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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
