What is omnichannel customer engagement?

Omnichannel customer engagement is the practice of connecting with customers across all channels—online, in-app, email, social, mobile, in-branch and more—while delivering a consistent, on-brand experience. It unifies customer data from every touchpoint to enable timely, personalised interactions that meet customer needs and expectations.

What are the benefits of omnichannel customer engagement?

Improved customer experience - Ensures seamless, consistent engagement across all touchpoints, no matter how customers interact with your brand. Increased loyalty - Personalisation and tailored services foster stronger customer relationships and higher retention. Data-driven strategy - Cross-channel insights inform smarter marketing decisions and campaign optimisation. Greater efficiency - Automation streamlines processes, saving time while maintaining consistency. Expanded reach - Engaging across multiple channels broadens audience exposure and brand visibility.

How does omnichannel customer engagement fit into a broader marketing strategy?

Omnichannel engagement delivers actionable customer insights and creates unified brand experiences, enabling marketers to align campaigns, content and customer journeys. In Marketo Engage, it supports both acquisition and retention by integrating data, automation and personalisation across every interaction.

How does Marketo Engage facilitate seamless customer service?

When a customer begins a return request via website chatbot, the conversation transfers to a live agent with full chat history, who processes the return. The customer then receives SMS confirmation and tracking updates. By connecting web, live chat and SMS, Marketo enables a smooth, consistent experience that builds loyalty.

How does Marketo Engage deliver personalised product recommendations?

A customer browses running shoes on an eCommerce site but leaves without purchasing. Marketo triggers an email with tailored recommendations and a discount code. If unopened, the customer sees a retargeted social ad with the same offer. Co-ordinated, data-driven personalisation increases the likelihood of conversion.

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Omnichannel customer engagement

Orchestrate and execute cross-channel campaigns — online and off-line — with Marketo Engage as your centralised marketing hub for omnichannel customer engagement.

Email

Create personalised emails with user-friendly templates, responsive designs and easy-to-use editing tools. Generative AI features and built-in listening tools also analyse engagement signals, automatically update content and shift your audience into the right nurture stream.

Generative AI authoring. Accelerate email creation using generative AI to streamline email personalisation.
Drag-and-drop email designer. Build efficiently with a WYSIWYG editor to drag and drop text, images, videos and more — without coding skills.
Direct access to creative tools. Use Adobe Express embedded directly into Marketo Engage to spark creativity and streamline creative workflows.
Templates and cloning. Choose from a library of mobile-friendly and customisable templates or clone entire programmes to save hours of time.
Image to HTML Converter. Upload a compliant PNG/JPEG image file of an email and automatically convert it into HTML.
Batch and trigger email. Schedule one-time and recurring programmes or trigger them based on real-time customer behaviour, audience changes and updates to your CRM.
Brand Themes. Styling configurations can be reuse and applied across email templates and other email assets for brand consistency.
Dedicated IPs. Get started immediately with a shared IP address or request a dedicated IP.
Deliverability tools and services. Improve email deliverability with tools and services to test, monitor, detect and prevent issues and ensure renderability across email clients, mobile and desktop devices and browsers.

Learn more about email.

Events and webinars

Create, automate and streamline promotions and engagement for webinars, virtual and in-person events. Programme templates for pre-, mid- and post-event engagement, ensure you can scale and optimise your live and digital event programmes.

Programme templates. Create or clone multi-step engagement programmes to manage invitations, registration, attendance and follow-up, all within Marketo Engage.
Trigger real-time engagement at live events with schedule updates, SMS alerts or connect to event apps like Cvent.
Third-party webinar platform integration. Use the pre-built integrations for On24, Zoom, GoToWebinar, Cvent and more in your established event platform.

Interactive webinars

The native webinar hosting platform within Marketo Engage, Interactive Webinars, lets you engage your customers, better qualify leads, follow up faster and deepen personalisation for every customer.

Rich customer data - the platform supports polling, surveys, chat, hand-raising and Q&A to engage attendees, personalise follow-up content and trigger deeper engagement.
Integrated scoring and alerts. Leverage webinar engagement data to adjust your lead and account scoring models, update sales routeing and trigger sales alerts, improving qualification.
Repurpose high-impact webinars. Create AI-generated summaries, chapters and automated FAQs with on-demand recordings.
Faster follow-up. Access and understand attendee data faster with an embedded webinar platform.
On-demand viewing and tracking. Track individual visits, watch duration and take targeted actions through smart lists for enhanced nurturing and personalisation.
Unified cross-channel attribution. Combine your webinar reporting with other Marketo Engage programmes to get a complete view of performance.

Learn more about interactive webinars.

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Adobe Dynamic Chat

Built directly into Adobe Marketo Engage and powered by Adobe’s generative experience models, Dynamic Chat is an embedded conversational engagement channel. It moves buyers into the sales funnel faster by letting them self-serve and self-qualify through a chat-based interface.

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Engage customers with Adobe Dynamic Chat

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Web

Quickly build landing pages that reference Marketo Engage data to personalise visitor content based on historical behaviour.

Landing pages and forms. Embed customised forms and landing pages on your website that automatically pass data to Marketo Engage to trigger campaigns and workflows.
Personalisation. Design, test and optimise responsive pages that dynamically update content based on firmographic, profile and behavioural data in Marketo Engage to boost visit length and conversions.
Retargeting. Re-engage known and anonymous visitors with personalised ads to drive them back to your site and automatically sync retargeting audiences across ad networks.

Mobile

Automatically trigger timely SMS or mobile app messages based on marketing activities, customer behaviour and customer profile attributes.

SMS text messaging. Create, send and measure personalised lead- and account-based SMS text messages to opt-in audiences.
Mobile push messaging. Empower marketers to create, send and measure in-app messages on their existing mobile applications. Simply use the mobile software development kit (SDK) for iOS and Android.

Personalise audience segments and activate audiences

Display advertising

Powerful, personalised ads can be quickly created and activated across platforms to ensure customers receive the most relevant content.

Ad network integration. Send a target list to ad networks such as Google, LinkedIn and Facebook.
Audience activation. Initiate and match lead- and account-based audiences from Marketo Engage for targeted, personalised ad campaigns.
Form automation. Integrate lead generation forms into ad creative and use Marketo Engage paid media activity triggers and filters to automate workflows based on ad engagement and conversions.

View social channel activity from Facebook, LinkedIn and X within Marketo Engage, then incorporate the data into campaigns and measurement.

Engagement tools. Use integrated forms and landing pages.
Metrics. Let marketers view their social funnel and analyse engagement activity inside Marketo Engage.