Riccardo S.
RS
Riccardo S.
Senior Digital Specialist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"An amazing platform, made from people who have surely made banners before inventing it"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

Everything. The way it is designed is clearly the result of minds that know very well how an advertising campaign must be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

There is a lot of space for improvements:

1) When applying animations from the Magic Animator, while it is an amazing feature itself, it should be possible to choose at least the duration of the single animation. Some of the pre-made animations, in fact, last too much for a 15sec Banner. The possibility to specify a custom duration for the Magic Animation you are applying should be considered.

2) In every banner I've designed in my long experience (15 years) there are ALWAYS some elements that live in multiple scenes, image footers or headers containing logos and disclaimers, placed over some shape. It should be possible to have a way to tell the system that some elements should be in the next scenes as well, without manually copying them, because copying things almost always duplicates elements, creating many useless duplicates all along the scenes, and when this duplicates contain texts, you have to manually change each one of them if your text changes later. Moreover, even following all your best practices, like building a fully finalized first Master Banner, does not prevent you from having to manually copy and modify each recurring element (shapes and texts) between scenes FOR EACH SIZE later generated, with a lot of effort and time loss, and DOZENS OF DUPLICATED shapes and texts.

The unique working solution, right now, is to keep your entire banner in one scene, loosing all the advantages of subdividing it in multiple scenes to fully use the transition between scenes.

My suggested solution could be a flag on each layer, similar to the "lock animation" one, to tell the system that the flagged layer should be kept in any scene as it is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from of Bannersnack

Hello, Riccardo!

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review on our platform. We’re more than happy to hear that our app has made your work easier and we very much appreciate the suggestions that you have posted.

Regarding the first issue with the magic animator, I can see how adding a time control for Magic Animator would improve Bannersnack in terms of banner design flow. Our product team received the feedback and found it a good idea.

Regarding the second one we do have a feature that will have elements shown on all slides. If you select a layer/element and click on the layer button from the toolbox that comes up, there is an option that will show the element on all slides, a check box reading “Show on all slides”

We built Bannersnack with our users in mind and therefore any improvement suggestions are greatly appreciated, analyzed and often end up being implemented.

If you are in need of assistance, please feel free to contact our support agents through the built-in chatbox!

Best Regards,

Chris

Andrew S.
AS
Andrew S.
Owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Marketing agency loves Bannersnack"
5/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

As a marketing company who creates digital ads for multiple clients, we love how Bannersnack saves us time with pre-made templates and the ability to create multiple ads at the same time. Using the layered and dynamic settings to create ads that not only look great but also move to catch the eye of online shoppers is really easy with Bannersnack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

The ads with images usually end up being to large sometimes to use on display networks. Adroll has 20+different sizes they display ads at but they can only be 150kb in size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from of Bannersnack

Hello, Andrew! Thank you so much for your positive review! We’re always happy to hear our clients love our platform. We know it’s important for our clients to save time on design, which is why we’ve worked on improving the new Resize feature, to make it as effective as possible. I urge you to try it out! Reducing the size of the banners can be a bit tricky, but if you ever need any help with that, we’ll be happy to assist you, just contact us on our live chat. Have a great day!

Don T.
DT
Don T.
Senior Digital Graphic Designer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy Ad Builder with Professional Results"
5/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

The builder is geared towards building good looking banners quickly. It works well for designers and non-designers alike. Ability to animate in HTML5 quickly. Lots of export options. Good organization of creatives. Smart resize function is a big time saver. Game changer for our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

A few tool options are missing in some places. No way to add new components in individual ads in a set, unless you paste them in. The search function works well, but once you go back out of a banner or set, it kicks you back out to the main workspace - no way to go up a folder hierarchy once you go to a search result. MP4 and animated gif options will not export in bulk. No option to export animated gif with transitions an animation turned off for the slides. No option to pick which slide to use when exporting to a static format. No way to make one single preview link from a folder of individual banners. No way to add new shapes to the library for reuse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from of Bannersnack

Hello, Don!

We appreciate your positive review and we are happy to see that you are enjoying Bannersnack to its fullest.

I’m sorry to see however, that there were missing aspects in your experience. We have taken everything into account and we’d like to let you know that some of these features are already on our development list while others were not yet proposed but will be passed down to our product team! We appreciate your constructive feedback and your involvement in improving Bannersnack!

Thank you!

Joe S.
JS
Joe S.
Marketing Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Quality Tool, Great Value"
5/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

The value of bannersnack is unmatched. Our designers are able to create ad sets for marketing that we can then tweak a/b test etc. to increase conversions without having to have full new sets designed each and every time.

The quality of the product and support help Bannersnack stand out. Every time we have had an issue their team has responded via live chat right away. I have also been alerted by product managers to new featuers that I have requested personally. This is a great touch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

The tool is a little clunky in some browsers. Also, I'm not a huge fan of some of the UX around editing individual elements. The main feature we use us banner set generator. This helps us create multiple banners quickly. This is also somewhat limiting as the features available for editing individual ads are not the same as working on individual ads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from of Bannersnack

Hey Joe! Thank you very much for the positive review! We’re always trying to improve the generator, as we know how important it is to design banners quickly and we want to keep our platform user friendly, so all users can create HTML5 banners without coding skills.

We are already working on improving the UX for editing individual elements many other aspects of our app. If you have any other suggestions that would improve your workflow, please let us know, so we can review them for future updates. Have a great day!

MAMTA S.
MS
MAMTA S.
Social Media Marketing Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"very good platform to execute design work of almost any type"
4/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

I love many functions that the system has integrated since I could create my banners from scrape or just edit the themes that I currently have by default and add information on my accounts, besides that it's very simple to use it, you certainly do not need knowledge about editing and enhancing which the functions are obviously specified and it could only be considered a matter of checking out the various tools that exist to attain the desired designs, I am quite happy with that which was received upon this web page and the purchase price is quite reasonable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

This application is an excellent one, right the moment I don't have any reason to dislike this program, its working fine for me and we are doing the best with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great but..."
3.5/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

The ease to create many ad sizes quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

The files sizes with animations are often too big to export to Google ads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from of Bannersnack

Hi there,

We appreciate you taking the time to leave a review of our platform along with your feedback related to the size of our exports. From what I can understand, you are encountering some issues related to the size of our final exports, and I feel like I must clarify a few things that might help you out in solving this. Our sizes are determined by a lot of external factors such as the size of the uploaded assets, custom fonts, number of slides, or even our new retina display feature, which has a significant impact. To keep the file size low, we recommend you always use the “convert custom font to SVG” option if you are using custom fonts, along with making sure that all of your files are optimized before uploading them onto Bannersnack. We recommend having images somewhere in the range of 100-200 KB, but that depends on the actual dimension of the banner on which you are working. My best advice here is to get in contact with our support team and share your banner with one of our representatives. This will allow them to conduct a thorough analysis of the design and advise solutions as the situation requires. To get in touch with us, you can use the chatbox from our website, and whoever is available will take your query right away!

Kevin K.
KK
Kevin K.
President & Chief Marketing Officer
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Good product with some gaps"
4/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

I've used the product for several years and found it a lifesaver for creating multiple banner sizes of the same template. Lot's of good starter templates and ideas to start with that help get the creative juices flowing. It is much faster than working with a designer and less expensive as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

The resizing is sometimes not very accurate. When adding new sizes images get moved around and don't resize to fit the banners in the best way. Would also like more high resolution options for print as inevitably, I have to create matching flyers and other material for banners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from of Bannersnack

Hello, Kevin! Your feedback is greatly appreciated! We’re glad Bannersnack has proved to be so useful for you. I’m sorry to hear you’re having some issues with our Resize feature. We know it is not perfect in some situations but have made some great improvements to it lately, so be sure to give it another go.

Thank you for your suggestion, we review each one carefully, so that our platform fits our customer’s needs! PDF export for printing flyers and other materials are coming to Bannersnack soon, stay tuned!

Should you have any other suggestions, we’d love to hear them!

Bill F.
BF
Bill F.
CTO/Senior Digital Analyst
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Cutting Edge Banner App and Platform"
5/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

BannerSnack is an all in one banner creator.

Unlike other software and apps that handle specific parts of the banner creation process, BannerSnack truly has you covered from graphics, to animation, to social media ad formatting, serving the ads if need be, to converting the ad file to any format you require. This would normally require 5 different apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

While there is indeed a free version, it is only useful for testing purposes as they leave a little watermark on the ad. My main issue is not this, but rather their that minimum usable plan requires an annual plan and has no monthly options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from of Bannersnack

Hello Bill,

Thank you for giving us such a great review! We are happy to see that Bannersnack helped you that much on your banner creation process. As you mentioned, our tools and features are cutting down all the software dependency when it comes to banner making including all the needs in one great, easy to use and intuitive platform. Also, I have noticed that you asked for a monthly subscription. Good news, we actually offer monthly plans right from our pricing page but you might have overlooked it. On the top of our pricing page there is a slide switch to toggle between yearly and monthly plans.

Thank you very much for your attention and time! Have a wonderful day!

Akanksha Rai S.
AS
Akanksha Rai S.
Marketing Coordinator
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent tool for everyday designing needs"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

Create and save custom sizes, tag designs, design templates, animations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

Need to add illustrations (icons) gallery section - it is a shame that option is missing altogether. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CS
Colin S.
Art Director
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great way to democratize design"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Bannersnack?

Bannersnack's interface is simple enough that I can create templates that are easily edited by non-designers. That way we can realize efficiencies in testing messaging and imagery without adding extra design resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bannersnack?

I wish there was an easy way to crop images to a circle. Also I can't figure out how to move banner sets between workspaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from of Bannersnack

Hi, Colin! Thank you for reviewing our platform, it means the world to us! Cropping images is not possible just yet. However, as a workaround you can add a circle from the Shape section and add your image inside the circle. Feel free to reach us on our live chat and we will help you move the banners from one workspace to another and we’ll answer any other questions you might have.