Drift Overview

This is a summary of the comprehensive capabilities and benefits of Drift based on over 7577 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.

Drift, Qualified, Conversica, Customers.ai, Instabot, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Conversational Marketing. 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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Drift supports business activities such as:

  • Engagement Management
  • Playbook Creation
  • Generation Of New Leads
  • Account Management
  • Conversion Management

Drift can help you with many business goals, such as Acquire Customers, Increase Sales & Revenue, Enhance Customer Relationships, Improve ROI, Grow Market Share, etc. It can help manage these activities if you use Website and Chat for these needs. As a solution, Drift's capabilities include Bot, Personalization, Alerts: Popups & Notifications, etc.

Drift was founded in 2014. Computer Software Vertical is its biggest customer base.

Reviews

"Today's buyers in B2B tech are more informed than ever and we have to assume that they are already well into the buy cycle before we even know about them. Making it easy and helpful when engaging with Bottomline is one of our guideposts in our sales... and marketing efforts and Drift helps us accelerate those meaningful conversations much earlier in the process. " - Christine Nurnberger

Cuspera Reviews

33 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Drift solved their Conversational Marketing needs. Cuspera uses 7577 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 Conversational Marketing needs.

Business Priorities

Acquire Customers and Increase Sales & Revenue are the most popular business priorities peers achieved using Drift.

Other priorities:

  • Enhance Customer Relationships
  • Improve ROI
  • Grow Market Share
  • Build Brand Awareness
  • Enter New Markets Internationally Or Locally
  • Scale Best Practices
  • Launch New Products
  • Establish Thought Leadership
  • Improve Brand Engagement
  • Improve Internal Communications
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Increase Customer Life Time Value
  • Improve Stakeholder Relations
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Improve Navigation
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Use Cases

Peers recommend Engagement Management , Playbook Creation , Generation Of New Leads , as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied while using Drift.

Read Peer Reviews and Expert Experience for Business Use Cases

BUSINESS USE CASES RATINGS CUSTOMER AND EXPERT EXPERIENCES
Engagement Management with Website

4.77/5 ★

Read Reviews (603)

"...We've been using Drift at KeyedIn as a better way for us to interact with our customers and potential customers...."
engaging and following up

4.73/5 ★

Read Reviews (494)

"...That means that 53% of the people who engage in a chat with Bottie on the thank you page become a prospect...."
engaging with scheduling & cadence

4.30/5 ★

Read Reviews (7)

"...Creating emails cadences, how you can see and approach prospects in real time...."
Playbook Creation with Website and Chat

3.68/5 ★

Read Reviews (263)

"...The bot has so much functionality, between the different playbooks that we can have going at different times of the day or on different pages, the customization between types of companies (the fact that we're using this as a B2B company when it seems more fit for a B2C), the easy scheduling of calls with our sales rep (once we input the calendar feature, we immediately got 3 meetings scheduled), and how sleek it looks...."
talk track creation

4.16/5 ★

Read Reviews (2)

"...Drift is flexible and fits any talk track...."
Generation Of New Leads with Website

4.90/5 ★

Read Reviews (136)

"...Pulling more leads from our website be it during hours or after hours...."
PEER EXPERIENCES
Engagement Management with Website

4.77/5 ★

Read Reviews (603)

"...We've been using Drift at KeyedIn as a better way for us to interact with our customers and potential customers...." Peer review by Kevin Knudsen, Enterprise Account Development Manager, KeyedIn Solutions Inc.
engaging and following up

4.77/5 ★

Read Reviews (494)

engaging with scheduling & cadence

4.77/5 ★

Read Reviews (7)

Playbook Creation with Website and Chat

3.68/5 ★

Read Reviews (263)

"...The bot has so much functionality, between the different playbooks that we can have going at different times of the day or on different pages, the customization between types of companies (the fact that we're using this as a B2B company when it seems more fit for a B2C), the easy scheduling of calls with our sales rep (once we input the calendar feature, we immediately got 3 meetings scheduled), and how sleek it looks...." Peer review by Lauren N, Events & Marketing Coordinator, Entertainment
talk track creation

3.68/5 ★

Read Reviews (2)

Generation Of New Leads with Website

4.90/5 ★

Read Reviews (136)

"...Pulling more leads from our website be it during hours or after hours...." Peer review by Trey G., Computer Software

65+ more Business Use Cases

Our AI advisor, Wyz, harnessed 7577 insights from peers and experts to help you assess how these Drift use cases fit your Conversational Marketing needs.

Customer Testimonials

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS

Christine Nurnberger

Chief Marketing Officer

Bottomline Technologies

Today's buyers in B2B tech are more informed than ever and we have to assume that they are already well into the buy cycle before we even know about them. Making it easy and helpful when engaging with Bottomline is one of our guideposts in our sales and marketing efforts and Drift helps us accelera...te those meaningful conversations much earlier in the process.

Testimonial By Christine Nurnberger

George Gallegos

CEO

Jitterbit

Drift helps us close the gap between sales and marketing. It's a part of the fabric of our tech stack across both functions front-end to back-end. And the more we expand our deployment and optimize it, the better our results. Testimonial By George Gallegos

Marc Potter

CRO

Actian Corporation

Drift Prospector is the first marketing platform that I've seen that is actually built to truly unify a company’s GTM efforts. Drift's platform brings a prospect from top of the funnel to front of the line. Having a place where all sales and customer engagement activities are centralized provides a... real-time blueprint of where our reps should be focusing their efforts and is a game changer for us.

Testimonial By Marc Potter
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS

Christine Nurnberger

Chief Marketing Officer

Bottomline Technologies

Today's buyers in B2B tech are more informed than ever and we have to assume that they are already well into the buy cycle before we even know about them. Making it easy and helpful when engaging with Bottomline is one of our guideposts in our sales and marketing efforts and Drift helps us accelera...te those meaningful conversations much earlier in the process.

Testimonial By Christine Nurnberger

George Gallegos

CEO

Jitterbit

Drift helps us close the gap between sales and marketing. It's a part of the fabric of our tech stack across both functions front-end to back-end. And the more we expand our deployment and optimize it, the better our results. Testimonial By George Gallegos

Marc Potter

CRO

Actian Corporation

Drift Prospector is the first marketing platform that I've seen that is actually built to truly unify a company’s GTM efforts. Drift's platform brings a prospect from top of the funnel to front of the line. Having a place where all sales and customer engagement activities are centralized provides a... real-time blueprint of where our reps should be focusing their efforts and is a game changer for us.

Testimonial By Marc Potter

Case Studies

COMPANY CASE STUDIES
Case Study SalesRabbit

SalesRabbit Adopts Conversational Marketing and Books 40% More Meetings For Sales Team

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Case Study The Predictive Index

How Drift Won Over Our BDRs With Irrefutable Results

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Case Study Lattice

One Platform To Rule Them All: Why Lattice Made The Switch From Intercom To Drift To Book More Sales Meetings

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Drift

What is Drift?

Drift is a Revenue Acceleration Platform that helps deliver personalized customer experiences in real time. The software combines Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales, helping the marketing and sales teams to work together and deliver better customer experiences across the complete customer lifecycle.

What is Drift used for?

Drift is a Conversational Marketing Software mainly used by its customers to Acquire Customers and Increase Sales & Revenue by Engagement Management, Playbook Creation and Generation Of New Leads .

What are the top features of Drift?

bot, Personalization and Alerts: popups & Notifications are some of the top features of Drift.

Who uses Drift?

Drift is used by Computer Software, Information Technology And Services and Human Resources among other industries.

What are Drift alternatives?

Qualified, Conversica, Customers.Ai and Instabot are popular alternatives for Drift.

Where is Drift located?

Drift is headquartered at 222 Berkley Street, 6th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, US.

Popular Business Setting

for Drift

Top Industries

  • Computer Software
  • Information Technology and Services
  • Human Resources

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Peers used Drift to Acquire customers and Increase sales & revenue

Peer and Expert Opinion on Features

for Drift

  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
FEATURES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
bot

4.07/5 ★

Read Reviews (514)
Personalization

4.43/5 ★

Read Reviews (363)
Alerts: popups & Notifications

2.08/5 ★

Read Reviews (121)
Landing page

4.29/5 ★

Read Reviews (69)
Feedback surveys

4.47/5 ★

Read Reviews (58)
FEATURES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
bot

4.07/5 ★

Read Reviews (514)
Personalization

4.43/5 ★

Read Reviews (363)
Alerts: popups & Notifications

2.08/5 ★

Read Reviews (121)
Landing page

4.29/5 ★

Read Reviews (69)
Feedback surveys

4.47/5 ★

Read Reviews (58)

IT and Other Capabilities

for Drift

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

3.51/5 ★

Read Reviews (167)
Data Import

3.49/5 ★

Read Reviews (373)
CAPABILITIES (DATA) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Data Export

3.51/5 ★

Read Reviews (167)
Data Import

3.49/5 ★

Read Reviews (373)
CAPABILITIES (SUPPORT) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Chat Support

4.42/5 ★

Read Reviews (393)
Email Support

4.40/5 ★

Read Reviews (83)
Phone Support

4.27/5 ★

Read Reviews (79)
24/7 Support

3.98/5 ★

Read Reviews (927)
CAPABILITIES (SUPPORT) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
Chat Support

4.42/5 ★

Read Reviews (393)
Email Support

4.40/5 ★

Read Reviews (83)
Phone Support

4.27/5 ★

Read Reviews (79)
24/7 Support

3.98/5 ★

Read Reviews (927)
CAPABILITIES (OTHER) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.76/5 ★

Read Reviews (135)
Analytics

4.10/5 ★

Read Reviews (200)
Custom Reports

3.56/5 ★

Read Reviews (523)
CAPABILITIES (OTHER) RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.76/5 ★

Read Reviews (135)
Analytics

4.10/5 ★

Read Reviews (200)
Custom Reports

3.56/5 ★

Read Reviews (523)

Software Failure Risk Guidance

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for Drift

Overall Risk Meter

Low Medium High

Top Failure Risks for Drift

Vendor Profile Details

Company Name

Drift

Company Website

https://www.drift.com/

Year Founded

2014

HQ Location

222 Berkley Street, 6th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, US

Employees

251-500

Social

Financials

SERIES C