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Overview

What is Simpli.fi?

Simpli.fi is the epoymous flagship product from the company headquartered in Fort Worth, for programmatic media buying, display advertising, and streaming / OTT monetization. It is a data management and demand-side buying hybrid platform (DMP / DSP).

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1 out of 10
November 16, 2018
Incentivized
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What is Simpli.fi?

Simpli.fi is the epoymous flagship product from the company headquartered in Fort Worth, for programmatic media buying, display advertising, and streaming / OTT monetization. It is a data management and demand-side buying hybrid platform (DMP / DSP).

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  • No setup fee
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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Details

What is Simpli.fi?

Simpli.fi, the leading advertising automation platform, helps over 1,500 agencies, brands, and media organizations with its programmatic advertising and workflow software solutions. The platform supports budgets of all sizes, executing over 100,000 campaigns for 30,000+ advertisers in a typical month. Simpli.fi’s investors include private equity firms Blackstone and GTCR.

Simpli.fi Features

Ad Campaigns Features

  • Supported: Ad campaign creation
  • Supported: Ad deployment
  • Supported: Display advertising
  • Supported: Ad display and retargeting segmentation
  • Supported: Sequence targeting

Ad Network Integration Features

  • Supported: Data Transfer
  • Supported: DSP integration

Ad Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Ad dashboards
  • Supported: Ad performance reports
  • Supported: Ad conversion tracking
  • Supported: Ad attribution reporting
  • Supported: Cross-channel ad management
  • Supported: Ad forecasting and optimization

Additional Features

  • Supported: Programmatic Advertising
  • Supported: Advertising Software Solutions

Simpli.fi Technical Details

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

Simpli.fi Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)30%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)20%
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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!

Simpli.fi offers a range of use cases that cater to businesses' advertising needs. Users have found the platform effective in reaching their target audience and driving users into their physical locations. With Simpli.fi's programmatic advertising options, users can trust the platform to run their campaigns while they focus on other solutions. The platform is particularly well-suited for businesses with a large volume of clients, providing organization and data management features. Users appreciate the easy-to-use interface, which allows them to offer low-cost digital advertising to their clients and increase profits. Simpli.fi also solves the problem of limited visibility on certain platforms, helping businesses build brand awareness where they lack exposure. Additionally, the product has proven valuable for targeting voters during election cycles and setting up time-sensitive political campaigns quickly. Overall, Simpli.fi's offering of various tactics such as event targeting, website retargeting, and geofencing allows users to explore different strategies and reach key audiences effectively.

Responsive and Accommodating Team: Users appreciate the responsiveness and accommodation of the Simpli.fi team. Many reviewers have praised their ability to quickly address any concerns or issues that arise, ensuring a smooth user experience.

Highly Regarded Platform Capabilities: The platform's capabilities are highly regarded by users, who find it easy to use and appreciate the range of tools available. Multiple reviewers have highlighted how these features make it simple to navigate and effectively manage their advertising campaigns.

Praised Customer Support: The customer support provided by Simpli.fi staff is praised for being attentive, quick to respond, and helpful in educating and supporting users. Numerous reviewers have expressed their satisfaction with the level of assistance they receive from the support team, noting that they feel well-supported throughout their journey with Simpli.fi.

Consistent Negative Feedback on Invoicing System: Several users have expressed frustration with Simpli.fi's invoicing system, stating that it does not have a solution for representing multiple companies and individually invoicing them. This limitation can create difficulties for businesses that work with diverse clients or manage separate entities.

Reporting Falls Short in Aesthetics and White Labeling: Users found the reporting feature to be lacking in aesthetics and white labeling capabilities, which can negatively impact the presentation of data to clients.

Steep Learning Curve for Performance Reporting: Some users mentioned that it took some time to understand how to generate performance reports, indicating a steep learning curve for this particular aspect of the platform.

Users recommend Simpli.fi for its advanced technology and precise targeting capabilities, making it effective for reaching specific audiences and running successful digital ad campaigns. They suggest starting campaigns from scratch with Simpli.fi, as it is suitable for small businesses and those managing a high volume of campaigns. Users emphasize the ability to create custom executions and utilize cross-channel inventory, which makes Simpli.fi a long-term solution for exponential revenue growth. They also highly recommend relying on Account Managers for expertise and strategy support, as well as utilizing Simpli.fi's top-notch customer support, particularly for programmatic display and search heavy campaigns. Overall, users endorse Simpli.fi for its targeted advertising solutions, campaign management capabilities, expert support, and advanced technology.

Reviews

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November 16, 2018

Beware of Simpli.fi

Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Simpli.fi is currently used for our programmatic buying platform. We are an agency that does business with a number of clients, we place buys on their behalf for off-site targeting. We utilize their Search Retargeting & Geo-Fencing capabilities the most. One department within our entire organization uses this product.
Their platform allows us to have access to inventory we otherwise wouldn't have access to.
  • Their geo-fencing capabilities are by far one of the best in the market. The reporting capabilities on the back end for geo-fencing is great & the way they can get down to a pinpoint location is great.
  • Having access to the amount of exchanges that they partner with is great for a small agency that wouldn't normally have that reach.
  • Their customer service over the last couple of years has been severely lacking! It has been an absolute terrible experience which has made us re-evaluate our plans of moving forward with them.
  • They over-promise & under-deliver constantly. Even though they say they have the best geo-fencing capabilities in the market and that's how they sell you on it, they take short cuts which inevitably makes their "glamorous" product look bad. If you send them the form that they have requested you to fill out, it ends up putting a radius around each fence. That isn't acceptable, just because they are "short staffed" or its too much work is no excuse to screw over the client.
  • A lot of times when we are getting questions from our clients that are truly relevant and are a cause for concern & we take that information back to Simpli.fi we feel like we are getting their "BS" answer. They talk a lot of game, but can't back it up when it comes down to it.
  • The sites that their inventory runs on is extremely alarming - we could never show that to a client when it is such garbage.
  • When we request keyword lists for Search Retargeting - we give them as much information as possible for the client + their website to pull keywords from. We could be running a restaurant and we could get keywords back for stock prices, linkedin, how to make donuts etc. Thousands & thousands of keywords that are completely irrelevant to our client and our cause.
If you don't care where your campaigns are running, if you don't care about your clients then feel free to do business with them.
I would not recommend them to other agencies or business if they have a lot of particular advertisers and clients that they work with. It is too much work for them.

If you want to do a self-service model with Simpli.fi, then I could recommend working with them. As long as I don't have to deal with their customer service daily, and my company has the control of the campaigns, I can feel more comfortable working with them. But even still, there are a lot of red flags that have been raised over the last few years and I am skeptical.
Ad Campaigns
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Ad Network Integration
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Ad Reporting & Analytics
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  • We have actually seen quite a bit of negative impact because of poor performance & poor quality of sites & keywords, we have lost quite a bit of business.
  • Regardless of any negative impact, we still are able to offer this as a service to our clients, which in turn we do make money off of.
We have done a lot of research on many other vendors that offer the same or even more as Simpli.fi and have found a great fit for our business.
There are many other options out there for programmatic buying! My advice to you is do your research. Don't just jump into bed with one without knowing all of the facts. Ask questions. Do some digging. And NEVER take anything they say at face value. They are there to sell you the product and if you move forward, you will for sure be disappointed!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Simpli.fi is used extensively by our company not only as an audience extension but also provide the type of targeting which our own website cannot achieve. For example, it offers geo fence and enables us to track the visits. Overall, the performance and the ROI is very satisfactory.
  • Geo-fence capability
  • Variety of targeting capabilities such as keyword, contextual and retargeting.
  • Only need one pixel to track different tactics
  • The approaches are not easily understood by our sales reps.
  • The reporting platform is pretty basic. The new platform is still in beta version.
It is very suited for sales reps who are very well informed and trained of the different tactics to promote the clients' products. It will normally show favorable results. However, it may be a waste of many for reps who do not know how to sell this product correctly.
Ad Campaigns
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Ad Network Integration (2)
15%
1.5
Data Transfer
30%
3.0
DSP integration
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Ad Reporting & Analytics
N/A
N/A
  • Very good on ROI
  • Our campaign performance is normally very good.
  • Customer support is very responsive.
We are using Simpli.fi because it's unique geo-fence capability. Its programmatic cost is very reasonable. It's Bullseye online training is one of the best. It covers all the product knowledge required for the sales reps.
Jared Frank | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use Simpli.fi's programmatic display and video capabilities across our entire organization. We particularly appreciate the hybrid model of campaign management Simpli.fi affords us: we can use it as a fully managed service, or build and execute campaigns by ourselves using their campaign builder. Additionally, we have free access to Simpli.fi's API to build an application that fits our needs.

Most importantly, however, our organization appreciates the success we are able to share with our clients. We know by years of experience that Simpli.fi's capabilities are reaching real, targeted audiences that produce results for our advertisers.
  • Simpli.fi's Geo-Fencing capabilities are top notch! The ability to include an unlimited number of geo-fences within a campaign is invaluable, as is the ability to measure the effectiveness of a geo-fencing campaign in driving foot traffic to our clients' physical locations.
  • Our organization appreciates the knowledge, experience and responsiveness of Simpli.fi's customer support staff.
  • One of the things Simpli.fi does particularly well is the education of its users and re-sellers. From monthly webinars, to its Bullseye learning courses, they have a way to make the complex understandable to even the most green digital sellers!
  • Perhaps the biggest weakness Simpli.fi has is in reporting. Although near real time campaign data is available at any time, they lack a forward facing dashboard we can share with our clients. The lack of a customization on customer campaign dashboards has more than once become a negative factor in winning a sale against a competitor.
  • When we first started working with Simpli.fi, we could add Facebook to campaigns and use the Simpli.fi reporting tool to measure results. That capability disappeared shortly after implementation. It would be nice to use Simpli.fi tools to integrate display and social campaigns into a single dashboard.
Simpli.fi, in my opinion, is the leader in programmatic branding campaigns for small to medium sized businesses. Large national brands with six figure brands can afford to look elsewhere, even though Simpli.fi is adept and conducting campaigns for big business as well. Simpli.fi does LOCAL very well.
Ad Campaigns
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N/A
Ad Network Integration (2)
80%
8.0
Data Transfer
80%
8.0
DSP integration
80%
8.0
Ad Reporting & Analytics
N/A
N/A
  • We have been able to leverage Simpli.fi's geo-fencing tools to pry business away from larger competitors.
  • The lack of a customer-facing dashboard is a weakness.
  • Simpli.fi's low barrier of entry has allowed us to scale at our pace without the threat of being cut off in the face of high minimum spends.
  • RocketFuel, Centro and MediaMath
Simpli.fi's programmatic ad tools cater very well to SMBs. We chose Simpli.fi due to the ease of use, low minimum spending requirements, along with advancements in data management, including the use of unstructured data. Furthermore, their development of granular level geo-fencing tools have given them the edge over many competitors.
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