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Pencil vs. Microsoft Advertising

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

MetricPencil

by Pencil

Microsoft Advertising

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.74.3
Review count1613
Ease of use9.09.1
Ease of setup9.29.0
Quality of support9.98.0
Meets requirements9.18.2
NPS81.2553.846154
Small Business75.0%30.8%
Mid-Market18.8%61.5%
Enterprise6.3%7.7%
Total page views374112
Total LLM citations8,890157

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

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