The Trade Desk vs. TransUnion TruAudience

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.

Incentivized

Signal becomes as flexible as any other tag management solution if you're able define the data layer requirements clearly to your development team. The interface is very outdated if you're coming from Google Tag Manager. You might have to know some sort of JavaScript if you plan to make changes to the properties of some tags.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Tag management - its very easy to place and configure 3rd party tags
• Its easy to adjust firing rules, so your tag loads once per user or once a day.

• 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

• UI was a little clunky, with the initial homepage not particularly appealing
• Muting notifications on large chats can only be done for set, not custom, intervals
• Notifications would frequently show up more than once, a rather annoying habit

We are deeply ingrained in BrightTag and very pleased with its performance, but there is always the possibility that another tool with features we have not considered or are even aware of may come along that makes transitioning to a new platform a worthwhile endeavor (perhaps one that integrates A/B Testing or a Personalization engine into the TMS framework)

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

Based on the features and current usage. It shows some buggy pages plus the service and support is really very slow. The updates are not regular and company needs to work on that. The usability is good and reporting of tags is accurate which is the best part. The pricing of the product is good and can be used by organizations of all sizes.

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

Support is really slow and it takes days to resolve an issue. Plus we have to inquire regularly for the status of resolution. Company should definitely work towards that

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

I believe Slack does work better than Signal for PC and office-oriented teams, but found that signal was the go-to for a rapidly growing and dismantling structure like a campaign. The Mobile interface, and the use of cell phone numbers rather than emails as a form of verification and a basis of identity makes it perfect for a campaign environment

• 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.

Incentivized

• BrightTag has increased employee efficiency.
• BrightTag has enabled us to cut down the number of times that specific pages are tagged. Tagging a site numerous times slows a page down thus decreasing the user experience.
• Brighttag has allowed us to easy collect and house tag information, therefore increasing our customer service.