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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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An absolute must!

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 26, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified 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 fle...
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Kelly Saux
Director - Marketing
Director Direct Response Marketing
Pimsleur Language Programs / Simon & Schuster Audio
Ion, by Rock Content3 years of experience

Fairly easy to use for simple landing pages and great customer service!

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 20, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Two departments in the company currently use the product. We use it to design landing pages for our clients.
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Verified user
Analyst
Ion, by Rock Content5 years of experience

Pretty good, but could use some help with user experience

Rating: 4 out of 10
September 20, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 c...
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Crystal Willett
Manager - Marketing
Content Marketing Manager
itelligence North America
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

A great piece of software for creating and tracking templated interactive content

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 19, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The marketing department uses Ion new content creation. We use Ion to measure engagement with our content, make our content more dynamic and targeted, and improve the content ...
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Verified user
Professional
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

A quick review of ion interactive

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 14, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
ion interactive is being used by a few individuals to create interactive graphics to accompany website articles.
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Verified user
Employee
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

Easy To Use

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 11, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Ion Interactive is being used to support our journals and Sales department.
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Verified user
Professional
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

Effective tools to augment ongoing initiatives

Rating: 8 out of 10
September 4, 2019
IncentivizedVetted Review
We use ion interactive to supplement our own digital efforts. From creating sales enablement tools to interactive lead generation forms, ion's creatives have given us a lot of...
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Verified user
Director
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

Good overall experience with ion interactive

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 21, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 t...
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Verified user
Analyst
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

The ion Experience from a Low Level User (Mainly reporting)

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 21, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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...
Continue reading
Keefer Kopco
Manager - Marketing
Online Marketing Manager
Level Agency
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

A Robust Platform to Help You Deliver Marketing Landing Pages

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 21, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
My team currently uses ion interactive to create and manage marketing landing pages for a few of our clients in support of their digital marketing campaigns. We are a team of ...
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Verified user
Director
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

Ion creative studio - the next step for online marketing and engagement

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 24, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 pape...
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Verified user
Employee
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

Ion is a true problem solver!

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 23, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 fas...
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Josh Howe
Employee - Marketing
Web Producer II
Rocket Software
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

Interacting with Ions

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 23, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 informe...
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Benjamin Hale
Analyst - Marketing
Digital Marketing Analyst
Orbis Education
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

ION - Landing Page Solution

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 23, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
ion is being used as our primary landing page development and publishing tool. ion addressed the need for a turnkey solution requiring few resources to develop landing pages f...
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Verified user
Strategist
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience

Great content marketing tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 23, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Ion Interactive to create personalized, interactive landing pages for marketing and demand generation. Since adopting ion, we have seen greater engagements and conversi...
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Verified user
Contributor
Ion, by Rock Content1 year of experience
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Awards

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Pricing

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Managed Services + SaaS

Custom

Cloud
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • $5,500 per customer
    Optional
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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 8.1

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.

Ion, by Rock Content Video

Overview of Ion's Interactive Content Marketing Platform

Ion, by Rock Content Integrations

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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

Ion, by Rock Content Downloadables

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

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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 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.

Reviews

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An absolute must!

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 26, 2021
KS
Kelly Saux
Director Direct Response Marketing
Pimsleur Language Programs / Simon & Schuster Audio (Publishing, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Flexibility, Analytics, Always improving the platform
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Fairly easy to use for simple landing pages and great customer service!

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
September 20, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Two departments in the company currently use the product. We use it to design landing pages for our clients.
Pros and Cons
  • Not too difficult to use
  • Able to design landing pages through a template
Likelihood to Recommend
ION is well suited with our current needs in terms of being able to design landing pages quickly. However in cases where we want more complicated landing pages and reporting, it is not a tool that we would use.

Pretty good, but could use some help with user experience

Rating: 4 out of 10
Incentivized
September 20, 2019
CW
Crystal Willett
Content Marketing Manager
itelligence North America (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

A great piece of software for creating and tracking templated interactive content

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 19, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The marketing department uses Ion new content creation. We use Ion to measure engagement with our content, make our content more dynamic and targeted, and improve the content we offer through A/B testing. It can be tricky to measure how well a piece of content meets our audience's needs, switching from static PDFs to Ion has been very helpful in this respect.
Pros and Cons
  • The online chat support is very well done. Every time I've had a question or hit a roadblock, the chat has answered my question quickly
  • The quick start templates are extremely helpful, especially as a starting point which are then customized.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want to choose a quick start template and fill in the fields with your content, Ion will be fantastic for you. We've done this with whitepapers and quizzes and it's been great and extremely easy to use.

If you have an exact idea of what you want, and a background in web development, you may get frustrated. Ion has some quirks that make it tricky to fully customize - everyone once in a while I really just want to go into the HTML and make some changes, but can't.

If you are looking to reuse a piece of content for specific targeting (industry or account-specific), Ion is great. The dynamic substitutions are great and very helpful.

A quick review of ion interactive

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
September 14, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
ion interactive is being used by a few individuals to create interactive graphics to accompany website articles.
Pros and Cons
  • Creates HTML without having to know coding
  • Animations that add interest to the static page
Likelihood to Recommend
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).

Easy To Use

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 11, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Ion Interactive is being used to support our journals and Sales department.
Pros and Cons
  • Ease of use and flexibility.
  • Lots of support and information. Templates are a huge help.
Likelihood to Recommend
The program is great as a sales tool and to generate leads. It doesn't work well as a stand-alone publishing tool if you have long content.

Effective tools to augment ongoing initiatives

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 04, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Reseller
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use ion interactive to supplement our own digital efforts. From creating sales enablement tools to interactive lead generation forms, ion's creatives have given us a lot of insights into client behavior, and generated new leads for our sales team to follow.
Pros and Cons
  • We love the thorough and thoughtful approach to new projects. The ion team can take a simple idea and turn it into a clever and efficient creative concept.
  • When projects are underway, the team is very organized and clearly lay out expectations, TAT, and requirements for things they need us to provide.
  • The creatives are able to capture a lot of data, which helps to inform choices for the next iteration.
Likelihood to Recommend
My team handles marketing and our digital presence. Sometimes we'll have an idea for an email blast or something that we want to promote on our website. Should those promotions need to happen on a short timeframe, we may recognize that ion would have a great tool we could use, but it wouldn't be feasible.

Good overall experience with ion interactive

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 21, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • User-friendly
  • Engaging
  • Highly customizable
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

The ion Experience from a Low Level User (Mainly reporting)

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 21, 2019
KK
Keefer Kopco
Online Marketing Manager
Level Agency (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

A Robust Platform to Help You Deliver Marketing Landing Pages

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 21, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
My team currently uses ion interactive to create and manage marketing landing pages for a few of our clients in support of their digital marketing campaigns. We are a team of developers who use the off-the-shelf components as well as incorporate custom solutions within ion.
Pros and Cons
  • Robust out of the box functionality.
  • The ability to customize via code.
  • Secure transfer of respondent data.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's a strong solution for landing pages or small micro-sites because it has a lot of built-in functionality that is powerful. But for things like complex web applications or large corporate content websites, I don't think it's the best solution.

Ion creative studio - the next step for online marketing and engagement

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 24, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Ion is a true problem solver!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 23, 2019
JH
Josh Howe
Web Producer II
Rocket Software (Marketing and Advertising, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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!
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Interacting with Ions

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 23, 2019
BH
Benjamin Hale
Digital Marketing Analyst
Orbis Education (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

ION - Landing Page Solution

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
July 23, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
ion is being used as our primary landing page development and publishing tool. ion addressed the need for a turnkey solution requiring few resources to develop landing pages for multiple campaign channels.
Pros and Cons
  • ion integrates with many different CRMs and other advertising tools.
  • Chat support at ion is top notch.
  • Software is relatively easy to use once you get the hang of it.
Likelihood to Recommend
ion is well suited for companies that need to build out landing pages without having dedicated web developers.

Great content marketing tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 23, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Scribble Live User and Advocate

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
June 29, 2019
JB
JAIMIE BAKAS
Senior Manager, Digital Marketing
Symantec (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Content options, from eBooks, quizes, microsites. Lots of options!
  • Unique tracking links and metrics to understand performance
  • Good support and training
Likelihood to Recommend
Perfect for a global team responsible for content at scale. This platform allows that, at a reasonable cost.

My wife might be jealous to know how in love I am with ion interactive

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 28, 2019
SG
Steve Gandola
Market Manager
VSP (Insurance, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Great Tool for Online Marketers

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 26, 2019
MC
Maria Carver
Production Specialist
The Dow Chemical Company (Chemicals, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Very useful and powerful to create online experiences such as online content, quizzes, surveys and what not. The best part is it does not require programming skills - that saves a lot of time and effort. Training material is very well documented and customer support is very helpful and has a quick turnaround.
Pros and Cons
  • Very helpful customer support.
  • No programming skills required.
  • Intuitive and interactive online experiences.
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for projects which demand interactive content, surveys, quizzes, dashboards for the management. Can be created really quick without much hassle. Templates are also very helpful to make work easy. Management really is engrossed with having such demonstrations.

Tool for interactive digital publications

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
June 21, 2019
NR
Natalia Ransom
Designer, Content manager
Travelers (Insurance, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
ION Interactive was used at a company I worked for about a year ago. It was used to build interactive experiences for a number of different clients. It was utilized by the Creative Marketing department but the experiences were built for company-wide use.
Pros and Cons
  • Consistent visuals based on style guides and templates.
  • No need to involve developers.
  • Someone without a dev background can develop the interactive experience.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend it if there is a dedicated person on a team who can devote enough time to learn ION and stay focused on it being their primary responsibility. Implementation doesn't require a developer, but a dedicated person would suit best.

Ion Interactive LiveBall - A developers landing page and a/b testing dream!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
August 07, 2018
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Jonathan Hodak
Senior Web Developer
ThreeBridge (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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!

Ion Gets It Done.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 27, 2018
TB
Taylor Bornstein
Copywriter
Iron Mountain (Marketing and Advertising, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Great Landing Pages Without The Programming

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 19, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Create landing pages fast
  • WYSIWYG Editor that allows you to add visual elements easily
  • Responsive pages for different types of devices
Likelihood to Recommend
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).

So far, so good! But it's technology, so ya know... waiting for the other shoe.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 05, 2018
AS
Aubyn Scolnick
Product Marketing Manager
Signal ™ (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Currently, our marketing department is using ion interactive to stand up interactive landing pages to support our lead gen campaigns. This is a great and scalable solution for us to link to different kinds of dynamic content we've produced around each campaign and organize it in a way that makes sense to the consumer.
Pros and Cons
  • I love that ion interactive autosaves. So many of these platforms leave me terrified of disconnection or closing my laptop.
  • This WYSIWYG actually works. I've yet to have a translation or code glitch.
  • Fast load times are a huge bonus, as well as mobile-optimized display.
Likelihood to Recommend
As a former digital marketing manager, figuring out how to put together a landing page quickly and scalably that doesn't interfere with your website or SEO is critical. This solves that issue, allowing for ungating content for only the right audience, and having a reference point for future campaigns.

Fun with ION

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 23, 2018
EP
Emily Pierson
Engagement Manager
Indigo Slate (Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Ion is a Great Value Product

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 14, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ion, by Rock Content
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
ion is used as our landing page and form development tool for our organization. We like this tool for its ease of use and expandability.
Pros and Cons
  • Offers templates allow us to utilize a single template to copy from and change it up with ease
  • Support is responsive with helping out to determine what we can do to expand our offering.
  • Although many times we have to pay for support to implement our changes they are very well suited to do the job.
Likelihood to Recommend
ion is very well suited for an organization that needs to build a lot, fast by using the templates. However, changing back-end configurations is sometimes more challenging and requires you to pay support for project work.
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