Adobe Audience Manager vs. Nielsen Marketing Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Audience Manager
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Adobe Audience Manager is a data management platform (DMP) that is integrated into the Adobe Marketing Cloud.N/A
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Neilsen Marketing Cloud includes a Data Management Platform (DMP), Media Planning and Optimization, Data as a Service (DaaS), Multitouch Attribution Analytics, Inflight Analytics, and integrations to different digital media channels as well as to content marketing, creative testing, search, email and social media platforms. It's designed to enable marketers to plan, execute, and report on all of their marketing activities from one place.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 feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Adobe Audience ManagerNielsen Marketing Cloud
Considered Both Products
Adobe Audience Manager
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
Overall all DMPs have suffered from the death of 3rd party cookies and data. Regardless the close ties to adobe’s experience platform and the rest of the experience cloud stack have enabled adobe to stay competitive and keep features up; however in the end this product will …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
I would say Adobe Audience Manager is right in between LiveRamp and Salesforce. It is easy to use but not as flexible. There are also a lot of limitations in terms of integrations and advancement into offline capabilities. It does a better job than salesforce in terms of …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
Both tools are very similar. Adobe Audience Manager and Tealium AudienceStream work well with third-party vendors. However, Adobe Audience Manager is easy to integrate into the Adobe Experience cloud and can be commissioned quickly.
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
For now its only one year since we have started using Adobe Audience Manager so have not explored on the alternatives. As earlier mentioned pretty much satisfied other than the cost concern.
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
I personally like the Adobe Audience Manager interface and it's easier to use for beginners. It also has some features that Google does not, nor do its other competitors. It is worth the money and time spent, overall. I feel like it gives a bigger and more in-depth picture to …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
An excellent suite of products form products. Limited data sets by competing products.
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
Adobe Audience Manager is more sophisticated than Google Ad Manager, and it is mainly for enterprise-level audience management. Also, it is integrating well with Adobe Analytics, which we use for digital analytics. Google Ad Manager is more for small and mid-size companies, so …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
The benefits of AAM is that it has stronger marketing and advertising, interner and broadcasting media, and supermarkets. While Amazon Pinpoints has its benefits with its interface, computer software, and accounting, AAM has a slight edge against its competitor in terms of …
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
We selected Adobe audience manager because of integrated experience we wanted to have with whole Adobe marketing cloud.
Chose Adobe Audience Manager
From a main user standpoint, we selected AAM due to my experience with it and our ability to easily integrate it with our currently system. While we evaluated the other options, it was Adobe's customer service and reputation that ultimately served as an additional reason to …
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Nielson Cloud helps businesses find, recruit, and create new advertiser client bases, as well as stand out in a crowded public space. Measure linear and digital media metrics across channels aids in giving insights in an efficient manner. Nielson Cloud also assists businesses …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Nielson has a larger section of databases, so there are multiple options while integrating third party datasets. Even though Adobe Creative Cloud is more focused on creative agencies, the Nielson Marketing Cloud puts more emphasis on data-driven ad agencies, which works really …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
Atomized is great for visualization and is better in that area. However, Nielsen Marketing Cloud is much more in-depth and has many more features available that allow for a larger variety of types of analysis and other capabilities. It is a much better overall product in this …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
We have tried a myriad of other survey companies and have found that customization does not exist in the way we like to utilize it in the prefabricated platforms. We liked Nielsen better than SurveyMonkey because there was no forced branding page at the end that would force …
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
I honestly think the capabilities of AAM surpass NMC from building and syndicating audiences to running overlap analyses. I didn't select NMC myself but I know our team has a lengthy list of complaints against their platforms.
Chose Nielsen Marketing Cloud
I like exelate better than boomerang but unfortunately I like BlueKai more than Exelate. Bluekai offers more segments which gives me more options - if exelate can just release more segments from time to time I can see them running neck and neck with BlueKai.
Features
Adobe Audience ManagerNielsen Marketing Cloud
Data Collection
Comparison of Data Collection features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
8.6
Ratings
6% above category average
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Collection of first-party data8.10 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Collection of third-party data8.10 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Access to Third-party Data Providers9.60 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Data Classification
Comparison of Data Classification features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
7.3
Ratings
12% below category average
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.6
Ratings
4% above category average
Audience taxonomy7.90 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Tag Management6.20 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Data Analysis Dashboard7.80 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
8.9
Ratings
11% above category average
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
7.9
Ratings
1% below category average
Data Transfer8.90 Ratings7.90 Ratings
DSP integration8.80 Ratings7.90 Ratings
DMP Analytics
Comparison of DMP Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Audience Manager
6.8
Ratings
15% below category average
Nielsen Marketing Cloud
8.6
Ratings
8% above category average
Campaign Analytics5.50 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Audience Analytics8.10 Ratings8.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe Audience ManagerNielsen Marketing Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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7.9
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Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
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Usability
8.5
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8.0
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Support Rating
7.8
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5.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe Audience ManagerNielsen Marketing Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
If you feel as though your online presence isn't quite hitting where it should, Adobe Audience Manager (AAM) might provide the insights to help you identify the areas in which it is lacking (the gaps). As a result, you can adjust your approach and optimize your customer interactions. With that said, if you currently deploy software for the analysis of customer data, you should consider whether AAM will add value. I would suggest setting some strategic objectives so that you can ensure that AAM will meet your current and future needs.
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It helps you evaluate the success of your marketing initiatives and make real-time changes using built-in analytics and Nielsen Artificial Intelligence. It also helps businesses find, acquire, and create new advertiser client bases, as well as stand out in a dynamic public realm. Measure linear and digital media metrics across channels aids in giving insights in an efficient manner.
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Pros
  • Adobe Audience Manager is GDPR compliant and includes a data export control so that the use of data is in accordance with data protection and user agreements.
  • Adobe Audience Manager pulls data from a variety of sources, creates audiences, and exports segments to each destination.
  • Adobe Audience Manager has AI-based components. A new feature is DMP tools, which enables the automated creation of target groups.
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  • Audience building is completely intuitive and easy to do!
  • The audience planner tool helps easily assess duplication across segments and audiences
  • The NMC team is always there to lend a helping hand
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Cons
  • Biggest challenge we faced is teaching the use of it to our employees how to use it. The UI Should be easy and to understand for all fields.
  • The AdWords integration is not easy to do.
  • UI is sometimes slow and doesn't load Analyticals for more than 24 hours.
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  • This software program is the maximum often down of any that I even have to get right of entry to. For being an enterprise standard, I assume the reliability can be significantly improved.
  • It has a restricted guide on mobile. I dislike the pricing version and the contracts which can be required for users. I might choose a monthly agreement alternative that could now no longer lock us in.
  • Data discrepancies are common, there is most effective month-to-month reporting available, and no keyword seek gear to use.
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Likelihood to Renew
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I still use exelate every day for my media plans that are either direct response or extremely geo-targeted.
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Usability
Overall usability is great, as are most of Adobe's software. Maybe a UI refresh could make it a bit easier to do advanced functions or reporting but, overall, it works very well. This is something you take for granted with Adobe solutions because when you try another vendor you realize how bad it can be.
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Very easy to utilize. Features are basic. Again just not too much in the way of involved customization
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Support Rating
AAM has good support, but the support is not as available, due to waiting time and queue. The instructions presented are available, but it navigation is not easy between pages. However, instructions are usually direct and straightforward, but any underlying thoughts or questions won’t be easily answered without support from their service.
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I am rating this as neutral due to having minimal interaction with them
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Alternatives Considered
Overall all DMPs have suffered from the death of 3rd party cookies and data. Regardless the close ties to adobe’s experience platform and the rest of the experience cloud stack have enabled adobe to stay competitive and keep features up; however in the end this product will eventually be an activation mechanism for the AEP Customer Profiles from the real-time CDP platform.
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Atomized is great for visualization and is better in that area. However, Nielsen Marketing Cloud is much more in-depth and has many more features available that allow for a larger variety of types of analysis and other capabilities. It is a much better overall product in this realm of expertise.
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Return on Investment
  • Overall a Positive Return for Business who go All in on the Adobe Stack
  • Solid work for brokering and anonymously sharing data between first and second parties
  • The death of TRUE 3rd party data has lessened the effectiveness of all DMPs
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  • We are using it for analytics, statistics control, and for a single pane of glass and reviews for our senior leadership. We fetch significant insights from this device which can be then provided to our stakeholders to higher understand the achievements and loopholes.
  • We can make Marketing strategies with the help of this. Also, it is benefiting financially and getting productive.
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