PubMatic vs. Skai

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PubMatic
Score 5.0 out of 10
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PubMatic is an ad serving and retargeting solution. This platform is designed to serve as a control panel that provides users with a single view into their advertiser relationships across every screen, channel and format. The vendor says through workflow automation, real-time analytics and yield management, they are able to enable users to make smarter, faster decisions that drive revenue and streamline operations.N/A
Skai
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is a cross-channel advertising solution for search marketing, social media and online advertising. The product aims to give advertisers and agencies the control and automation needed to make better investment decisions across search marketing and online advertising.
$10,000
Starting Price
Pricing
PubMaticSkai
Editions & Modules
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Kenshoo
$10,000
Starting Price
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PubMaticSkai
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
PubMaticSkai
Features
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Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
PubMatic
-
Ratings
Skai
7.1
Ratings
4% below category average
Data Transfer00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
DSP integration00 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
PubMatic
-
Ratings
Skai
6.1
Ratings
24% below category average
Ad campaign creation00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Ad deployment00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Display advertising00 Ratings4.30 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation00 Ratings4.80 Ratings
Sequence targeting00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
PubMatic
-
Ratings
Skai
7.3
Ratings
6% below category average
Ad dashboards00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Ad performance reports00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Cross-channel ad management00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
PubMaticSkai
Likelihood to Recommend
5.0
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9.2
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Likelihood to Renew
1.0
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7.8
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Usability
-
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9.6
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
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3.6
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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9.6
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User Testimonials
PubMaticSkai
Likelihood to Recommend
Do not go with PubMatic -- every aspect of their company needs to improve and be tested on a higher scale for companies and organizations to be happy with their work. They need to listen to what clients are telling them to be able to improve their day to day functions.
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Kenshoo Search may not be appropriate if you don't spend much on search engine marketing. It also may not be appropriate if you don't care about tracking conversions and are only concerned with increasing awareness. Or, if you care about tracking conversions but don't expect to capture many, Kenshoo Search may not be necessary.
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Pros
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  • Customized reporting. There are many features that users can't report out on in power editor. Kenshoo makes it incredibly easy to get everything you need for a raw data dump.
  • Automation. Whether it's automated rules, portfolios or refreshing CRM uploads, Kenshoo helps cut some of the manual tasks out of the process making me more efficient.
  • Staying up to date with Facebook product updates. I can appreciate that Kenshoo does an exceptional job and ensuring new capabilities in Facebook are ready for use in the Kenshoo platform as well.
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Cons
  • Communication is key and PubMatic really needs to improve the way they speak to clients and their response time on emails and the time lapse between communication. Turn around time needs to improve. Simple requests like forecasting should not take weeks to turn around.
  • Understanding their product before making it available to a huge organization. Don't use companies as guinea pigs when the product isn't even working. Understand what your client expects from you from the very beginning.
  • Don't place blame where blame isn't warranted.
  • Knowing the terminology you're speaking about well before you have a conference call.
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  • Syncing - I have had many issues where syncs would time out, or not show that changes were posted to Facebook.
  • Library - if there was a library for targeting settings that could be saved and easily accessed and input into new campaigns, that would be very helpful.
  • Updates - seemingly basic tools that a social management platform should have often taken a long time to be released.
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Likelihood to Renew
We have already cancelled.
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It's great to have a product like Kenshoo Social. It has a lot of data and is a great tool to use. Honestly, I think we would have looked somewhere else if we didn't have some much data and time invested into the platform. We had used it across search and social, so we invested a lot of time to get it running smoothly. It is very expensive and we think we could have gone elsewhere to get the same results over time. Once they have your data and the system is running smoothly, it's very difficult to go elsewhere
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Usability
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Set-up like other marketing platforms. If you know Google Ads, you know Kenshoo
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Support Rating
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Very responsive and bring fast answers for problems
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Alternatives Considered
We regret using PubMatic and are happy with our choice to move forward onto a better company.
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While DoubleClick does not fully budget pace accounts I think it overall provides more accurate changes than Kenshoo. When our company selected Kenshoo we were told it would be able to manage hundreds of small accounts with small budgets. It is more designed for accounts that would be spending minimally thousands of dollars a month. We had extreme issues with Kenshoo budget pacing and increasing our bids. Overall it did not meet our needs, and we will be switching vendors at end of contract
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Return on Investment
  • Increased problem areas
  • Decreased productivity.
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  • ROI is harder to track due to reporting/column & time frame default tech in my humble opinion but generally better results when compared to other products
  • Since the interface is difficult to navigate and paid search is a reactive medium, can produce barriers to change.
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