Lytics vs. Twilio Segment

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lytics
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Lytics is a customer data platform (CDP) from the company of the same name in Portland.N/A
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
LyticsTwilio Segment
Editions & Modules
Starter
Free
Professional
Contact Sales
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Free
$0.00
Includes 1,000 visitors/mo
Team
$120.00
Includes 10,000 visitors/mo
Business
Contact Sales
Custom Volume
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LyticsTwilio Segment
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
LyticsTwilio Segment
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(4 ratings)
8.7
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
LyticsTwilio Segment
Likelihood to Recommend
Lytics
Not a unified audience database but for segmenting for programmatic advertising [Lytics is] excellent[.] It is an identity / email driven database[.] Does not combine users into one master record[.] Excellent built-in scoring mechanisms which I use regularly to isolate most engaged users[.]
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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
Lytics
  • Analytics: it's easy to obtain and understand.
  • Usability: the database is intuitive and easy to learn.
  • Targeting: you can easily reach your target audience.
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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
Lytics
  • Uptime.
  • Monitoring
  • Relational-table-like functionality
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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
Lytics
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
Lytics
We evaluated 5-8 CDP's and picked Lytics[.]
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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
Lytics
  • Positive: Customers are retained through another outlet.
  • Positive ROI: we've made a lot of money using the program.
  • Positive: We're using Lytics targeting with email integrations to reach specific subscribers in ways we never thought possible.
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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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ScreenShots

Lytics Screenshots

Screenshot of Audience DiscoveryScreenshot of Profile SummaryScreenshot of Orchestration

Twilio Segment Screenshots

Screenshot of Destinations CatalogScreenshot of Destinations Main OverviewScreenshot of Sources Main OverviewScreenshot of DebuggerScreenshot of DocsScreenshot of Destination Settings