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Communications API provider Twilio’s product road map is a direct reflection of the growing role AI is playing in digital marketing.

One year after acquiring the customer data platform Segment, cloud communications API platform Twilio is making its first foray into mar tech. On Wednesday, Twilio launched Twilio Engage, a next-gen marketing cloud of sorts that aims to take on traditional marketing clouds by taking the pipes Segment built to process, query and segment data and […]

The $3.2 billion price tag on cloud communications platform Twilio’s acquisition of CDP Segment in October was sexy. But the data problem Segment aims to solve, although vitally important, is often considered less so, says Peter Reinhardt, co-founder of Segment and CEO of a new entity called Twilio-Segment that’s working on building a platform to […]

It’s time for an exciting new acronym: CDP. But what makes it exciting? Is it the promise – delivered for only the thousandth time this decade – that marketers can finally unify their customer data? No, what makes it exciting is $3.2 billion (in stock). That’s how much Twilio paid to grab the CDP Segment […]

CDP acquisitions are a bit like snowflakes, no two have been quite alike, at least not so far. Cloud communications platform Twilio’s $3.2 billion all-stock purchase of Segment, confirmed on Monday, is the latest example. Notable acquirers in the space have included a British multibillion-dollar semiconductor firm, an American multinational financial services brand and the […]

Did the CDP category just have its DoubleClick moment? Twilio will acquire customer data platform Segment for a $3.2 billion in stock, the companies said Monday. Forbes first reported the deal on Friday. Twilio powers automated mobile communications for clients such as Airbnb, Lyft, Blue Apron, Netflix, Hulu and Salesforce. Its Flex platform supports billions […]

This is the fourth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. One silver lining of working from home is being able to see everyone’s kids on Zoom, said Peter Reinhardt, CEO and co-founder of customer data platform Segment. The […]

When it comes to use, familiarity, market share and mindshare in the customer data platform (CDP) ecosystem, the big marketing clouds lead their smaller indie counterparts by a mile. But a peek under the hood reveals a more nuanced story. The marketing clouds are sucking all the air out of the room, but it’s the […]

 The mobile data platform Segment on Thursday announced a $64 million Series C round led by the Y Combinator Continuity Fund, an investment arm dedicated to the incubator’s alumni, and GV, Google’s venture capital group. The investment brings Segment’s overall funding to $109 million. Its previous investors supported this round as well. The money will […]

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Peter Reinhardt, co-founder and CEO at Segment. Despite the rise of data-driven marketing, I would argue the future of marketing is still very much creative – albeit deeply engineering-enabled. Effectively […]