Superside gives you a dedicated design team and a collaborative tech-enabled platform to handle all your design work—from ads to motion graphics and video.
Comparing Superside as the Rocketium Alternative
Services offered
We use full-time designers. As a result, we offer 24/7 project management support with access to a purpose-built platform to centralize and streamline design operations. We lean into partnerships, rather than DIY software.
A full-scale design team that specializes in creative services, such as graphic design, motion graphics, illustration and custom production (video, sound, photo), with creative project managers for better collaboration with marketing and creative teams.
A full-scale design team that specializes in creative services, such as graphic design, motion graphics, illustration and custom production (video, sound, photo), with creative project managers for better collaboration with marketing and creative teams.
Self-serve platform to create ad variants using Excel sheets and Adobe layers.
Pricing
Transparent, subscription pricing starts at $5,000 per month that can easily scale up (or down) to support the design needs of an entire enterprise organization
Transparent, subscription pricing starts at $5,000 per month that can easily scale up (or down) to support the design needs of an entire enterprise organization
$499 per month to access the software. The time you put into filling out the Excel sheet and naming the layers in Photoshop isn’t accounted for in this price.
Onboarding
Collaborative onboarding process to understand your brand, current team structure, existing skills, and ongoing team needs. With a dedicated creative project manager, there is nothing lost between projects.
Collaborative onboarding process to understand your brand, current team structure, existing skills, and ongoing team needs. With a dedicated creative project manager, there is nothing lost between projects.
Onboarding is complex and difficult to understand at first with only 4-5 onboarding videos that don’t help to resolve your concerns. There are also technical, long-form written guides that require an understanding of Adobe Photoshop and some Excel wizardry. Support is slow, according to G2 reviews.
Turnaround time
Superside's lightning-fast turnarounds depend on your plan and design request. Our most affordable plan offers 15 hours of quick turnaround time.
12 to 48 hours
12 to 48 hours
Once you have your design and learn the software, you can get ad variants in minutes (so long as the software doesn't freeze).
Communication
Stay in close contact with your dedicated creative project manager through the Superside platform, email, or Slack integration as well as through an optional weekly meeting.
Stay in close contact with your dedicated creative project manager through the Superside platform, email, or Slack integration as well as through an optional weekly meeting.
You’re on your own, but there is a support team to help with bugs and confusion (though reviews say they’re slow to respond).
Number of requests / revisions
Unlimited revisions based on hours available in your selected plans which can scale up or down based on needs. Several simultaneous projects are possible. Any unused hours roll over into the next month.
Unlimited revisions based on hours available in your selected plans which can scale up or down based on needs. Several simultaneous projects are possible. Any unused hours roll over into the next month.
As many as your spreadsheet allows and as many layers as you can name in Adobe (e.g., text, color, sizes). For new designs, not variations, you’ll need another designer.
Talent
Full-time employees and contractors, carefully vetted from over 57 countries in 19 time zones.
Full-time employees and contractors, carefully vetted from over 57 countries in 19 time zones.
You are the talent (and you'll still need a designer to create an asset).
An antidote to the legacy agency model
Superside's Creative-as-a-Service solution is built for ambitious marketing and creative teams. It helps you save time on hiring and career laddering, and avoid the hassle of dealing with multiple slow and expensive agencies. Want the full story? The video on the right is ready to spill the beans. 👉
A Design Team That Scales, Not Another Tool in your Stack
Superside gives you a design team to collaborate with and execute any ideas you have—whether it's fresh creative or the more monotonous, production work of small iterations and resizing for different platforms.
Rocketium only gives you a design solution for iterations and variations.
A DesignOps Process, Not a Make Work Project
Submit a brief on Superside's easy-to-use platform, set your turnaround time, and get your creative assets on brand and on time.
With Rocketium, you have to mess around with Adobe's layers, Excel's rows and columns, and then you're finally able to upload to the Rocketium process.
Predictable Pricing, Not Extra Admin Work
Superside offers flexible subscription pricing customized to your unique needs. Get started with a full design team for the price of a junior designer. Unused subscription hours roll over into the next month. Got a big campaign coming up? Your Superside design team scales to suit your demands—from a simple infographic to an entire guide with promotional ads on every social channel.
With Rocketium, you iterate on existing ads. If the ad doesn't work, you'll head back to the designer to execute a whole new idea or campaign concept.
Your Superside team plugs into your existing teams to increase output, faster.
Superside is made for
Creative Directors
Your talented team is drowning in competing demands, working on tactical tasks, not strategic outputs. Boost your team’s morale, give them time to focus on impactful creative projects by adding capacity with round-the-clock design support with on-brand and on-time results.
Performance Marketers
With 20-30 sizes of banners, hundreds of places to buy your ads, and thousands of colour combinations to test, why build it all yourself? Superside gives you a range of designs to improve your ROAS by doing what you do best – testing the variations to know what drives revenue.
DesignOps Managers
Different teams' needs are erratic and demand a lot of your time. Reimagine the way your organization gets design done with a proven design ops process that anyone on your team can use, even with those last-minute urgent design projects.
Trusted by 450+ fast-growing companies and enterprises
Ethan DuffGlobal Head of Creative, Salesforce/Vlocity
Rob CarberrySr. Creative Ops Manager, STRAVA
Corey PomkoskiDirector of Creative Operations, DocuSign
J. Henrickson Creative Operations Manager, Amazon
Amir JaffariGrowth Lead, Shopify
Tatjana MilnovicGlobal Brand Strategist, Infobip
Justin RandsDirector of Brand, Oyster
Myriam MalingeHead of Marketing and Comms, SATAIR/AIRBUS
Billy SchneiderDirector of Digital Marketing , Oportun
Marc VitulliVP, Marketing, S&S ACTIVEWEAR
Joseph BradleyGlobal VP of IoT & Digital Services, Cisco
While we’ve worked diligently to ensure the accuracy of the information in this post, as we all know too well things can change quickly. As you’re making your choice, check each company’s website and reach out to them directly for the most up-to-the-moment information. If you’re Rocketium, and we’ve made an error, reach out to us for corrections.
