Supermetrics
Supermetrics is a marketing intelligence platform, founded 2013 in Helsinki, built around data integration — ETL/ELT connectors for 100+ marketing data sources (Google Analytics, Meta Ads, LinkedIn, and others). It analyzes an estimated 15% of global ad spend across 200,000+ companies in 120 countries.
Relay42 acquisition (June 2025). Supermetrics acquired Relay42, an enterprise-grade real-time CDP, to add customer unification and activation on top of its existing data-connector layer. Relay42 contributes real-time identity resolution, dynamic audience building, journey orchestration across email/web/app/programmatic channels, and predictive models (churn, conversion, product recommendation). Relay42's pre-acquisition customer base included Air France, KLM, and Levi's. Post-acquisition, there is no standalone vendor.relay42 — Relay42's capabilities are folded into the combined Supermetrics platform.
Combined platform. Supermetrics positions the merged product as a unified "Marketing Intelligence Platform" — data integration, analysis, and activation in one solution, with AI-agent-powered workflows automating data analysis, journey optimization, and cross-channel activation. This is a packaged, vendor-hosted model: customers do not need to operate their own warehouse-native activation layer, unlike vendor.hightouch's reverse-ETL approach.
Where it fits. Marketing-analytics-led organizations that already rely on Supermetrics (or a similar connector-heavy analytics stack) and want to add real-time activation without adopting a separate composable/warehouse-native CDP layer. Fits organizations whose CDP buying motion originates in marketing analytics/reporting rather than data engineering.
Where it is less suited. Organizations pursuing a warehouse-native composable architecture (data stays in the CDW, no separate profile store) — Supermetrics/Relay42 is a packaged real-time CDP, not a composable activation layer; see vendor.hightouch for the composable alternative. Organizations that already have deterministic identity resolution and orchestration in another packaged CDP would be duplicating capability rather than filling a gap. This is one instance of the broader 2024–2026 CDP consolidation wave (alongside Rokt/mParticle, ContentStack/Lytics, Uniphore/ActionIQ) rather than a category-defining architecture choice.