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Ion, by Rock Content

Overview

What is Ion, by Rock Content?

Ion is an enterprise-grade content experience platform that empowers modern marketers and designers to create no-code interactive content experiences integrated with their CRM or marketing automation tools. Ion helps enterprises to build brand awareness and increase conversions and lead generation…

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Ion Interactive is a versatile platform that offers numerous use cases for businesses and marketing departments. Users have found that the …
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An absolute must!

10 out of 10
July 26, 2021
ion interactive may be the most underrated marketing tool in existence. If you run an online business, you owe it to yourself to use this …
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Popular Features

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  • Embedded CTAs (108)
    10.0
    100%
  • Forms / Gated content (107)
    10.0
    100%
  • Content performance analytics (116)
    10.0
    100%
  • Campaign optimization dashboard (107)
    10.0
    100%
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Pricing

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Managed Services + SaaS

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  • $5,500 per customer
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Content Creation

Features related to the creation of content for marketing purposes.

7.5
Avg 8.0

Content Publishing

Features related to the organization and distribution of marketing content.

8.7
Avg 8.1

Content Reporting & Analytics

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

8.5
Avg 7.8
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Product Details

What is Ion, by Rock Content?

Ion is an enterprise-grade content experience platform that empowers modern marketers and designers to create no-code interactive content experiences integrated with their CRM or marketing automation tools. Ion helps enterprises to build brand awareness and increase conversions and lead generation enriching their contact database with declared, high intent data. Ion helps brands launch quizzes, ROI calculators, assessments, interactive infographics, and other interactive formats in just a few hours.

Marketers can start from a blank canvas, use fully-responsive Quick Start templates, or leverage Rock Content's professional services team to plan, create, and launch their own branded content experiences.

Interactive content increases brand awareness by encouraging users to actively engage with the content. Each engagement provides insights into audience behavior by collecting rich, first-party data from interactions and effectively driving users through the buyer journey.

CONTENT FORMATS

• Assessments
• Calculators
• Interactive White Papers
• Landing Pages & Microsites
• Lookbooks & Tours
• Interactive eBooks
• Interactive Infographics
• Solution Finders
• Resource Libraries
• Configurators
• Quizzes
• Fully Responsive Quick Start Templates

Ion, by Rock Content Features

Content Creation Features

  • Supported: Ideation
  • Supported: Content collaboration

Content Publishing Features

  • Supported: Content hub
  • Supported: Forms / Gated content
  • Supported: Embedded CTAs
  • Supported: Content distribution
  • Supported: Content promotion
  • Supported: Content automation

Content Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Audience profiling and targeting
  • Supported: Closed-loop tracking and reporting
  • Supported: Content performance analytics
  • Supported: Campaign optimization dashboard
  • Supported: Page-level engagement analytics

Additional Features

  • Supported: A/B Testing

Ion, by Rock Content Screenshots

Screenshot of ion empowers your other marketing technologies to deliver higher fidelity, data-driven scoring, targeting, segmentation and personalization.Screenshot of The types of interactive experiences the ion platform can create is near-endless. These are the most common types used by our customers: Assessments, Calculators, eBooks, Interactive Infographics, Interactive White Papers, Landing Pages, Lookbooks, Quizzes, Resource Library, Solution Finder.Screenshot of See what our customers are saying about our platform and services!Screenshot of Starting at $2,000 per month, you get an unlimited, scalable interactive content platform with our full feature set. Including: Unlimited experiences, unlimited use of Quick Starts, Unlimited Seats/Users, Unlimited A/B/n Testing, Unlimited Sell-Side Experiences, Unlimited Phone, email & chat support, unlimited analytics... PLUS a FREE custom-branded theme that can be applied to all of your experiences.Screenshot of You have the option to start from a template or entirely from scratch. Our Quick Start template library includes more than 100 fully tested, responsive and flexible interactive experiences you can brand, customize and launch.Screenshot of ion is the only interactive content platform that provides the scalable foundation to grow from one interactive experience to one thousand interactive experiences. With ion, interactive content development complexity, long timelines, high costs and maintenance problems are replaced with freedom and agility.Screenshot of ion provides a full range of services to expand your bandwidth and get you the results you need without blowing your budget, calendar or hours in the day. Our award-winning work takes full advantage of our platform and experience.Screenshot of ion interactive enables digital marketers to generate real business results from their content. Using ion's agile, developer-free platform and services programs, hundreds of leading brands generate, qualify and deeply profile more leads with interactive content. Data-driven experiences like calculators, assessments, report cards, quizzes, interactive infographics, lookbooks, interactive white papers, configurators and more — are all created, launched and tested without development resources.

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Overview of Ion's Interactive Content Marketing Platform

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Ion, by Rock Content Technical Details

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

Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Ideation and Content hub and Forms / Gated content highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Ion, by Rock Content are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Ion, by Rock Content Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)40%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)60%
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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!

Ion Interactive is a versatile platform that offers numerous use cases for businesses and marketing departments. Users have found that the software simplifies the process of creating landing pages, allowing them to rapidly prototype and deploy pages for multiple domains and marketing campaigns. With Ion Interactive, companies can easily create interactive content such as calculators, quizzes, and informational tours to engage online audiences. The software's reporting and analytics capabilities also enable users to keep all their data in one place, facilitating in-depth analysis and optimization of landing pages. Additionally, Ion Interactive's API connections with ESPs and CRMs allow for seamless integration, while its data collection capabilities provide exhaustive insights for informed decision-making. This robust program has proven particularly useful for small teams that lack the resources to create interactive websites from scratch. Overall, Ion Interactive serves as an efficient solution for creating engaging landing pages, enhancing lead generation efforts, and driving sales conversions.

Versatile Customization: Users have praised Ion Interactive for its versatility in customization and flexibility. Many reviewers mentioned that they appreciate the ability to create forms for landing pages and easily connect to APIs, allowing them to tailor their interactive content according to their specific needs.

Easy-to-Use Interface: Reviewers frequently mention that Ion Interactive is quick and easy to use. They highlight features like creating custom thank you pages for campaigns and showing different content based on parameters as being intuitive and effortless. This user-friendly interface helps streamline the content creation process.

Responsive Customer Support: Ion Interactive's customer support has received positive feedback from users. Several reviewers have mentioned that the support team provided expert assistance whenever they had a question or needed help navigating the system. The availability of additional resources such as a help suite and videos further contribute to an overall positive experience with customer support.

Outdated User Interface: Some users have expressed that Ion's user interface is outdated and does not meet the latest web standards, leading to a less than optimal user experience.

Lack of Undo Button: Multiple users have mentioned that the software lacks an undo button in several areas, making it difficult for them to revert changes or fix mistakes. This has caused frustration and inconvenience when working on projects.

Steep Learning Curve: Several users have found Ion to have a steep learning curve, requiring practice and training to fully understand and utilize its features. This has made it challenging for new users to get up to speed quickly and efficiently.

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July 26, 2021

An absolute must!

Kelly Saux | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
ion interactive may be the most underrated marketing tool in existence. If you run an online business, you owe it to yourself to use this tool. ion interactive is the most flexible page builder and A/B testing platform. We operate our e-commerce in a best in class platform (Demandware), but when it comes to quickly launching A/B tests, ion interactive is the place we do all our testing. It's an advanced platform, which is fully responsive and allows us to easily iterate without any developer support. It's a tool any tech-savvy marketer can take advantage of to create complex experiences with conditional logic, dynamic substitutions, cohesive branding, widgets, data flow to your analytical tools or ESP, etc. If there was only one tool I could purchase to grow my business, ion interactive is the one I would choose without blinking.
  • Flexibility, Analytics, Always improving the platform
  • integrated heat mapping tool
Direct response and content marketing testing puts ion interactive at its best! It's really geared towards marketers and can easily be managed without developers. Make sure to create a solid response theme that can be applied across experiences so that you can have consistent branding.
Crystal Willett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ion is used by our marketing department to create interactive content for our prospects to engage with us on a more personal level. We want our content to stand out from the crowd and be more engaging than static marketing content.
  • The pre-loaded templates are easy to use and can get content up and active very easily.
  • The training is easy to follow online at your own pace.
  • The online chat with a live person for personal help is very useful for trouble-shooting.
  • It can be difficult to create custom content that is above and beyond the standard templates.
  • Some of the coding is not very user-intuitive to make changes to easily for formatting.
  • The content blocks can be difficult to work with when trying to copy and paste additional content. There are too many layers and it is difficult to know which layers to select.
  • The advanced features take a lot of additional training.
It's easy to create very basic content. But if you want something more custom, it can be difficult to create and takes much more advanced training. You often run into problems that need trouble shooting. The ion team is happy to help with the trouble shooting, but this is not something you can easily learn in a few hours. To make your content look good on all screen sizes and work in many complex situations can be very tricky.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ion interactive is being used by a few individuals to create interactive graphics to accompany website articles.
  • Creates HTML without having to know coding
  • Animations that add interest to the static page
  • A bit confusing when laying out the page. It's sometimes hard to see where you are in the layout.
  • The interface could be improved by allowing the movement of elements in the list view, instead of just in the edit view.
ion is good for smaller projects where interactivity is desired to help drive viewers to content. It's more of a marketing tool aimed at consumers, than something that our audience of medical professionals might want to view (unless the interactivity is kept to a minimum).
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it within our Research/Content department. We publish original content sourced from our research by way of infographics and interactive whitepapers. It is another way to engage our members and collect more information on them.
  • User-friendly
  • Engaging
  • Highly customizable
  • Create an 'undo' button on the backend
  • Create standard charts (e.g., bar, pie charts) that can be easily inserted and customized.
  • More images in the library or best practices on image sizing, etc.
Where it makes sense - using custom research to generate leads.
Where it does not make sense - when we do not have custom research or marketing support.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ion is used throughout our company to create, test, and fine-tune landing pages for dozens of clients in different verticals. Everyone uses it in some capacity. The developers focus on building pages, reviewing performance, and implementing change while the media team prefers to use it for reporting to track our performance in paid media campaigns. The largest weakness tends to be the often cumbersome reporting, but we're generally able to pull all the data we need to tell a full story.
  • Robust landing page building tool with reporting capabilities.
  • Streamlined organization when using multiple clients and campaigns.
  • Flexible build tools to make exactly what you need.
  • Cumbersome reporting.
  • Limitations with some popular CMSs (Shopify comes to mind).
  • The UI could be more user-friendly.
Large marketing agencies should absolutely be using ion. Generally speaking, any company that runs a lot of paid advertising and has campaign-specific landing pages should try ion. Not only will you be able to create high-quality landing pages quickly, but you will also be able to track performance and make changes to improve that performance.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ion interactive is being used for the creation of interactive content to get more engagement with potential customers. The primary focus at this moment is to create white papers to inform our target group of our product. It is being used by the Marketing department to make sure the target audience will be engaged within the strategy.
  • User friendly - the software is easy to learn, understand and manage. Within a few hours you can make a complete, professional interactive page for your company.
  • Great support - usually answers within 1 working day with just the information you need.
  • Responsive design - The interactive content works on all devices, so if you would like to show it to a client on the go, you can simply pick your tablet and show the content.
  • Wide range of possibilities - The possibilities are endless. You are free to create anything imaginable within the CMS.
  • Professional look - The end product looks very presentable and professional which could fit a large organisation.
  • No 'undo'-button - this is especially a bummer if you accidentaly delete a column. You have to be on guard the entire session to avoid major mistakes you can't undo. This should definitely be implemented.
  • Sometimes the wide range of possibilities is a bit overwhelming. While the software is easy to learn, all the possibilities are devided in 5 groups that each have different content with syle, micro themes, actions, etc. It would be great to have some pre-defined settings for easier implementation.
  • Occasionally it's hard to keep the overview. Especially with complex pages, even with the 'toggle page targets' it's not that easy to easily see what you have done without previewing after every change.
If you would like more engagement with potential clients, this is the software to use. Since passive content can be dull, interactive content keeps the mind awake and is sure to keep the visitor interested. It's the next level of publishing white papers to get more engagement with your target group.
Josh Howe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ion is being used to create interactive media for our website, quizzes for the web and informative interactive eBooks to educate potential clients. It provides an easy and fast way to translate ideas in an engaging way. We love how easy it is to build and publish projects in a matter of days with this platform. This is primarily used by the marketing team to create scalable interactive products. You really don't have to worry on whether or not it will work in a specific browser - because it just works!
  • The training and support are the most important resources. If you have any questions and problems - Ion support is always there during business hours.
  • Analytics. Ion provides the ability to track everything directly in the platform so you know exactly where the user is going.
  • Ease of use. Once you complete the training, you can start right off the bat and dive right into the platform to produce new material.
  • I think that the platform could be a little more intuitive. I don't think you can jump in without the training - some areas need an explanation.
  • I can't believe that they do not have a back button! If you accidentally move something, want to try something new really quick. You can only undo if you delete something.
  • Personally, I think the interface is a little dated looking.
With the built-in quick starts - you are never far from completing a project. The micro themes make it really simple to come up with an idea and publish that idea later that afternoon. The ability to have everything templated and ready to go makes this a huge competitive advantage.
Benjamin Hale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ion Interactive for all our landing pages. This is mainly used for the marketing department and it helps us create landing page tests and collect data to create informed decisions on what is working and what is not. The Ion Interactive tools and ability to pull in additional data from our UTMs helps us track a potential students path from click to enrollment.
  • Ion Interactive works well for data collection and management.
  • We like how this product helps us quickly duplicate landing pages and make changes on the fly.
  • We like how Ion Interactive makes it simple for both experienced and inexperienced web developers to make changes to our landing pages.
  • We wish there was an easier way to make changes without it being always on a live site, as this has caused issues with typos or mistakes.
  • Some of the landing page creation tools seem a bit dated.
  • Dashboard visuals could be updated.
Ion Interactive is well suited for making landing pages with accurate record keeping and the ability to connect to different APIs, and it can be up and running quickly. It is also great for managing and maintaining these pages to help keep track of what is working and what is not working.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Ion Interactive to create personalized, interactive landing pages for marketing and demand generation. Since adopting ion, we have seen greater engagements and conversions.
  • Creating a more personalized, interactive experience for our prospects and clients
  • Helps make our content a lot more digestible and fun to read
  • Higher engagements and conversions
  • The UI makes it extremely difficult to navigate the platform.
  • No real version control option in place - if you want to make changes but need to keep older versions, I'd suggest users to clone the page and make the changes on the cloned page.
  • ion's training program only takes you so far - to become a better, more comfortable user, you need to go in and create some test pages from scratch.
ion is great for teams big and small, but because there are so many different ways you can personalize a landing page, you need time or possibly outsource design help if you do not have the bandwidth to set it up yourself.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ScibbleLive to create interactive content for our digital demand campaigns. We purchased the platform as we thought we would be able to produce the content ourselves, but the platform has proved to be more challenging for the average user. You really need to have training and some design background to build your own content. So we are not as enabled as we had hoped, however the content itself has greatly contributed to our larger content strategy. Being able to support our regional leads with cloning experiences and translating copy has also been huge, as localizing content is a big pain point for us.
  • Content options, from eBooks, quizes, microsites. Lots of options!
  • Unique tracking links and metrics to understand performance
  • Good support and training
  • Helping with setting benchmarks to understand content performance when just getting started.
  • Better on boarding and training so that teams are enabled to build their own content experiences, right now it's too complex for the average user and we need to pay Scribble to build them, which negates a key selling point for us
Perfect for a global team responsible for content at scale. This platform allows that, at a reasonable cost.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ion is being used across multiple business units in our company. A few years ago, I was the only one in the company using it. But as other marketers saw what I was able to do, quickly and inexpensively, they started hopping on board. Now our internal design department has two people devoted to creating with the ion platform. We use it for product selectors, calculators, a sales tool library, trade show lead capture, and dozens of fun social media posts that boost our SEO. It’s been a game changer for us.
  • Quick Starts make it so easy to get started.
  • Real-time updates are awesome and save a ton of wasteful process.
  • The combination of user friendliness for simple things and the flexibility to do more complex things is great.
  • Chat support is excellent and deeper-dive support has been super helpful.
  • The ability to use these tools in the cloud or embedded has given us tactic flexibility.
  • Would like to be able to copy rules and paste them in other places (pages, creatives)
  • Better advanced level training (re-watchable webcasts)
  • Ability to upload multiple fulfillments
  • Extended help hours (we're on the West coast)
I don't give 9 ratings easily. Anyone wanting greater user engagement would benefit from ion interactive. I can slap together a simple interactive tool for a social post easily. I also have a plan selector with complex logic built in that would have cost me $50k to build without ion. Now I'm able to duplicate it and make adjustments to use it for various other applications. We've created a couple dozen fun interactive tools for social posts and now we simply re-purpose them easily to create new ones frequently. I just created a new page for our website that we'll want to be fluid; so the site developers suggested we simply embed an ion tool to give us real-time flexibility. Marketers in other divisions are jealous when they see all the fun stuff we're doing--they're gradually becoming ion converts.
Jonathan Hodak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used Ion Interactive LiveBall in 3 different companies, all with slightly different implementations. But in the end, LiveBall excels at rapidly creating landing pages with highly dynamic content and flexibility. It is a very unique platform for creating landing pages that honestly I have yet to see another platform that can be used to create content like you can on LiveBall as quickly or easily. So all of the companies that I have worked with used LiveBall to rapidly prototype and deploy landing pages for multiple domains, multiple marketing campaigns, for reporting and analytics of those campaigns, and to keep it all in one spot.
  • Ion Interactive allows you to rapidly prototype landing pages for multiple domains and keep your marketing campaigns organized.
  • This tool allows for a lot of customization and flexibility. You can create forms for your landing pages. And do you need to connect to an API? Yep it is quick and easy. Do you need to have the submitted forms email to someone in your company? No problem. Do you need to create custom thank you pages for your campaign? It does that too. Do you need your landing page to show different content to different users based on different parameters? Once you get the hang of it, this is a breeze. Do you need to do all of these things together? It does that quickly and easily too.
  • Do you want to code sets of templates that can be re-used with just minor tweaks? This platform can take a very basic base template, and allow you to rapidly edit this template (think child themes), to be customized for each campaign and then be re-used whenever necessary.
  • The learning curve in Ion Interactive is a bit tough for some people. The support team is great and whether you are a developer or a marketer and wanting to use this platform, they will have several one on one sessions with you to get you in and get you moving. However the learning curve is a bit tough since this does work quite differently than most web platforms.
  • If you do not have a developer to create your custom themes and custom frameworks, the graphic user interface is good, but with any non-custom solution, sometimes it can limit things a little bit.
If your company has multiple domains, tons of marketing campaigns, and the desire to have highly customized content, then it is probably a very good choice. Also if your company needs for landing pages to be extremely flexible in how they function and utilize dynamic content, then this tool is definitely a strong candidate.

If you simply want to build a website, this tool really is not for that. This tool is a bit expensive, they market this only to enterprise clients for a reason!
June 27, 2018

Ion Gets It Done.

Taylor Bornstein | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We wanted a platform that would enable us to create bespoke interactive content in-house. While we are new customers to Ion the first round of gamified and interactive content we've crafted has been well received both internally and with our customers.

There's a lot to learn in the platform - the user interface isn't necessarily intuitive, but once you learn the ropes it all starts to come together. I also have to say, support for the Ion side has been top notch since the word go. They are always available and willing to work with us to troubleshoot any problem - from complex data migration to advice on what template would work best for a new concept.

I'm excited to see how much of an impact with can make with Ion going forward.
  • The Ion support team - both during implementation and as we've been building experiences - has been exemplary. They are always available, engaged and enthusiastic.
  • One aspect of the platform that we've loved from the beginning is the customized design template that is built into the platform. Our in-house designer particularly loves this feature as it saves her hours of time when it comes to designing individual assets. She can go in and add polish and style without having to start from scratch every time.
  • The metrics are also incredible. You can really examine and analyze them from several different angles. Automation, Content and our business lines each view the metrics from a different perspective so this has been an especially helpful feature.
  • Ion University, while stacked with a wealth of information, is difficult to navigate from a troubleshooting perspective. The tutorial videos are all very helpful, but they are also very long. Sometimes I would want to search for how to address a particular issue I was struggling with and it would be a two-minute segment buried in a 45-minute video.
  • Again, getting back the self-guidance side of things. I think a lot of the tutorials are set up in a way that makes sense to Ion, but not as much to the end user.
  • I think the controls admins use when creating new users could be a bit more straightforward.
Ion is great when you want to create an experience for your customers that is a bit more creative and hands-on. Their quizzes and assessments are particularly interesting, as the many formats make it possible for you to target different audiences with a type of content that will appeal to them.

That said, if you're looking for something very simple - say a survey to push through social channels - I might recommend something more basic that you can get done quick and dirty.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ion interactive to create fantastic landing pages that we leverage for lead generation. Through the use of its simple interface, we are able to create landing pages for our campaigns that guarantee the highest ROI possible.
  • Create landing pages fast
  • WYSIWYG Editor that allows you to add visual elements easily
  • Responsive pages for different types of devices
  • SVG's can be difficult to work with
  • Unable to export a web page HTML for use in other platforms
  • Tutorials are a bit basic to create truly stunning landing pages
Ion Interactive is very well suited for creating Landing Pages for your Paid or Social campaigns. It can also be used to create interactive infographics with relative ease and flexibility. The best way is to plan out a page as you would normally do so with wireframes, and then once it's built adding in the interactive elements that take your landing page to the next level.

It is not well suited for creating entire web pages (although it is possible).
May 23, 2018

Fun with ION

Emily Pierson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses ION to up level static content into interactive experiences that drive users downloads and conversions. We find that our customers appreciate and respond better to content they can interact with. Our company designs these experiences directly on the ION platform and works with ION developers to implement a design.
  • Easy templates for our design team to work in, templates gallery to share with prospective clients.
  • A responsive and supportive team at ION.
  • Customization beyond the standard template to enhance design and responsiveness.
  • It is not obvious how or where to upload pictures and images within the template.
ION is ideal for taking static e-Books and transforming them into an interactive and engaging experience. The analytics provided by ION are what really set this platform apart from others. I would not use ION templates if the experience needs to be highly customizable or have elaborate features requiring additional development.
Cara Westhouse | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company uses ION to create, manage, and test landing pages for our clients. We currently use it on 3 main clients to develop dynamic, personalized pages that convert media leads.
  • Flexible templates - ability to create pages to meet clients' needs without being forced into pre-created templates. this helps us to make changes to constantly meet our client's needs
  • Excellent customer service - this is one of the greatest things about working with ION. They have a wealth of knowledge on their support pages, but also have people who are available to answer questions and troubleshoot through issues. They are extremely responsive and helpful whenever we need something. We don't see this with other technology providers.
  • Undo button - it would be great if there was an undo button so that when you make a change that you don't like, or accidentally remove something from a page you have the option to revert back to the previous version.
  • The reporting could be more user-friendly and intuitive. We currently have to export reports to Excel and slice and dice the data to get the insights we need.
  • Heat mapping and click mapping would be a useful layer on top of the current reporting. This would help to see where people are interacting most, and easily pinpoint areas of opportunity.
ION works well for creating and optimizing landing pages. It helps with managing dozens of page templates and performing A/B tests and optimizations on the pages.
James Dilgul | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use ION to create landing pages and micro-sites for specific campaigns and products. During my time at both Iron Mountain and BCA Research, it has, and is, being deployed to allow marketing teams more autonomy and creative control over the execution of campaigns that require landing pages; without the need of a development team to make alterations through our primary CMS.
  • Fairly simple to learn the basics
  • Surprisingly feature-rich, once you know where you look
  • Robust back-end; can plug into most CRMs and marketing automation platforms.
  • Fairly fiddly; it can take some time getting used to placement boxes and containers
  • Lack of a robust undo feature. Deleting something presents you with a tiny undo box which vanishes after a few seconds. Miss it, and you miss your window to undo that 1 action.
  • Greater on-page SEO tools and recommendations would be useful
As you might expect, ION is best suited to creating single landing pages or micro-sites for specific campaigns or events - not full commercial sites/experiences. Ideally, these landing pages would be used for paid search, display, and social, campaigns as the platform is not particularly well geared towards search engine optimization.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our design team uses ion for interactive web content like motion graphics and quizzes. It is a great program to use in place of After Effects for motion graphics when you want to do something simple. Only a few people on the team work with this program, but it is easy to learn and easy to use. One of the best/worst features of this program is the autosave feature. Once you make any change to a page, the change is immediate. There is no going back. This can be good for someone who is forgetful in saving their work, but when you make an accidental change, this feature can be devastating.
  • Autosave feature - amazing for people who are forgetful in saving their work
  • Easy to use interface
  • Autosave feature - once you make a change, there is no going back
  • Add an undo button!
  • More aesthetically pleasing home screen
ion interactive is a great program to use in place of After Effects for motion graphics when you want to do something simple. It is also great for interactive quizzes. Since it is easy to learn, it is good for any size office since I believe anyone can learn to use this program easily.
March 09, 2018

Great product!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our marketing department uses Ion Interactive for quick but effective web development without needing to burden our web development team with requests every single time we need to create a landing page or other web asset.
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Drag-and-drop functionality
  • Competitive pricing
  • It would be helpful if you could move web pages from one portfolio to another, rather than having to copy or recreate
  • It would be nice if you could create web pages that allow visitors to upload videos
Ion Interactive is especially helpful when it comes to quickly and effectively created web pages.
Oscar Daniel Valencia Medina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To be able to use such an easy and user-friendly platform for web development is fantastic. For digital marketing, the name tells everything, we need to keep track of users' recommendations in order to maximize results and performance inside our web pages. For that capacity and as a non-experienced web developer I thank ion.
  • User-friendly
  • Easy reporting
  • Great chat service for issues
Lead gen web page development 100% sure that this is the correct tool.
Abraham Nord | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using ion for our B2B clients in conjunction with the paid media efforts that we are managing for them.
  • ion is great for rapid, iterative deployment and testing of landing pages
  • ion is great for interactive content
  • The user interface of the console could be further improved for better organization and usability
ion is great for landing pages where we manage the entire funnel from generating clicks, optimizing engagement, and managing the conversion and lead flow into clients' systems.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it across our entire organization to create engaging content based off our news and research.
  • Easy to use templates
  • Visually engaging
  • Beautifully designed
  • Simpler backend interface
  • Drag and drop features
  • Better chart integration
Sharing research and reports in an engaging way
January 19, 2018

ion another planet!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Multiple departments will have access. It will be a way we better present content and research on our website.
  • Track user activity.
  • Layout content in a digestible way.
  • Make information more interactive on the website.
  • Too many pre-training videos.
  • The overwhelming amount of information in regards to functions.
ion is great to liven up websites that would normally just have an overload of text.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently have paid media landing pages using the ion platform. Our content team creates and maintains the pages. Our media team determines which sites will have paid media campaigns. Our quality assurance team confirms the functionality and accuracy of the pages. Our business was looking for unique ways for paid media without having to involve a lot of cost to build a site. We wanted small pages which could be tailored to the individual and program the individual was interested. ion's platform works perfectly for these business needs.
  • Easy to create new pages/content
  • Excellent customer service
  • Easy to use and be trained on
  • It would be helpful to have an Undo button
  • The copy/paste should be more user friendly from a word doc to template
  • Difficult to customize the templates
In my business, we need to create new landing pages in a short amount of time. ion is perfect for this purpose. The content team can choose a template and create a new page within an hour. We can have it ready for our paid media campaigns within just a few days. We can make them specialized for specific partners or individuals. They are built to automatically be mobile friendly which is a big perk.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Within my organization my department uses ion's platform LiveBall to host our microsite landing pages. This platform allows us to quickly launch a landing page to get our content into market prior to the launch of a larger website, and, allows us to capture user-generated lead information and route it through our CRM.
  • Scalability is one of ion's most impactful quality to my company. The template structure allows for a uniform look and feel while allowing enough flexibility to meet the needs of our individual clients.
  • Information capture and routing is also another thing the platform does well.
  • I find the rule-based substitutions a tremendous help because it allows more granularity in customization of more nuanced elements within a single creative.
  • Some of the template structures/themes are more rigid than other CMS I use in terms of their development.
  • The platform does not have a versioning system for the individual components.
  • Some of their features and the functionality of these features are inconsistent across different creatives. The out-the-box approach can be very time-consuming when not using existing creatives and templates as a result.
Replication of existing themes and functionality is a bonus and relatively intuitive process. The new form layout is much better than previous versions.
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