Braze

The simple and effective A/B testing Capabilities for marketing campaigns is very easy to use, and offers quick and actionable results with minimal training.

Setup and dev work up front is key to have things up and running smoothly for a marketing team. A purely “marketing” team would have a very hard time utilizing this without some support from their developers up front to get the “plumbing” connected properly.

Also, data tracking on some more complex campaigns can end up out of sync - ALWAYS verify conversion data with your own internal data and do not rely on Braze for more than a “gut check” on a campaign’s success.

The customer service is truly admirable. They are responsive and respond to everything that is thrown at them in a timely and accessible manner. You have missed what you have not been able to fix, either in the form of experimenting on the platform or through your study tools. The customer service staff is wonderful. I can only praise the totality of the people we have dealt with since we started using Braze. They ask good questions and help guide us in the use of the product as we talk to them. They also answer any number of questions when we launch a new/complex campaign.

There were certain tricky parts during the application, however, the Braze group was of great assistance in supporting us.

The best thing about Braze is how easy it is to use. We have a team with different levels of experience, and some are new to email marketing platforms. It was important to have a platform that's easy to learn, and Braze gives us that. It's intuitive and user-friendly, so we got comfortable with it quickly.

One thing I don't like about Braze is that it doesn't have an auto-save feature. An auto-save feature would be helpful to prevent losing our work in case of unexpected issues like browser failures. It could save us a lot of time if there's any accidental loss of work.

Built in AB testing features; easy drag and drop template building with interchangeable content blocks; versatile segment builders; native integrations with data clouds; Journey builder does everything I need; reporting checks the box. Native SDK makes tracking user interactions across touch points (web, app) very easy to implement and maintain. Dynamic content syntax is quite intuitive and user-friendly for non-coders.

The cost is something we will need to keep an eye on; I can definitely see how tracking a lot of engagement events in a growing customer base is going to spike costs and possibly exceed our contract. Onboarding happens with a third party vendor, who is not as proactive, knowledgable or committed to our success as they could be. (Had a better experience with onboarding at Iterable both times.) This is Also, when we got started, the ability to clone templates and content blocks between projects was not available but they just launched that new feature. I also wish it was easier to preview the list of users in a segment - you have to download the list of people in the audience for a reliable preview, the preview tool that's built in doesn't always show everyone and sometimes it doesn't show anyone at all due to the way it seems to sample from the list.