Smartly.io vs. WordStream

It is the best for visually appealing brands, basically, any hedonic goods to advertise. Best if you have a lot of visuals to represent your business and want to leverage your presence on given platforms. You can easily turn images into videos or have dynamic attributes for your remarketing campaign. As the pricing is not attractive for smaller clients, it is the best to be either a big brand to use the platform on your own or a big agency to use smartly.io features as your competitive advantage.

WordStream is so beneficial to a green digital marketing team. If your team is new to paid ads, this will help immensely. It might not be as beneficial for a company that does not use AdWords and is strictly in social ads.

Incentivized

• Easy to use. You can copy, paste, duplicate and delete campaigns in few clicks which then was not a thing on Facebook business manager.
• Great templates for visuals, which is the biggest advantage of Smartly.io.
• Outstanding customer support. Replies in 5min and usually works until the issue is solved. If it cannot be solved by the first person, the next person takes part in.

• Remove duplicates: The platform has a tool that enables marketers to easily identify duplicate keywords across campaigns, ad groups, and the account; from there duplicates can be paused in an effort to improve quality scores and account performance.
• Bid management: WordStream reveals which current keywords can improve campaign performance by increasing and decreasing their bids - updates can be made on the spot.
• Ad optimizations: WordStream scans paid search accounts to ensure each ad group is using high performing ads. Marketers can quickly create new ads, and pause ads based on the tool's recommendations.

Incentivized

• The system is sometimes unstable and buggy
• UI improvements: the interface can be confusing at times

Incentivized

• This is definitely not for a beginner and require knowledge on how PPC/SEM campaigns are run unless you purchase the premium support package that includes a dedicated representative to which they are very helpful.
• We had some serious tracking issues and were unable to effectively track the clicks to our website. Because of this, I had to start from scratch and decided not to use WordStream.

I am not the PPC manager here so I have to use the products available.

• If the problem involves some product bugs, customer support does not leave it be. They forward the problem to engineers so it would be solved. Once we caught a problem, they fixed it through the weekend. They always keep you in the loop with the current status of the issue. Once a new person jumps in to follow up, the reaction is
• They are all the time super polite and very friendly.
• Replies in under 5 minutes.
• Customer support can jump into your account and make quick fixes if you allow them to.

I have not had any experience with the customer support team for platform issues, but the account representative checks in with us often and is always available to answer questions. We will usually get on quarterly review calls so that she can share any new updates to the platform and answer questions.

Incentivized

I've never used a system to help with my Google AdWords. This was the first system I had used. WordStream definitely takes the cake though, I have a hard time believing there could be a better system out there. I wouldn't even consider going to look for a new system. I am confident WordStream has owned the Google AdWords space.

Incentivized

• Allowed us the ability to A/B test organic content
• Workflow efficiencies
• Content insights

Incentivized

• Since beginning to use the tool, we've seen our search impression share nearly double for some campaigns.
• We've increased our click-through rates by over 25% since adding WordStream to our toolset.
• I'm more confident in the strategies that are having an impact on our cost per conversion, and can better forecast our impact for the future.

Incentivized