Swoop vs. WordStream

Well suited for driving awareness at scale. Less appropriate for refined targeting to achieve specific back end metrics or conversions.

Incentivized

WordStream is so beneficial to a green digital marketing team. If your team is new to paid ads, this will help immensely. It might not be as beneficial for a company that does not use AdWords and is strictly in social ads.

Incentivized

• Large inventory to acquire impressions and clicks
• Engagement results indicate strong audience interest
• Managed service very helpful and engaging for better performance

Incentivized

• Remove duplicates: The platform has a tool that enables marketers to easily identify duplicate keywords across campaigns, ad groups, and the account; from there duplicates can be paused in an effort to improve quality scores and account performance.
• Bid management: WordStream reveals which current keywords can improve campaign performance by increasing and decreasing their bids - updates can be made on the spot.
• Ad optimizations: WordStream scans paid search accounts to ensure each ad group is using high performing ads. Marketers can quickly create new ads, and pause ads based on the tool's recommendations.

Incentivized

• Would like to have visibility of revenue performing sites and targeting
• 1st party integration with doubleclick would simplify implementation
• Have more refined targeting specific to audiences

Incentivized

• This is definitely not for a beginner and require knowledge on how PPC/SEM campaigns are run unless you purchase the premium support package that includes a dedicated representative to which they are very helpful.
• We had some serious tracking issues and were unable to effectively track the clicks to our website. Because of this, I had to start from scratch and decided not to use WordStream.

I am not the PPC manager here so I have to use the products available.

I have not had any experience with the customer support team for platform issues, but the account representative checks in with us often and is always available to answer questions. We will usually get on quarterly review calls so that she can share any new updates to the platform and answer questions.

Incentivized

Swoop and Yieldbot run similarly across their private networks and perform relatively the same (high reach). There are better revenue driven tactics that outperform swoop though.

Incentivized

I've never used a system to help with my Google AdWords. This was the first system I had used. WordStream definitely takes the cake though, I have a hard time believing there could be a better system out there. I wouldn't even consider going to look for a new system. I am confident WordStream has owned the Google AdWords space.

Incentivized

• Swoop ROAS for a specific home product was over 8 during Q2, a downtime period for sales within the product category (measuring impressions)
• Form complete conversion goal for a separate tactic was not met and was too high
• Impressions volume for total strategy was surpassed largely in part because Swoop achieved 135% of goal

Incentivized

• Since beginning to use the tool, we've seen our search impression share nearly double for some campaigns.
• We've increased our click-through rates by over 25% since adding WordStream to our toolset.
• I'm more confident in the strategies that are having an impact on our cost per conversion, and can better forecast our impact for the future.

Incentivized