It has a place but platform side solutions are outpacing development
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used Adobe Ad Cloud to manage our worldwide advertising efforts on Google, Bing, and other search platforms.
Pros
- Centralised reporting on ad accounts.
- Centralised management of ad accounts.
- Bulk editing across ad accounts.
Cons
- The UI was very slow and unresponsive, especially on larger data sets.
- Newer platform features would take awhile to trickle through to Adobe Ad Cloud.
- Lacked all the auction time signals that platform side bidding offers.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're using a bidding model like target CPA or manual CPC bidding and want to have all your data centralised in one place alongside bulk management functionality, Adobe Advertising Cloud may be worth looking at. If you use other products in their marketing stack, you will get access to additional features like passing audiences between Ad Cloud and Adobe Analytics. If you do not use other Adobe products or wish to use advanced bidding models like Maximise Conversion Value, you're probably better off placed to manage your ad spend directly on the platform.
