AdButler vs. The Trade Desk

AdButler is suitable for any company size but I would said that it is better for small to medium-sized agencies. AdButler is highly scalable but the control panel/dashboard could be challenging to manage if you have many campaigns or many users. It's also a good alternative for ad networks, which would like to manage multiple relationships with publishers.

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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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• Organize your online publishers
• Organize your campaigns
• Reports are very simple and easy to read

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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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• Assigning multiple video publishers to a single campaign is something that they need to improve
• The publisher dashboard is a little complicated to understand

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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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

AdButler is very convenient and very cost effective. Additionally, when you change a setup at the ad level, the server shows the change immediately; there's no delay. Ad Manager is better when you manage a significant amount of campaigns and users, but it's not that cheap in the end and you always have to wait for any change. EPOM is also a good solution, but the look and feel are old and it's complicated for some users to manage properly.

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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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• AdButler is very affordable and your ROI would be good always
• It's also highly scalable

Incentivized

• 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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