Admation Reviews

"Admation works well when it works"

Comments: When admation works and I fully understand all the tips and tricks, it works really well and makes our process a lot easier. However, it does take a lot of training to adjust to the interface and figure out how every task works.

Pros: The feedback mode and direct chain from client to suit to studio is the best part of the software.

Cons: The interface is very buggy. On multiple occasions, the site has crashed at pivotal moments i.e. when you mark up 50 changes and then hit changes, suddenly a little bee illustrations pops up on your screen saying there's an error. The interface isn't very user friendly as there are multiple steps for a basic tasks. One of the least favourable things is not having the ability to batch download a project. A lot of our clients struggle with the interface as some of the mark up tools aren't familiar enough (they're used to marking up Adobe PDFs) and the user journey is a bit flawed (i.e. click changes after entering feedback).

"Still needs a few tweaks"

Comments: Overall it's fine, but a few tweaks to the way the software operates will help it be a more seamless experience.

Pros: Great for transparency across colleague's work and their obligation on certain tasks

Cons: You can't click back without the page messing up. Sometimes colleague feedback is overwhelming and you can't really tell the order that it's in.

"Great platform for the whole marketing team to use"

Pros: It's a collaborative artwork management tool that keeps an audit history of changes, comments and approvals - so you always know where everything is at with each campaign.

Cons: Can be a bit complicated to work through different sections and find a particular action point. But overall it's pretty intuitive.

"Good but still could be better"

Comments: Good but not great, could definitely be more user friendly

Pros: Great for proofing particularly being in a smallish creative team

Cons: Not intuitive and updates are buggy. Freezes and logs out on you multiple times a day

"Hard to use, long process for approval"

Comments: Slow, too many options and fields, is not set out in a user friendly manner for quick submissions. Does not advise of the companies requirements for submitting through admation and how those things should be submitted. Does not appear to be many people within the business that can provide support for using this, or at least in my area of the business.

Pros: I like the idea of channelling work through the correct teams

Cons: Does not tell you which teams each type of content must go through. Some of the options buttons are hard to tell which is selected, for example when selected for review by 'any' or 'all' reviewers. I also don't like how emails are not provided when content is approved, it means you could go weeks waiting as usually it takes that long for things to be approved, and then not realise its approved.

"I use Admation to log jobs as well as receive jobs from within the Marketing team."

Comments: It enables me to keep track of my deadlines more efficiently.

Pros: I like the ability to view changes and comments digitally on each revision. I like the ability to file jobs with key words. I like that I can see the status of a job by its colour. I find being able to add my own deliverable types really useful.

Cons: The comments made on revisions can take a while to load when flicking from page to page. It would be great if the zoom feature could be improved. I find that grabbing a section to enlarge it can be a bit time consuming. The marketing team would like to be able to download all deliverables at once, especially when we have big campaign jobs with print and digital collateral in a job. We also don't really use the daily revision report email notifications. I would like to be able to scroll down through my list of jobs instead of having to check the second page when more than 31 items have been created.

"AdMation"

Pros: Does most of what we need it to do and the basis of the old PDF workflow is good with notifications in particular

Cons: CX is rubbish. Not intuitive at all. You have to be 'taught' how to use the software as there is no way you coiuld work it out for yourself.

"Difficult you use. Not straight forward"

Pros: It has all the fields that are required. Once the form is completed the process work seems quite seamless. The approval process and change process is clear and straight forward.

Cons: It's not user friendly. It needs to flow better. The user seems to jumps from section to section . It needs to be clear you go from left to right on the tabs up the top. Not click on a tab here there and everywhere. There should be only tabs at that top of the page and you work your way through the form. Not tabs and links all over the page. Makes it confusing.

"Overall good functionality"

Pros: The workflow is simple and customisable. I particularly like the Feedback and Proofing user interface which allows for batch feedback and approvals.

Cons: Frequent timeouts and dropout that often result in losing whole briefs.

"Ease of use"

Pros: very user friendly and easy to master - a great tool when you have many teams needing input into artwork.

Cons: would be great to have a feature where you could mock up a page to send back to the marketing team to save drawing this up on word and saving it as an attachment

"Winning"

Comments: A newly formed role that was offered to me to take and mold to fit our creative team and their needs

Pros: ease of assessing briefs
ease of looking at where a job is at
traffic light system
functionality

Cons: The updates/sprints that release the improvements are not always an improvement and are not always to my needs

"CSH ADMATION REVIEW"

Comments: Use Admation as a project management tool for our marketing team. It is fairly easy to use and submit projects. There are some repetitive buttons within the system. I often have notifications in my message center for things to approve yet when I click it there is nothing to approve.

Pros: Central location for projects

Cons: Not as up to date and in sync with our other systems as I would like

"Rifqa Razik"

Comments: 6

Pros: Easy to use & comments can be stores & referred to at a late stage.

Cons: Comments gets disappeared or functions change all the time. Pages are getting dissapered

"Good program with some flaws"

Comments: We wanted a product produced and this was done. It was frustrating trying to find a way to export the final version and I wasn't 100% sure how to submit my comments - or if they'd been successfully submitted.

Pros: It provided a good way to track creative projects with other teams - particularly if you're not sure who to reach out to directly.

Cons: It's not very clear for a first time user how to navigate. Could be clearer with clearer step by step instructions/work flow.

"Basic Use of Admation"

Pros: Using admation for BAU things like marking up proofs - not sure what other functions & features admation has but this is my primary use.

Cons: Marks ups are not live, meaning other teams cannot see marks up until it is locked.

"User Interactivity"

Pros: I like that everything is in one place for reviews/feedback and everyone tagged would be involve in the projects

Cons: It feels a little clunky and laggy, the experience needs to be smoother

"Admation review"

Comments: Admation has been great in keeping a paper trail of work being trafficked through the studio. It's generally easy to use, and if I'm unsure how to do something I can usually figure it out pretty quickly.

Pros: Easy to use

Cons: You can't click "back" on your browser otherwise you have to re-enter your login details.

"Amazing Software"

Comments: Overall I have had a good experience with Admation.

Pros: I really like the fact that I can input my comments/changes and multiple people can view it at the same time.

Cons: No complaints really, I have had a goof experience.

"AdMation Rocks!"

Comments: It's so easy to use Admation! I am currently using it for my store images, advertising collaterals from my principals and it's fast and easy!

Pros: It's so easy to use when using files for Ads, Store graphics and online banner pages. When principals send files - it's fast and easy to download and edit!

Cons: The site is sometimes down or links don't work properly, needs time to refresh

"A bit clunky"

Comments: Ok, would prefer a more seamless experience

Pros: That you can write notes during reviewing process for copywriter or designer

Cons: It's easy to get lost within a sea of comments.

"Good Asset Management"

Comments: Dislike the UX, the platform also looks quite dated.

Pros: The asset management is good. Like that the platform is quite customisable.

Cons: Poor UX, too many forms of communication. Dislike the email functionality through Admation, would prefer to add comments against deliverables and threads in projects that are visible to all.

"I use Admation everyday. It's a great system for proofing design work, giving feedback or direction"

Pros: The ability for multiple designers, marketers and managers to direct workflow, provide feeback, access a media library and work as a team - even when working remotely. Its a great system and it has heaps of great features.

Cons: I do find the new mutliple 'Batch review' a little confusing. Sometime the markup section is also confusing - as these edits are very small in the preview window and can be missed, especially when it is a simple copy edit.

"Confusing"

Comments: I think it could be really great but as a user that is not dealing with it daily or weekly, I do find it difficult to know where to go for what

Pros: I like that it can hold the Creative team accountable for the work we request

Cons: I find it quite hard to navigate, usually getting instructions from the Creative team & also with mark ups, I generally just print the document off then scribble on it, scan it in & send to them as mark ups are too difficult to make on the software

"Easy to use"

Pros: the facility will upload files to the platform

Cons: Problems to download files and the fall of servers on several occasions

"Need to improve way of using !"

Pros: It's an amazing software in order to optimize regulatory & legal validation. It's a good way to create a librairy of what is legally good or not !

Cons: It's not easy to use it. It's not user friendly. You need to create a folder and after a file and after ask for a review. It's too long and too complicated !