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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe Real-Time CDP

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAdobe's Real-Time Customer Data Platform allows marketers to collect, normalize, and unify known and pseudonymous consumer and professional data into real-time profiles. These person or account-based profiles then power B2B, B2C, and hybrid customer experiences at scale.N/A

    Contentsquare

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AContentsquare is an enterprise experience intelligence and Digital Analytics platform designed to track, visualize, and optimize user journeys across websites and mobile applications. The platform captures digital interaction telemetry—such as clicks, scrolls, hovers, and page drop-offs—without manual event tagging to power Web Analytics, session replays, funnel visualization, and experience monitoring.N/A

    Twilio Segment

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASegment is a customer data platform that helps engineering teams at companies like Tradesy, TIME, Inc., Gap, Lending Tree, PayPal, and Fender, etc., achieve time and cost savings on their data infrastructure, which was acquired by Twilio November 2020. The vendor says they also enable Product, BI, and Marketing teams to access 200+ tools (Mixpanel, Salesforce, Marketo, Redshift, etc.) to better understand and optimize customer preferences for growth— all integrations are pre-built and…

    $120

    per month

    Pricing
    Adobe Real-Time CDPContentsquareTwilio Segment
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0.00
    Includes 1,000 visitors/mo
    Team
    $120.00
    Includes 10,000 visitors/mo
    Business
    Contact Sales
    Custom Volume
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe Real-Time CDPContentsquareTwilio Segment
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAdobe offers three tiers of Real-Time CDP tailored for any type of business wanting to power their customer experience management strategy with unified customer data. The Business-to-Consumer Edition is for B2C brands wanting to personalize experiences for consumers. The Business-to-Business Edition is for B2B brands wanting to personalize experiences for leads and accounts. The Business-to-Person Edition is for combined B2C and B2B brands wanting to personalize experiences for the same person across all lines of business.
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe Real-Time CDPContentsquareTwilio Segment
    Considered Multiple Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
    Adobe takes a very different approach to how profiles are stitched together than these other platforms. There are pros and cons, but there are more pros to the way Adobe has approached it. Also, the Adobe approach is designed from the ground up in the context of the other AEP …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Real-Time CDP
    Adobe CDP is a very capable product that offers all of the features that its competitors offer and more. The only differences can be noticed while connecting with other external tools. Adobe can help easily connect with tools within its ecosystem: Analytics/Marketo/Target, etc.
    Incentivized
    Contentsquare
    No answer on this topic
    Twilio
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Adobe Real-Time CDPContentsquareTwilio Segment
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
    7.7
    25 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio Segment
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Tag library7.724 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags7.524 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution7.924 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring7.722 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Page load times7.722 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging7.622 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping00 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
    8.3
    28 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio Segment
    7.6
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation8.328 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation8.228 Ratings00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Website personalization8.327 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
    7.8
    30 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    -
    Ratings
    Twilio Segment
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Account Scoring7.925 Ratings00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Customer Data Governance8.028 Ratings00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data Connectors8.029 Ratings00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Data Enhancement7.329 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data Ingestion8.229 Ratings00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Data Storage7.829 Ratings00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Data Visibility7.429 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Event Data8.229 Ratings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Identity Resolution7.528 Ratings00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Twilio Segment
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform and Contentsquare, now with Hotjar and Twilio Segment
    Feature
    Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Contentsquare, now with Hotjar
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Twilio Segment
    -
    Ratings
    Heatmap tool00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scroll maps00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Goal tracking00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session Recording and Replay00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Segmentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Adobe Real-Time CDPContentsquareTwilio Segment
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (29 ratings)
    8.2
    (118 ratings)
    8.7
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    5.1
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Adobe Real-Time CDPContentsquareTwilio Segment
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Adobe
    In any scenario where we have a unique offline and online 'Person ID,' we are able to see great results with profile stitching within CDP. In cases where we do not have a unique Person ID between datasets, we find ourselves at a point where we would need to change our architecture to have the same Person ID to see results.
    Incentivized
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    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is good for a first pass at understanding user sentiment or locating potential usability issues. There are features such as "rage clicked" which shows recordings or instances when a user rage clicked or had an issue with your site. Hotjar has also been helpful to launch intercept surveys on mobile, desktop, and app, which not all competitor software allow. Hotjar recordings are fun to watch. "Watching Hotjar like Netflix" is a favorite pastime at work.
    Incentivized
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    Twilio
    Best suited: - Merging emails coming from: Facebook leads forms, Unbounce or landing pages forms, Google forms, any other kind of lead generation tool and bundling all that information together for a single user "profile". - Passing events generated in multiple applications by the same user (product selected in web, product discarded in cart, etc) and delivering those events into other applications (like a CRM) Less appropriate: - Reading/updating data directly from segment from a frontend application
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    Pros
    Adobe
    • Real time segmentation and profiling on high volume of customer data
    • Integration of various customer data sources, ranging from CRM, Web Analytics, EDL and other custom sources
    • Data governance of customer data in the platform, down to attribute based access controls
    • Activation across paid media, marketing automation and experience optimization platforms
    • Easy to use interface for marketers
    Incentivized
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    Contentsquare
    • Heat mapping is great on Hotjar. It is a good place to start when you are looking at the UX & CRO on your website. You can see the % of people clicking on elements on a page, how far they scroll, and mouse movements.
    • Hotjar is great for session recordings. These record the mouse movements, clicks, pages and scrolls of a user in video format. You can watch these to investigate what works well on a site and identify potential roadblocks and bugs.
    • Hotjar is great as it ensures that users details are anonymous; for instance, if you are watching a session recording, you cannot see what a user types in a form field, as Hotjar blanks this out.
    • Hotjar has a poll function, so you can have polls on your website.
    Incentivized
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    Twilio
    • Multi-platform. Segment has easy integrations in many different web, backend, and app platforms/frameworks. We use the Segment SDK in Android and iOS as well as our node.js backend.
    • Segment is fairly affordable for early-stage companies that are trying out different analytics software. The "developer" plan is free and is suitable for most companies with products that have a small user base.
    • The UI is great! It is extremely intuitive and easy-to-learn, and this made it take very little time to integrate this software into our analytics and marketing workflows.
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    Cons
    Adobe
    • Some features that are not yet released to all customers are necessary to manage cases like device sharing
    • The methodology of how data is stored and manage is relatively unique and requires some ramp-up to fully understand
    • There are some areas, like deduplication, where the platform doesn't provide the flexibility one would expect
    Incentivized
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    Contentsquare
    • Hotjar is primarily used for web-based experiences. Not that easy to use on mobile apps.
    • I'd love to see Hotjar integrated with Google Analytics for an even deeper view.
    • Hotjar is primarily used by smaller organizations...pricing can get steep quickly for larger organizations.
    Incentivized
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    Twilio
    • More and richer sources. For example, MailChimp is a source but the data you get from MailChimp is quite limited. I ended up writing my own scripts to take better advantage of MailChimp's API because Segment's integration was lacking.
    • Better examples on how to set up event tracking. Pageview tracking is easy enough, but it would be nice if they had a sample app and corresponding code for it and showed you, via Git commits, how to add various kinds of events.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Adobe
    It helps faster deal cycles, higher win rated and a lot better prioritisation of leads. The churn rate is low this leads to a higher lifetime value. All decisions are now impacted with the real time data provided by Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform. It is very useful in increasing average revenue per customer hence this rating is well justified for the product
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    Contentsquare
    For small companies with limited user testing budgets, ClickTale serves as a useful user testing tool. When I cannot get the funds for in depth user testing, I always know that I have a baseline of information I can rely on
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Adobe
    Activation - great Segmentation - in UI, there should be the possibility of writing advanced code Tags. Both Mobile and Desktop Data Ingestion - might be pain in the ass. Changing one customer attribute is time-consuming. It should be some super admin or some feature. One user can change some customers' attributes easily. Data Transformation - Maybe there are some modules for that in AJO?
    Incentivized
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    Contentsquare
    It is fairly easy to use, easy to explain, and easy to learn even for a non-techie like me. I admit I was a little intimidated when it was recommended by my developers, but I learned afterwards that there really was nothing to worry about. My experience has been awesome so far!
    Incentivized
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    Twilio
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Contentsquare
    Hotjar is a SaaS-based company, and as such has a good support service. Users can quickly submit support tickets through Hotjar's online portal. Enterprise customers get access to additional support members and have SLAs to support their larger, more complex needs. Overall, Hotjar is extremely reliable and I've never had to reach out to customer support.
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    Twilio
    Over the period it took us to set up, we kept going back to their enablement team to help us with the setup, and they were always ready and were very helpful in the entire process. Even with their documentation, they took the time out to help us work through the process. We've never had a message/email unanswered for more than an hour on working days.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Adobe
    Real time access of data Very popular so no need of marketing Customer profiles are updated immediately and easy to access multiple customer data Apt for both business to customers and business to business accounts Maintains strong focus on customer growth and standard profiles Privacy and confidentiality is better when compared to other customer data profile softwares
    Incentivized
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    Contentsquare
    ContentSquare [(Clicktale)] is going deeper on UX understanding than traditional web analytics tools. You can truly understand how a page is used (where users click or even miss click, on which part of the page they are spending most of their time, if some links are clicked but bad positioned on the page...), and that's a thing you can't really measure trough a traditional web analytics tool.
    Incentivized
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    Twilio
    We chose Twilio Segment for the good API integration and node resources, I would use Ontraport again, particularly if I didn't have the requirements for API and development/platform integration. Certainly the set up and management is easy and seamless with both the API and the user interface to use depending on circumstances and requirements.
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    Return on Investment
    Adobe
    • Improved ability to target users across different marketing DSPs
    • Increased click and conversion rate for Adobe Target
    • Lowered opt out and bounce rates for email
    • Decreased time to value on audience segmentation
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    Contentsquare
    • Our UX team can now use hard data to back up and validate design decisions that we make. Our role as usability experts is becoming more respected and integral to business objectives because we now have data that can back up our field of study and prove that our roles are demonstrably useful and necessary.
    • HotJar allows our small team of 3 UX designers to get research data as if we were a much larger team. Instead of painstakingly using our time to do guerrilla research, endless user observations, and other types of manual testing, we can now get a significant portion of our data from HotJar.
    • Using HotJar is actually giving our team a sense of excitement and enjoyment in our day-to-day usability work. Instead of seeing UX as a chore, HotJar is making data gathering and analyzing more fun, because we can see tangible results from a much larger pool of user/user-data than we could in the past.
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    Twilio
    • Segment has enabled us to get a full view of our front end activity, join it to our back-end activity, and get full visibility into our funnels and user activity.
    • Segment lets us send events to ad tools with a full audit trail so all the numbers line up.
    • Segment also brings data from other sources into our data warehouse, saving our data engineering time from building commodity connectors.
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    Twilio Segment Screenshots

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