ActiveCampaign Overview

This is a summary of the comprehensive capabilities and benefits of ActiveCampaign based on over 17414 insights from peer reviews, customer testimonials, and expert opinions. We included citations from these sources so you can read the full content at the original source if you wish.

ActiveCampaign, Salesforce Account Engagement (Formerly Pardot), Adobe Marketo Engage, Sharpspring, Act-On, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Marketing Automation. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

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ActiveCampaign supports business activities such as:

  • Engagement Management
  • Communication Management
  • Campaign Management
  • Contact List Management
  • Training & Onboarding

ActiveCampaign can help you with many business goals, such as Acquire Customers, Enhance Customer Relationships, Increase Sales & Revenue, Enter New Markets Internationally Or Locally, Improve ROI, etc. It can help manage these activities if you use E-Mail for these needs. As a solution, ActiveCampaign's capabilities include Personalization, Templates, Landing Page, etc.

ActiveCampaign was founded in 2003. Marketing and Advertising Vertical is its biggest customer base.

Reviews

"7X'd our email database ActiveCampaign is a great scalable CRM. I love how I have more control with my email and how wicked simple it is to use. I'd recommend ActiveCampaign to people who want to scale their email marketing efforts without the hefty... price tags of other email or CRM platforms. We've 7X'd our email database all with the implementation of ActiveCampaign. " - Shawn Parry

Cuspera Reviews

48 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well ActiveCampaign solved their Marketing Automation needs. Cuspera uses 17414 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Marketing Automation needs.

Business Priorities

Acquire Customers and Enhance Customer Relationships are the most popular business priorities peers achieved using ActiveCampaign.

Other priorities:

  • Increase Sales & Revenue
  • Enter New Markets Internationally Or Locally
  • Improve ROI
  • Launch New Products
  • Scale Best Practices
  • Build Brand Awareness
  • Improve Internal Communications
  • Grow Market Share
  • Increase Customer Life Time Value
  • Improve Brand Engagement
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Manage Risk
  • Shorten Ramp Up Time
  • Improve Stakeholder Relations
  • Establish Thought Leadership
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Use Cases

Peers recommend Engagement Management , Communication Management , Campaign Management , as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied while using ActiveCampaign.

Read Peer Reviews and Expert Experience for Business Use Cases

BUSINESS USE CASES RATINGS CUSTOMER AND EXPERT EXPERIENCES
Engagement Management with E-Mail

4.90/5 ★

Read Reviews (905)

"...Client follow up, tracking, automation, deals, campaigns, forms, live chat...."
engaging and following up

4.90/5 ★

Read Reviews (786)

"...It is seamless to create email workflows and engage with customers...."
engaging with scheduling & cadence

3.42/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)

"...Also use automated email marketing platforms, such as ActiveCampaign or the aptly named Drip, to send personalized email drip campaigns at a cadence that makes sense for your customers. ..."
Communication Management with E-Mail

4.46/5 ★

Read Reviews (792)

"...ActiveCampaign has been a game changer in my Martial Arts Academy, enabling easy automation and management of communication needs...."
sending & publishing communications

4.50/5 ★

Read Reviews (665)

"...The main benefit i've noticed is the high delivery rate - with most of the emails I send landing in the inbox...."
tracking & monitoring communications

4.70/5 ★

Read Reviews (115)

"...*Time based Campaigns using Dates *Segmenting Customers using forms and lists *Advanced Customer Tracking *Advanced Customer Behavior Tracking (email and website)...."
Campaign Management with E-Mail

4.69/5 ★

Read Reviews (447)

"...Active Campaign certainly helps with more integrated email templates, surveys and over all campaign analytics...."
campaign analytics

4.44/5 ★

Read Reviews (89)

"...The campaign reports are detailed and well-explanatory...."
campaign monitoring

4.86/5 ★

Read Reviews (66)

"...OptinMonster works seamlessly with email marketing providers and CRM services such as Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Campaign Monitor and Infusionsoft...."
PEER EXPERIENCES
Engagement Management with E-Mail

4.90/5 ★

Read Reviews (905)

"...Client follow up, tracking, automation, deals, campaigns, forms, live chat...." Peer review by Joshua H, Owner, Physical Therapist
engaging and following up

4.90/5 ★

Read Reviews (786)

engaging with scheduling & cadence

4.90/5 ★

Read Reviews (1)

Communication Management with E-Mail

4.46/5 ★

Read Reviews (792)

"...ActiveCampaign has been a game changer in my Martial Arts Academy, enabling easy automation and management of communication needs...." Peer review by Aaron I, Head Instructor
sending & publishing communications

4.46/5 ★

Read Reviews (665)

tracking & monitoring communications

4.46/5 ★

Read Reviews (115)

Campaign Management with E-Mail

4.69/5 ★

Read Reviews (447)

"...Active Campaign certainly helps with more integrated email templates, surveys and over all campaign analytics...." Peer review by Administrator
campaign analytics

4.69/5 ★

Read Reviews (89)

campaign monitoring

4.69/5 ★

Read Reviews (66)

94+ more Business Use Cases

Our AI advisor, Wyz, harnessed 17414 insights from peers and experts to help you assess how these ActiveCampaign use cases fit your Marketing Automation needs.

Customer Testimonials

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS

Shawn Parry

Head of Marketing

Teton Sports

7X'd our email database ActiveCampaign is a great scalable CRM. I love how I have more control with my email and how wicked simple it is to use. I'd recommend ActiveCampaign to people who want to scale their email marketing efforts without the hefty price tags of other email or CRM platforms. We've... 7X'd our email database all with the implementation of ActiveCampaign.

Testimonial By Shawn Parry

Heather Read

Heather Read Photography

As a photographer and a mother, it's so important for me to have that extra time that I save using ActiveCampaign because I can focus more on my art and I can focus more on building relationships with the clients versus the tedious mundane things that so much time didn't need to be spent on. Testimonial By Heather Read

Jeff Davis

President

Victory Media Group

Being a Partner with ActiveCampaign allows me to be at the forefront of this technology. There’s no one who does automation better than ActiveCampaign. Testimonial By Jeff Davis
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS

Shawn Parry

Head of Marketing

Teton Sports

7X'd our email database ActiveCampaign is a great scalable CRM. I love how I have more control with my email and how wicked simple it is to use. I'd recommend ActiveCampaign to people who want to scale their email marketing efforts without the hefty price tags of other email or CRM platforms. We've... 7X'd our email database all with the implementation of ActiveCampaign.

Testimonial By Shawn Parry

Heather Read

Heather Read Photography

As a photographer and a mother, it's so important for me to have that extra time that I save using ActiveCampaign because I can focus more on my art and I can focus more on building relationships with the clients versus the tedious mundane things that so much time didn't need to be spent on. Testimonial By Heather Read

Jeff Davis

President

Victory Media Group

Being a Partner with ActiveCampaign allows me to be at the forefront of this technology. There’s no one who does automation better than ActiveCampaign. Testimonial By Jeff Davis

Case Studies

COMPANY CASE STUDIES
Case Study Morrow Audio

Even though I’m the CEO, president, and founder of Morrow Audio, because ActiveCampaign is so easy to use – I enjoy doing it! And the website is a selling machine. All I have to do is get people to show up and they buy.

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Case Study Bonjoro

How Bonjoro resolved inbox placement issues by implementing deliverability best practices using ActiveCampaign

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Case Study Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

ActiveCampaign lets us send email campaigns, automate features, and manage contacts by staff group. The holy trinity. Other tools couldn’t do all three.

Read More

Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for ActiveCampaign

What is ActiveCampaign?

ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must-have platform for intelligent marketing automation. Customers from over 170 countries depend on the active campaign’s mix of pre-built automation and integrations (including Facebook, Google, WordPress, Salesforce, Shopify, and Square) to power personalized marketing, transactional emails, and one-to-one CRM interactions throughout the customer lifecycle.

What is ActiveCampaign used for?

ActiveCampaign is a Marketing Automation Software mainly used by its customers to Acquire Customers and Enhance Customer Relationships by Engagement Management, Communication Management and Campaign Management .

What are the top features of ActiveCampaign?

Personalization, Templates and Landing page are some of the top features of ActiveCampaign.

Who uses ActiveCampaign?

ActiveCampaign is used by Marketing And Advertising, Consumer Services and Information Technology And Services among other industries.

What are ActiveCampaign alternatives?

Salesforce Account Engagement (Formerly Pardot), Adobe Marketo Engage, Sharpspring and Act-On are popular alternatives for ActiveCampaign.

Where is ActiveCampaign located?

ActiveCampaign is headquartered at 1 North Dearborn St, 5th Floor, Chicago, IL 60602.

Popular Business Setting

for ActiveCampaign

Top Industries

  • Marketing and Advertising
  • Consumer Services
  • Information Technology and Services

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Peers used ActiveCampaign to Acquire customers and Enhance customer relationships

Peer and Expert Opinion on Features

for ActiveCampaign

  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
FEATURES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Personalization

4.24/5 ★

Read Reviews (593)
Templates

3.06/5 ★

Read Reviews (438)
Landing page

2.71/5 ★

Read Reviews (182)
Dashboard

3.31/5 ★

Read Reviews (146)
Recording

4.29/5 ★

Read Reviews (90)
FEATURES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Personalization

4.24/5 ★

Read Reviews (593)
Templates

3.06/5 ★

Read Reviews (438)
Landing page

2.71/5 ★

Read Reviews (182)
Dashboard

3.31/5 ★

Read Reviews (146)
Recording

4.29/5 ★

Read Reviews (90)

IT and Other Capabilities

for ActiveCampaign

  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
CAPABILITIES (DATA) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Data Export

3.62/5 ★

Read Reviews (567)
Data Import

3.46/5 ★

Read Reviews (1400)
CAPABILITIES (DATA) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Data Export

3.62/5 ★

Read Reviews (567)
Data Import

3.46/5 ★

Read Reviews (1400)
CAPABILITIES (SUPPORT) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Email Support

4.32/5 ★

Read Reviews (471)
Phone Support

3.88/5 ★

Read Reviews (247)
Chat Support

3.88/5 ★

Read Reviews (388)
24/7 Support

3.79/5 ★

Read Reviews (2262)
CAPABILITIES (SUPPORT) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Email Support

4.32/5 ★

Read Reviews (471)
Phone Support

3.88/5 ★

Read Reviews (247)
Chat Support

3.88/5 ★

Read Reviews (388)
24/7 Support

3.79/5 ★

Read Reviews (2262)
CAPABILITIES (OTHER) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.56/5 ★

Read Reviews (30)
Analytics

4.39/5 ★

Read Reviews (352)
Custom Reports

3.34/5 ★

Read Reviews (2146)
CAPABILITIES (OTHER) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.56/5 ★

Read Reviews (30)
Analytics

4.39/5 ★

Read Reviews (352)
Custom Reports

3.34/5 ★

Read Reviews (2146)

Software Failure Risk Guidance

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for ActiveCampaign

Overall Risk Meter

Low Medium High

Top Failure Risks for ActiveCampaign

Vendor Profile Details

Company Name

Activecampaign

Year Founded

2003

HQ Location

1 North Dearborn St, 5th Floor, Chicago, IL 60602

Employees

1001-5000

Social

Financials

SERIES C