Audiences: Hubspot vs Dreamdata

Updated by Andreea Oprea

The HubSpot ads audiences capabilities allow you to create 3 types of audiences: contacts list, LinkedIn company list (both available on Marketing Hub Starter, Professional, and Enterprise plans) and website visitors (all plans). Read more here.

If you have not connected your ad accounts to HubSpot, you cannot use the HubSpot ads audiences builder.

Below you can see the similarities and the differences between HubSpot audiences and Dreamdata audiences.

Similarities

HubSpot

Dreamdata

Audience Types

Build audiences based on contacts and companies.

Build audiences based on contacts and companies.

Data Usage

Combine demographic and behavioral data*.

*The data available to you depends if you use HubSpot as both CRM and Marketing Automation Platform.

Combines demographic and behavioral data...............................................................................

A combination of demographic and behavioral data can be used to create audiences, on either platform. For example, you can create an audience of VPs of Marketing who have visited your website within the last 60 days.

Differences

HubSpot

Dreamdata

Ad platforms

HubSpot doesn’t have ad platform data to create audiences. ............................................................................................

Dreamdata is an official LinkedIn Marketing Partner. This means you can create audiences based on LinkedIn ad engagement and video views.

Website visitors

Only available for audiences based on contacts.

Dreamdata collects and models your data into account-based customer journeys. This means that you can create audiences based on contacts and companies based on website visits.

Funnel stages

Create audiences based on HubSpot lifecycle stages.

Create audiences based on Dreamdata’s stage models, which are completely customizable to reflect your funnel.

Not in CRM

It is not possible to create audiences of contacts or companies not in the CRM.

Dreamdata uses proprietary technology to track your website, which enables us to capture companies that aren’t in your CRM.

You can use this data to create audiences. 

41% of active companies are not in CRM

Ad platform syncs

Google, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Google and LinkedIn.

With Dreamdata, you would be able to create an audience of closed-lost companies that have visited your website within the last 60 days which also interacted with your company on LinkedIn and Facebook.


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