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StackAdapt

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What is StackAdapt?

StackAdapt, headquartered in Toronto offers their native advertising specialized DSP, supporting programmatic advertising with audience discovery, B2B targeting, and engagement analytics among other features.

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What is StackAdapt?

StackAdapt offers their native advertising specialized DSP, supporting programmatic advertising with audience discovery, B2B targeting, and engagement analytics. The platform supports advertising campaign planning, execution, and analysis. Its contextual targeting enables the user to place ads next to content relevant to a reader of a website, to drive user engagement. Its Page Context AI and Keyword Rule Targeting in StackAdapt, helps users to identify where ads should appear across the web. The user builds a contextual strategy, input phrases and keywords, and StackAdapt will place ads on webpages with content that's relevant to the campaign.

Available channels include native, display, video, audio, connected TV, video game, and digital out-of-home (DOOH). DOOH offers marketers a unique opportunity to get their message out in an interactive and eye-catching way on digital screens.

StackAdapt Videos

Webinar - Mastering Data to Unlock Advanced Media-Buying Strategies
Programmatic and ABM for B2B Marketers [StackAdapt Webinar]
How Programmatic Powers Engaging Digital Out-of-Home Experiences [StackAdapt Webinar]
Transforming 1st-Party Data into Advertising Gold [StackAdapt Webinar]

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We've been using StackAdapt for programmatic advertising of our B2B clients as well as for our own businesses. The 3rd party data it gives is remarkable, a perfect source to use those lists and target them in the programmatic advertising campaign. We're using many other 3rd party tools to extract user's info, but now with StackAdapt, it's even not required. It has made our data management team's work a lot easier.
  • Programmatic Advertising
  • Display advertising
  • User's Data Management
  • Ability to target by company industries
  • Ability to target more of contextual targeting
It well-suited for us when we're using the programmatic advertising platforms. It's a lot cheaper and have no lock-in contracts and even doesn't require the minimum budget thing.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use StackAdapt for our programmatic media buys for our clients and our own agency. It is used by our PPC team specifically. The level of audience targeting and Account Based Marketing allow us to target a highly specific audience group across many different ad inventory vendors.
  • Audience definition.
  • Audience size estimation.
  • Programmatic media buys.
  • Charges HST.
  • Missing LinkedIn inventory.
  • Responsive ads.
StackAdapt is well-suited in situations where you need to drive awareness to a niche audience that cannot be easily targeted on the GDN. For our agency it is useful for our Canadian clients only, as HST is added to the advertising costs. We cannot pass this on to our international clients and therefore do not use the platform for any clients outside of Canada.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use StackAdapt's self-serve platform on a daily basis to activate and manage digital advertising campaigns on behalf of many of our clients. As the leader of our media department, I've found that our Media Strategists tend to prefer the StackAdapt platform over others and have found it incredibly easy to navigate.
  • Audience segmentation.
  • Data segment selection.
  • Campaign activation.
  • Organizing data segments for quick access.
  • Integration with internal billing tools.
  • Additional measurement tools.
StackAdapt has performed well for our agency across a number of clients in varying industries, categories, and verticals. We have recommended them for multiple clients and have found the process of activation and campaign management to be seamless. Reps from StackAdapt are communicative and are always available for assistance when needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize StackAdapt to target users for a health & beauty franchisee in order to drive local-level reservations at our clients' centers. We use it primarily for one client, thought we have tested a few others, and sent out RFPs for a few others. We chose StackAdapt as another DSP we used was not driving efficient results, and we knew there was a better "solution" out there.
  • Outstanding customer service: quick to respond, great (proactive) recommendations and reporting.
  • Fair pricing.
  • Great response time to RFPs with great insights and opportunities.
  • Some of the audience targets are a bit small, even for less than niche audiences/targets.
StackAdapt is great for agencies/clients that don't have the time or resources to be in a UI managing campaigns daily.
Mark Whitlock | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We deployed StackAdapt as a test of native advertising in a B2B agency environment. Would native advertising drive more, less, or the same traffic as other paid advertising. We used it for our agency but have not deployed it for our clients.
  • Their ad development tool is outstanding.
  • They offer to help you create a super-detailed profile of your specific audience but their online tools for ratcheting down your audience are strong.
  • Their customer support works hard for you.
  • There is no way to QA your own ads. They QA for you and based on the level of their customer support, you can trust their QA, but the lack of self-assessment can cause problems for your company/agency.
  • To know where your ads were actually deployed, when, and for how long would be amazing. They certainly know because they can track all sorts of analytics.
  • Budgeting.
For B2C applications, if you have a product that dovetails with someone's lifestyle, using StackAdapt will put you in your prospective client's lap. For B2B applications, you will need intimate knowledge of what your prospects do when they are reading or searching for pleasure in order to hit them at the right time. Your ad and content will need to address their pain points so well that they mentally shift gears from escape from work back to work to click and follow your breadcrumbs.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
StackAdapt is being used by our digital department, a team of three. We utilize StackAdapt for all native campaigns pertaining to multiple verticals, ranging from E-commerce, non-profit, hospitality, education, and entertainment. The business problem it addresses is that it allows team member access to manage and optimize our native buys, providing the team full control of the campaign.
  • It's user-friendly, as we can navigate well throughout the platform.
  • The option to have custom segments built strengthens our targeting efforts.
  • Support from the StackAdapt team is awesome.
  • Dashboard and filter options. When you are running multiple campaigns it's challenging to pull the right analytics. Could potentially be a user error BUT I'd prefer it to be an easier process.
StackAdapt is well suited for easy deployment of native campaigns. Its simplicity is its greatest selling point. Users are able to navigate easily on the dashboard, retrieve tags for tracking, and organize campaigns easily.
It is less appropriate for e-commerce campaigns with a conversion goal metric. StackAdapt's strength is its top funnel strategies as it relates to the digital funnel.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to run a variety of video campaigns with a number of different objectives. We've leveraged StackAdapt for awareness campaigns, generating a large pool of users to then retarget at a later date with more targeted content, as well as boosting content for clicks in hopes on driving on-page conversions for clients.
  • Communication: Their reps are incredibly transparent, thorough and detailed. I really, really appreciate that.
  • Creativity: Not only are the reps communicative, they actually bring new, fresh ideas to the table. As busy as we are, I can't thank them enough for that.
  • Easy-to-use: As detailed as the dashboard is, it's actually pretty easy to use and bring new users up-to-speed on.
  • I'd like to see easier grouped campaign reporting.
  • Easy to find benchmarks and anticipated results. I love how LinkedIn's ad platform gives you examples of what to expect with your campaign. Having an easily accessible view of benchmarks and projected results would be great.
  • Live mockups. Like Teads, I'd love to see shareable mockups of ads to share with stakeholders for approval.
I've only used the platform for video ad distribution, but overall, I've been beyond impressed with the results we've been able to generate for a number of clients thus far. Be it awareness, views, impressions, clicks, or on-page conversions, our various campaigns have generated strong results across the board. We've recently started a retargeting/sequencing campaign, so I'm really interested to see what kind of results that will generate.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize StackAdapt to execute native advertising. The platform is seamless when it comes to building out creative directly into the platform that will dynamically insert into publisher sites.
  • Creative building in the platform.
  • Contextual targeting.
  • Dynamic re-marketing.
  • Behavioral and interest targeting.
  • Bottom funnel marketing.
  • Additional publishers.
StackAdapt works very well for building out top funnel audiences to leverage for remarketing with bottom funnel channels. StackAdapt has not been particularly effective for conversions and bottom funnel marketing.
Megan Schutz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use StackAdapt for running native ads. The customizable nature & in-platform photo resizing make it so the Digital Marketing team can handle everything without needing help from our Creative team.
  • Easy to use.
  • New services & capabilities offered regularly.
  • Great customer service!
  • More in-depth audience targeting.
  • Ability to switch between image sizes when creating an ad.
  • Users being able to remove topics in the custom audience segments without having to contact support.
If you have limited budgets, StackAdapt is not one I’d recommend. They have minimum spends for campaigns set to maximize conversions. Make sure you keep an eye on the custom audience segments to have topics removed that are not relevant to your campaign.
Cameron Solu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
StackAdapt is used in our Digital Media department. We deploy it to traffic video and display assets to relevant audiences for our clients. It is a very accessible platform that makes scaling your media easy and efficient. We're very happy with the self-service nature of the platform and the full visibility we have into results.
  • Scale. StackAdapt has access to many premium publishers and reaches a vast majority of our audiences.
  • Efficiency. CPMs are great, affordable, and allow us the flexibility we need.
  • Customer Service. The StackAdapt account management team is one of the best we've ever had the pleasure of dealing with. They are always eager to help.
  • The interface can be a bit confusing.
StackAdapt is great for reaching large audiences with video or display creatives. They offer a wide variety of pre-built user segments, as well as the ability to request custom segments when needed. Placement targeting is also strong on StackAdapt, with robust whitelist/blacklist capabilities. Results have always been right where we want them to be.
Eric Figura | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At our company, the media department uses StackAdapt across a number of our clients. We use their platform mainly for their native video placements, as well as the ability to run those on custom targets StackAdapt creates based on keywords and site lists we provide. We have also used it to retarget users who have watched at least 50% of one of our promoted videos.
  • StackAdapt's video units work particularly well in terms of view rates across both Pre-Roll and Out-Stream video. This is, of course, depending on creative as well, but there has been consistent performance across most of the campaigns I have run.
  • These video units also serve to drive a decent amount of web traffic to our client's landing page. With CTRs that often out-perform other video centered vendors we have run with.
  • They are able to retarget users who have watched a portion of your video content with static in-feed native ads. Though we haven't seen many conversions coming from this tactic, the referral traffic has been at or above our benchmarks.
  • Their reporting tool seems clunky at first, and not super intuitive to use. But once you spend a little time with it the tool can actually be pretty useful.
  • Sometimes the dashboard function doesn't properly filter out everything you ask it to, forcing you to refresh the page and try again.
  • The pacing tool shown in the dashboard often makes no sense in the numbers it represents. My campaigns have just about always delivered in full, so this isn't exactly an issue, but still confusing to look at.
When there is content significant to your clients' branding/goals at the time, StackAdapt is a good tool to reach both current and prospective audiences. The custom targeting capabilities can be a nice addition to a campaign when you want to reach a specific audience based on their intent or topics of interest. If time allows, you can get very granular in the detail of these audiences.
Christopher Penn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
StackAdapt is used by our entire organization. We use it for retargeting advertising for ourselves and for clients.
  • Outstanding customer service - highly responsive.
  • Open to customer innovation - we have submitted multiple feature suggestions and seen them implemented - even new lines of business.
  • Simple to use interface - anyone comfortable with modern SaaS apps will have no problem using it.
  • Lack of highly refined targeting for job titles and geographies
  • No list-based retargeting
  • No option to hit specific domains individually without jerryrigging it
StackAdapt is best suited for companies which currently do native, display, and video advertising, and those companies doing retargeting. It is best for companies who have tight integration with their martech/adtech agencies.
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