Adobe Advertising Cloud vs. Magnite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Score 8.6 out of 10
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AdobeAdvertising Cloud (formerly Adobe Media Optimizer) is an ad management product and is part of the Adobe Marketing Cloud. It delivers a rules-based bidding solution that improves the performance of search engine marketing campaigns and is integrated with Adobe Analytics.N/A
Magnite
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Magnite (formerly Rubicon Project) is an independent sell-side advertising platform.N/A
Pricing
Adobe Advertising CloudMagnite
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe Advertising CloudMagnite
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adobe Advertising CloudMagnite
Considered Both Products
Adobe Advertising Cloud
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
It was a step up from Marin in terms of UI. Very similar functionality to Marin. Compared to Kenshoo Search and Google Marketing Platform it was probably not as advanced but offered the benefit of integrating with other products in the Adobe stack like Adobe Analytics, Adobe …
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
I have not used any other similar products and cannot accurately report how this product stacks up.
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
Google Ad Manager, Google Ads (formerly AdWords) and Google Analytics
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
ClickFunnels is way too expensive, and even though they claim they do so much, it is way too difficult to get it to work, plus there are tons of external costs they don't mention until you're inside the system. Most are exactly like that as well. Hootsuite is a good …
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
I think it's a good way to automate and take more control during the digital advertising process.
You can have access to a lot of data, spreadsheets and statistics, but that is difficult to manage at the beginning.
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
Adobe Media Optimizer is the best solution if you are already an Omniture customer because of the deep integration and the ability to pull reports from either interface.
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
I was not involved in the selection of AMO, however, we did evaluate several other vendors. Of the three vendors we reviewed, all seemed to have better UIs, better support, more powerful options for strategies, and over all, just less of a hassle to run. Each vendor had their …
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
We have only gone with the Adobe Media Optimizer, as it seemed the most appropriate tool for what we wanted to use it for and offered an optimization tool as well as a reporting platform that others didn't. We took into account the abilities of Marin software and Navis, but …
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
An issue I touched on is how out of control budgeting is with Adobe Media Optimizer, recommending a budget of 30% just in one keyword is when I realized that something was amiss with how Adobe Media Optimizer tracks budgets and keywords. This issue not the case with Google …
Chose Adobe Advertising Cloud
I personally avoid anything owned by Meta, but also is more complicated than Adobe to use.
Magnite
Chose Magnite
  • Rubicon Project's deal creation is very simple and fast so multiple deals can be simply created instantly.
  • Rubicon Project's customer service is helpful and very responsive so issues usually get fixed instantly.
  • Rubicon Project's reporting portal is easy to use and has …
Chose Magnite
Rubicon had superior client services and monetization techniques.
Features
Adobe Advertising CloudMagnite
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Advertising Cloud
6.6
Ratings
11% below category average
Magnite
7.5
Ratings
2% above category average
Data Transfer6.80 Ratings7.00 Ratings
DSP integration6.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Advertising Cloud
5.8
Ratings
29% below category average
Magnite
8.0
Ratings
3% above category average
Ad campaign creation7.10 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad deployment7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Display advertising4.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation5.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Sequence targeting5.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Advertising Cloud
6.8
Ratings
13% below category average
Magnite
7.3
Ratings
6% below category average
Ad dashboards6.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad performance reports5.90 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking7.40 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting6.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Cross-channel ad management7.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization7.20 Ratings6.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Advertising CloudMagnite
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
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Likelihood to Renew
1.8
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Usability
9.0
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Support Rating
3.3
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Implementation Rating
8.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe Advertising CloudMagnite
Likelihood to Recommend
The platform is highly useful for digital ads marketing and campaign management. The platform provides a custom set of templates and tools to your ad production or designer team to create thousand of ads very quickly for your products or brands. To your marketing team, the tool provides full control over campaign strategy in terms of how to present relevant sets of ads to your web and app visitors based on customer behavior, demography, and age group. I could not think about any scenario where this platform is less suitable if you are looking for an advertising platform.
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Rubicon Project is super appropriate for Publisher monetization. They excel as a supply side partner. Rubicon Project is less appropriate for Advertising buying tools. Their demand side tools have a way to go for development.
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Pros
  • Automation - One of Adobe Marketing Cloud’s amazing marketing solutions is Adobe Campaign. This allows users to implement marketing automation to increase their campaign productivity and deliver an amazing customer experience. I can even set up users so they can build individual customer profiles based on the interests, actions, and preferences that are tracked through different marketing channels.
  • A/B Split Testing – Most platforms have this now and most do not know how to even use it. However, the only way for a user to know how their marketing can be improved is to get a clear idea of how it is performing. But if all their data is in separate locations, it’s difficult to know which image, text or video is leading to sales or conversions. Adobe Marketing Cloud helps with keeping all of this clear for everyone on board.
  • Social Analytics – when you or your customers are looking to improve their social marketing results, this platform offers Adobe Social, which is a social management platform that allows users to monitor conversations, promote and publish content, and analyze and engage with followers. One of the best parts is that the system automatically attaches tracking codes to users’ social content to identify what content drives engagement. It is a very powerful tool.
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  • Cleanest supply ecosystem. They are skilled at processing inventory and bids in order to streamline monetization and drive yield.
  • Client support is excellent. Client services is deeply invested in your business and successful at driving key business goals within your organization when working on your behalf.
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Cons
  • As with most Adobe products, it can be a little tedious to use and requires a bit of extra training and "googling" around to make sure you are getting things right. It has improved over time within the entire Adobe suite, and I anticipate that this will be true of this as well.
  • Adobe training and learning platforms can include a lot of technical terminology and jargon that makes it difficult for a novice to understand without feeling like they need a whole new education.
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  • If possible to update the reporting to have less delay time on the data.
  • The reporting portal cuts off the bid request data after a period of time.
  • The UI seems to be a bit slower lately.
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Likelihood to Renew
As of this writing, we have just discontinued our use of Adobe Media Optimizer. Other vendors gave us a better rate, a better contract option, and the product is just better than what we had with Adobe at the time. We may revisit Adobe again at the future, but it seems like they have a lot of work to do to catch up with the leader in the space
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Usability
It definitely takes some instruction to get to be able to use the system. One would struggle trying to get it to work without any previous experience with it. If you are famailiar with the interface it is actually quite fast and easy to maneuver around.
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Support Rating
The reason being that support is extremely hard to reach, after the initial training period was over support became much harder to get from Adobe Media Optimizer's customer service agents which no one wants to deal with and we had to wait a long time for many inquiries to get answered
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Implementation Rating
It was difficult initially, but the implementation of the Dynamic Tag Manager was a big help and timesaver.
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Alternatives Considered
It was a step up from Marin in terms of UI. Very similar functionality to Marin. Compared to Kenshoo Search and Google Marketing Platform it was probably not as advanced but offered the benefit of integrating with other products in the Adobe stack like Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, and Adobe Campaign.
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  • Rubicon Project's deal creation is very simple and fast so multiple deals can be simply created instantly.
  • Rubicon Project's customer service is helpful and very responsive so issues usually get fixed instantly.
  • Rubicon Project's reporting portal is easy to use and has multiple metrics which allow you to have a detailed report.
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Return on Investment
  • Adobe Media Optimizer delved deeper than other search engines could and actually provided us very useful information regarding how keywords were performing.
  • The tool itself at first was quite useful in speeding our days up in being an all in one solution however it has various bugs that caused us to double-check our work basically costing us more time when using this tool.
  • A large impact I had to how we were tracking our keywords was a bug with Adobe Media Optimizer informing us that we were not using a few keywords when it turns out we actually were and the tool was in fact incorrect in identifying what we actually were using.
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  • Rubicon Project has made it easier to optimize so that we could get the fullest ROI on our inventory through their alerts on which deal needs troubleshooting.
  • They also send a daily report which notifies you which advertisers have low render rate which is very helpful when figuring which creatives need to troubleshooting.
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