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Microsoft Advertising vs. Pencil

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricMicrosoft Advertising

by Microsoft

Pencil

by Pencil

Overall rating4.34.7
Review count1316
Ease of use9.19.0
Ease of setup9.09.2
Quality of support8.09.9
Meets requirements8.29.1
NPS53.84615481.25
Small Business30.8%75.0%
Mid-Market61.5%18.8%
Enterprise7.7%6.3%
Total page views112374
Total LLM citations1578,890

Microsoft Advertising

Digital Marketing Center provides a central platform to efficiently manage your online presence and marketing across leading advertising and social media platforms like Google Ads, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft Advertising.

Pros

    Pencil

    Pencil is the enterprise agentic marketing OS. It is the only platform covering the full marketing workflow, from brief to results, with AI agents at every step. Built for enterprise marketing teams, Pencil replaces fragmented tool stacks with a single operating system where every step lives in one place: insights, briefing, planning, creation, adaptation, approval, deployment, activation, analysis, optimisation, and reporting. AI agents handle the repetitive production work while humans stay on strategy, creative direction, and sign-off.

    Pros

    • AI Technology