AdRoll vs Amazon Marketing Cloud

AdRoll brings social media and programmatic advertising together for cross-channel campaign management. Campaigns can reach the open web and Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Pinterest in display, native, video, and social formats. Automation Builder coordinates campaigns across channels, while BidIQ applies AI to real-time bid optimization. AdRoll says it connects digital identities across browsers and devices without collecting explicit personal information such as names, phone numbers, addresses, or dates of birth. Its product page says competitor targeting and website-level audiences are not offered. Integrations listed include Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, BigCommerce, Klaviyo, AppsFlyer, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Ads, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Google Analytics. Reporting includes real-time campaign metrics, exportable reports, and reporting APIs. Support options include written and video resources and live agent help by email and phone. Social Ads is self-service only, without onboarding, account management, or optimization team support. AdRoll is a NextRoll division headquartered in San Francisco. Account-Based Retargeting has no fee to get started; the listed plan charges for media. Other listed plans either use annual commitment, pay-as-you-go, or request-sales pricing.

Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) is a cloud-based clean room for analytics and audience building across pseudonymized Amazon Ads signals and advertiser inputs. Built on AWS Clean Rooms, it brings together signals from Amazon properties, advertisers, and onboarded third-party providers for flexible querying. Advertisers can form audiences from engagement records, conversion events, and segments, then activate them for sponsored, video, and display ads. AMC can also measure customer journeys across Amazon Ads media and channels, including advertising impact at Amazon stores and advertiser-owned sites. Users can generate insights and visualizations without SQL using curated templates and Ads Agent assistance; SQL analysis is also supported. Ads Data Manager and related tools connect signals, while APIs support reporting, audience management, and first-party signal onboarding. Outputs are aggregated and anonymous, and advertiser-uploaded signals remain in a dedicated instance that Amazon cannot access or export. AMC provides 25 months of ad traffic signals and hundreds of campaign fields. It is available at no cost to eligible advertisers through web and API access.