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    Adform FLOW

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AAdform, headquartered in Copenhagen, offers an independent and integrated advertising platform built for modern marketing. Its enterprise technology – Adform FLOW – harnesses user experience and a scalable, modular and open architecture, to enable management of the whole campaign life cycle. It aims to provide clients with enhanced control and transparency across advertising operations, including ownership of all data from their campaigns.N/A

    The Trade Desk

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Trade Desk is the eponymous flagship product from the company headquartered in Ventura California, a demand-side / data management hybrid platform (DSP / DMP).N/A
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    Adform FLOWThe Trade Desk
    Editions & Modules
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    Adform FLOWThe Trade Desk
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Adform FLOWThe Trade Desk
    Ad Network Integration
    Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Adform FLOW and The Trade Desk
    Feature
    Adform FLOW
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    The Trade Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Data Transfer8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    DSP integration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Campaigns
    Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Adform FLOW and The Trade Desk
    Feature
    Adform FLOW
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    The Trade Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Ad campaign creation7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad deployment7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Display advertising9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad display and retargeting segmentation8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sequence targeting8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Adform FLOW and The Trade Desk
    Feature
    Adform FLOW
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    The Trade Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Ad dashboards9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad performance reports8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad conversion tracking7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad attribution reporting7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-channel ad management8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad forecasting and optimization7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Adform FLOWThe Trade Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adform FLOWThe Trade Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adform
    One of the best available solutions available for RTB, if you do not have your own or use agency's DSP/DMP/etc. this is the one I would recomment. Lot of targeting options, ease of use, great support. Or just great and cheap tool for tracking your direct buys. Also Adform has excellent customer support.
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    The Trade Desk
    After extensive research of DSP and DMP platforms in the market, our agency made the wise decision to license TTD's platform and develop a long-term partnership. TTD continues to innovate and offer cutting-edge media buying solutions, access to more audience data segments, and access to new and emerging media channels like CTV/OTT and digital-out-of-home. We couldn't be happier with TTD's technology and is one of the most advanced agency users of TTD is a key differentiator for our agency.
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    Pros
    Adform
    • Reporting Dashboard
    • Database integration
    • Ease of scheduling & running campaigns
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    The Trade Desk
    • User engagement - Cookie matching provides better engagement and effectiveness
    • Reporting of campaigns - Great reporting on display advertising & platforms
    • Dashboard reporting - Scalable to global deployment & campaigns
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    Cons
    Adform
    • Bugs
    • UX of DSP Panel
    • Performance
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    The Trade Desk
    • Reporting platform leaves a lot to be desired. Requires a lot of trial/error to pull exactly what you need to drive optimizations/learnings.
    • The "stop"/"continue bidding" feature for sitelists, devices, player sizes, etc is awful. When you set something up specifically, you should not have the AUTOMATIC option to serve beyond those parameters.
    • Trafficking video (VAST/VPAID) tags requires a manual insertion of a click URL. Completely redundant ask and is not provided by advertisers as that URL lives within the ad tag. Should not require multiple actions traffic a video tag.
    • Creative approval process (manual) doesn't seem necessary and is not a part of peers' platforms. There is no "pause/deactivate" feature for creative, you remove them or adjust the end date.
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    Usability
    Adform
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    The Trade Desk
    easy to understand dashboards and the self started ability to get going on your own terms. It's great to target niche groups across the world while still being able to report at a high level to C-suite. Wish it drove more conversions, but display can be a struggle there. Overall, would use it again.
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    Support Rating
    Adform
    Reasons are already given in past. They are really slow in support service.
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    The Trade Desk
    We noted no issues with our limited interaction with support. The software operated just as expected and we found that we were able to navigate needs on our own. We understand that The Trade Desk offers excellent support, so we believe it will be a good resource to us in the future.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adform
    Adform was in some usecases similar to Xaxis, however, client preferred to use Adform.
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    The Trade Desk
    The Trade Desk is a much better product than AppNexus. Even though both products showed promise awhile back, AppNexus stopped innovating and The Trade Desk became specialists on data, cross site tracking and CTV inventory thus having a better and more unique product that actually adds value to your advertising efforts.
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    Return on Investment
    Adform
    • CPA reduction 20% in some clients
    • ROAS driven decisions
    • DSP Cost reduction
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    The Trade Desk
    • The good thing about having an agency account is The Trade Desk lets you add your markups to the client billing.
    • We had a very positive response from clients regarding their perceived ROI on their ad spend through The Trade Desk.
    • We did not have many national clients, mostly local dealerships, so it was difficult for them to allocate a lot of funds to display advertising, even though the ROI yield was acceptable.
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