AdDataExpress vs. HG Insights Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AdDataExpress
Score 7.3 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
AdDataExpress is an intuitive online sales intelligence tool that helps marketers and sales people identify prospects at advertising companies. The value proposition is that AdDataExpress empowers users to prospect more productively and accelerate new business relationships. Acccording to the vendor, AdDataExpress helps users quickly identify and engage the right decision-makers at America's top national advertisers. The platform provides access to data…N/A
HG Insights Platform
Score 4.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
The HG Insights platform provides a view into global industries, markets, and companies allowing users to identify the most valuable opportunities and build strategies to maximize revenue and accelerate growth.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
AdDataExpress
Chose AdDataExpress
We use both AdDataExpress and Salesforce, but trying to figure out Salesforce in this way is very convoluted and the way AdDataExpress is set up makes things much simpler to keep track of. AdDataExpress keeps [focusing] on doing the things that it is made of, while Salesforce …
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Winmo allows more dynamic and functional searches, and puts agency and brand contacts in one place. It also allows exports based on spend and in general, is much more dynamic of a software.
HG Insights Platform
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excellent supplementary resource. Again, the HG Insights Platform lacks the contact element of the research.
Chose HG Insights Platform
We have evaluated all of these vendors and some are used in tangent with the HG Insights Platform. We found that for technographic data in particular HG gave the best coverage, but a few of these do help "fill the gaps" when occasion calls. We also use multiple intent engines …
Chose HG Insights Platform
I would say most have more features and integrations but it is easier to use the HG Insights Platform. And the unique opportunity to understand who is using a competitor gives insight into where expansion could happen.
Chose HG Insights Platform
The selection of the HG Insights Platform was a strategic decision driven by our specific needs in a crowded B2B market.
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The HG Insights Platform layers on the CAPDB scoring capability which I have not seen in these other systems. It will even automate this process if you are willing to pay the extra price.
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The HG Insights Platform has much better technographic data than ZoomInfo
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The HG Insights Platform is number 1 in my eyes. I have never found a better source for getting the most up to date information
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ZoomInfo Sales and Cognism
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unique insights on spend and competitive intel
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6sense and Intentsify Intelligence Activation Platform
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HG Insights is much more complete with firmographics and technographics data integrated on a large number of enterprise customers
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Comparably by ZoomInfo
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Definitive Healthcare adds bit more specific to Healthcare Providers
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some of our sales team have used similar tools like 6sense and zoominfo, but I have not personally
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- Sales Intel seems to be more of a direct competition. Their human research seems to be something interesting. Also the claim to focus on firmographics
- We went with Bombora for intent technology in the past
- We did not move forward with 6sense
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D&B Buyer Intent and Comparably by ZoomInfo
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HG Insights Platform has a large scale of technographics data
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Actually, it was a legacy from the company that bought us so we took over the ownership of the HG Insights Platform as in the Marketing Operations team.
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Gartner Peer Insights and Buyer Discovery by Gartner Digital Markets
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Intricately and HG Focus use different methods to get to the same means. Intricately's UI/UX is more modern and clean than the others I have come across. Intricately is a newer company and has made a lot of strides since we first looked at them 3 years ago - they seem to be …
Chose HG Insights Platform
Intricately stacks up pretty close to DiscoverOrg. Though DiscoverOrg is a lot more detailed on company information pertaining to changes in the organization and services used, Intricately gives a quick snapshot of company information available right at the point of presence to …
Features
AdDataExpressHG Insights Platform
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
AdDataExpress
6.8
Ratings
13% below category average
HG Insights Platform
-
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Advanced search8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Identification of new leads7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
List quality8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
List upload/download5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Load time/data access5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
AdDataExpress
7.0
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10% below category average
HG Insights Platform
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Contact information7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Company information6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Industry information8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
AdDataExpress
5.9
Ratings
23% below category average
HG Insights Platform
-
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Lead qualification process7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Salesforce integration5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Company/business profiles7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts and reminders6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data hygiene4.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic data refresh5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Tags6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Filters and segmentation7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Email Features
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Product A and Product B
AdDataExpress
7.0
Ratings
6% below category average
HG Insights Platform
-
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Sales email templates7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Append emails to records7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AdDataExpressHG Insights Platform
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User Testimonials
AdDataExpressHG Insights Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
It is much better to prospect brands and find appropriate contacts at a parent account, and not such a strong suit for agencies.
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The HG Insights Platform has helped us with GTM planning as we segment accounts amongst our verticals. There are verticals with specific tech stacks that we would like to prioritize, and HG Insights allows us to do that. The account scoring allows us to prioritize outreach efforts. We are able to use the technographics to weigh scoring and assign those accounts out accordingly.
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Pros
  • Provides email addresses - essential when doing cold email outreach.
  • Provides agencies for each brand/company.
  • Provides media spend for parent company and brand.
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  • It works great for seeing if the site or app for a company is hosted on AWS.
  • Intricately uses a different approach (vs the other tools we use) - which helps confirm from another angle.
  • It has a great google chrome plug-in.
  • UI/UX is modern and clean.
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Cons
  • Filtering is not optimal
  • Integration with other products is not intuitive or even there
  • Keeping data up to date automatically
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  • integration with SFDC could be better
  • Sometime provides back an incorrect/no match when a better is available from an uploaded file, though this is getting slightly better
  • A way to gauge how many hits you will get off an intent topic before selecting them so you don't feel like one is going to waste could be useful.
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Usability
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It’s very easy to use, and the team is very responsive and friendly to work with. The information is unique and usable and can complement some of the data we get from call recordings. The integration with Salesforce is easy to implement and offers good insights into our database.
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Alternatives Considered
We use both AdDataExpress and Salesforce, but trying to figure out Salesforce in this way is very convoluted and the way AdDataExpress is set up makes things much simpler to keep track of. AdDataExpress keeps [focusing] on doing the things that it is made of, while Salesforce can do a bit of everything.
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We have evaluated all of these vendors and some are used in tangent with the HG Insights Platform. We found that for technographic data in particular HG gave the best coverage, but a few of these do help "fill the gaps" when occasion calls. We also use multiple intent engines to help verify trends rather than being reliant on one platform. Other vendors also offer contact data as well which is integral for our outbound marketing campaigns which HG does not cover. Overall HG does perhaps stack up better than some of these however, it is only one source of data and using multiple is necessary to give a reliable result.
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Return on Investment
  • Expanded lead horizons
  • Agencies provided for each company
  • Efficiency of potential partners
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  • I don't massively get involved in financial matters, but the propensity models we use internally to help run our campaigns are certainly a big factor when our sales people approach our clients.
  • Every campaign sold now comes with a flat data fee for us to run and use a propensity model for the activity we complete on behalf of our clients.
  • Whilst the client will never see the raw data behind the model (of which HG does play a part along with our other data sources) they are briefed on the methodology and reasoning behind them.
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ScreenShots

AdDataExpress Screenshots

Screenshot of Profiles featuring targeted media, marketing and sponsorship decision-maker lists.

HG Insights Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of the welcome screen.Screenshot of the HG Insights Opportunity Generator.Screenshot of HG Insights' Market Analyzer, used to interactively explore and act on your total addressable market, competitive dynamics, and whitespace with speed and confidence.