AdRoll - Solid platform for display and retargeting across web and Facebook
February 09, 2018
AdRoll - Solid platform for display and retargeting across web and Facebook
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AdRoll
We have used AdRoll for a variety of purposes, including prospecting and retargeting through the web display and Facebook. It's used primarily by our marketing team. The main business problem it addresses has to do with how we do brand and awareness marketing, and supplement our other marketing efforts, especially with retargeting.
- Provides a unified interface for running Facebook and web prospecting and retargeting campaigns
- Very solid reporting tools
- Excellent and helpful account managers who really help you get the most out of the product
- Conversion reporting would be the big one. Some aspects of what they do are obfuscated, so you can't always get the best reporting depending on what channel you're running (web or facebook, retargeting, etc).
- Better integration with Facebook creative units. Right now it feels like you don't get access to all of the same newer formats and capabilities you get when running with Facebook direct.
- Better creative management. It can get a bit unwieldy managing many different variations of creative.
- On a positive front, we've been able to measure some impact from AdRoll campaigns - we actually did an A/B test to look at how many view-through conversions were recorded for people who saw our ads vs seeing PSA's and saw a significant lift.
- On a more negative front, the large majority of conversions we've seen through AdRoll have been view through conversions, which has made it more difficult to track which conversions specifically were due to AdRoll, and measuring has been more difficult (although their Enhanced Conversion Tracking helps some, although it only works for a subset of campaigns we run).
- It's honestly hard to tell what the overall impact has been, as we actually haven't been running with it the past few months, and it's been hard to measure a noticeable decrease in overall signups/volume.
- Facebook and mediamath
In some ways we've been looking at AdRoll as an alternative to running ads direct with Facebook. The biggest thing AdRoll has going for it is that their own network has reach beyond the Facebook ad network. It also provides a central place to run FB ads and display ads and see performance overall in one place.
It's very good for what it is, but it still misses some features that you get when you run on FB directly.
It seems to compare well to other DSP's/etc. though
It's very good for what it is, but it still misses some features that you get when you run on FB directly.
It seems to compare well to other DSP's/etc. though