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Better, Smarter, Faster: How AI is Transforming CDPs
Why it matters:
This post helps marketers from small or big iGaming operators to see how Optimove is solving one of CRM marketing's biggest pain points: onboarding. The Optimove Onboarding Hub puts self-serve data loading, channel setup, and a live tracker directly into clients' control, while Optimove's onboarding team stays involved at every step. The result is a faster, more visible path from signed contract to first live campaign ever.
Key takeaways:
Imagine you're the one who has to onboard a new marketing platform: chasing tickets, waiting on someone else's availability, and watching weeks pass before you ever get near a live campaign. For years, that's been the default for CRM onboarding.
That default usually means data piping, channel configuration, and SDK installs, carried out by data engineers, developers, and technical project managers rather than the marketers who'll use the platform, whether that work sits with the vendor or with an integrator.
The cost of that wait shows up directly in the numbers. Nearly half of customers (48%) abandon onboarding if they don't see value quickly, and 57% of CS and implementation leaders say onboarding friction directly impacts revenue realization, making time-to-go-live a financial metric rather than an operational footnote.
Until now, no CRM marketing platform had the self-serve, AI-led technology to close that gap. Optimove built it first.
The Optimove Onboarding Hub is the first AI-led, self-serve onboarding environment in CRM marketing. It's built around four principles: autonomy, transparency, expert support, and a faster path to the first live campaign.
With Optimove Onboarding Hub, new clients get Optimove platform running within days of signing.
Four capabilities sit inside it:
It brings the experience of self-serve tools like Monday and Slack to an enterprise-grade CRM platform, without pulling Optimove's own team out of the picture.
With the new Onboarding Hub, Optimove becomes even easier and faster to implement.
The Optimove Onboarding Hub is 100% intuitive, includes support and facilitation, and allows Optimove implementation to be done in one to two days for the data set phase, and one week to have the first campaigns up and running.
This is incredibly impactful for operators of all sizes, since faster integration means a quicker ROI, but it is especially valuable for a marketer managing a CRM strategy alone, or for a small team at an iGaming startup that lacks support from engineers and data specialists.
The new Optimove Onboarding Hub enables small marketing teams to implement Optimove quickly and independently, getting their campaigns up and running in the fastest timeframe available on the market.
The Self-served intuitive system doesn't require a dedicated technical team to work. Configuring a channel in the Hub takes minutes, not months, and with clean, ready data, a startup operator can be running campaigns in days, not quarters.
Paired with Optimove Ignite+, Optimove's CRM marketing program for pre-launch and startup online casino and sports betting operators that includes pre-built player journeys, full access to Optimove AI, a dedicated CRM expert, and preferential pricing and commercial terms.
Several iGaming operators testing the new Onboarding Hub have been onboarded in less than five days.
One example is Stadiobet, an online casino and sportsbook for the Mexican market, and one of the first Optimove clients to onboard through the Hub. Its results set a new benchmark: within two days of kickoff using the Onboarding hub, Stadiobet had loaded and validated its full customer dataset.
By day 20, its full site update was complete, and on day 27 its first campaigns went live. By mid-September, it was running 12 campaigns, including real-time deposit-abandonment and churn-risk campaigns across email and web.
Onboarding doesn't have to be the bottleneck between a signed contract and a running campaign. With the Optimove Onboarding Hub, clients get speed and visibility together: self-serve tools that put the work in their hands, and a dedicated team that stays with them from kickoff to first live campaign.
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Rony Vexelman is Optimove’s SVP of Marketing. Rony leads Optimove’s marketing strategy across regions and industries.
Previously, Rony was Optimove's Director of Product Marketing leading product releases, customer marketing efforts and analyst relations. Rony holds a BA in Business Administration and Sociology from Tel Aviv University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
FAQ
It's the first AI-led, self-serve onboarding environment in CRM marketing. New clients load and validate their own data, set up their own channels, and track every onboarding task live, paired with a dedicated Optimove onboarding team.
Clients handle data loading and channel setup independently, with real-time visibility into what's done, what's blocked, and what's next, instead of waiting on an integrator or a vendor ticket for every step. A dedicated team will follow the whole process.
Some new Optimove clients testing the new Onboarding Hub onboarded in less than five days.
One example is Stadiobet, one of the first Optimove clients to onboard through the Hub. Validated its full customer dataset in two days and had its first live campaigns running by day 27. Timelines vary by client, but that's the pace the Hub is built for.
No. The Hub pairs self-serve tools with a dedicated onboarding team working alongside clients from kickoff through their first live campaign.
No. Optimove's self-serve tools and AI features let marketing teams of any size, including one- or two-person startup teams, run full CRM programs without relying on dedicated analysts, developers, or platform specialists.
Yes. Optimove is designed to support pre-launch and startup online casino and sportsbook operators as well as larger, established brands. Startup operators can build their CRM marketing foundation with a small player base and keep using the same platform as they scale, without needing to migrate to a different CRM later.
