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Superside vs. Design Pickle

With your dedicated team of world-class project managers and designers, Superside ensures quality, fast-turnarounds, and a predictable monthly budget.

Comparing Superside as the Design Pickle Alternative

Superside
Services offered

Services offered

Specializes in creative services such as graphic design, motion graphics, illustration, custom production (video, sound, photo), and campaigns and concepts for marketing and creative teams.

Specializes in creative services such as graphic design, motion graphics, illustration, custom production (video, sound, photo), and campaigns and concepts for marketing and creative teams.

Offers graphic design, custom illustration, presentation design, and motion graphics.

Pricing

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 to $1,695 per month. Each plan gets you one designer for each type of service. If you require an additional designer bandwidth, you need to double your subscription fee.

Onboarding

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 involves you watching a few videos and answering a couple of questions.

Turnaround time

Turnaround time

12 to 48 hours

12 to 48 hours

12 to 48 hours

Communication

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.

Your main communication with your designers is through the brief. On more expensive packages you can communicate with your account manager/designers via Slack.

Number of requests / revisions

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 rollover 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 rollover into the next month.

All plans include unlimited requests and revisions but each project is handled by an assigned designer one at a time through a single queue that you can re-prioritize.

Talent

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.

Independent contractors. Talent available during EST working hours. Other time zones (e.g., PST, AUS, and UK) are only accessible through costlier plans.

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 Full-Stack Team That Scales, Not Just a Growing Queue

Superside gives you a dedicated team that scales with you as your design needs change allowing you to scale based on how many hours and capabilities you need each month. Have extra hours you didn’t use up during the month? Easily carry them over into the next.

With Design Pickle, one subscription gets you one designer who handles your requests one by one.

A Collaborative Creative Partner, Not a Creative Coin Flip

Your Superside Creative Project Manager has a deep understanding of your brand identity and can quickly brief the right creatives for the success of each project.

Design Pickle takes a more context-agnostic approach to your requests. Your projects are assigned based on the availability of designers. Often, this means design quality suffers.

A DesignOps Process That Fosters Efficiency, Not Just Unlimited Revisions.

Superside prioritizes efficiency and collaboration by assigning every customer a Creative Project Manager who allocates the right talent and resources towards its success.

At Design Pickle, designers are expected to follow your brief as closely as possible so the onus is on you to be able to articulate your creative expectations which often means their “unlimited” revisions become more of a necessity than a perk.

Much Faster

20x

Faster than hiring creatives in-house
cut costs

50%

Reduction in average cost per asset
ship faster

70%

Lower turnaround time for digital assets
stress free

9.6

Average NPS rating from customers
built for you

Superside is made for:

Your Superside team plugs into your existing teams to increase output, faster.

Creative Directors
Redistribute your design team’s spinning plates, without compromising brand and creative potential. Add capacity with round-the-clock design support with on-brand and on-time results.
DesignOps Managers
Producing in-house quality creatives is possible without scaling headcount. Streamline your design pipeline and increase your team's bandwidth with the help of Superside's world-class talent.
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