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Omnichannel Marketing Platform

Find out how omnichannel marketing platforms support personalized, consistent customer journeys—and why Braze is built for the job.

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What is an omnichannel marketing platform?

Customers don’t think in channels—they expect every interaction to feel connected, personal, and effortless. An omnichannel marketing platform helps brands deliver connected, personalized experiences across customer touchpoints.

By bringing together data and channels—including email, SMS, push notifications, in-app messages, mobile messaging platforms, and more—it gives teams the tools to orchestrate seamless journeys, automate messaging, and personalize interactions in real time. This helps brands drive stronger engagement, encourage loyalty, and run more efficient marketing programs.

What is omnichannel marketing?

Omnichannel marketing is the strategy behind that platform. It focuses on creating a consistent, relevant experience for customers wherever and however they engage—unifying each channel and touchpoint into one coordinated approach.

Why omnichannel marketing matters for customer engagement

Customers expect brands to recognize them as individuals, understand their preferences, and respond with timely, relevant messages across every touchpoint.

Unlike multichannel marketing, where channels often operate separately, omnichannel marketing unifies interactions to create seamless, consistent journeys.

This helps reduce duplicate messages, mismatched offers, and communication gaps that can lead to frustration or churn, supporting stronger engagement and long-term loyalty.

Omnichannel marketing benefits

Once channels and data are connected, the real value of an omnichannel marketing platform comes through in the results it helps deliver. From stronger customer relationships to smarter operations, here are the key benefits that make this approach worth the investment:

Consistent customer experiences

Messaging that feels connected, relevant, and on-brand at each touchpoint.

Personalization at scale

Personalize messaging based on cross-channel behavior, preferences, and real-time actions with no added complexity for marketing teams.

Improved retention and loyalty

When you reach customers in the moments that matter, they feel valued and tend to stick around.

Operational efficiency

Streamlined campaign creation and flexible orchestration from a single platform.

A clearer view of performance

Track the impact of campaigns across channels and make informed decisions to optimize future engagement with integrated tracking.

Scalable, flexible growth

Seamlessly add new channels and grow your customer base with more ways to engage.

A stronger, more consistent brand voice

Avoid mixed signals and deliver clear, aligned communication across channels.

Expand your reach to meet customers where they are

Engage customers across their preferred channels with messaging that’s relevant to where they interact.

Must-have features in omnichannel software

The right omnichannel marketing platform helps teams deliver smarter campaigns, deeper personalization, and real results at scale. These are the features to prioritize:

Unified customer data and identity management

A strong omnichannel platform brings together data from user behavior and interactions to create a single, actionable view of each customer. This helps marketers deliver relevant, timely messages that reflect real behavior, especially as it changes.

Cross-channel automation (email, SMS, push, in-app, and more)

Look for platforms that let you build, automate, and manage customer journeys across a wide range of channels from one place. This helps create seamless experiences without juggling multiple tools.

AI-powered personalization and testing

AI-driven features make it easier to act on predictions and recommendations, streamline campaign operations, and make 1:1 decisions that tailor all aspects of the customer experience while maximizing business outcomes.

Real-time analytics and reporting

Integrated analytics help teams track campaign performance across channels, measure engagement, and uncover opportunities to improve.

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How to choose the best omnichannel marketing platform

Selecting an omnichannel marketing platform is a big decision. The right choice should fit your current needs while giving you the flexibility to grow and adapt. Here are key factors to consider:

Integration with your technology ecosystem

Look for software that connects easily with the systems you already use. Strong integrations help keep data flowing between platforms so you can deliver consistent, personalized experiences.

Built on streaming data

The best platforms support real-time data processing and triggers, so you can engage customers based on what they’re doing in the moment—not hours, days, or weeks later.

Flexibility for journey orchestration

Your platform should make it easy to create journeys that adapt dynamically to customer behavior across channels, helping deliver experiences that feel seamless and responsive—no matter the use case.

Data privacy and compliance features

Managing consent, preferences, and compliance should be straightforward. Choose a platform that helps you stay ahead of data privacy requirements without adding complexity.

Support, training, and scalability

Reliable support, helpful resources, and a platform that can support your business growth all play a big role in long-term success.

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Why Braze is the right omnichannel solution

Braze gives marketers the tools to unify data, connect channels, and create responsive journeys that drive stronger relationships and measurable results in the following ways:

Cross-channel orchestration that drives results

Braze helps teams design, automate, and manage customer journeys across channels from a single platform.

Journey orchestration

Visual journey orchestration environment for creating and managing cross-channel campaigns and customer experiences

Dynamic personalization

Easily manage and leverage content from a variety of sources to automatically personalize messages on a 1:1 basis

Cross-channel support

Email, SMS/RCS, push notifications, in-app/browser messages, messaging apps, landing pages, paid social, and more on a single platform

A/B and multivariate testing

Experiment with channel mix, messaging, and entire journeys variants—then automate and optimize what works

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Real-time personalization powered by AI

Braze combines live customer data with AI-driven features to help teams personalize every interaction at scale.

Agents

Optimize send times and channel selection based on individual customer behavior

Predictions

Identify and act on customers likely to make a future purchase, disengage, or perform another event

Personalized testing

Customize entire customer journeys for each individual based on what’s most likely to convert

Recommendations

Personalize products by what’s most likely to resonate with each customer

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Unified, actionable data with flexible integrations

With a large partner ecosystem and comprehensive data management features, Braze can connect easily with your tech stack to help you make sense of your data and give you a single, actionable view of each customer.

Built on streaming data

Unify, activate, and distribute first-party data across touchpoints

Native integrations

Data warehouses, CDPs, eCommerce, analytics, and more

360-view of customers

Keep profiles accurate and up to date as customers and their preferences evolve

Segmentation

Create dynamic audience segments based on user behavior, characteristics, preferences, and more that change when customers do

Identity resolution

Merge and unify customer identities across multiple devices and channels

Analytics

Gain actionable insights through comprehensive reporting and analytics tools

Built for performance, growth, and reliability

Braze helps brands scale customer engagement without adding complexity.

Scalability and performance

Reliability as you grow, even on the biggest days of the year.

Speed

Never miss a moment with sub-second processing.

Auto-scaling infrastructure

Execute your biggest ideas and process your largest volumes

Enterprise-level privacy and security needs

Including HIPAA, ISO27001, and SOC 2 Type 2

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How real brands see success with Braze

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