Airship Receives Highest Product Scores Across All Three Use Cases in the 2020 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Mobile Marketing Platforms

For the second year in a row, Airship ranked highest in all mobile marketing platform use cases: Acquisition, Engagement and Retention

Gartner's companion report offers additional insight into products and services included in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Customer engagement company Airship today announced that for the second consecutive year the Airship Customer Engagement Platform received the highest Product Scores across all three Use Cases in Gartner’s 2020 Critical Capabilities for Mobile Marketing Platforms,¹ including the Acquisition, Engagement and Retention Use Cases. A complimentary copy of the report is available here.

Gartner evaluated 13 mobile marketing platform vendors as part of the Critical Capabilities report, a companion report to the Gartner Magic Quadrant, offering a comparative analysis that scores competing products or services against a set of critical differentiators identified by Gartner. In Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms² Airship was positioned highest in its ability to execute and also furthest for its completeness of vision in the Leaders quadrant overall for the second year in a row (read the details or get a complimentary copy of the report).

According to Gartner, “Critical capabilities are attributes that differentiate products/services in a class in terms of their quality and performance. Gartner recommends that users consider the set of critical capabilities as some of the most important criteria for acquisition decisions.”

“Airship is bringing entirely new levels of simplicity, optimisation and ROI to cross-channel customer journeys built for today’s mobile-first consumers,” said Brett Caine, CEO and president, Airship. “For the second year in a row, Airship received the highest scores in all Critical Capabilities Use Cases and was also positioned highest for ability to execute and furthest for completeness of vision in the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms, which I believe are a clear testaments to the business value we generate for leading brands and partners around the world. Providing exceptional mobile-led consumer experiences has never been more important and, for more than a decade, we feel we’ve proven that Airship is unmatched in keeping our clients at the forefront of innovative digital engagement strategies that grow customer lifetime value, strengthen loyalty and inspire advocacy.”

In addition, Airship was recently named a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Engagement Automation, Q3 2020,” receiving the highest score in the Strategy category (tied) and the second highest score in the Current Offering category.

¹Gartner “Critical Capabilities for Mobile Marketing Platforms” by Mike McGuire, Anna Maria Virzi, Joseph Enever, October 29, 2020
²Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms” by Mike McGuire, Anna Maria Virzi, Joseph Enever, October 26, 2020

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About Airship

Thousands of the world’s leading brands rely on Airship to spark closer connections with their customers through highly contextual and relevant interactions. Only Airship’s Customer Engagement Platform takes a mobile-first, data-led approach that enables brands to focus on individuals and their needs, not which marketing channels to use. Airship makes it much simpler and more effective to grow customer lifetime value in the omnichannel era.

With trillions of interactions intelligently orchestrated across mobile apps, mobile wallet, SMS, websites, and email, Airship optimises the entire customer journey across all digital touchpoints at scale.

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