To help advertisers understand how their marketing performs across media such as search, display, video, and audio, Amazon Advertising is introducing Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC)—a holistic measurement and analytics solution currently in beta for eligible advertisers. AMC is built on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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Swydo, by DialogTech
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Swydo, now from DialogTech (acquired January 2018) is a reporting, monitoring and workflow sofware application for online marketers, designed to allow users to create professional online marketing reports and dashboards, save time and show impact.
If you notice that a certain ad is performing well during a flash sale and want to increase the budget immediately, Amazon Marketing Cloud won’t provide real-time data. You’ll have to use Amazon Ads Manager instead. Example is that with me client has a low ad budget or a small number of customers, Amazon Marketing Cloud might not provide enough data to give you meaningful trends or recommendations. If you find a group of high-value customers using Amazon Marketing Cloud, you can’t just click a button to target them directly in Amazon DSP. Instead, you have to manually export the data and upload it elsewhere.
Swydo, by DialogTech is great for monitoring your ad spend, reporting on ads, and combining it all into an easy-to-read report. Swydo, by DialogTech is not able to show organic social media metrics, so for us, it is not a complete report of our campaigns because we prefer to include metrics of related social posts.
likely because while it offers powerful insights, it has challenges in ease of use. Amazon Marketing Cloud requires SQL knowledge for queries, making it difficult for non-technical users. Unlike traditional marketing tools with simple dashboards, Amazon Marketing Cloud demands manual data extraction and analysis, slowing down decision-making. Another usability challenge is the lack of real-time data, which makes it hard to optimize campaigns instantly. If you want to adjust ad spend based on immediate performance, Amazon Marketing Cloud’s batch processing delays insights. Additionally, there’s no direct audience activation, meaning you have to export data manually instead of seamlessly applying insights within Amazon DSP. However, Amazon Marketing Cloud is highly valuable for in-depth analysis, audience segmentation, and attribution modeling. With better user-friendly features like pre-built reports, automation, and real-time analytics, usability could improve significantly, making it easier for businesses to maximize its potential.
I have compared Google Ads Data Hub and Meta's Advanced Analytics with Amazon Marketing Cloud. Amazon Marketing Cloud is most notable for its insights into the deep Amazon ecosystem, Google for cross-platform tracking, and Meta for extensive social engagement analysis. AMC's privacy-safe query-based model is powerful but SQL-skilled, in contrast to Google's more accessible UI.
I've never found as good a combination of value and featured data as Swydo, by DialogTech. I think that Semrush is a great tool, especially for research. And I use some of their social media templates, but the report writer is nowhere near as robust as Swydo, by DialogTech. Supermetrics also has an okay product, but is nowhere near Swydo, by DialogTech's class. Even when I'm only reporting on one platform, I find that Swydo, by DialogTech, is often a better choice than the native report.
