Google Web Designer is powerful, but it expects you to learn another interface and rebuild your layout from scratch. Bannerify keeps everything inside Figma, which means we stay close to our design system, components, and collaboration workflows. When deadlines are tight, not switching tools is the difference between making the media flight or missing it.

Design where the team already works

With Bannerify, the actual design lives in Figma—the place where stakeholders comment, content updates happen, and localization runs. Google Web Designer requires importing assets or recreating layouts manually. Every translation or tweak becomes a round-trip, and someone inevitably edits the wrong version.

Production-ready exports without extra scripting

Bannerify exports HTML5 bundles (with clickTags ready to go), GIFs, MP4, and WebM videos, plus packages for Google Ads, DV360, AdForm, or Sizmek. Google Web Designer can do the same, but it expects you to manage the timeline and elements inside its own canvas. Bannerify lets me translate animation instructions into keyframes on top of my actual Figma layers.

When to use each

If you need advanced 3D transforms or custom scripting, Google Web Designer still offers depth. But for most campaign work, Bannerify wins because it keeps the workflow consolidated. Try animating one frame in Bannerify, link it to your component library, and export every size at once—you’ll see how much overhead disappears.

Collaboration and versioning

Figma already acts as our single source of truth. Bannerify leverages that by keeping comments, branches, and design tokens tied to the motion work. Google Web Designer lives off to the side, so you end up with parallel versions of the same creative floating around. When legal requests a tweak or localization needs another translation, it’s much faster to edit the Figma file everyone already understands than to re-open a separate project file.

QA, approvals, and analytics

Bannerify’s hosted previews integrate with Slack and email so reviews happen in hours, not days. Google Web Designer requires exporting and hosting files elsewhere before stakeholders can see motion. Once live, Bannerify’s exports log clickTag usage and provide weight reports—small details that prevent rejections from ad networks. These touches may seem minor, but they compound into real time savings each quarter.

Ultimately the comparison boils down to control versus overhead. Bannerify lets you maintain control inside the environment you already love, while Google Web Designer asks you to maintain another toolchain. I know which option lets me ship faster.