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Customer Data Platforms battle cards

These are battlecards for selling in Customer Data Platforms: what each vendor in the market says about itself, quoted from its own website, and the objections those claims put in a buyer's mouth. We track 24 vendors here and have read 1121 claims from their product, solution, pricing and documentation pages. The roster runs from 4 enterprise suites through 8 mid-market products to 12 newer challengers, so the same theme is argued at very different scales.

Every matchup in Customer data platforms, by product

Market model

What Customer Data Platforms vendors sell on

Each theme's share of vendors whose own claims return to it. Table stakes ≥ 55%, contested 25–55%, niche below.

9 themes

ThemeBandVendors
Campaign orchestrationtable stakes16 · 89%
Real-time activationtable stakes15 · 83%
Personalisation and experiencetable stakes15 · 83%
Privacy, consent and governancetable stakes13 · 72%
AI, agents and predictiontable stakes13 · 72%
Identity resolution and unified profiletable stakes12 · 67%
Integrations and destinationstable stakes12 · 67%
Data collection and taggingtable stakes11 · 61%
Warehouse-native and composabletable stakes10 · 56%

Products tracked in Customer data platforms: ActionIQ, Amperity, Bloomreach Engagement, BlueConic, Census, Emarsys, Freshpaint, Hightouch, Jitsu, Klaviyo B2C CRM, Lytics, mParticle, Oracle Unity, PostHog, Real-Time CDP, Redpoint CDP, RudderStack, Salesforce Data Cloud, Segment, Simon Data, Snowplow BDP, Treasure Data CDP, Uniphore CDP, Zeotap CDP.

Customer Data Platforms change log

Changes to Customer Data Platforms vendors' own claims, newest first.

5 changes
  1. 2026-10-08

    Simon Data figure added

    10x (multiplier)

    https://www.simon.ai/blog
  2. 2026-10-08

    Simon Data figure added

    6x (multiplier)

    https://www.simon.ai/blog
  3. 2026-10-08

    PostHog figure added

    0.5% (delta)

    https://posthog.com/changelog
  4. 2026-10-08

    PostHog figure added

    20–40% (delta)

    https://posthog.com/changelog
  5. 2026-10-08

    PostHog figure added

    30 minutes (duration)

    https://posthog.com/changelog

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