Adobe Campaign vs. The Trade Desk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Campaign
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Adobe acquired Neolane in July 2013 and later re-named the product Adobe Campaign. Adobe Campaign provides both marketing automation and marketing resource management functionality such as spend & financial management, workflow, and asset management.N/A
The Trade Desk
Score 9.0 out of 10
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The Trade Desk is the eponymous flagship product from the company headquartered in Ventura California, a demand-side / data management hybrid platform (DSP / DMP).N/A
Pricing
Adobe CampaignThe Trade Desk
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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 CampaignThe Trade Desk
Considered Both Products
Adobe Campaign
Chose Adobe Campaign
more legacy, less intuitive but more customizable
Chose Adobe Campaign
We adore the fact that we can run numerous automated campaigns concurrently and that we can make changes to them without stopping and starting a new campaign. Adobe Campaign makes it possible for the process to go on.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Haven't used Salesforce Marketing Cloud much.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Sender also offers multi-channel marketing capabilities, allowing users to engage with their audience through different channels. However, the range and depth of multi-channel capabilities in Adobe Campaign are generally more extensive. So after using both the platforms I …
Chose Adobe Campaign
One of the major resons was already having AEM and creating a highly cohesive tech stack. Adobe Campaign fit the criteria.
Chose Adobe Campaign
In the end we didn’t go with Adobe Campaign.
Although it offers great a great tool set that is very flexible. You do need someone on staff that know Adobe products to get the full utilisation out of it. Ultimately what it came down to for us was that because we had a small team, …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign Standard has a lot of segmentation options out of the box and a lot better analytics. Pardot is a lot more listbased, where with Adobe Campaign, you can do complete customized segmentation, such as all permissions in base A who are currently customers of this …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Easy drag and drop user friendly maenu and optimise software a good alternative to google as campaign.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Especially in its ease of use, especially considering its price and the great possibilities that this tool has given our company. Definitely a great competitor in this sector and the best option in terms of campaign creation, without any doubt, even having things that could be …
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Adobe Campaign is more advanced when it is used with other tools from Adobe family.
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Adobe Campaign has all the features and tools that develop the whole marketing and sales channels. It has been able to integrate with our systems in all departments in development of our planning structure. While Salesforce CMS works effectively in the management of our …
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Compared to other websites, Adobe Campaign stacks up with its various uses. You can create with its other platforms and follow through. Other platforms, you have to use adobe to create then go somewhere else to schedule and post. Adobe Campaign allows you to use all within one …
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Adobe Campaign is good in terms of features, offerings, it's customization options, and extensive possibilities to make a powerful email campaign or offer landing page. It's very reliable and stable too. But in terms of its dashboard UI, it is not as simple or quick to learn as …
Chose Adobe Campaign
All these applications are very similar, adobe has a differential for the company's expertise, for the way cloud services and their specialists are treated. I believe that it also has a differential in the metrics and management of flows where it is possible to have a broader …
Chose Adobe Campaign
The platform is much more complex and much more suited for complicated applications. While Mailchimp is an easier all rounded solution for starters it doesn’t allow the system integrator to do customization of the workflows and more complicated tasks. I would say that in my …
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Adobe Campaign is different from these products in that is much more all-encompassing and is able to manage more aspects of a campaign than these more singular-tracked platforms.
Chose Adobe Campaign
As we tried to centralise the marketing automation platform within the enterprise, Adobe Campaign can plug into several instances of Salesforce.com for lead management queues. All other marketing automation platforms can only plug into one instance of Salesforce.com.

Adobe …
Chose Adobe Campaign
For B2C campaign, [I] still prefer to go with Marketo. However, for all other transactional/Nontransactional, promotional, Welcome email campaigns, while it is required to handle [the] global market with [a] number of brands, [I would] [prefer to] go with Adobe Campaign …
Chose Adobe Campaign
  • Easy to install
  • Free trails
  • Lesser cost as compared to others
Chose Adobe Campaign
Pardot: Adobe is a better value for the money. Active Campaign: Adobe Campaign has more automation features but comes inexpensive.
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe Campaign has a lot more features as compared to Mailchimp. While Mailchimp allows you to send a lot of communication to a lot of recipients, Adobe Campaign lets you set variables in the workflow, and send email at different times with a lot more customization. Adobe …
Chose Adobe Campaign
Adobe is far ahead of what I used previously. Adobe has all the details of the customer which is required to increase the sales of the company and the customer also gets relevant information.
Mailchimp is just an email tool where we can send mails to multiple users.
The Trade Desk
Chose The Trade Desk
compared to these three, stack adapt is a bit easier to get going plus it's less expensive. I still love Google ads and meta ads for the ability to own the moment in terms of dashboard. Feels like you have more "control" with google ads and meta ads, even if that isn't the case.
Chose The Trade Desk
We compared The Trade Desk against a number of competing programmatic media buying platforms including Google's DV360, Centro's Basis platform, Adobe Advertising Cloud, and the Simpli.fi platform. In the end, we felt that The Trade Desk provides the most tools, options, …
Chose The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk is a much better product than AppNexus. Even though both products showed promise awhile back, AppNexus stopped innovating and The Trade Desk became specialists on data, cross site tracking and CTV inventory thus having a better and more unique product that …
Chose The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk provides the best overall value of all features in one. We didn't evaluate other competitors because The Trade Desk came highly recommended to us by our Board of Directors. Perhaps for other companies' evaluations, we would recommend having example campaigns and …
Chose The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk allows you to manage multiple display platforms from one interface. Google Ads only allows you to advertise on their platform and their network. This limits your ability to find new niche opportunities with Display Advertising. Although Google Ads claims to be on …
Chose The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk is more universal and widely known than their competition. They will be able to provide you with a lot of inventory, but the competition is more oriented towards specific objectives. Vungle specializes in video, Mopub on in app traffic and AppLovin on high impact …
Chose The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk is not as focused on connected TV as Appnexus. Also, they are more open as Appnexus is mostly focused on building a walled garden, while The Trade Desk is focusing on making the internet more open. However, they lack the exclusive publishers that Appnexus have. …
Chose The Trade Desk
TradeDesk is more extensive like DBM compared to DX. Offers an easier building process with templates and being able to duplicate and share libraries at the partner level.

I find TradeDesk clears at higher CPMs than the other platforms. Also tends to perform well for in-view …
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Medium-sized Companies
The Trade Desk
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe CampaignThe Trade Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.4
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Usability
5.0
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Availability
7.0
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Performance
7.0
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5.0
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In-Person Training
8.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe CampaignThe Trade Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
Multi-Channel Campaign Management: I have found Adobe Campaign to be excellent for managing campaigns across multiple channels, including email, mobile, social media, and web. Its centralized platform allows me to plan, execute, and track campaigns effectively, making it ideal for organizations with diverse marketing channels. For example, when I was running a campaign to promote a new product launch across email, SMS, and social media channels, Adobe Campaign provided me with the tools to orchestrate and track the campaign seamlessly. I could ensure consistent messaging and a cohesive customer experience across different channels.
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We are a large company, but The Trade Desk seems like it would also work well for small companies. In our limited deployment, we focused on the USA market and Digital Marketing, but we see this platform working for global markets, multi-language, and across all paid search engines. They provide great user engagement and dashboard reporting to help us manage each campaign in real-time. The Trade Desk seems to do all of these things well and would work for most companies. I have yet to see a campaign and/or executive initiative that The Trade Desk can't handle. We have had a favorable experience and believe it has met every objective we have.
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Pros
  • What we like most about this application is that it provides us with the creation of ads to generate presence and impact on different channels at minimum cost.
  • It has a section where [it] [helps] us determine our preferences in terms of marketing by private messaging and offer a report of actions.
  • It also provides analysis with percentages to determine how many customers actually received our e-mail advertising.
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  • Manage multiple client accounts for Display Advertising
  • Manage multiple clients' Display Advertising across an array of Display Platforms
  • We were also able to manage clients' Video and Native Advertising Campaigns
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Cons
  • It requires administrator rights in order to deploy into an environment.
  • We do not want changes directly in a production environment so deployments are a bottleneck since only a few have access.
  • Performing user audits are difficult or even impossible in certain cases to determine who started/executed/made changes to a workflow.
  • There's no easy way to roll back changes.
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  • They are not very transparent in terms of margins and fees.
  • They need to get more video inventory, there is not enough.
  • The reporting they provide is a bit limited.
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Likelihood to Renew
Despite the shortcomings of user interface and basic troubleshooting difficulty, Neolane is much more robust and delivers better capabilities to our sales and marketing staffs than any other product we have used here or any product our staff members have used at other locations.
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Usability
Thanks to this tool we are taking more internal control of the creation and deployment of campaigns with less dependency on an ESP. We can pre-program marketing publications, being able to concentrate on the target audience. It helps me manage email campaigns with real-time tracking.
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easy to understand dashboards and the self started ability to get going on your own terms. It's great to target niche groups across the world while still being able to report at a high level to C-suite. Wish it drove more conversions, but display can be a struggle there. Overall, would use it again.
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Reliability and Availability
Aside from frequent error prompts, the program is quite dependable
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Support Rating
Although there is a lot of material available on the internet to answer questions, I still feel a lack of commitment and delay in the responses of the support, but as a whole, it leaves nothing to be desired. I believe that, in the great majority, companies sin in the desired support, but we cannot generalize. But this one, in particular, has a wide range of specialists and well-qualified management, but I believe that it is not so bad.
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We noted no issues with our limited interaction with support. The software operated just as expected and we found that we were able to navigate needs on our own. We understand that The Trade Desk offers excellent support, so we believe it will be a good resource to us in the future.
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Alternatives Considered
Sender also offers multi-channel marketing capabilities, allowing users to engage with their audience through different channels. However, the range and depth of multi-channel capabilities in Adobe Campaign are generally more extensive. So after using both the platforms I selected Adobe Campaign for my email marketing purpose.
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We compared The Trade Desk against a number of competing programmatic media buying platforms including Google's DV360, Centro's Basis platform, Adobe Advertising Cloud, and the Simpli.fi platform. In the end, we felt that The Trade Desk provides the most tools, options, advanced technology, and access to third-party solutions than anything other DSP/DMP on the market. TTD has leaned into forming a long-term relationship with our agency, and they continue to provide great strategic service.
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Return on Investment
  • Adobe Campaign has boosted our ROI, with a 700% increase in the last month of using the service. These results are very favorable, and we will continue to use the service.
  • Adobe Campaign makes it easy to calculate the proposed ROI on a monthly basis, as it constantly lets us evaluate and compare the growth of our earnings in relation to previous ones.
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  • Positively impacting ability to delivery in-view KPI campaigns across ad types (display, high impact, preroll).
  • Slightly higher pricing structure requires a bit more conservative bidding in this platform compared to others.
  • The customer service has been top notch. Adding to the confidence in building a lasting partnership. Access to product betas and offering product feedback are of interest to our organization.
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