AdClarity vs. Adobe Marketo Engage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AdClarity
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
AdClarity is a SaaS solution for competitive marketing intelligence. With AdClarity, you can explore any site, brand, mediator, and even campaign, and get a complete perspective of its online activity.
$350
per month
Adobe Marketo Engage
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Adobe Marketo Engage (acquired by Adobe in 2018) is a marketing automation platform whose basic features include email marketing, drip nurturing, landing pages, and lead scoring, but other editions offer additional advanced features. Typical customers are B2B firms with complex sales cycles.N/A
Pricing
AdClarityAdobe Marketo Engage
Editions & Modules
Subscription
$350.00
per month
Growth
Pricing based on database size.
per month
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Prime
Pricing based on database size.
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Ultimate
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AdClarityAdobe Marketo Engage
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
AdClarity
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Ratings
Adobe Marketo Engage
7.8
Ratings
3% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
List management00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
AdClarity
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Ratings
Adobe Marketo Engage
7.7
Ratings
1% below category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
AdClarity
-
Ratings
Adobe Marketo Engage
7.7
Ratings
4% above category average
Calendaring00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
AdClarity
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Ratings
Adobe Marketo Engage
7.5
Ratings
0% below category average
Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Social profile integration00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
AdClarity
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Ratings
Adobe Marketo Engage
8.0
Ratings
9% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
AdClarity
-
Ratings
Adobe Marketo Engage
7.9
Ratings
6% above category average
API00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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7.0
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Likelihood to Renew
8.6
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9.0
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Usability
-
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8.0
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Availability
-
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9.0
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Performance
-
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9.0
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Support Rating
-
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8.6
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In-Person Training
-
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10.0
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Online Training
-
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6.7
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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10.0
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Configurability
-
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6.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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1.1
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Product Scalability
-
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7.0
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Vendor post-sale
-
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8.2
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Vendor pre-sale
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8.2
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User Testimonials
AdClarityAdobe Marketo Engage
Likelihood to Recommend
It's suitable for social media monitoring.
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If you are looking to, you're looking to scale up your lead gen work. Adobe Marketo was a very good tool for that. You're looking to deliver leads to a sales team from marketing campaigns. It's a very good tool for that. It runs everything we do on the marketing side and I think a small lead gen team or a very large one could use an equally well.
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Pros
  • Media buying analysis
  • Google GDN analysis
  • Optimize display advertising
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  • Adobe Marketo Engage is a great platform for custom email design. The user interface is simple and easy to navigate.
  • With Campaign Optimization, Adobe Marketo Engage allows for real-time adjustments, ensuring my campaigns remain relevant and effective.
  • With Advanced Analytics, Adobe Marketo Engage provides robust marketing data analysis, helping us better understand our campaigns' effectiveness.
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Cons
  • When used in Chrome, it affect all tabs and reload it, which increases data downloaded with tool on, and will impact on costs.
  • Some features are useless to developers, like clean cookies and set device type, they should have different versions for professionals and regular users.
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  • Marketo's email editor is basic in comparison to other cheaper alternatives out there.
  • Marketo doesn't work as well in B2C scenarios as it does in B2B. One of the painpoints of this is it's difficult to showcase a selection of product recommendations based on purchase behaviour without a very time consuming workaround. It's manageable if you're only selling a handful of products, but it's inefficient when dealing with a large catalogue.
  • Marketo's form and landing page builder are also behind the times. Perhaps not as bad as the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform, but for an enterprise company the product should be much better.
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Likelihood to Renew
Because it solves all the problems I needed and hardly has any problems.
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We're likely to renew for several reasons:
  • Now that it's been implemented, I can't imagine not having marketing automation and the easy interface that Marketo provides to run our campaigns
  • Marketo's community and customer service is fantastic; I know that when I need help, I'll get it
  • Marketo continues to improve the product, so I know that I can expect it to be even more useful in the future
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Usability
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In some aspects, the tool can feel quite clunky in parts. But with the rich feature set it has, it's understandable. There is a lot of room for improvement for the user interface. The system itself doesn't have a slick or modern feel, so the usability could feel nicer to use with these areas considered.
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Reliability and Availability
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Marketo provides different way and abilities to connect. If you are having product support or unexplained errors you can get someone on Marketo support 24 hours a day. One of Marketo's greatest assets in my opinion however would be the community. Often times our company is just looking for case success stories from someone else. In the community you can search for problems you are currently facing and see others having the same issue and solutions for those issues. If not, you can pose a question to the whole community and champions of the product and others can chime in to provide suggestions to fix your needs. The community is truly a 24/7 place to get your answers quickly.
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Performance
No answers on this topic
There are times when it is slightly slow for us, where we sit on a screen waiting for it to load. This could be our internet since we have had the same issue occasionally with other systems, but it is enough to make you crazy.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
On multiple occasions we've had Marketo support (technical and license based) issues. Technical issues were minor and resolved within a day. License based issues (even things encouraged by Marketo for partners, like provisioning another license) took WEEKS. They actually took so long to respond that the client we were working with withdrew from the contract because they were no longer convinced Marketo was capable of supporting their business. As an agency trying to sell the software, you can only explain away so much before they just made us look silly.
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In-Person Training
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If you are first time user then the training is perfect, but the advance training is not that effective. After working in Marketo for 5 years there is nothing new to learn. The new tools that Marketo have are expensive and too difficult to use. + I would recommend to learn the basic and use Marketo on the daily bases as you will forget everything in a month if you don't use it.
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Online Training
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You can get 100% of your training done online. Marketo's community is filled with experts and they list free training videos on marketo.com. They also have user groups in every major city that help you get the most out of your Marketo instance and Marketing Automation in general. It's really easy to pick up this tool and start running on day one.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
1. Have a content marketing plan to run in parallel with the marketing automation installation--you'll need a lot of content to make full use of Marketo's capabilities. 2. Work with sales (and ISRs) to define and document a workflow--build your Marketo installation around how you do business--not figure out how to apply your business to the tools 3. Spend time of data cleaning--both an initial project as well as a strategy for ongoing data management. We found some change manaement issues (no more appending ZZZ to the first name to identify contacts who have left the company, for example, or prohibiting the entry of "info@company.com" email addresses). 4. Find some champions in the sales and ISR teams. You'll have both fans and detractors--work with the fans to build some success stories
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Alternatives Considered
Very similar product, they have the same purposes and also same features, only difference could be the costs.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
As we have grown, Marketo has grown with us. We started with simple single email campaigns and are now doing complex campaigns with multiple emails and tracks that we send a contact to if they take certain actions within our emails. We also have a complex integration with several systems and have the visibility into our marketing activities throughout our organization.
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Return on Investment
  • I was able to get more suitable, better converting traffic sources.
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  • Generated a 35% higher return on investment (ROI) in demand generation in the company.
  • The focus on the accounts that presented a greater sales potential, allowed us to prioritize and reduce costs by 20 Million USD.
  • Being personal and optimized. reduced efforts towards a more personalized customer experience, in working hours by almost 100 h.
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Adobe Marketo Engage Screenshots

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