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What is Optimizely Content Marketing Platform?

Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and flawlessly execute campaigns.

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7 out of 10
October 11, 2023
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Popular Features

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  • Content collaboration (20)
    9.1
    91%
  • Content distribution (18)
    8.8
    88%
  • Approval workflows (21)
    8.8
    88%
  • Content calendar (20)
    7.5
    75%

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What is Optimizely Content Marketing Platform?

Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and flawlessly execute campaigns.

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Features

Content Creation

Features related to the creation of content for marketing purposes.

8.1
Avg 8.1

Content Publishing

Features related to the organization and distribution of marketing content.

7.6
Avg 8.1

Content Reporting & Analytics

Features related to tracking, measuring, and analyzing content creation processes and content performance.

7.9
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

What is Optimizely Content Marketing Platform?

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform enables modern marketing organizations to collaboratively and efficiently plan, produce, and manage campaigns and content in a single workspace—acclerated by embedded AI.

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Features

Content Creation Features

  • Supported: Ideation
  • Supported: Approval workflows
  • Supported: Content collaboration
  • Supported: Content calendar
  • Supported: Network for content licensing/production
  • Supported: Payment/Resource management

Content Publishing Features

  • Supported: Content hub
  • Supported: Embedded CTAs
  • Supported: Content distribution
  • Supported: Content promotion
  • Supported: Content automation

Content Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Closed-loop tracking and reporting
  • Supported: Content performance analytics
  • Supported: Campaign optimization dashboard
  • Supported: Competitive analytics
  • Supported: Content production analytics
  • Supported: Page-level engagement analytics

Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Integrated Workflows: Optimizely Content Marketing Platform enables teams to collaborate on content and campaign tasks with the use of flexible workflows.Screenshot of Intake: Marketing Work Request Prioritization: Streamlines and prioritizes marketing requests with dynamic intake forms, automatic routing, and integrated workflows to ensure that requested work gets completed.Screenshot of Library (Digital Asset Management): With Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's native asset manager, users can upload, organize, and share assets all within the same platform where content planning, creation, and collaboration take place.Screenshot of Visual calendars (List View): Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform provides visibility into marketing activities - from content to events to campaigns - with flexibility to support changing timelines.Screenshot of Calendar: Gain full visibility into planned and scheduled content and campaigns with the ability to save and share views.Screenshot of Screenshot of Editor with Embedded AI: Opal, Optimizely's native AI assistant.

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Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Technical Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and flawlessly execute campaigns.

Kapost, Adobe Workfront, and Asana are common alternatives for Optimizely Content Marketing Platform.

Reviewers rate Content collaboration highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Optimizely Content Marketing Platform are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Optimizely Content Marketing Platform to edit and categorise content for a client. We provide full-service content support for our client – this includes placing individual articles across different categories for improved user experience and editing work via multiple editing stages that are then viewed by both the clients team and our own. This enables us to delegate duties across different teams and ensure all steps are complete.
  • Step-by-step tasks that are delegated to specific team members
  • Layout formatting that allows you to specify how the content should look
  • Tag-able comments so that you can quickly address problems vis the most direct source
  • It would be useful to have Header sections included in the format (so H1 title, H2 body copy etc)
  • Would love to connect Optimizely Content Marketing Platform to the CMS system for ease of uploading
  • Image sourcing would be helpful
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform provides seamless visibility across multiple departments and teams, including for separate teams (such as agencies and clients). This allows us to be on the same page at all times, and nudge each other easily with comments and questions. The assigned tasks make delegating between teams really easy as well, especially when actually face time is limited.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely Content Marking Platform (CMP) across the marketing department for project management. The Demand Gen team uses it to manage our calendar of programs and deliverables to external vendors including tracking financials (POs, IOs/contracts, invoices). The Campaign/Content team uses it to manage the development of creative materials used for demand gen programs, SEO, PR projects, etc..
  • Flexibility
  • Support
  • Innovation
  • Editing the campaign hierarchy is not available
  • Editing work requests is not available
  • We have not been able to fully integrate with Microsoft Teams/Office
The platform has been working for our needs well due to its flexibility. I have not tried any competitor tools so I am not comfortable giving it a higher rating.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's a great platform that brings employees together from different backgrounds, responsibilities and departments, and allows us to work collaboratively to meet our objectives.
  • Allows people to join and collaborate in different touch points
  • Timely notifications allows people to collaborate when needed
  • Customizable for your specific needs and wants
  • If there's a URL on the email headline and I click it, it will take me to the URL as opposed to the Welcome ticket
  • I can access the item from the email and I don't have to login, but if I access the website directly, then it asks me to login
Well suited for writers - from editing to reviewing to publishing, for content managers, and for comms teams that work on separate campaigns together. It allows everyone to be in the know and make better informed decisions on a content strategy.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Optimizely Content Marketing Platform to coordinate with our global colleagues for the editing & approval process for our social content, written articles, and web pages. Additionally, we utilize the calendar feature to have a holistic view of the different marketing initiatives and when they are scheduled to go live. Since we work in different time zones and all utilize different programs/software, Optimizely Content Marketing Platform gives us a central location to view the above information.
  • Approvals Workflow
  • Social Media Content Scheduling
  • Quick communication with Employees
  • User interface
  • User experience
It's great for us to set up approvals workflows and communicate with our global employees in a central location that is easier to follow than email chains. It also allows for quick approval processes with clear direction compared to doing so over email.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team uses Optimizely Content Marketing Platform (aka Welcome) to capture every digital marketing request in the US and Canada, which is 200+ projects per month. Optimizely Content Marketing Platform has helped us stream-line the process from no tool to a well-oiled machine. Each subject matter expert can request digital support easily. We can edit what's needed on the fly and we can leave comments to document as needed.
  • easy to customize workflows
  • consistent improvements and upgrades
  • great customer service
  • calendar layout is clunky
  • reporting can be difficult
  • Library storage could be more functional
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform is a great content tool, but love to see it with more of a project management focus. Something integrated would be super. It can be difficult to give a very specific deadline for a particular piece of the overall campaign. For instance, if a task has a deadline of x, a designer might see that and think that have until x to deliver. When in fact...they do not! We had to be very careful in training so the team looks inside a task to understand when their piece is actually due.
Merritt Whitley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team uses Optimizely to track briefs for content/images, editorial drafts, content strategy reviews, legal reviews, and more. The program makes it easy to manage and track workflows, so you know who is responsible for their desired deadline. It also provides reminders regularly to promote timeliness and ensure deadlines are easily met.
  • Easy to edit and adjust workflows if needed.
  • Provides reminders in advance and day of deadline.
  • Upload images, drafts, or edit directly in the platform.
  • The calendar view can be difficult to see everything unless you select specifics.
I think if you have a decent-sized team (15 or more people) with multiple projects needed daily/weekly, you will enjoy using this platform. It really does streamline each workflow and holds everyone accountable for their part in a friendly way. You can be interactive, take notes, leave notes, etc. There are many interactive features, which adds to its collaborative nature.
September 12, 2023

Keeps team’s coordinates

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I input stories and then edit them as needed by clients. It’s a great way to work among disparate teams and consolidate all parts of a project in one place. We can refer to the project parameters and all comments easily. Can also track and tag team members whe it’s their turn so work stays on time
  • Ability to tag team members
  • Easy formatting
  • Easy to highlight and leave comment s
  • I wish we could toggle between versions without replacing
  • Can be hard to track changes
  • Sometimes the notifications don’t show up
I work with an agency partner and various clients to create content . We can keep all our communication in one platform and it makes it easy for people to share feedback, eidts and comments. I mostly do relatively short prices—500 to 1000 words. Longer projects would be harder to track
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Optimizely to collaborate with teams on content production. This platform assists in simplifying communication between teams and the content publishing process.
  • content calendar
  • collaborating
  • publishing schedule
  • organizing content
  • prioritizing content
  • managing content editing process
  • customizing content production process to align with internal processes
  • setting status
  • More intuitive to navigate
Optimizely Content Marketing Platform is well suited for collaborating between teams on content creation and publishing. Optimizely visually organizes content into customized sections. Optimizely allows you to customize the categorization to effectively project manage that aligns with specific internal workflows.
Zvi Levitas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am mainly using Optimizely for our legal docs as a one stop shop for the most recent, and up to date docs, which is used by hundreds of people like myself. This being a very convenient way to manage our content and helps making sure no one uses any outdates content. The user interface is amazing, and super easy to use!
  • Organizing our content
  • Staying up to date with corporate requierments
  • User interface is great!
  • Works fast
  • Reliable platform
  • Remove the preview option when clicking once. It'll be nicer if we click and being provided with both options instead.
  • Provide the option to download an entire folder of docs without entering to the folder itself.
  • 'Watch' option for specific docs, not just for folders...
When any corporation needs to be sure that people are aligned and using the same content, constantly. This isn't just for Legal docs, but can be leveraged for all of the different departments of the Corp you are working at, R&D could keep aligned with their processes and development documentations, Sales for their processes, etc.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
NewsCred is a great tool that we use to align marketing resources to each content request. We are able to track progress, initiate new requests, archive content, and sync to other platforms.
  • User-friendly experience.
  • Organized and customizable platform.
  • Making edits for content can be done in different places and should be easier to use.
  • Allow for custom permission sets.
NewsCred is the perfect fit for marketers, but not the best platform for sales enablement.
Tommy Stubblefield | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use NewsCred to create, edit, and optimize outgoing blog and social content between multiple contributors (writers, editors, SEO optimization, and so on), and it's always easy for new users to get started quickly, no matter their general skill set. It is crucial to our blog publishing and social media original content.
  • The UI is intuitive and easy for users to navigate, and also easy for me to manage.
  • NewsCred constantly rolls out great new features that solve user pain, like Track Changes, Version History and automated suggestions for posts to create and boost based on their performance.
  • Support is very helpful when anything goes wrong, and the account reps are very proactive in gathering feedback about needed features.
  • The rollout of new features can sometimes be confusing due to the pace at which the dashboard visibly changes, but this is a good problem to have as it means they are making changes based on costumer feedback.
NewsCred's publishing workflow is great for the online publishing process for blog posts and social media posts.
Mai Le | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our content marketing team uses Newscred with our content management system to create and edit blog posts and share social media related to those blog posts. We also work with NewsCred staff to contract with freelancers and get syndicated content to fill any gaps we might have in publishing content to our blog.
  • Customer Service: They'll contact you with a "we're looking at your issue" email within the hour, even on weekends and holidays. Beyond solving your issues/problems with the software, they'll also follow up later to make sure you don't have additional associated issues.
  • Live Analytics: You're given a snapshot of how your blog content is doing at any point in time, since they've been tracking your posts/content. You can compare this month's traffic to last year's trafffic during this same month. Other data points include: Unique Visitors, Average Attention Time, Pageviews, Engagement Rate, etc...and you'll even get referral traffic source. There's much more that I'm leaving out here.
  • CMP User Interface (UI): Love the easy to use interface to upload blog posts, to use for editing and publishing content, and broadcasting social shares. Besides easily identifiable icons, you can create/edit content in the WYSIWYG or use the html view to make sure everything looks exactly how you prefer. Another cool thing is that the CMP auto-embeds live links of social updates (like Youtube, Twitter, Instagram) for more dynamic blog posts.
  • Cutting and pasting into the CMP can bring in some weird html and spacing issues and sometimes even with the auto-embedded social shares. This is an issue with freelancers, more than with in-house writers, but needing how to read/handcode html means only a few people on our team can prep and "fix" weirdness in the content.
  • It'd be great if custom modules had the same WYSIWYG functionality. We had NewsCred create an area where we write an intro, to "personalize" each post to our brand voice. But, it requires the person writing the intro to know html, since the WYSIWYG feature is missing.
Well-suited to large company blogs, like our company, a global SaaS. We have various blogs, in various languages, that use NewsCred to update to all our respective blogs. It's a great way to silo our different blog content, but also to peep at each other's content to repost to respective blogs. NewsCred is awesome in this context, but wouldn't be as useful to a one-person shop that only publishes original brand content. The platform is also great for organizations that need to supplement content with freelance writers and syndicated posts.
January 26, 2016

NewsCred Overview

Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
NewsCred is being used in one department at my agency to my knowledge. This software is one of our client's content management system, and is used to publish and organize blog posts. It helps us write the blog posts instead of hard coding them. There are capabilities to go into the HTML and edit that code.
  • Easy to use
  • Useful functions
  • Great customer service
  • Too basic
  • Limited functionality
  • Unorganized
The NewsCred content management system is definitely best suited for companies looking for an extremely basic CMS system. If a business has very simple blogs posts with little formatting required, this is the ideal system. However, for businesses looking for something more complex or flexible, I would not recommend this software.
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