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Brand Networks Platform

Score5 out of 10

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What is Brand Networks Platform?

The Brand Networks Platform is an ad serving platform from Brand Networks headquartered in Boston.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Ad display and retargeting segmentation

    Allows users to display and retarget ads to audience segments based on demographics, location, account, role, or other profile aspects.

    Category average: 6.7

  • Cross-channel ad management

    Provides an integrated view or control panel that allows users to manage their ad campaigns across a variety of platforms in one place.

    Category average: 7.1

  • Ad deployment

    Allows users to quickly and easily deploy new ad campaigns from within the tool.

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Ad dashboards

    Dashboards for analyzing and/or optimizing ads are clean, easy to use, and easy to understand.

    Category average: 6.1

  • Ad conversion tracking

    Tracks ad conversions by campaign and type of conversion—the customer might have clicked on the ad and then purchased a product, subscribed to a newsletter, filled out a form, or downloaded a whitepaper, etc.

    Category average: 6.8

  • Ad attribution reporting

    Generates accurate, detailed reports that attribute conversion to a combination of different touch points (ads, and other factors) leading up to conversion.

    Category average: 6.4

BN Platform for all form of social ads

Pros

  • Sleek design -- very attractive UI
  • Constantly innovating and updating the platform
  • Their support desk is very good. Very responsive and can usually update my issue within 1-2 business days.

Cons

  • API data issues. There are somewhat frequent breakdowns in continuous data being pulled from the social platforms
  • The campaign creation flow is a little clunky and has a couple bugs. Users often forgo using the platform to set up new campaigns, and use the native platforms instead
  • Because it's in continual development, there are lots of little bugs that slip through the cracks

Return on Investment

  • If you can create the report you need through automation, you can have those automatically sent to your email or a client's email. That saves time.
  • If optimization works correctly, you get even more efficient costs against you given campaign objective.
  • However, when features are broken, or there is a bug and I can't pull the performance data I need immediately, it detracts from my productivity

Alternatives Considered

Facebook for Business