Marketing and promotions

Use Twilio to expand your marketing reach by communicating on customers’ preferred channels like SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, voice, and email to increase conversions and customer loyalty.
Smiling man wearing a red shirt with promotional messages about a 40% off sale and a special discount from Owl Boutique.
Smiling man wearing a red shirt with promotional messages about a 40% off sale and a special discount from Owl Boutique.

What you can do with multichannel marketing

Increase engagement and ROI with campaigns that match customer preferences.

  • Phone with target

    Power your marketing on the messaging channels customers prefer and respond to: SMS, MMS, RCS, and WhatsApp.

  • People shaking hands

    Move beyond generic tactics with personalized, well-timed messages that boost conversion and lower costs.

  • User group reactions

    Leverage unified data & AI-powered journeys to offer relevant upgrades and grow customer revenue.

  • Shopping cart

    Reach the right customers at the right time and cut the spend that’s not driving results.

  • Users consulting

    Gather customer feedback with text message surveys, request ratings, and solicit reviews for promotional purposes.

  • User with a heart symbol

    Grow customer lifetime value (LTV) and prevent churn with unified data real-time insights, predictive AI, and scalable multichannel personalization.

How to build multichannel marketing with Twilio

Empower your marketers to innovate with email, SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, and voice.

Diagram showing marketing channels, campaign scheduling, A/B testing, and results evaluation
Diagram showing marketing channels, campaign scheduling, A/B testing, and results evaluation

Step 1
Integrate
Integrate your customers' preferred channels—WhatsApp, SMS, phone, email—into your existing MarTech stack, Customer Data Platform, and preference management database.

Step 2
Workflow
Create personalized marketing workflows for promotional, loyalty, and engagement campaigns by your customer's preferred channels.

Step 3
Schedule and send marketing communications
Schedule marketing communications to go out at a set time, like 9am in each recipient's time zone on Black Friday. 

Step 4
Analyze and optimize
Identify deliverability issues and improve performance with A/B testing using Twilio’s out-of-the-box dashboards. Or, custom build with advanced data from Logs with CSV downloads, webhooks, or Event Streams.

Step 5
Update MarTech stack
Log statuses and results in your stack for re-engagement efforts like abandoned cart campaigns and improving future marketing campaigns.

Prefer not to code? No problem.

Work with one of our trusted partners to get coding support or explore a pre-built marketing solution. Find a partner

What you can use to build omnichannel marketing

SendGrid Email

Programmable Messaging

Conversations API

Voice APIs

What it does

Reliable global email delivery

SMS, MMS, WhatsApp 

Two-way conversational messaging

Global voice calling

Reliability

Four nines uptime SLA

3% increase in message delivery****

99.95% API uptime SLA

99.95% API uptime SLA

Scalability

1.7T+ emails sent per year

157B+ messages per year

157B+ messages per year

34B+ voice calls per year

Personalization

HTML Editor with support for Dynamic Content

Content API to create personalized templates

Content API to create personalized templates

IVR virtual agents trained on customer data

Reporting

Deliverability Insights and data for analytics

Data and insights dashboards for A/B testing & analysis

Data and insights dashboards for A/B testing & analysis

Voice Insights to measure call performance and quality

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Compliance and identity features

Proactively address global compliance and achieve optimal deliverability across multiple marketing channels.

  • Verify subscribers at onboarding to reduce fake accounts and increase trust with consumers

  • Address the complexities of global telco regulations, phone number compliance, and onboarding for all communications.

  • Keep invalid emails off your contact list so you only send to real addresses and protect your sender reputation.

Build and deploy your marketing use case quickly

Sign up for a free Twilio account to start building your marketing use case today. Use quickstarts, up-to-date docs, the Twilio CLI, and CodeExchange to build a prototype quickly.

from flask import Flask, request, Response
from twilio.twiml.messaging_response import MessagingResponse

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/reply_sms", methods=['POST'])
def reply_sms():
    # Create a new Twilio MessagingResponse
    resp = MessagingResponse()
    resp.message("The Robots are coming! Head for the hills!")

    # Return the TwiML (as XML) response

Start sending text marketing messages

Follow step-by-step tutorials to implement SMS, MMS, or WhatsApp messages for marketing—available in seven languages and frameworks. 

 

How to schedule and track marketing messages

Add message scheduling, link shortening, and click tracking to your messaging to improve your marketing campaign performance.  

 

Start sending marketing emails

Use the Sendgrid Marketing Campaigns UI for out-of-the-box email marketing or custom build with the Twilio SendGrid Email API. 

Why use Twilio for SMS, email, and multichannel marketing?

Twilio is your data-powered platform for successful email, MMS, SMS marketing and more.

Two colleagues discussing work and pointing at a digital tablet.
Two colleagues discussing work and pointing at a digital tablet.

Lower customer acquisition costs while increasing customer lifetime value with personalized marketing communications on customers’ preferred channels.

Twilio APIs and software give you the power to reach customers around the world. And they integrate seamlessly with your existing MarTech stack while enabling limitless iterations for a future-proof solution. 

Maximize ROI with Twilio, a leading Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) according to Gartner and IDC. Partner with us to achieve the highest level of reliability and deliverability for your marketing use cases. 

Twilio Messaging Engagement Suite

Get simpler development, quicker time to market, and higher deliverability rates.* See how Message Scheduling, Link Shortening with Click Tracking, advanced data, and real-time dashboards can benefit your business. 

* In an evaluation of more than 63M messages sent through Twilio with shortened hyperlinks, messages with shortened hyperlinks by 3rd party Link Shorteners were filtered at 1.96% or 28x the rate of Twilio which was filtered at a rate of 0.07%

** Twilio maintains an SLA of 99.95% for all customers, with the option for 99.99% SLA for clients who purchase the Enterprise or Administration Edition.

*** The Total Economic Impact™ of Twilio Messaging, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, April 2023. Results are for a composite organization representative of interviewed customers.