Category
Marketing Cloud
Marketing Cloud platforms provide integrated software for managing, automating, and personalizing customer communications across multiple channels. Enterprise marketing teams use these platforms to orchestrate campaigns via email, mobile, social media, and offline touchpoints. They leverage customer data and analytics to segment audiences, personalize messaging, and measure campaign performance. The category combines campaign management, marketing automation, customer data management, and analytics capabilities into unified systems that connect sales and marketing operations. These platforms enable marketers to execute coordinated multi-channel strategies, track customer journeys, and optimize marketing spend across integrated tools rather than managing disparate point solutions.
Companies
49
Tier distribution
49 Marketing Cloud companies tracked by ATDb — 25 leaders, 3 recent deals.
Recent deals in Marketing Cloud
- Salesforce acquires Listen LabsAcquisition2026-09-30
- Salesforce acquires Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BAcquisition$3.6B2026-06-15
- Sitecore acquires ScrunchAcquisition$225M2026-06-03
- Salesforce acquires ContentfulAcquisition2026-06-01
- Salesforce acquires QualifiedAcquisition2026-04-01
- Stagwell invests in Real Clear PoliticsFunding2025-10-16
- Microsoft acquires Xandr from AT&TAcquisition$1B+2021-12-21
- Salesforce acquires Slack for $27.7BAcquisition$27.7B2021-07-21
- Salesforce acquires Tableau for $15.7BAcquisition$15.7B2019-08-01
- Adobe acquires Marketo for $4.75BAcquisition$4.75B2018-10-31
Adobe Experience Cloud
Marketing Technology / AdTech
Adobe Experience Cloud is Adobe's unified suite of digital marketing tools, bringing together capabilities that span analytics, advertising, social, media optimization, targeting, content management, and journey orchestration into a single platform.
Adobe Experience Platform
Customer Data Platform / Marketing Technology
Adobe Experience Platform is a centralized suite of analytics and customer experience management solutions designed to enable real-time personalization and user interaction across digital environments.
Adobe Marketing Cloud
RebrandedMarketing Technology (MarTech) / AdTech
Adobe Marketing Cloud, now known as Adobe Experience Cloud, was a collection of integrated online marketing and web analytics products by Adobe, unveiled in October 2012 as part of Adobe's strategy to phase out the Omniture brand.
Adobe Sensei
AI/ML-Powered Marketing Technology & AdTech
Adobe Sensei is an artificial intelligence and machine learning framework that enhances user experiences, automates tasks, and delivers intelligent insights across Adobe's creative and marketing product suite.
Microsoft
Technology / Digital Advertising
Microsoft is a technology company whose online advertising platform, Microsoft Advertising, enables advertisers to bid for ad placements across the web.
Oracle Marketing Cloud
RebrandedMarketing Technology (MarTech)
Oracle Marketing Cloud was a suite of cloud-based marketing applications offered by Oracle Corporation that was later consolidated into Oracle Cloud CX and, by 2021, combined with Oracle Data Cloud to become Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX).
Salesforce
CRM, MarTech, AdTech
Salesforce is a software company recognized as the leading CRM vendor, with its market scope spanning sales force productivity, marketing campaign management, customer service, contact center, advertising, and digital commerce applications.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Marketing Technology
Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a digital marketing platform that helps brands engage their audiences through targeted, data-driven advertising campaigns.
ActiveCampaign
Marketing Automation & CRM
ActiveCampaign is a privately held email marketing, marketing automation, sales automation, and CRM platform founded by Jason VandeBoom in 2003, primarily serving small to mid-sized businesses.
Adobe Campaign
Cross-Channel Campaign Management / Marketing Automation
Adobe Campaign is a marketing automation platform that enables users to plan, create, and manage customer communications across multiple channels.
Adobe Experience Manager
Content Management & Digital Experience Platforms
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is a comprehensive, industry-leading content management solution that empowers marketers and developers to create high-performance pages across digital properties, managing a wide variety of content assets ranging from custom web applications and websites to images, videos, and online forms.
Braze
Customer Engagement & Marketing Automation
Braze, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in New York City that serves as a customer engagement platform for businesses engaged in multichannel marketing.
Epsilon
Marketing Technology / Data-Driven Advertising
Epsilon is a marketing technology firm acquired by Publicis Groupe in 2019, now operating as a central pillar of that global network with more than 8,000 employees across over 40 offices worldwide.
HubSpot Email Marketing
Email Marketing & Marketing Automation
HubSpot Email Marketing is a component of HubSpot's Marketing Hub that enables businesses to design and send professional emails through a drag-and-drop editor, automate email delivery, personalize content, and segment audiences.
Marketing Cloud Next
Marketing Automation & Customer Engagement
Marketing Cloud Next is Salesforce's newest marketing platform, announced in June 2025 and built natively on Data Cloud (rebranded as Data 360), representing a ground-up architectural rebuild rather than an incremental upgrade.
Marketo
RebrandedMarketing Automation / MarTech
Marketo, now operating as Adobe Marketo Engage, was a marketing automation company founded in 2006 that was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2018 for $4.75 billion and subsequently rebranded within the Adobe ecosystem.
Optimizely
Digital Experience Platform / MarTech / AdTech
Optimizely is a digital experience platform that brings marketing and product teams together so they can create and optimize digital experiences across every channel.
Acoustic
Marketing Technology / Marketing Automation / Customer Experience
Acoustic is an independent marketing cloud platform that emerged from IBM's marketing and commerce software division. In 2019, Centerbridge Partners acquired these assets from IBM, creating Acoustic as a standalone entity focused on delivering personalized customer experiences at scale. The company provides a comprehensive suite of marketing automation, personalization, and customer engagement tools designed to help B2B and B2C organizations orchestrate meaningful interactions across multiple...
Acquia
AcquiredDigital Experience Platform / Content Management
Acquia is a digital experience platform provider specializing in open-source content management, customer data, and marketing automation solutions built on Drupal.
Bird
Customer Communications Platform (CPaaS / MarTech)
Bird (formerly MessageBird) is an Amsterdam-based omnichannel communications platform, providing SMS, voice, video, email, and chat APIs to businesses globally. The company rebranded from MessageBird to Bird in 2023. Bird operates a global infrastructure for customer-engagement messaging and has acquired several adjacent companies including Hull (CDP) and 24sessions (video).
Boxever
AcquiredCustomer Data Platform / Personalization
Boxever was an AI-driven customer intelligence and personalization platform for travel and hospitality brands, acquired by Sitecore in 2021.
Brevo
Marketing Technology (MarTech) / Customer Engagement
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a customer relationship management and marketing automation platform that helps businesses manage email, SMS, chat, and marketing campaigns.
Freshworks
Customer Engagement & CRM Software
Freshworks is a global software company that provides cloud-based business software solutions designed to help companies better engage with their customers and employees. Its comprehensive suite includes products for customer support, IT service management, sales, and marketing, catering to businesses of all sizes.
Mapp
Marketing Cloud / Customer Engagement Platform
Mapp is a global marketing technology company that delivers an integrated customer engagement platform designed to help businesses create personalized, data-driven marketing experiences across multiple channels. The company's cloud-based solution combines marketing analytics, customer data management, and cross-channel campaign orchestration, enabling marketers to build meaningful customer interactions at scale. Built on artificial intelligence and machine learning foundations, Mapp's platfor...
Marketing Cloud Advanced
Marketing Automation / Customer Engagement
Enterprise-tier edition of Salesforce Marketing Cloud announced at Dreamforce 2024 (GA November 2024). Adds Path Experiment, Unified Conversations SMS, and Einstein Engagement features beyond Marketing Cloud Growth.
Marketing Cloud Growth
Marketing Automation / CRM-Integrated MarTech
SMB-focused edition of Salesforce Marketing Cloud built natively on the Salesforce Core Platform, launched February 20, 2024. Designed to make SFMC accessible to smaller businesses; native CRM integration without the legacy ExactTarget stack.
Kentico
Digital Experience Platform / MarTech
Kentico is a global digital experience platform (DXP) vendor that helps businesses create engaging online experiences. It offers a comprehensive platform for content management, digital marketing, and e-commerce, enabling organizations to manage their websites and digital channels effectively. The company serves a wide range of industries, providing tools for personalized customer journeys and robust content delivery.
Pegasystems
Marketing Automation & Customer Engagement
Pegasystems is a leading provider of cloud software for customer engagement and operational excellence. The company's low-code platform enables organizations to build and deploy applications quickly and efficiently.
SAP Marketing Cloud
Marketing Automation / MarTech
SAP's enterprise marketing automation platform that enables personalized customer engagement and campaign management across channels.
Thunder Experience Cloud
Marketing Technology / Customer Experience Platforms
Thunder Experience Cloud is a creative personalization platform that bridges the gap between content production and data-driven customer experiences. The platform enables businesses to deliver dynamic, personalized digital interactions across multiple touchpoints by leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms and real-time data processing. Organizations can create, manage, and optimize tailored content at scale while maintaining brand consistency and creative excellence, addressing the gr...
Cognizant
Marketing Technology Services & Consulting
Salesforce Platform
Marketing Technology Platform/Infrastructure
Salesforce Platform is an enterprise cloud platform providing low-code application development, integration, and data management capabilities that enable marketing and advertising technology solutions.
Sanity.io
Content Management / MarTech Infrastructure
Sanity.io is a composable content platform that provides a headless CMS with real-time collaboration and structured content management capabilities.
SAP
Customer Data Platform / Marketing Technology / Enterprise Software
SAP is a global enterprise software leader providing ERP, CRM, and business intelligence solutions, with marketing and customer data platform capabilities relevant to the AdTech ecosystem.
Shopify
Commerce Platform / Retail Media / Marketing Technology
Shopify — recorded in ATDb as the acquirer/parent of one or more AdTech companies (s375 lineage backfill).