of firm, you probably want these requirements and this kind of setup, if that makes sense, because you are going to get clients who want to refine and customize workloads and campaigns specific to their use, but they don't want it on a request basis. They want it to be available from the get go. And there's a misunderstanding that Optimizely already offers that and that's not so clear. I think on a high level, yes, it does offer great things, but when it comes to the finer detail, it needs more work compliance. I think compliance and approvals is the biggest question mark that I've seen at the moment.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience