The digital marketing arena is witnessing a profound transformation. With major web browsers like Firefox and Safari discontinuing support for third-party cookies, and Chrome phasing them out gradually, alongside stringent regulations like the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR mandating consumer consent for data usage, the realm of data and privacy faces significant challenges. However, amidst these challenges, there emerges a beacon of hope in the form of data cleanrooms.
Data cleanrooms offer a viable solution by allowing companies to collaborate and analyze data while upholding privacy and regulatory compliance. Particularly beneficial when multiple entities seek to harness their data collectively without compromising individual privacy or data security. These cleanrooms ensure meticulous anonymization, stripping away any personal or identifiable information from customer data. This process facilitates analysis and insights at an aggregated level.
The Process
The process begins with anonymizing and aggregating datasets, removing or encoding personally identifiable information (PII) to protect individual privacy. Subsequently, data from various sources are combined to create more comprehensive datasets, facilitating broader reach and deeper insights. Users can then query and analyze the anonymized and aggregated data within the controlled environment of the cleanroom. Collaboration within the cleanroom allows participants to share insights, enhancing collective knowledge and expertise to refine targeting strategies and optimize campaigns. Finally, relevant audience segments can be identified and activated for targeting purposes, across publishers, walled gardens, or transaction platforms.
How digitalAudience Can Help?
Our data collaboration solution enables brands to maximize digital advertising performance through privacy-safe, interoperable data collaboration. By connecting premium deterministic data sources to first-party data, digitalAudience increases addressability for brands and publishers resulting in highly relevant, engaging digital advertising experiences for consumers. digitalAudience uses a blend of data cooperatives, data marketplaces, data onboarding, and data cleanroom technology. This approach enables us to help you achieve your marketing objectives by providing you with flexible solutions to enrich and activate your first-party data with trusted third parties in a way that is always privacy compliant. If you would like to know more about digitalAudience’s data collaboration solutions, download our whitepaper “The Digital Marketing’s Guide to Data Collaboration” or get in touch for a chat or a demo.
Want to Dive Even Deeper into the Subject?
A recent whitepaper, featuring insights from industry experts including Birgit Boing, Emmelijn Hermens, Weiwei Liu-Schröder, Bastiaan Spaans, Bernard de Vreede, and Mark Wilmont, delves into the intricacies of data cleanrooms. It equips marketers, especially those unfamiliar with data cleanrooms, with a comprehensive understanding. From setting objectives to legal considerations, data uploading, connecting with other sources, to conducting data analyses, the whitepaper covers a spectrum of topics. Moreover, it supplements theoretical discussions with real-world case studies from the Dutch advertising sector, shedding light on the practical applications of data cleanrooms.
You can find the whitepaper in Dutch here.
