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Constant Contact vs Segment comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Constant Contact
Ranking in Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Email (9th)
Segment
Ranking in Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Web Analytics (11th), Data Governance (49th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Customer Data Platforms (CDP) category, the mindshare of Constant Contact is 2.2%. The mindshare of Segment is 13.1%, up from 6.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Customer Data Platforms (CDP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Segment13.1%
Constant Contact2.2%
Other84.7%
Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
 

Featured Reviews

DC
Owner/Founder at a tech services company
It enables me to create and manage an auto-responder series along with list growth management tools.
The goal is to continue to engage with my list. Keeping in touch with new and potential customers helps stay "on top of mind" when needing services.  Just like the name states, it has allowed me to stay in "constant contact" with my subscribers. The most valuable features are creating and…
reviewer2808258 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web and marketing automation specialist at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Centralized customer data has powered predictive audiences and proactive marketing campaigns
The best features Segment offers are the audience building features. We've also launched predictive audiences, which is so far really promising for us and marketing has a lot of ideas for activating these types of audiences. We're going from using historical data to using current data to get more predictive with how we're activating. In my experience, the audience building tools compared to other solutions I've seen or used are really sophisticated. I've used other CRMs in the past for this, and I would say the type of data you're not getting as much of is what you do when you're activating or creating the audiences within the CDP. I think predictive audiences require a 360 view of the customer in order to create these types of AI audiences because they use a lot of different data points. How it's helping the team is by giving us more ways to reach our customers and being more proactive in the type of campaigns that marketing can launch. They have a lot of good ideas and some good things in the pipeline.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Every email I send, gets people to click on something or contact me, and it works."
"Every time that we send one out, we will get some kind of response."
"Customer Service: Very good but I would have liked to have 24 hours accessibility."
"Just like the name states, it has allowed me to stay in "constant contact" with my subscribers."
"Customer Service: Outstanding, with email, chat and call capabilities even on weekends."
"The ability to email clients using templates setup in the system."
"Email marketing is the most valuable aspect."
"It is fun to design your newsletter based on the content you would like to deliver."
"Inserting some very simple code snippets has made this part of it a breeze for our developer so he can concentrate on the hard stuff."
"Customer support is fantastic."
"I like the straightforward way of connecting with various data sources and destinations. That's the most valuable feature. It has built-in integrations for a lot of them, so the overall effort required for integrations is relatively low."
"Segment's scalability is amazing, and it's fully capable of handling all of the different use cases that we have in our company and we have a very complicated company."
 

Cons

"Could use better search and certain editing traits."
"Sometimes, you will be typing in a text box and hit the backspace, but the website will think you meant to go back a page. Basically, you end up losing work when this happens and it is hard to predict."
"All Constant Contact wants to do is keep you on a monthly subscription, so if you only want to send out emails on a quarterly basis you must either pay every month you do not use the product, or you must cancel your subscription and then re-open an account every quarter."
"There are certain hiccups in the program that can be improved to make it more user friendly."
"Sometimes, you will be typing in a text box and hit the backspace, but the website will think you meant to go back a page. Basically, you end up losing work when this happens and it is hard to predict."
"When I started using Constant Contact creating email was very flaky, in terms of crashes and usability (perhaps compared to Weebly etc.). It has improved, however, still needs improvement and email creation still seems clunky and limited compared to other online solutions or website building tools."
"The design of the website is such that you lose context when clicking around (e.g. when clicking on docs)."
"The challenge is the lack of flexibility in the SDKs, given the capabilities of the destinations."
"I chose a rating of eight out of ten because these video tutorials would really illustrate how to use the tool to its full potential, and perhaps some more hands-on support from the Segment team would push it to a ten."
"The only challenge was the session functionality."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is fair, and you end up making enough in sales to pay for it."
"The pricing was on the higher side but it wasn't excessively high."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Segment?
I wasn't involved in the negotiation about pricing, setup cost, and licensing, but in the new negotiation that we have coming up, I know that we're very happy with the pricing so far.
What needs improvement with Segment?
There was a race condition in the Segment journey that I highlighted to Segment, and I think they must be doing something with it. Everything else was perfect. I think everything has improved. They...
What is your primary use case for Segment?
I have used Segment for more than a year. I was working with Addx and Segment was used to align profiles and different user profiles. I used it for journey building, unifying different emails or pr...
 

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