Hull CDP, from MessageBird vs. Twilio Segment

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hull CDP, from MessageBird
Score 4.7 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Hull CDP collects, transforms, enriches, filters, searches and segments customer data across various tools. The CDP is presented as a real-time rule and action engine that aims to provide SaaS and Ecommerce businesses with more control over their customer data. Hull is now a MessageBird product , since its acquisition in April, 2021. 1. Collect Store all customer data in one consolidated profile. Install connectors to gather data from any…
$99
End-users
Twilio Segment
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Segment 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
Hull CDP, from MessageBirdTwilio Segment
Editions & Modules
Basic
$99
End-users
Pro
$499
End-users
Enterprise
$999
End-users
Custom
Contact
End-users
Free
$0.00
Includes 1,000 visitors/mo
Team
$120.00
Includes 10,000 visitors/mo
Business
Contact Sales
Custom Volume
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hull CDP, from MessageBirdTwilio Segment
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Chose Hull CDP, from MessageBird
We actually use Segment as well as Zapier so I don't think I answered this part of the question correctly. Here's the piece, aggregating and connecting your systems is a challenge. Segment and Zapier will help connect your systems together but they will not necessarily help you …
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User Ratings
Hull CDP, from MessageBirdTwilio Segment
Likelihood to Recommend
4.5
(3 ratings)
8.7
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hull CDP, from MessageBirdTwilio Segment
Likelihood to Recommend
MessageBird
Hull is definitely the leading CDP for the small to mid-sized business in which the marketing team wants or needs to have a fair amount of autonomy from engineering, or when it's unrealistic or cost-prohibitive to use internal engineering resources to maintain the marketing database. It's also a great choice for companies who are trying to bring newer and smaller best-of-breed elements into place in their marketing--enabling you to sync customer data records to CTAs/ Chat scenarios/ Email Service Providers, or any type of 3rd party campaign tools. It's probably not the best fit for companies trying to stay in a larger Marketing Cloud Ecosystem, e.g. Adobe/ Oracle.
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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
MessageBird
  • Slack integration - we revolve around slack as our central comm hub and having our customer information surfaceable is just gold.
  • Making back-end data easy to read and digest - there is a lot of data that gets generated by our customers and it's impossible to sift through without Hull consolidating that information for us.
  • Customer support - we have only had a couple issues in the many months using Hull and it's always been a quick resolution. They use Slack to support BTW which I love.
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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
MessageBird
  • Needs a deduplication engine
  • Needs to be able to perform bulk and automated data cleansing (unified data is messy)
  • Needs to integrate with more tools
  • Needs to be able to be tailored to different use cases, such as a retail/ecommerce use case, with RFM metrics
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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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Support Rating
MessageBird
No answers on this topic
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
MessageBird
We had initially identified Segment as a solution due to the number of integrations they supported. The problem is that with Segment we would have still had to build and maintain a database along with query tools. Overall Hull emerged as a better starting point for us
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Twilio
I'm not sure these are "official competitors" (or alternatives) to Segment, but we use them in parallel for different goals. We use Datadog for logging and monitoring and we use Mixpanel to perform data analysis based on the data we gather using Segment (and other sources). I don't think we ever evaluated any other service vs. Segment. I think we got a recommendation on Segment, liked it and decided to use it (and we're happy with it since).
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Return on Investment
MessageBird
  • Positive: No longer asking engineering for customer activity data
  • Positive: Allowing additional data integrations for where our customer activity data can be seen
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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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