Overview
What is PathFactory?
PathFactory enables you to unlock B2B revenue with AI-powered content intelligence which allows you to generate personalized, engaging, and conversion-focused experiences across the entire B2B buyer journey. Per the vendor, you can accelerate deal velocity and grow your pipeline by…
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PathFactory, almost good!
Ease of use.
Need a content hub that encourages self-education and asset binging - PathFactory is your solution!
Pathfactory helps me to seize every opportunity
PathFactory generates successful customer engagement.
Consistently delivering value to our prospects
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No-code improvement of user journeys post-conversion for B2B
Great content enhancement tool
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Popular Features
- Content performance analytics (138)9.292%
- Content hub (132)9.292%
- Embedded CTAs (116)9.292%
- Forms / Gated content (132)8.989%
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Features
Content Publishing
Features related to the organization and distribution of marketing content.
- 9.2Content hub(132) Ratings
Platform has a central location, such as a gallery or repository, for organizing all content. This enables easy internal access, and may allow for automated or personalized distribution.
- 8.9Forms / Gated content(132) Ratings
Users can set up forms for lead generation, which can be used to gate content. Forms may pop-up (to gate the site itself) or prompt users to register for a download.
- 9.2Embedded CTAs(116) Ratings
Supports the creation of embedded Calls To Action, which are forms or links embedded in the content or the content stream.
- 9Content distribution(9) Ratings
Allows users to push content to different channels, such as social media or websites, from within the tool. This may be handled via integrations.
- 9Content promotion(6) Ratings
Includes tools for promoting content by connecting to paid and earned media channels.
- 9.3Content automation(103) Ratings
Allows users to set up automated distribution, personalization and/or curation.
Content Reporting & Analytics
Features related to tracking, measuring, and analyzing content creation processes and content performance.
- 9.2Audience profiling and targeting(114) Ratings
Determines profiles—types that can be used for segmentation—based on audience behavior or demographics. Helps deliver targeted content via website personalization and/or marketing automation campaigns.
- 9Closed-loop tracking and reporting(109) Ratings
Tracks the impact of content on the buyer’s/customer’s journey and ROI.
- 9.2Content performance analytics(138) Ratings
Provides insights around how individual pieces of content are performing. Content performance is measured in terms of engagement and/or conversion by piece of content, by channel.
- 8.9Campaign optimization dashboard(8) Ratings
Provides a quick view on content performance and allows users to make changes to which channels and which content is being promoted or displayed.
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What is PathFactory?
PathFactory Features
Content Publishing Features
- Supported: Content hub
- Supported: Forms / Gated content
- Supported: Embedded CTAs
- Supported: Content automation
Content Reporting & Analytics Features
- Supported: Audience profiling and targeting
- Supported: Closed-loop tracking and reporting
- Supported: Content performance analytics
- Supported: Page-level engagement analytics
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PathFactory Integrations
- Adobe Marketo Engage
- Oracle Marketing
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- HubSpot Marketing Hub
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- 6sense
- Demandbase One
- G2 for Buyers
- Google Workspace
- OneLogin by One Identity
- Google Tag Manager
- Tealium Customer Data Hub
- YouTube Live
- Vimeo
- Vidyard
- Brightcove
- Wistia
- Drift
- Adobe Analytics
- Google Analytics
- WordPress
- Drupal
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Terminus ABM Platform
PathFactory Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian |
PathFactory Downloadables
- PathFactory removes friction from B2B marketing and sales by fuelling intelligent content across the customer journey.
- PathFactory Content Platform provides a 360-degree view of an organization’s content and its attributes, which can be used to inform content strategy and enable the best content experiences possible.
- Campaign Tools are used to bundle together several content pieces in any format—including blogs, PDFs, webpages, videos, 3rd party content—into a bingeable experience, allowing visitors to explore content freely.
- PathFactory Website Tools is a content intelligence solution to deliver micro-personalized experiences to website visitors based on their unique behaviors.
- PathFactory for Sales offers a way to uncover the content consumption of leads, contacts, accounts, and opportunities inside the CRM. This can be enabled by a Salesforce Visualforce app.
- Build engaging virtual events and gain access to attendees’ digital behavior.
- PathFactory accelerates B2B revenue by enabling marketers to serve intelligent, scalable, omni-channel marketing content experiences moving the target audience journey forward.
- With insightful Content Intelligence and scalable Content Activation, PathFactory helps B2B marketers and salespeople to work smarter, not harder, at scale.
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- 9.2Likelihood to Renew7 ratings
- 9.8Availability8 ratings
- 10Performance8 ratings
- 9.3Usability3 ratings
- 9.1Support Rating4 ratings
- 10Online Training7 ratings
- 8.2In-Person Training1 rating
- 10Implementation Rating7 ratings
- 9Configurability2 ratings
- 8.6Product Scalability2 ratings
- 9.3Ease of integration2 ratings
- 9Vendor pre-sale2 ratings
- 9.3Vendor post-sale2 ratings
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(76-100 of 140)Awesome Go-To Solution for Busy Content Marketers
- Ease of use: PathFactory is a very user-friendly platform, easy to navigate and understand.
- Nurture: readers are automatically engaged by the content presentation, whether it's in a track or a page. Enabling readers to consume more resources, while straying on the same page, has proven to increase their interest and engagement.
- Client support: our account manager is wonderful, she is very hands-on and extremely helpful. We can rely on her and the rest of the PathFactory team for any questions or issues that we might encounter and it's easy to see that they are always happy to support us.
- Analytics: it is sometimes hard to get a clear overview of our KPIs because different analytics are accessible in different areas and the experience sometimes feels a bit scattered.
- Tracking: I think PathFactory could provide more clear ways of tracking activity and leads and tried-and-true strategies.
I can't think of scenarios where PathFactory is not appropriate, at least not outside of the marketing department.
How PathFactory Made our Whitepapers Pop
I think the two problems that have been addressed are conversion rates and then visibility as to where prospects are engaging with content. Since implementing PathFactory, we have seen a significant bump in conversions for our white papers. We also know better now more than ever where readers are going within a track or piece of content.
- Analytics - Business Intelligence
- Presentation
- Coloring
- CTA Buttons could stand to be more programmable and visually attractive
- Spotting errors within UTMs to ensure conversions are tracked in PathFactory
- Communication of outages
One thing PathFactory cannot do is automatically make your content better. It makes it more consumable, but it will not make your content better than it already is. You need a competent and effective content marketer along with PathFactory for the tool to be effective.
I don't see us walking away from PathFactory anytime soon
- PathFactory allows you to build tailored content experiences for many different audiences.
- PathFactory's client support is exemplary, and they listen to and address any concerns/issues we experience using their tools.
- PathFactory understands the goals of our organization, and partners with us to implement our strategies.
- PathFactory's user experience could use a little work, however, I'm in the platform every day and have learned to deal with any quirks it may have. For the most part, I'm satisfied, and it gets the job done (and done well).
- I wish I would have known how important it would be to keep tracks organized into folders at the beginning of our partnership. You end up making many tracks for many different campaigns (for example, I just built 5 different tracks for one virtual event). You need to be extremely organized, especially if you intend to use PathFactory long term. Definitely not something to be afraid of, but just aware of.
- Nurture campaigns
- Social promotions
- Event campaigns (for virtual events or webinars, pre-event, during the event, and after the event)
- Explore pages to do a complete blog takeover (if your blog is lacking in organization, and would take too many developer hours to fix)
PathFactory | Networking and Security
- Integrates with data management systems.
- Helps identify binge-worthy content.
- Provides a better converting experience for the user.
- Choice with the recommended tracks for positioning of assets.
- UI looks a little dated.
- Social follow buttons in tracks.
Kudos to Charlie's PathFactory
- Great coaching from our Client Service Manager, Charlie T. who is always helpful and encouraging users of all kind (fast, slow, or in between).
- Knowledge base and recording in PathFactory are handy and relevant to view, learn and refresh learning. Love the basic training video!
- Everyone from PathFactory Team who I have encountered, both directly and indirectly, is so professional and yet personal.
- Always on top of improving or enhancing features so best serve our needs - endless!
- The team has constantly found ways to accommodate our needs!
Great functionality with intuitive and high-performing analytics.
- Great functionality with intuitive analytics. We are able to make educated decisions based on the engagement data with various content tracks.
- Ease of use and integration capability with 3rd party marketing automation software. Our team is able to convert and track leads from PathFactory and funnel them into Marketo.
- Good search functionality within the content platform. We have a lot of content and I never have issues locating any piece.
- Embedding tracks into WordPress is more of a manual overhaul and can be time consuming.
- It takes time to adjust to the platform and connect all of our 3rd party integration software.
- If you share tracks for email tracking purposes, there are security concerns since the URL contains the email address. We don't use that functionality because of it.
Pathfactory from a Technologist's POV
- Easy to configure from the backend
- Palatable design options for the frontend product
- Reporting Capabilities
- Featuring some sort of bulk edit capability would be nice
Easy way to track content consumption.
- Track which content is used
- Track where multimedia content is abandoned
- Missing native integration with Marketo
Form functionality is better done in marketing automation tool.
- Form Gating - can set your own strategy as to when a form pops up. Can give readers a chance to view content for a certain amount of time before a form popping up. If a user is already known, can also set form to only show up for unknown users.
- Can create as many unique tracks based on different topics as needed.
- The support is amazing. Meet weekly with our PathFactory reps, who talk us through any issues we've experienced during the week, plus offer insight in to new features that may be beneficial to our campaigns.
- Some areas are very easy and intuitive, others take a lot of time to understand.
- Creates content at scale.
- Displays in-depth report in relation to content efficiency.
- Evaluates content based on engagement.
- Advanced integration with 3rd party data providers.
- Frequency capping on device level.
Looking for a new way to promote content? Check out PathFactory
- Creating tracks and uploading contents is super easy
- Creating gated forms using different rules made data-capturing easy
- Ability to understand how contents are consumed create visibility for marketing to understand what works and what doesn't
- Content management is tough - recommend PathFactory come up with a way to create better content categorization or archiving, so it's not as confusing when you have 100's of assets in PathFactory
PathFactory is a winning platform for content marketers
- Micro-level content engagement metrics by time spent and key topic areas, extremely useful for sales intelligence and ABM
- Easy to deploy curated content tracks that turn a single piece of content into a binge-worthy experience
- Customer specific content pages (explore pages) are easily deployed and highly effective - and make the prospect feel good about the effort we're putting in
- Time-specific engagement triggers make our lead scoring much more intelligent
- Unbelievably comprehensive reporting system is intuitive and offers many insights across both content utilization, ENGAGEMENT and ROI
- Inability to automatically organize list of content items by reverse chronology means new content must be drag-dropped to top of page. Not a huge deal but a minor annoyance.
A path to a great user experience
- PathFactory has an amazing support team, always quickly answering my questions.
- The analytics in PathFactory are great.
- One of my favorite things about PathFactory is that they give the marketer the option to gate or ungate content if the visitor is known or unknown. I find this especially helpful because we always want to give the user the best experience, and not force them to fill out a form if they already have in the past.
- PathFactory has the opportunity to improve when it comes to integrating into differing forms of marketing tracking. Path Factory can track UTM parameters, but we use a different system in-house which does not integrate, so we have resolved to creating a different track for every marketing source so we can have proper attribution.
- I would love to see comparative analytics. The analytics are great at the track level but would like to have a comparative view based off our foldering system.
- Serving multiple assets
- Customization to certain extents
- Analytics
- Integrations with other marketing technology frequently used in organizations like marketing automation tools.
- Support
- Customized reporting to the organization.
- Ability to customize things like external codes and such without support help.
- Ability to customize metrics that are tracked like custom company tracking codes instead of UTM parameters.
- User engagement data
- Content engagement data
- Content engagement tracks e.g. Netflix style binging for content
- Compatibility with SEO when used on a website.
- Full PathFactory data available in a CRM such as SFDC. Limited today.
- Choice of content track presentation.
You won't find a better content activation platform!
- No shortage of analytics... connect it to your CRM for some amazing possibilities.
- Customer Success team is highly technical and easy to work with.
- Content track management is a breeze. Once it's set up, you'll be creating custom tracks within minutes.
- Honestly not much to say here. The product roadmap that they have shared seems to cover most of the areas we need, such as deeper analytics and UX improvements.
Great MarTech tool
- Provide key data from users
- Allows to include different assets to make it more appealing
- Connects with other CRM and marketing clouds
- Would like it to work better with IFrame
- Would like to be able to rank in searching tools (SEO and metadata)
- Make it easier to customize the interface to display with users
Not highly recommended for more "interactive" experiences since the assets you can add are limited to pdfs and videos, not flash or others.
Exciting digital tool to create and deliver winning content strategies, topped off with a dream team to work with
- Build greater brand awareness in new market segments by accelerating the self-education phase of prospective customers via binge-able content on guided tracks, so visitors stay on and engage longer with our content.
- Better qualify new prospects based on detailed content and topic engagement data.
- To enable our Sales Teams to prioritize follow-ups based on account insights, and engage buyers with the most relevant topics to them.
- Accelerate self-education phase of buyers journey through binge-able content on guided content tracks.
- Easily shareable, unlimited tracks for diverse use: unique content URLs allow trackable use in email nurtures, paid/organic media, events, sales outreach, etc.
- Content/Visitor/Account -level insights. Visibility into actual engagement data. No blind downloads anymore. Volume and length of engagement per asset/contact/account.
- Greater guidance on internal governance for large enterprise use. They are excellent partners in figuring everything out.
- Requires meticulous management (tagging, naming conventions, etc). Not a con, but this is why internal governance over tool management and processes is important.
- Even greater reporting options. They are happy, willing, and eager to work with you to satisfy all your custom reporting needs.
- Mobile view is less appealing than desktop, especially for heavier content types.
Great tool to increase leads and binge content!
- The ability to track the engagement for each piece of content/asset.
- Excellent customer success team that was able to work with us to get us up and running in no time.
- PathFactory is able to integrate with other platforms such as Marketo, Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics.
- From a UX Developer, the ability to better customize the content tracks for visitors, especially the generic form.
Knowing your customer was never easier than now!
- Analytics per Asset Hubs, as it is usually quite difficult to have quickly such a detailed report and adapt it per need.
- Machine learning abilities.
- Easy navigation, as there is no need for huge training in order to understand how it works.
- Sometimes it is not as quick as we would like, but it is normal as there is a lot of content and images involved.
- It is disappointing when you can not identify all of the visitors, but that is not a PathFactory issue, it is just the willing of any company :).
Engaging new audiences with PathFactory
- PathFactory allows us to present specific content to our target audience in curated content tracks. These content tracks give the audience the opportunity to consume and binge on content that is relevant to them at their own pace. Content tracks allow us to create content based on topic, personas, stage in a buyer's journey, etc. We can also create tracks based on campaign tactics (e.g. event content track to support a webinar).
- PathFactory provides very detailed analytics about who visited the content tracks (both known and unknown visitors), the accounts that visited (based on IP address), what content they consumed (how many pieces of content) and how long they engaged with the content (time per asset, average time, total time, etc). By monitoring PathFactory analytics and cross-referencing with other analytics/reports (e.g from Marketo, Salesforce), we are able to track individual visitors, build up a picture of their content consumption and therefore their interests, their engaged intent, and hand over more meaningful prospects to sales.
- PathFactory also allows us to understand what type of content visitors prefer to consume, what type of content works best for different personas and stages of the buyer's journey, and how effective the content is in terms of ROI. When content is added to PathFactory, we can specify content source, type, topic, funnel stage, cost, etc. This helps us set up relevant content tracks, understand the way that content performs and determine the best types of content to develop for different stages of the campaign.
- PathFactory can be integrated with martech platforms such as Marketo, which helps to ensure acceptance by the wider marketing team but does require some effort to ensure proper integration and reporting.
- Path Analytics provides a highly visual and easy to understand aggregated view of visitors, accounts and content views. Much more detailed but less visual views are provided per content track and across content tracks, requiring significant manual analysis to obtain useful results. It would be good to have some of the snapshot visuals provided by Path Analytics for individual tracks and across multiple tracks.
- Visitor account identification is based on the IP address of the visitor. This provides a good indication of account engagement at a high level but sometimes is subject to error and could be more accurate.
- Although this is not due to PathFactory alone as it requires careful setup and consistency across the different platforms, visitor attribution based on UTM source reporting is not as accurate as it could be and does not always align well between PathFactory and other martech platforms.
Great Product for Customized Content Streams
- Great way to build a stream of content for customers and prospects to consume.
- An excellent way to gate materials to generate leads.
- Very easy to use and build customized libraries for a variety of purposes.
- Make it easier to embed content from cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
- Find ways to identify if specific content was uploaded already to the library to avoid duplication.
- Can't think of anything else. It's a really great product.
New Personalized Web-pages in Seconds with PathFactory
- Tracking engagement with each piece of content on an account and/or contact level.
- Integration with other systems.
- Excellent sales and client relations.
- Sometimes it takes a little longer to get a tech issue involved once a ticket has been issued.
- We were first assigned a technical representative who was not "up to snuff," but was promptly removed from our implementation team once we raised concerns.
- I wish we didn't have to make our videos "public" in order to appear in PathFactory iframing.
Great Content Tool
- Customer Success/Support: their team is always available to help answer any questions or solve any issues with fast response times.
- Inspiration: they have a great library of resources to look at for inspiration to help us with ideas for new campaigns or things to test out.
- Allowing you to customize or compare date ranges for analytics.
- Better/easier search engine optimization capabilities.
Feedback on PathFactory from a user based in Japan
Problem:
- Little guidance to use this tool.
- Little information on how to collect customer contact information effectively.
- It's easy to publish.
- Reason: I can easily share what I want to share with the attendees of events.
- How to collect contact information correctly. I would like to collect only to unknown users which I think PathFactory can configure it. But I don't know if it works right.
- Share slides on or after an event.
- Share brochure on or after an event.
- Share selected contents through eDM with single CTA.
- Share URL and webinar registration page URL.
Less Appropriate:
- Long videos (although we would like to upload a video which is 40min or so).