Adobe Dynamic Tag Management (discontinued) Reviews & Insights

Dynamic Tag Management is used to set up and deploy many tags across our website both for tracking as well as in conjunction with Adobe Target. One of the main benefits is that you can update your library and other implementation details without doing a code release. This frees up developer resources and allows Marketing to manage many of their tracking/Target testing activities with minimal implementation time.

Dynamic Tag Management allows you to tag any data elements on a page in order to track every aspect of your customer's journey. Its ease of use and the ability to deploy tags without having to involve a web developer leaves marketing to iterate without the lag time of a code release. I haven't found any areas where improvement is needed.

It is being utilized across all global customer-facing websites coupled with a KPI, metrics and tagging strategy to measure and report online behaviors via the Adobe Analytics tool. From the data, we analyze and identify opportunities to improve the web visitor's online experience.

DTM is best when you have a large enterprise, 10,000+ web pages to deliver and requires secure proprietary web data. It does require pre-planning, strategy and staff to implement, managed and test prior to going live. For smaller website implementations, google analytics is free, easy to implement and analyze.

This is our primary tag management system. It is implemented on all marketing properties across our company. In addition to using this to deploy Adobe Marketing products such as Adobe Analytics, Adobe Target, and Adobe Media Optimizer, we use this tool to deploy pixels and other scripts. The ease of Adobe implementation is a huge factor, but as with all tag management systems, it's incredibly valuable to be able to deploy pixels and scripts without requiring developer assistance.

If you're on the Adobe stack at all, you absolutely need DTM. It will make your life infinitely easier. It's so simple to update your Adobe Analytics code and have version control, and when we implemented Adobe Target, it took literally less than 15 minutes for me to do. I also think it's significantly simpler than Google Tag Manager. I went through all manner of difficulty when implementing tags on that and have not had similar problems on DTM. If you're frequently placing pixels, it's a great tool that will speed their deployment.

The only situation in which I think a tag manager is not appropriate is if you have a dev with too much time on their hands. Otherwise, get a TMS and get DTM.

DTM is used in our organization according to the client requirement. We offer other tag management solutions as well pertaining to the project and requirement. If the client is a small or medium business, we suggest Google Tag Manager, or if they already using Adobe Analytics, we recommend DTM.

It is well-suited most of time. However, as there is no support available for all types of users, sometimes it is very difficult to troubleshoot.

It does one thing extremely well and efficiently: manage Adobe tags. I have used it at several clients now to deploy Adobe Analytics [Omniture] and when working with a full-stack developer have been able to deploy/upgrade/repair Omniture very quickly. It is used mainly by the web analytics function, so that we can deploy (instrumentation) code quickly. The size of the prize = agility. I have had several engagements now where I have waited months to get changes made to Omniture code. It is a rather basic tool, the development path is not known and seems to be very slow without a great deal of investment in it compared to other enterprise TMS vendors. Only a small number of tags are supported out of the box. I would not use it for deployment of marketing tags.

Key question: what will you be using it for? If your need is simply to maintain Adobe tags, it does what it says on the tin! There is an increasing trend to deploy another enterprise TMS alongside DTM (with different governance arrangements) for marketing tags.

We use Adobe Dynamic Tag Manager as part of our implementation of Adobe Media Optimizer. We are a hospitality based marketing firm, and consequently deal with all varieties of websites and reservation engines, and Adobe Digital Tag Manager, or DTM as I shall refer to it, make the application of Media optimizer and eCommerce code much simpler.

It specifically saves tons of time by allowing you to use a tag based system for implementation of tracking pixels, in our case Adobe Media Optimizer, where before, we would have to write page specific javascript calling out each individual point of conversion, for the entire website. Now we can apply the universal tag management code throughout the site and simply create rules that trigger tracking pixels within AMO.