Skai vs. SmartyAds SSP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
SmartyAds SSP
Score 4.5 out of 10
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SmartyAds SPP is a supply-side ad serving tool for publishers.N/A
Pricing
SkaiSmartyAds SSP
Editions & Modules
Kenshoo
$10,000
Starting Price
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SkaiSmartyAds SSP
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
SkaiSmartyAds SSP
Ad Network Integration
Comparison of Ad Network Integration features of Product A and Product B
Skai
7.1
Ratings
4% below category average
SmartyAds SSP
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Data Transfer8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
DSP integration5.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Campaigns
Comparison of Ad Campaigns features of Product A and Product B
Skai
6.1
Ratings
24% below category average
SmartyAds SSP
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Ad campaign creation7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad deployment7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Display advertising4.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation4.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sequence targeting6.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Ad Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Skai
7.3
Ratings
6% below category average
SmartyAds SSP
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Ad dashboards7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad performance reports9.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad conversion tracking6.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad attribution reporting7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Cross-channel ad management5.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad forecasting and optimization6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
SkaiSmartyAds SSP
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
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Likelihood to Renew
7.8
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Usability
9.6
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Availability
3.6
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Support Rating
9.6
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User Testimonials
SkaiSmartyAds SSP
Likelihood to Recommend
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
  • 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
  • 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
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
Set-up like other marketing platforms. If you know Google Ads, you know Kenshoo
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Support Rating
Very responsive and bring fast answers for problems
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Alternatives Considered
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
  • 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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