App comparison

Add up to 4 apps below to see how they compare. You can also use the "Compare" buttons while browsing.

theTradeDesk Logo

Campaign and data management platform

(2)

GetApp offers objective, independent research and verified user reviews. We may earn a referral fee when you visit a vendor through our links. 

theTradeDesk Reviews

Overall rating

4.4

/5

15

Rating criteria

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.14/10

Reviews by rating

Suggested alternatives

salesforce-marketing-cloud
act-on
grepsr

Pros and cons

Packed with loads of features, great for both beginners to advanced users. Superb support from the team.
They have less restrictions to certain types of healthcare advertising, and have been a great partner to work with.
Countless useful features and amazing customer service.
Reports can be slow to load and run, the platform also struggles in my opinion to let you visualize campaign performance quickly.
Bulk edit options limited for campaigns. I have several clients that run several campaigns and they change flight dates.
Would say cost, if you pay attention closely, each feature within the TTD platform has a cost.
Filter reviews by

Overall rating


Company size


Industry


Time used


15 reviews

Recommended

AvatarImg
AvatarImg

Umang M.

Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

Share this review:

Make way for your advertising expert

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

TTD has brought in the revolution for ad programmatic in terms knowing which ad campaigns has to be run, so that we could get proper understanding of what people like and dislike about the product and it's quality.

Cons

UI/UX plays a crucial role in understanding the platform that has to be used in order to create proper insights. So, in this sector I could see a bit of improvement.

CH
AvatarImg

Carie H.

Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

Share this review:

Bulk Edit Campaigns

Reviewed 2 years ago

Overall I love TTD. The automated pacing frees up time to optimize! I think the changes I suggested would only make this platform even better.

Pros

Automated pacing is wonderful! Frees up time for optimizing.

Cons

Bulk edit options limited for campaigns. I have several clients that run several campaigns and they change flight dates. It would be nice for that to be a bulk edit feature. I hate that you can't make more then 1 bulk edit in ad groups at a time, If you make a bulk edit for ad groups you make 1 then it unmarks all of your ad groups and you have to remark and go back into the bulk edit menu. It would be great if we could bulk edit, bulk edits lol.

KF
AvatarImg

Kaden F.

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

Share this review:

Great DSP

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Tradedesk has a robust number of data segments and options to tie in your own data segments as well. It is one of the most wide ranging DSPs that I have found so far. Customer Support is helpful and timely in responses as well.

Cons

Reports can be slow to load and run, the platform also struggles in my opinion to let you visualize campaign performance quickly.

DS
AvatarImg

David S.

Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

Share this review:

The Trade Desk is best in class and the leader in programmatic platforms

Reviewed 4 years ago

I'm a long time user of TTD, over 5 years, and it's consistently a great platform.

Pros

The Trade Desk platform is feature-rich from its DMP of data segments to PMP library to optimization features. The client service team is another strong front for TTD and readily available to support any inquiries.

Cons

TTD is best in class. The pricing is on the high end, but well worth the value you get in product quality and media buying results.

JK
AvatarImg

Justina K.

Marketing and Advertising, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

Share this review:

Platform designed mainly for traders!

Reviewed 5 years ago

Overall experience w TTD has been excellent so far, esp when our account manager is really on the ball to suggest additional tactics and point us in the right direction for platform features and all. Would love to use them again for other campaigns as long as the clients' budgets permit.

Pros

I like that TTD has amazing customer service support team to help traders along with their platform, and also the level of details that are available for viewing and deciding on optimisations esp at ad group level - they call it rails i think.

Cons

I think there's a certain learning curve involved for someone who has been trading mainly on DV360, but once you get the hang of it, it's actually fine! So far I've been very satisfied with the platform features cos they are obviously catered to the traders. The least favourite part is probably the tech fees which are higher than DV360's (common client concern haha) but well, features are really much better.

KR
AvatarImg

Kyle R.

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

Share this review:

Very Powerful Omni-Channel Platform

Reviewed 5 years ago

Overall I've had a very positive experience with theTradeDesk.

Pros

theTradeDesk give you access to an abundance of ad platforms and placements and a wealth of targeting options.

Cons

The platform can be difficult to grasp to begin with, but their support team is very helpful and will help you set up your campaigns to ensure success.

AvatarImg
AvatarImg

Melvin L.

Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

Share this review:

Great platform and evolving positively

Reviewed 5 years ago

Great experience. Have used this product for a while. While a lot of products in terms of functionality exists out in the market, the great agency support really sets it apart from the rest. There has been lots of iterations and changes to the product as well. Having seen where this product is going, the outlook looks positive.

Pros

Packed with loads of features, great for both beginners to advanced users. Superb support from the team

Cons

Reporting takes a while to generate. A little bit higher in terms of cost as compared to other similar platforms out there

RH
AvatarImg

Raymond H.

Marketing and Advertising, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

Share this review:

One of the most advance independent DSP in the market

Reviewed 5 years ago

If scale is an issue with the use of data in your campaigns. May want to give TTD a try.

Pros

This DSP is probably that be that most aligns with what a trading desk platform should be like. Built to replica features of the stock market. Although not a wall garden DSP with exclusive data, what TTD has over even the war garden is features and easy of use. Their data and vendor integrations to run CTV, audio, or even mobile app campaigns beyond just regular display or video is ahead of even wall gardens like google and amazon. Scale isn't an issue as there's data integrations to scale through probabilistic model partnerships.

Cons

Would say cost, if you pay attention closely, each feature within the TTD platform has a cost.

JW
AvatarImg

Junde W.

Marketing and Advertising, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

Share this review:

TTD Feedback

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

Product features up to date and new innovation

Cons

Reporting features such as API can be improve

AvatarImg

Verified reviewer

Apparel & Fashion, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

Share this review:

Intuitive and Scalable

Reviewed 5 years ago

Very flexible platform and had a great account team.

Pros

Easy to use with tons of channels to buy media. Strong control over bidding, similar to what you would get from Google Ads.

Cons

More features around optimizing ads and DCO.

AvatarImg

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for 2+ years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

Share this review:

The Trade Desk for Ad Agency

Reviewed 5 years ago

They have less restrictions to certain types of healthcare advertising, and have been a great partner to work with.

Pros

Allows team to expand to different DSPs than just using the leader in the space. Offers stronger customer support and encourages the team to try new and innovative tactics.

Cons

Does not always have the scale or buying power of competitors, but other advantages typically overweigh this.

AvatarImg

Verified reviewer

Internet, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

Share this review:

Countless useful features and amazing customer service

Reviewed 6 years ago

TheTradeDesk makes it possible for us to eliminate waste within programmatic buying, enabling us to spend our RTB budgets smartly and efficiently. Detailed targeting and analytics on audiences allows us to maximize our ROI. TTD's excellent customer supports us whenever needed.

Pros

The biggest differentiator of TTD is their customer service. Any question you may have is answered promptly and detailed. Other than that, TTD offers multiple valuable features, like audience analysis and forecasting. Reporting is especially good as well and helps us to analyze former and plan for future strategies and campaigns.

Cons

The usability of forecasting could improve significantly. Settings are not always saved, which makes forecasting - although a very valuable feature - hard to navigate. Fixing this challenge would allow for the user experience for forecasting and overall improve significantly.

AvatarImg

Verified reviewer

Used other for 2+ years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

Share this review:

Not the best value for the costing

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

Trade desk is one of the more well know DSP in the industry. They offer the full spectrum of features including video, display, retargeting, audience, etc. I used the platform extensively when I was at a larger agency since we did high volume (for media spend).

Cons

When I transitioned to a smaller company the Trade Desk wasn't an option since there was a high cost of entry which you needed to commit to monthly. The monthly min was a "use it or lose it". There are a few companies that have build their business on their technology geared to smaller companies (they change a monthly fee plus ad spend), but it wasn't Trade Desk customer support who told me about this - they had told me to go to a managed provider who still had a large monthly min you had to commit to.

JL
AvatarImg

John L.

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support

Share this review:

Okay Trade desk

Reviewed 8 years ago

I have used much different trade desk to see what kind of real-time software they provide and this one was pretty decent.

Pros

No pros were added to this review

Cons

No cons were added to this review

FK
AvatarImg

Francois K.

Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

Review source

Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

Share this review:

DSP utile

Reviewed 8 months ago
Pros

DSP utile pour certains inventaires. Super qualité de service.

Cons

Peut-être compliqué à prendre en main au début

Showing original review in French. See translation