Adobe Marketing Cloud vs. Brandfolder

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Marketing Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Adobe Marketing Cloud is a suite of products including analytics, social, advertising, targeting and web experience management. It comprises foremost the popular integrated web content management and digital asset management (WCMS / DAM) solution Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Campaign's cross-channel campaign management and marketing resource management capabilities (based on technology acquired with Neolane in 2013), the Adobe Audience Manager data management platform, analytics, and other…N/A
Brandfolder
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Brandfolder, from Smartsheet since the 2020 acquisition, supports brands' content and creative assets with adigital asset management software that helps organize, control, create, distribute and measure creative assets across hundreds of formats including 8K video, documents, images and 3D.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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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
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Adobe Marketing Cloud
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
I would say it is the leader in the industry and was easily the number one choice in two of the three places I have implemented a marketing automation platform. Hubspot is its closest competitor and ended up being the better choice for a membership association but the Adobe …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
We have also used CMS. That software is very outdated and is causing a constant headache for my company, Marketo and Adobe Marketing Cloud are far easier to use and have more options
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
Marketo, Hubspot, Act-On, Salesforce Marketing Cloud are a few of the competitors. However, we decided to implement Adobe Marketing Cloud because of its end to end capabilities to better manage content, campaigns and understand user engagement with analytics by sharing the same …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
In comparison to other services, Adobe is particularly robust, and the platform is better suited to customers with a high level of maturity in the digital environment, who need a platform to overcome and solve day-to-day problems.
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
Adobe marketing cloud was a strong fit for our agency, considering we already take advantage of Adobe Creative Suite for creative projects. Competitor marketing platforms have often been tempting to evaluate considering they are often far less expensive, but the extra costs of …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
Adobe's feature set is more robust and progressive. I don't want to invest significantly in technology, just to feel like I'm going to have to upgrade within a few years. I have more confidence that Adobe's products will scale over time than I do in IBM's products, with the …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
As an agency, we are vendor agnostic so we typically recommend a tool based on our client's specific needs. Both Google Analytics 360 and Adobe Marketing Cloud are powerful tools, but if a client does not have the appropriate organizational pre-requisites to leverage the …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
We really have not evaluated any other products. I have used the Adobe products in the past and realized that the costs of purchasing the individual programs would have been too much for our organization. Using the cloud gives us tools we never thought we would be able top have …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
Adobe Marketing Cloud is really the best program out there, I'm not sure how it stacks up against most other analytical clients, because I either don't use them as often, or my clients specifically request Adobe Marketing Cloud. Adobe Marketing Cloud (AMC) is basically the …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
If you are an enterprise, there is simply no comparison. The sampling in Google Analytics will lead you astray. The lack of pathing will leave you unaware of how people navigate. You will essentially be making all of your decisions based on bad data. There's a stunning lack of …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
Adobe Marketing Cloud is a great solution if you need individual-user level analytics, a high degree of customization and integration with sales or customer management systems.

However, if you want to understand how segments behave in an aggregate level, understand the sources …
Chose Adobe Marketing Cloud
Before Adobe Search & Promote, we used, if I am not mistaken, a system called Easyask. But whatever it was, we needed to host it ourselves and give the proper maintenance. It consumed a lot of our time, which we now save by using Adobe.
Brandfolder
Chose Brandfolder
Brandfolder has the best UI/UX for the end user and the administrator. The UI/UX is modern and not just a recreation of a folder system like old OS file systems. Brandfolder is so visual based and loads so quickly that makes it easy for users to find their assets quickly. The …
Chose Brandfolder
I used Marketing Central before Brandfolder. The later is better with faster access to design ideas.
Features
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Marketing Cloud
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Ratings
Brandfolder
7.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Data exportability00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Content analytics00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
DAM Features
Comparison of DAM Features features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Marketing Cloud
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Ratings
Brandfolder
7.9
Ratings
6% below category average
Uploading assets00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Downloading assets00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Categories00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Asset storage00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Asset sharing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Asset search00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Tagging system00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Content editing00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Embed codes00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Metadata00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Collections00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
User access00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Workflow automations00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Related asset discovery00 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Small Businesses
HubSpot Marketing Hub
HubSpot Marketing Hub
Score 8.8 out of 10
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Brandfolder
Brandfolder
Score 9.0 out of 10
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Airtable
Airtable
Score 9.0 out of 10
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.0
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Likelihood to Renew
6.5
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User Testimonials
Adobe Marketing CloudBrandfolder
Likelihood to Recommend
This is definitely a tool for enterprises. You need to have a certain level of complexity before you pay for this tool. You should have multiple funnels, websites, or an insane amount of content. If you are involved in ecommerce, this is a worthwhile investment. However, if you have a smaller site, little content, only a single funnel, or don't sell anything online, this is a much less worthwhile tool for you.
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If you're a small, medium-sized, or even big organization, Brandfolder can help you with digital asset and identity management (DAM). It is user-friendly and offers a lot of options that will immensely improve your workflow. It easily integrates with other applications and the whole team can access the files
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Pros
  • Adobe Marketing Cloud provides strong capabilities and applications that help better run digital marketing campaigns, manage content and understand an insight.
  • Adobe Marketing Cloud also provides tools to A/B test, CMS, and manage digital campaigns.
  • It also provides strong capabilities to get an insight with Analytics to better understand the user journey.
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  • Documents such as contact lists and cooperative programs
  • Featured listings, agents, and maps are just a few examples of creative advertising concepts
  • Provides organization
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Cons
  • Adobe Marketing Cloud is fairly expensive compared to some of the other tools out there. While it does provide an excellent tool for the price, it can be a little daunting to some.
  • The learning curve with Adobe Marketing Cloud is fairly steep. When we bring on new employees that will work directly with the tool, it can take weeks until they are up to speed.
  • Like it mentioned before, the initial implementation was a fairly lengthy and complicated process. Staying on top of new campaigns does require quite a bit of knowledge of the tool and our process in order to be properly launched.
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  • If you have a large collection of images, like we do, and you go 2 or 3 pages deep and select an image, then close the image, the collection snaps back to page 1. It's pretty frustrating.
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Likelihood to Renew
Although a powerful tool, Google Analytics has been catching up in capabilities and is much simpler to use. As analytics move to the spotlight, more sections in a company want to have access to it. However, creating straightforward reports/dashboards and sharing them with different groups is not a strength of Adobe Marketing Cloud.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe marketing cloud was a strong fit for our agency, considering we already take advantage of Adobe Creative Suite for creative projects. Competitor marketing platforms have often been tempting to evaluate considering they are often far less expensive, but the extra costs of Adobe Marketing Cloud have been considerably offset when taking into account how much overhead and internal efficiency has been added to our process. That said, Moz and HubSpot, the two primary competitor platforms I have sampled, both had much better billing and estimating tools, a critical part of agency life. They also better handled the ever-changing social media landscape and were often quicker to adapt to emerging marketing trends.
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Brandfolder has the best UI/UX for the end user and the administrator. The UI/UX is modern and not just a recreation of a folder system like old OS file systems. Brandfolder is so visual based and loads so quickly that makes it easy for users to find their assets quickly. The templating is totally unique when compared to other options on the market. The tagging system, duplicate detection, collections, and stacking files into an asset makes the platform efficient to manage and use
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Return on Investment
  • Allowed us to increase the number of emails that went out the door without inundating our members with more email due to the levels of segmentation we could now activate.
  • We can add communication limits to make sure people only get a certain amount of messages from s in a given time period.
  • We decreased the time it took for a lead to make it to the sales team to a matter of seconds.
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  • Brandfolder has allowed us to be more efficient in sharing marketing assets
  • We have been able to empower staff to get the assets they need on their own
  • Staff can now edit and update assets without the need of working with a designer every time
  • We can serve images directly to our website via their CDN
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