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What is Marketing Cloud?

How does Marketing Cloud Engagement (ExactTarget) differ from Marketing Cloud Account Engagement (Pardot) and Marketing Cloud Next?

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Written by Tom Smith
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a platform designed to help teams build and automate marketing efforts across a range of channels, such as email and SMS. Within Marketing Cloud, there's a few different products.

Marketing Cloud Engagement

With Marketing Cloud Engagement, teams can use products like Journey Builder and Email Studio to create content, segment their audience, and send personalized emails across a variety of channels.

Marketing Cloud Engagement sits outside the Salesforce core platform and connects to CRM through Marketing Cloud Connect.

Marketing Cloud Account Engagement

Shortly before Salesforce acquired ExactTarget, ExactTarget acquired Pardot. In 2022, Salesforce renamed Pardot to Marketing Cloud Account Engagement.

With Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, teams can build account-based marketing strategies and track prospect engagement across the whole lifecycle of a deal, helping the Sales team close opportunities.

Marketing Cloud Account Engagement sits outside the Salesforce core platform and connects to CRM through the Account Engagement Connector.

Agentforce Marketing

Formerly known as Marketing Cloud Growth and Marketing Cloud Advanced, Agentforce Marketing is purpose built for the agentic era. Agents can act on your behalf to instantly create content, build audiences, and launch campaigns.

Agentforce Marketing is built on the Salesforce core platform.

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