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Marketing Cloud

bySalesforce
in
4.2
Market Presence: Multichannel Marketing Hubs, Location Based Marketing Software

Overview

Product Information on Marketing Cloud

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Marketing Cloud?

Marketing Cloud is a software that enables organizations to manage and automate marketing activities across multiple channels, including email, mobile, social media and web. The software provides features such as audience segmentation, personalized messaging, campaign management, data analytics and reporting. It helps businesses streamline the creation, execution and monitoring of marketing campaigns, allowing for improved targeting and engagement with prospects and customers. Marketing Cloud supports integration with various customer relationship management platforms and other enterprise systems, facilitating a unified view of customer interactions. The software addresses the business need for coordinated, data-driven marketing strategies that enhance operational efficiency and support measurable outcomes.

Marketing Cloud Pricing

Marketing Cloud software offers tiered subscription pricing based on the range of features and user access required. The pricing model typically includes different editions with varying capabilities such as email marketing, automation tools, analytics, and integration options. Costs are determined according to the selected plan, usage volume, and additional feature modules that may be added to the subscription.

Overall experience with Marketing Cloud

MARKETING MANAGER
3B - 10B USD, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

“Detailed Data Analysis Features Aid Personalization But Present Complexity Challenges”

4.0
Dec 8, 2025
SFMC (SalesForce Marketing Cloud) helps me make my digital activities more personalized, especially in how I communicate with different customer segments.
Manager
30B + USD, Manufacturing
CRITICAL

“High Costs and Unnecessary Features Lead to Poor Overall Experience”

1.0
Dec 29, 2025
Over complicated, forced to get features that is not needed, expensive, overrated, horrible user experience, not integrated with SalesForce, you have to pay for everything and a bit more.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 2nd November 2023

Salesforce is a company that integrates artificial intelligence with customer relationship management and data to create solutions for customer-related concerns. Salesforce's primary business problem is to enhance the interaction between businesses and their customers by leveraging technology.

Company Details

Updated 2nd November 2023
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.salesforce.com

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Marketing Cloud Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. Einstein helps analyze the data in depth, making it easier to understand customer behavior and optimize campaigns. 2. SFMC can be integrated with other digital marketing platforms which helps me to have a holistic view not only of the digital marketing activities but also of the overall customer behavior. 3. When sending edms, I can organize the creation and targeting of emails based on user behavior, which improves relevance and engagement.

Like

It is hard to find anything that makes sense in it. After trying other products there is not a single feature that has any cost benefit.

Like

Now I can create specific campaigns for targeted audiences. The reports provide deep insights regarding the performance of my marketing.

Dislike

1. It is difficult to create and manage journe in Journey builder 2. When data extensions are created using SQL, I need to build all the SQL queries myself, as there is no built-in support or assistance for creating SQL. 3. The price is also relatively when adding other functions such as AI agentforce.

Dislike

Extremely expensive, no ROI possible.

Dislike

The interface is not very friendly which I dislike and some of its parts feel outdated and take time to load.

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Marketing Cloud Reviews and Ratings

4.2

(464 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
37%
4 Star
47%
3 Star
12%
2 Star
3%
1 Star
1%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.2

Integration & Deployment

4.2

Service & Support

4.1

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • MARKETING MANAGER
    1B-10B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Detailed Data Analysis Features Aid Personalization But Present Complexity Challenges

    4.0
    Dec 8, 2025
    SFMC (SalesForce Marketing Cloud) helps me make my digital activities more personalized, especially in how I communicate with different customer segments.
  • Marketing & Communications Leader
    <50M USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Comprehensive Campaign Tools Meet Frustrations With Interface Usability and Speed

    4.0
    Aug 2, 2025
    Marketing Cloud integrates well with other Salesforce tools which enhances the performance and it offers multiple communication ways such as through SMS, email or through social media everything in one place.
  • Manager
    10B+ USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    High Costs and Unnecessary Features Lead to Poor Overall Experience

    1.0
    Dec 29, 2025
    Over complicated, forced to get features that is not needed, expensive, overrated, horrible user experience, not integrated with SalesForce, you have to pay for everything and a bit more.
  • MARKETING MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Ease of Use and Analytics Praised While Support Speed Noted as Slow

    5.0
    Oct 15, 2025
    Overall a good experience with the platform. Easy to get up and running and quickly picked up how to use
  • DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Salesforce SFMC Offers Robust Automation with Support with exciting feature coming out

    5.0
    Jul 24, 2025
    Salesforce has been a great partner in setting up SFMC in order to provide automated emails to our customers
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