Sojern RevDirect vs. The Trade Desk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Sojern RevDirect
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Sojern’s RevDirect™is a risk-free, pay-for-performance direct demand marketing solution for independent hotel marketers. Engaging with prospective guests as they quickly navigate across websites, digital channels, and devices to plan and book their travel is an increasingly complex challenge, which Sojern is aiming to solve with its RevDirect solution. You can customize your display campaign to include Facebook, Instagram, Search, and more, and place your property in front of in-market…N/A
The Trade Desk
Score 9.0 out of 10
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The 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
Pricing
Sojern RevDirectThe Trade Desk
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Sojern RevDirectThe Trade Desk
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Sojern RevDirectThe Trade Desk
Ad Campaigns
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Sojern RevDirect
8.3
Ratings
7% above category average
The Trade Desk
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Ratings
Ad campaign creation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad deployment8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Display advertising8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad display and retargeting segmentation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad Reporting & Analytics
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Sojern RevDirect
10.0
Ratings
26% above category average
The Trade Desk
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Ad dashboards10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad performance reports10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Sojern RevDirectThe Trade Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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9.0
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Usability
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8.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Sojern RevDirectThe Trade Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
Sojern is well suited for those who are measuring ROI and are looking to have more direct bookings to the website. Google has made it increasingly more difficult to book directly on a website. I believe it takes about three clicks to get to a website through Google listings and Sojern has made it easier for us to make our websites more visible in rankings. The same goes for OTAs, with Sojern we have a better means of combating pesky OTAs.
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We are a large company, but The Trade Desk seems like it would also work well for small companies. In our limited deployment, we focused on the USA market and Digital Marketing, but we see this platform working for global markets, multi-language, and across all paid search engines. They provide great user engagement and dashboard reporting to help us manage each campaign in real-time. The Trade Desk seems to do all of these things well and would work for most companies. I have yet to see a campaign and/or executive initiative that The Trade Desk can't handle. We have had a favorable experience and believe it has met every objective we have.
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Pros
  • Drives booking to our websites.
  • Helps us to better understand traveler profiles.
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  • Manage multiple client accounts for Display Advertising
  • Manage multiple clients' Display Advertising across an array of Display Platforms
  • We were also able to manage clients' Video and Native Advertising Campaigns
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Cons
  • For those who don't analyze data on a daily basis it would be beneficial to have simple descriptions of the collected data.
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  • They are not very transparent in terms of margins and fees.
  • They need to get more video inventory, there is not enough.
  • The reporting they provide is a bit limited.
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Usability
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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
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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
Sojern combines all of these platforms into one and makes information more accessible and easier to read among analysts. With Sojern we can easily make changes to ads created in order to boost ROI. Our company selected Sojern as a means to better our quality production and to lessen the time spent on adjusting content and analyzing data.
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We compared The Trade Desk against a number of competing programmatic media buying platforms including Google's DV360, Centro's Basis platform, Adobe Advertising Cloud, and the Simpli.fi platform. In the end, we felt that The Trade Desk provides the most tools, options, advanced technology, and access to third-party solutions than anything other DSP/DMP on the market. TTD has leaned into forming a long-term relationship with our agency, and they continue to provide great strategic service.
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Return on Investment
  • Sojern has had a positive impact on our impression share.
  • Sojern has had a positive impact on our ROI across the board.
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  • Positively impacting ability to delivery in-view KPI campaigns across ad types (display, high impact, preroll).
  • Slightly higher pricing structure requires a bit more conservative bidding in this platform compared to others.
  • The customer service has been top notch. Adding to the confidence in building a lasting partnership. Access to product betas and offering product feedback are of interest to our organization.
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