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Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Formerly Pardot, Evergage, ExactTarget, MyBuys, Datorama, etc.

Overview

What is Salesforce Marketing Cloud?

Marketing Cloud is an AI-powered, cloud-based digital marketing platform within the Salesforce Customer 360 ecosystem. Marketers can segment their audience, deliver personalized messages, track campaign performance, engage leads and accounts, and optimize strategies based on real-time insights.

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  • A/B testing (139)
    8.4
    84%
  • Email deliverability reporting (119)
    8.3
    83%
  • Dynamic content (140)
    8.1
    81%
  • List management (116)
    7.5
    75%

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Pricing

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Account Engagement

$1,250

Cloud
per month

Engagement

$1,250

Cloud
per month

Intelligence

$3,000

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $1,250 per month per installation
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Product Demos

Pardot Engagement Studio: How-to Demo

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How to Use Pardot Salesforce Engage

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Pardot Demo: A Pardot Introduction for Beginners

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Pardot Marketing Automation Demo

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Inspire Meaningful Moments Through Salesforce Marketing Cloud | Salesforce Demo

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement: B2B Marketing Automation Overview Demo

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Features

Email & Online Marketing

Using software to manage lists, send emails, automate email campaigns, and track results.

7.9
Avg 7.8

Lead Management

The process of tracking and managing prospective customers from lead generation to conversion.

7.6
Avg 7.7

Campaign Management

Users can schedule campaigns and/or events with reminders, announcements, etc.

7.9
Avg 7.6

Social Media Marketing

Using social media networks to help amplify marketing endeavors.

6.8
Avg 7.5

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

7.6
Avg 7.5

Platform & Infrastructure

Features related to platform-wide settings and structure, such as permissions, languages, integrations, customizations, etc.

7.6
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

What is Salesforce Marketing Cloud?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a marketing platform that helps companies of all sizes get to know their customers through unified profiles, personalize offers across any channel with AI, and build lasting relationships that drive business growth. Marketing Cloud provides data that is actionable, personalization that scales, and marketing that is connected.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Features

Email & Online Marketing Features

  • Supported: WYSIWYG email editor
  • Supported: Dynamic content
  • Supported: Ability to test dynamic content
  • Supported: Landing pages
  • Supported: A/B testing
  • Supported: Mobile optimization
  • Supported: Email deliverability reporting
  • Supported: List management
  • Supported: Triggered drip sequences

Lead Management Features

  • Supported: Lead nurturing automation
  • Supported: Lead scoring and grading
  • Supported: Data quality management
  • Supported: Automated sales alerts and tasks

Campaign Management Features

  • Supported: Calendaring
  • Supported: Event/webinar marketing

Social Media Marketing Features

  • Supported: Social sharing and campaigns
  • Supported: Social profile integration

Reporting & Analytics Features

  • Supported: Dashboards
  • Supported: Standard reports
  • Supported: Custom reports

Platform & Infrastructure Features

  • Supported: API
  • Supported: Role-based workflow & approvals
  • Supported: Customizability
  • Supported: Integration with Salesforce.com
  • Supported: Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
  • Supported: Integration with SugarCRM
  • Supported: Third-party software integrations

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Pardot Analytics - Pardot's reporting and analytics can be used to perform true revenue impact analysis and closed-loop reporting.Screenshot of Pardot Email Analytics - The reach and impact of  email marketing efforts are displayed in real-time with advanced reporting and analytics by device, and email client.Screenshot of Pardot Forms and Landing Pages - Pardot's form and landing page builders are used to turn online traffic to leads with targeted offers and content marketing.Screenshot of Pardot Email Marketing - Lead nurturing flows are defined via an interface that enables definition of the simplest or most complex segmented and targeted campaigns.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAll

Frequently Asked Questions

Marketing Cloud is an AI-powered, cloud-based digital marketing platform within the Salesforce Customer 360 ecosystem. Marketers can segment their audience, deliver personalized messages, track campaign performance, engage leads and accounts, and optimize strategies based on real-time insights.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud starts at $1250.

Adobe Marketo Engage, HubSpot Marketing Hub, and Act-On Software are common alternatives for Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Reviewers rate Integration with Salesforce.com highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of Salesforce Marketing Cloud are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Marketing Cloud helps me automate my marketing processes so that I can focus on more important tasks. It also allows me to monitor the digital behavior of my customers and capture referring sources so that I can make more informed decisions about my marketing campaigns. It also helps my customers by recommending products and services and triggering personalized messages, which helps me to provide a better customer experience. The A/B testing algorithms have helped me to a large extent to optimize my campaigns for better performance.
  • Pre-configured reports make it easy to get started with product.
  • Automated marketing to recognize customers and to trigger personalized messages.
  • Geo-location and referring source capture provide valuable insights.
  • A/B testing for maximum effectiveness.
  • Somewhat difficult for non-technical users.
  • Price is pretty expensive.
  • Difficulty in navigation, especially when setting up campaigns.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud is particularly well suited for automated marketing that includes multiple touch points like email, SMS, etc., where we need to automatically send triggered messages to customers based on their behavior or recommend products by sending personalized messages. It is a great tool that allows us to easily create and manage campaigns and to track and analyze customer behavior in order to optimize the campaign.
Andrey Lokshin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio to track our customers expertise match to sales as an helicopter view for Unified User profile while been developing software product for them to fit with demand (continuous product improvement). I makes us and our partners available to consider the product focus we need to achieve to get the solution which satisfy clients needs and improve leads convertion rate. The main problem it is used for is management tool for Digital Marketing to i mprove customer retention through use of web analytics and email campaighn management. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio is great visualisation tool which is web campaighn focused but has a huge space to grow once big data experience will be counted. So, it is very helpfull for our digital marketing (web, emails) but not has feed of analytics if you use cold calling practice mostly (separate solution in Marketing Cloud) and has no solid UpWork API integration (no gateway for mass hire, only custom integrations).
  • Unified User Profile analytics - big picture you need
  • WEB and Email campaighn focus (no excessive CRM information for work with data flow)
  • A/B testing for leaded campaigns - must have for any pro application
  • Triggered experience use (returning customer)
  • Segmentation and Targeting of your prospects and repeating sales to identify core factors
  • AI - foe efficient use of neural networks it could be not enough for mid sized company to use only own customer experience quantified to recommend you best venue for sales promotion and lead generation. If there could be legal way to get connect to Sales Force Big Data - all customer experience, all companies, all industires with use only public data while personal data inaccessible by 3-d party, - so that would made predictions more solid in terms of statistical significancy. Now you are checking for reasonability and must have critical view for Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio AI recom, no blind use.
  • Integrations need also service market places inclosed (UpWork, Toptal or even Glassdoor)
  • Add focus on active sales by call leads, meeting reports - to track influence on future sales. If we were growing regularly 5% via email campaigns, once we met key account customer on Conference and got growth rate 15%, we must see impact separately for both.
  • Could be great to have a king of counter party Credit risk appreciation. Probably some financial or ESG rankings to filter insolvent counerparties or those who have minimum probability to be in demand of good or selrviece promoted to be sold (lost leads - you send but the company will have no intention to buy anyway). Could be added to Scoring Models for user profiles stats as additional or blocking rank. So if prospect is only talking but not working it must not be incuded in campaign.
  • Customer Journey Flow - must be focust not only events (send to repeating customer), but we must collect data on features why leads was lost and have a kind of "reqirenments gathering parallel flow" to collect features as factos of lost leads and sales and Continuously improve Product first rather sending all those mentioned emails again and again. Focus on product featues first.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio IS is primarly focused on Digital Marketing. It is less appropriate if you work is connected with key accounts activity. If you are serviece company you could be missing integrations with marketplaces like Zillow, Corporate UpWork account for sending campaignes (offers), only web tracking of prospects actions via 3-d party add ons. If you are considering AI support in choosing right promo activity - you could be missing enough you own historical data to feed to algorhytm to get sustainable forecast (or even binary). So Artificial Intelligence engine is for large companies only or till the era of "faceless" Big Data will come true.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio in our organization to promote the product and services of our customers across various channels. Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio has helped us harness customer behavior data and gain valuable insights into what resources, products, or offers are driving customers to the website and ultimately leading to conversions.
  • Personalized Website Experience
  • Personalized Emails at Open-time
  • Provides valuable data and Insights
  • Low cost plan for small businesses
  • Some bugs should be updated
  • Should include a free trial
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio helped understand customer behavior on the website and gain valuable insights. We were able to personalize the website landing page according to the users' past history which in return led to an increase in interactions and user activity on the page and a significant increase in the sales of the products.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Interaction Studio helps give insight and real-time data into customers. I currently use it to drive customer interaction and create a better buyer experience. This program is great for visual learners because there are many graphs and charts that give a complete view of your customers and their journey.
  • Manage the customer experience in one place.
  • Drive engagement within the target audience
  • View Real-time data
  • It did take a little bit of training to understand how to use the program. If you have never used any of the Salesforce products, it can be confusing to navigate at first.
This is a great program to use if you are looking to enhance your customer experience and or help drive engagement. I've used a lot of the Salesforce products, which made it an easy adaption. It is also great for those looking to track their engagement data in real-time because it is very visual.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Salesforce Advertising Studio to promote sales through lead generation and nurture them, it helped us to better reach the customers on time, and we made good progress in increasing the sale of products. Combined with Social Studio, we were able to increase the customer data and campaign the special promotions to targeted groups.
  • Helped to build customer trust
  • Retain loyal customers
  • Nurture the leads
  • UI
  • Better Integration with salesforce core platform
  • Pricing and licensing
Overall, it is a good product to have. When you are already a user of Salesforce marketing cloud and other clouds, definitely yes go ahead. When it comes to user licensing I'm not always a big fan of it as it gets very complicated for us when we keep on adding more Salesforce products.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our organization uses Pardot (now Marketing Cloud Account Engagement) to communicate with our sales contacts. We do this by identifying contacts that are ready to receive messaging, creating emails, and then scheduling campaigns that will send emails to those contacts. We use marketing automations Pardot provides to make these campaigns dynamic, sending different messaging at different times based on how customers react to the campaign.
  • Marketing Automation
  • Dynamic Customer Journey Campaigns
  • Easy to Use
  • Email Builder
  • Email testing
  • Adding more depth and conditions to completion actions
Pardot is well-suited for an organization that is looking to maximize the output of its Sales team. The software is easy to use, but I would say that it takes time in order to figure out how best to use it for your organization's goals and your own reporting needs. It's easy enough for any marketer to pick up but it does take time to master.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Audience Studio essentially gives the company the chance to get to know their customers on a deeper level to create proper segments to market to the correct audience. It basically gives us the tool, information, and data to target our audience segment for a specific product or promotion. We use it on a daily basis throughout three of the companies that I work for.
  • Easy to read data
  • Creates segments
  • easy to use interface
  • Policy regulations could use updating for specific companies
  • Tablet/cell phone options could function better or have an upgrade
  • Loading could be smoother
Honestly, almost any mid to large scale company can use this to target their appropriate audience segmentation. The scenario that it would be less appropriate is if it is a smaller business, it wouldn't be worth the price at that point, only if you're looking to expand and can afford it. I could see this being used in numerous fields from products, storefronts, editorial outlets, etc.
Shubham Rawat | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It solves lots of problems for our business such as 1. Easy to create reports, save those reports and transfer this data from salesforce to SalesLoft. 2. We can easily see a number of demo schedules delivered by the sales team. 3. It is a great tool to do lead, account, contact, and sales opportunity management.
  • This tool is very user friendly.
  • The UI and UX of the software are really attractive and easy to navigate throughout the software.
  • Two-factor authentication.
  • Lightning salesforce is not at all user-friendly and confusing as compared to the classic version.
  • There is so much to offer by Salesforce that sometimes it is difficult to start the day to solve the actual problem statement. Dashboards are intuitive but extreme planning should be there before starting your day.
It is a great way to manage the business and be able to frame out in which direction you want this business to proceed. Additionally, We can help our customers as well to understand their problem statement and where they want to go with their business. We are able to help and manage the growth potential of our customers through this product. This product is very adaptive in case opportunities increase and also it keeps track of all the opportunities which we got over a period of time.
Wendy Durf | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Audience Studio has stable features designed to manage multiple data through the secured environment and the ability to manage various project files and reports distribution tools are effective. The easy data modeling and secure data migration from other different platforms. Its features are easy to modify and set the dashboard accessibility.
  • Different data management functions.
  • Simple reporting features.
  • Functional data transferring tools.
  • On deep functions setting it has to involve their technical team.
  • To pull various data with different sizes is very complicated.
  • Not easy to categorise multiple data formats when new to this software.
Salesforce Audience Studio data management quality is the most profitable and its capabilities are cost-effective and reliable for business privacy and policy management. Creating data reports is easy and also its integration functions allow importing of the huge volume of various data and other contents across other systems easily and very smoothly.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In order to better understand our clients, we utilize Salesforce Audience Studio to gather information from them at several points of contact. The technologies and artificial intelligence that enable it has helped us get new insights into our audience and marketing initiatives, which have allowed us to improve our campaigns and return on investment. This single dashboard, in my opinion, is one of the main reasons to make use of the platform.
  • Enhanced productivity as a result of integration with the Salesforce ecosystem
  • Setting up the platform such that it can host various workspaces for different teams
  • An easy-to-use interface
  • With flawed or inadequate datasets, gaining useful consumer insight may be challenging
  • To get the most out of data science insights, you needed Einstein
  • Non-Marketing Cloud MAPs might be more easily integrated with Marketing Cloud
As a user of the Salesforce ecosystem, I suggest the Salesforce Audience Studio platform to those who are habituated to the platform's complexity. Because of the steep learning curve of the platform, I wouldn't suggest it to those who are new to dynamics. I think it's better for larger teams as well.
KAUSHIK DEBNATH | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Salesforce truly helped our organization to store employee details & perform quick analysis which was taking a lot of time earlier.
  • Customer data marketplace.
  • Data management platform
  • Advertiser.
  • The advertising parameters could be bit more elaborative.
  • Integration capability expansion with new technologies.
  • Customer media experience can be enhanced.
Publishers and Advertising becomes more simple & strategic. Some custom development along with Cloud integration technologies could be proven more helpful. the articles should increase to showcase the product and its capability. In different organizations, I understand that it gets used in various ways. All the details and processes of multiple organizations can if showcased more, could really help the other organizations who are planning to dive into it.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Salesforce Audience Studio (formerly Salesforce DMP) is a great tool to add if you are already involved with the Salesforce universe. It helps us in effectively manage our leads, opportunity, and contacts across our marketing team. It helps us keep track of lead/opportunity lifecycle and their activities across. Other minor use cases are revenue forecasting and demand/supply management using the dashboards provided.
  • Lead/Opportunity lifecycle management
  • Informative and customized reporting systems
  • Understanding and manage customer requirements
  • Dashboard's visualizations can be improved and may provide better charts.
  • There is usually a lag when data processed is huge.
  • Pricing
It is well suited for mid to large-size companies due to pricing. It can be a good option only if you have a well-trained salesforce resource as it needs technical expertise to operate in a Salesforce environment. It is not well suited when all you are looking for is reporting.
Victor Ceasar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Audience has been a good revenue generator for our organization. Allow us to collect customer profiles quickly and easily which is a key component of our marketing process. On other hand, customer profiles are used to make the best-detailed decisions about the strategy of business and marketing. Also help to segment the audience faster and more accurately thus making marketing more focused since it lets us defines what customer needs, meet their specific needs, build a good relationship and also earn their loyalty.
  • Capturing and organizing data.
  • Identification of more prospects.
  • Audience Segmentation.
  • Play a big role in enhancing marketing campaign strategies since it merges data from different sources.
  • To be honest there is nothing I dislike, very reliable and user friendly.
Giving customers a more personalized experience that helps in building good relationships with them. The ability to generate graphs helps in analyzing data. Plenty of options for customization that fits any company's needs. Creation of customer profiles.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Marketing cloud data studio facilitates our strong inbound marketing campaigns and we have been very successful. Using Engagement Studio, we plan a customer "journey" through our marketing engagements and lifecycle tracking. Now, the customer touchpoints have been clearly identified to us for us to have very targeted actions along that journey with the customers. Through this implementation, we have increased our conversion percentages and actionable intelligence on the customer flow which allows us to build strong future campaigns.
  • Journey touchpoints
  • Rich Data sources
  • Quality of data
  • It does take some time to set up.
  • Lack of reporting
It’s suitable for a multiple division, multi-channel marketing organization where you have different campaigns in different stages and engagement mediums. It may not be appropriate for a company whose marketing efforts are very straightforward and simple. The setup of the application is not worth the value that you will get a return versus another simpler off-the-shelf solution.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Audience Studio to unify our multi-channel lead source and gain insights into the leads and the customer journey. The tool is used by our marketing specialist and by our analyst to understand the performance of our channel, campaign, etc., and also to explore potential opportunities.
  • Centralized customer data from multiple sources.
  • Automatic segmentation of the customers.
  • Drive on-time and real-time customer interaction.
  • Needs a lot of backend development before ready to go.
  • Users will benefits from multi session training.
  • Hard to explore potential data issues.
When you have a multi-channel customer touchpoint and a complete customer journey, from acquisition/sales to customer engagement/upsell and you need to understand where in the journey you need to improve the experience, this tool will help you identify where to put your times and money.
Dhaval Gala | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Audience Studio for end to end CRM management platform wrt complex SAP RFQ requirement across entire global level on PWC spanning a cross 56 countries.
Value addition :
Event based complex data attributes functionality provides integration platform for marketing team to match and leverage on demand/ supply of professional services
BI reports highlight overall CRM alerts with unlimited dimensions
Intelligent resources staffing and guidance being evaluated based on the contract period inputed for employees
Regulation compliance management: Entire set of Metadata provides ready reckoner for country wise extraction of requisite client data that may be required as per local regulations

  • Intelligent resource staffing
  • Rfq specific project structure hierarchy specific data management and triggering levels
  • Timely Client management through ensuring audit trial and activities optimisation levels/ department
  • Customisation flexibility for industry specific AI capabilities such as extracting/ integration based on work center capability utilization requirment
  • Development of readily available 'Quick to use' templates functionality portraying specific CRM capabilities
  • Notes/ guidance on integration with sap tables
Suited: industry specific niche requirement to deliver timely performance/response being a key competitive advantage

Less appropriate: not suitable for standard market driven companies
April 20, 2022

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Audience Studio (formerly Salesforce DMP) help my organization in many ways as mentioned below. 1) It helps to stored leads and assign leads comes from different source to different Marketing team in my Organization. 2) It help our Marketing Head to view and see in which stage the lead(Suspect, proposal and other). 3) It helps our Billing team to see the milestones and send payment reminder to client on time. 4)It keeps records of all the ongoing project in company.
  • Salesforce Audience Studio helps to create database of lead generated and helps to rectified each leads
  • Salesforce Audience Studio can be integrated with any other software
  • Salesforce Audience Studio uses AI which is latest technology to analyze and visualize data in any form
  • As I am user i dont find missing features and as I am currently working with Marketing team so its best suited for us and our company
The specific scenarios based on your experience where Salesforce Audience Studio well suited for Marketing Team as there lot of inquiry are there and its not possible to handle all leads together so Salesforce helps to handle and analyze each leads and helps our team to handle each leads in better way
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Attempting to create a full picture of customer journeys, which would give a base of finding future connections and analysis on. We'd ultimate wanted to use the tool in conjuction with others (Ad tools, CMS', Split testing) to help optimise experiences to customers to help increase conversions and measure further analysis on the results.
  • Single customer view
  • Audience management
  • 360 view
  • Very reliant on cookies
  • Didn't play with with third parties CMP's
  • Assumes an all digital environment
Assuming you've got an all digital environment , implementing and day to day use of Salesforce Audience Studio is a lot easier. If you've got a split digital\non digital environment, then your implementation could well be made that much more troublesome, making a full 360 customer view that much more difficult to achieve - which will impact the benefits you're able to gain from using the product. With the benefit of hindsight, implementation should be approached from a "programmatic first" perspective, as having programmatic integration points makes the whole journey that much more palatable.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce to pull reports of current and past clients to gauge their experience with the bank and how we can improve and stand up against competitors. We are able to integrate Salesforce with other software we use in order to send emails and surveys to clients, keeping in mind those who unsubscribed to emails and communications.
  • Excellent reporting.
  • Integration with other apps.
  • Customization of client information.
  • Mass migration of files.
  • Connecting relationships.
  • Training on application.
Very well suited for reporting and integrating with other applications, including GetFeedback and Pardot. Also integrates well with Qualtrics for more robust reporting.
Mithil Patel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Audience Studio to collect data from our customers at multiple channel touchpoints. The technology and AI that powers it has helped gather some interesting insights about our audience and marketing campaigns which let us better optimize our campaigns and return on investment. I feel that this unified dashboard is something that makes using the platform worthwhile.
  • Dashboard and reporting
  • AI and technology that is predictive
  • Parent brand is strong - Salesforce
  • I feel the pricing could be better were it a stand alone
  • I wish there was more automation in terms of report dashboard and notifications
  • There also could be better onboarding and customer support
I would recommend the Salesforce Audience Studio platform to users of the Salesforce ecosystem who are used to the complexity of the platform in general. I wouldn't recommend it to users who are new to the dynamics given the learning curve of the platform in general. I feel it is better suited for bigger teams too.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Audience Studio was being used specifically by our Marketing department to automate + track posting and connections to our Company's social media accounts.
  • Simple and efficient UI
  • Increased efficiency through connections to Salesforce ecosystem
  • Configurability to ability to host multiple team workspaces within same platform
  • Integration with non-Marketing Cloud MAPs could be more seamless
  • Actionable customer insight could be difficult to gather with faulty/incomplete datasets
  • Required Einstein in order to access full potential of data science insights
I would be much more willing to recommend Salesforce Audience Studio to a B2C company rather than a B2B like mine simply because I don't feel as though our business model allowed my marketing team to take advantage of Salesforce Audience Studio's strongest features. Their adaptive Consent Management looks incredibly helpful on paper, but if your audience is comprised of mostly enterprise server email addresses like ours, managing consent and email deliverability is a whole different problem.

Additionally, unless your business is integrated within Salesforce's Marketing Cloud product suite, you may find that functionality of key data science features are slightly limited - specifically when you are trying to build out a customer journey or revenue attribution model.
Pankaj Singh Shah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Usage: Using it primarily for email marketing, lead capture through forms, and reporting of email efforts. Apart from it, it was also used for lead scoring. Business problem: Automated lead capturing, email marketing, and reporting of email efforts. Scope: Email, lead capturing, reporting, and lead scoring.
  • Lead capture.
  • Email marketing.
  • Lead scoring.
  • It has limited reporting capabilities.
  • Landing page creation can be improved.
  • Dated User interface.
Well suited: For email marketing, lead capturing, lead nurturing, and if you are using Salesforce, Pardot gives you a very tight integration for data sync. Not well suited: If you are not using Dalesforce then Pardot doesn't give you an edge when we compare it to other marketing automation tools.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce advertising studio is used in our organization for lead generation which makes it a relatively easy task to create new leads with more efficiency, moreover, we market new products to our customers on an individual basis which creates a good experience. It also helps us to engage with inactive customers which results in great marketing.
  • Up selling and cross selling current customers.
  • Better lead generation.
  • Awareness for active customers and engagement with inactive customers.
  • User interface is complicated and not marketing friendly.
  • Price of the product is kept on the upper side.
  • Email look different between different email clients which varies quite a lot.
This software is well suited when we want to create professional-looking emails for our customers with just drag and drop we can add all the functionalities that we need. On the other side it is a technical product so marketing people find it difficult to use and may need to hire an Administrator/Developer to handle this tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Advertising Studio (formerly Social.com) to used to target current customers and prospects. We use this across a variety of campaigns across platforms such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The primary use case is executing different creative variants for the right message to the right user which makes this pretty easy to drive leads for sales.
  • Social Functionality.
  • Reach.
  • Customization.
  • Performance and Reliability.
  • The user interface could use an update, but overall pretty easy to maneuver.
Salesforce Advertising Studio is a powerful advertising solution. Salesforce Advertising Studio is the best application for big/small organizations. To maintain the relationship with the customers we have to be interactive, so by this platform, we can easily send emails to the customers so that they will be aware of our offerings. It also helps us to generate good leads for sales from our old customers, as well as from new customers.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Advertising Studio to create audiences for Facebook targeting. The audiences cannot be created due to the Facebook pixel 180 days limitation or due to missing events in Facebook. The tool allows you to create multiple audiences and share them with external platforms like Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter & YouTube.
  • Audience creation.
  • Targeting users on multiple platforms.
  • Reach more users that cannot be targeted with a pixel tracking.
  • Easy connection with the advertising platforms, so that multiple data points can be shared in a hashed format.
It is suitable when you need an easy connection with the advertising platforms You can share multiple data points with the advertising platforms (hashed) and improve the match rate for the audience It can be very expensive to just have this connection in place. An alternative is to build an in-house data connection with the advertising platforms to update the audience daily.
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