Dynamic Yield vs. Google Content Experiments (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dynamic Yield
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Dynamic Yield is presented as an AI-powered Experience Optimization platform that delivers individualized experiences at every customer touchpoint: web, apps, email, kiosks, IoT, and call centers. The platform’s data management capabilities provide for a unified view of the customer, to allow the rapid and scalable creation of highly targeted digital interactions. Marketers, product managers, and engineers use Dynamic Yield for: Launching new personalization…N/A
Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Google Content Experiments was a tool that can be used to create A/B test from within Google Analytics. It has been discontinued since 2019, and Google now recommends using its Google Optimize service for A/B testing.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
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Considered Both Products
Dynamic Yield
Chose Dynamic Yield
Better Product Recommendations, Ease of Use, Affinity based Personalisation, Predictive Targeting and out of the box templates.
Chose Dynamic Yield
It's mostly the speed and efficiency that make Dynamic Yield the go-to platform. It's very customizable, and tracking can be done in real-time, which is a strong point. Built-in component testing enables all team members to view and track changes easily. Not only that, it is a …
Chose Dynamic Yield
While each of the other platforms may have certain features or aspects that are stronger than Dynamic Yield, Dynamic Yield is certainly the best platform I've used of the ones listed. The ability to do both experimentation and personalization in one platform (and to have a tool …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield has many more features than Google Optimize so this allowed us to hit many more use cases which may have previously been out of reach. We switched to Dynamic Yield after Google Optimize was shut down.
Chose Dynamic Yield
We can do a lot more with Dynamic Yield with not just the testing side of things but the product recommendations, personalisation and the out of the box features.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield provides far more capability and ready-to-go templates for small-medium sized businesses, as well as decent API implementation for businesses who want to have a deeper integration. The ease of implementation and faster time-to-market is why we chose Dynamic Yield.
Chose Dynamic Yield
DY is easier to understand, has much better support than any of the other products i've used, and much easier to setup / integrate
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield is leaps-and-bounds beyond other platforms when it comes to advanced capabilities. If all you want is to A/B tests two separate landing pages, it is probably overkill. If you want to optimize your customer's digital experience across audience-types, including …
Chose Dynamic Yield
I have used homegrown recommendation tools in the past. DY is more robust than anything I could build in house.
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Optimizely Web Experimentation
Chose Dynamic Yield
No contest between Convert and Optimizely - those are very decent A/B test programs but also standard. The biggest contender was A/B Tasty and we chose DY due to the ease of client vs server side implementation within the platform and robust analytics/product recommendation …
Chose Dynamic Yield
You get a lot more for the amount you pay compared with similar offerings. The out of the box templates also make it easier to get started especially if there is limited engineering resource. Like that it supports testing / personalization / recommender at the same time.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield has proven to surpass my experiences with both Optimizely and Braze in many ways - notably with contact time and support from the team, which has made a huge difference to the success of the tool for us. But also in my experience, I've found there to be a much …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield was the most robust, flexible, and intuitive option, as well as the best fit for our Single Page Application environment.
Chose Dynamic Yield
I have not used other products in the same space as DY.
Chose Dynamic Yield
We've used product recommendations through our website platform and while it was a couple of years ago and I can't remember exactly who we reviewed, we did compare Dynamic Yield to two or three other competitors before deciding to move forward with them.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Because you can use both personalization and A/B testing in one platform was the biggest reason for moving forward with Dynamic Yield. Also having a dedicated customer success manager was also a reason to move forward.
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield is easier to use and the customer support hands down is the best we have ever encountered. The out-of-the-box campaigns are greater and easier to use on Dynamic Yield.
Chose Dynamic Yield
DY can be linked to the product feed allowing use cases that are not possible on a simple testing solution.
Also, DY is simple to use for the marketing team, there is no need for technical knowledge to set most of the experiences. To conclude, DY can be used as a CDP with a …
Chose Dynamic Yield
Dynamic yield has everything you need out of the box where VWO pricing is tiered which can be frustrating. Dynamic yield is solid on personalization and more flexible with what can be done and achieved.
Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
Google Content Experiments is a free tool and the leading tool in the industry. It's pretty simple to set up a test and use content experiments to monitor objectives once Google Analytics is installed. Less experienced team members can run tests with some training. There are …
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
It frankly was down to cost. Other platforms offer better targeting etc., however, we found that unless we could demonstrate early value - we didn't get budget sign off. Our teams aren't usually large enough to justify the cost and time to invest in a more complex platform - so …
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
Google Website Optimizer was a better product but has been discontinued. We have also used Test and Target , which has more features but we have been doing fine with Google Content Experiments. Most testing situations can be handled with Google Content Experiments.
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
Google Content Experiment cannot compete with Adobe Test and Target, Quadratics or even Optimizley. It is harder to use with no editing interface, so pages must be actually developed. It doesn't allow for any advanced segmenting or multivarient testing. But it is free, so …
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
I have not used any alternatives. I only use Content Experiments because it is in GA.
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
Google CE is free, Optimizely isn't plus only until recently I found out that Optimizely can work with multiple goals, however, this was found by meeting their employees at a trade show and not via their website.
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
We'd use content experiments as a complimentary testing tool alongside more comprehensive testing packages out there. As a free testing tool it does the job for basic A/B testing.
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
If you are looking for a more advanced great value for money solution I would recommend investigating Visual Website Optimizer. For a more powerful enterprise level solution with the option to have a fully managed service I would recommend Maxymiser.
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
Google Content Experiments provides significantly more insight, historical data and analysis than Unbounce. However, if you do need a solution that offers a WYSIWYG editor, landing page hosting, and limited reporting and testing, Unbounce is a good all-in-one solution and that …
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
GCE isn't better or worse than any of these, it's just different. When I have the time to build a new page, setup the testing scripts, and go - then I'll use GCE. If I'm doing multivariate I use VWO. If I'm testing a quick button or headline change, I use Optimizely or UnBounce.
Chose Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
Google CE does a great job streamlining tools and features. Optimizely does not offer nearly the same amount of tools or resources that G CE does. I would use CE in the future but stay away from Optimizely. Google also has a lot more resources for accruing knowledge on it …
Features
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Testing and Experimentation
Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
9.2
Ratings
11% above category average
a/b experiment testing00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Split URL testing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multivariate testing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Multi-page/funnel testing00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Cross-browser testing00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile app testing00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Test significance00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Visual / WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Advanced code editor00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Page surveys00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Visitor recordings00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Preview mode00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Test duration calculator00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Experiment scheduler00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Experiment workflow and approval00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Dynamic experiment activation00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Client-side tests00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Server-side tests00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Mutually exclusive tests00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Audience Segmentation & Targeting
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Ratings
Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
10.0
Ratings
16% above category average
Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Traffic allocation control00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Website personalization00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
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Ratings
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9.9
Ratings
16% above category average
Click analytics00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Form fill analysis00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Conversion tracking00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Goal tracking00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Test reporting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Results segmentation00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
CSV export00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Experiments results dashboard00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Bloomreach - The Agentic Platform for Personalization
Score 8.5 out of 10
Convert Experiences
Convert Experiences
Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Monetate
Monetate
Score 6.2 out of 10
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield
Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Monetate
Monetate
Score 6.2 out of 10
Dynamic Yield
Dynamic Yield
Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
8.6
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
It's ideal for testing continuous improvements in user experience - we're achieving good results from A/B testing and multivariate testing, and tracking the impact is very slick and compelling. We currently don't have any Dynamic Yield integrations set up for our app due to the complexities involved. We are also unable to track user behavior on platforms nested outside our domain (such as CTAs on our site that link to external booking engines).
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Google Content Experiments is suited for large and small organizations, no matter your organizational goals. It is not recommended for organizations that are only interested in qualitative data, as there are other tools for receiving specific user experience feedback. It is also not recommended that you implement tests without some sort of goal in mind.
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Pros
  • Product recommendations are easy to set up, and powerfully personalizable through either hands on refining or automated A/B testing
  • Customer insights are easy to set up and can be applied retroactively to data
  • A/B testing anything from different graphics to copy to page layouts is easy to set up and implement site wide
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  • When you need to measure against event-based goals
  • If you need to see how the test variations performed against secondary goals
  • Given that the the platform requires you actually code a new page with a unique URL, this tool can be good for radical redesigns.
  • Great insights into other information about your testing groups, like whether or not they're mobile, screen size, browser, or really any dimension available in GA.
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Cons
  • The impact (either positive or negative) of potentially overlapping campaigns, especially the UX personalization or custom code campaigns, may not be easily identifiable.
  • It would make more sense for the new deep-learning and machine learning (ML) driven strategies be made part of the standard offering, as opposed to positioning them as add-on subscription, given that many other completing services are baking in ML as part of their platform evolution.
  • The documentation on the API and custom code implementation can be fleshed out further.
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  • You can only optimise for one goal, so if you have several conversions, like phone call and email you need to do it manually.
  • It seems not to work that well for pages with lower amounts of traffic - not great for new or niche sites.
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Likelihood to Renew
implementation took a long time but also, DY has really proven that they are transforming and adapting their platform to be more user friendly and the right technology choice for their brand or company
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Content Experiments just makes it is simple and easy to implement A|B tests. We will be evaluating other tools in search of a more robust system for multivariate and cross-page testing, such as Optimizely or Visual Website Optimizer. However, for basic testing, you can't really beat it.
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Usability
Overall, the interface is not difficult to understand. Although to create campaigns or define strategies for recommendations, some study is required.
Also, some reports are hidden, you really need to know where to look in order to see them (e.g. strategies performance or email campaigns performance).
Also, there is a lack of context help that would improve a lot the usability, especially when you face a feature or a report for the first time.
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Support Rating
Allison Schwartz, Customer Success Manager at Dynamic Yield has been nothing less than amazing and stellar! She really sets the standard for customer success and support. Their technical support is fast and reliable, and their educational resources are top of the line
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Using the free tool, overall "live support" is limited. However, there are plenty of online resources to get started. If you need handheld support, it is best to upgrade the service or hire a developer through one of Google's partner agencies. There could be more support for understanding what makes a test useful or not.
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Alternatives Considered
We selected Dynamic Yield because of Better Support & Partnership Experience, Superior Experimentation Capabilities, All-in-One Platform for Personalization, Testing, and Targeting Its better suited then other tools with A/B testing, better hyper personalization, AI - driven capabilities, low - code, better support
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Google Website Optimizer was a better product but has been discontinued. We have also used Test and Target , which has more features but we have been doing fine with Google Content Experiments. Most testing situations can be handled with Google Content Experiments.
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Return on Investment
  • Dynamic Yield supports us in our CRO offering as our optimisation platform of choice - we are leveraging this tool heavily in the application of these services - allowing us an ongoing income stream.
  • Dynamic Yields adds value to our clients - we can confidently recommend DY's recommendations and AI as better than those that are offered "out of the box" within Shopify. As a Shopify Plus agency, leveraging this better technology is often a quick way in which we can show almost immediate value to new clients to improve their conversion rate and revenue per user.
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  • Doing good experiments/Optimize has helped to take out the guesswork of the things we want to implement.
  • We have done fairly complex changes such as changing navigation and managed to see improvements outcomes immediately before we have to request developer.
  • Our teams have become more data centric in how they approach changes.
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ScreenShots

Dynamic Yield Screenshots

Screenshot of The Dynamic Yield Dashboard, which offers a high-level overview of personalization campaigns, site performance, audiences, product updates, and more. With customers building and managing dozens, sometimes even hundreds of concurrent campaigns, the Dynamic Yield dashboard provides a snapshot of key information and surfaces items for potential optimization from campaigns that require action.Screenshot of Dynamic Yield's customer segmentation engine, used to unify customer data across digital and offline touchpoints. Data can be onboarded from multiple sources to create one cohesive dataset from which to power experiences. Users can collect, store, categorize, and synchronize data from a CRM, ESP, DMP, APIs, or POS.Screenshot of The interface to create cross-touchpoint personalization campaigns and experiments at scale. Users can coordinate independent personalization experiences to deliver a cohesive, consistent customer journey from start-to-finish.Screenshot of Dynamic Yield's Predictive Targeting capabilities, which provides machine-learning optimization. Dynamic Yield’s Predictive Targeting engine will continuously analyze and identify opportunities to serve the most relevant content for each audience segment.