Rather than a competitor to data clean rooms, Amazon Web Services – which has a data clean room offering of its own – considers itself to be a facilitator of ad tech companies, says Adam Solomon, global head of biz dev and go-to-market for AWS Clean Rooms. Guess there are no competitors in ad tech, only frenemies.
AppsFlyer has acquired oolo, an AI-powered user acquisition and monetization platform. This is AppsFlyer’s second acquisition in less than one month.
AppsFlyer announced its second-ever “real” acquisition on Wednesday (its first was an acqui-hire in 2018) with the purchase of devtodev, an analytics provider for app and game developers.
AppsFlyer is building a marketplace so advertisers can share user-level data with third-party vendors without, well, actually sharing any user-level data with third-party vendors.
There’s a misguided desire to find a third-party cookie replacement with as little disruption as possible, and confusion reigns about data collaboration alternatives, their capabilities and the differences between them.
The aim of Samooha’s new integrations with Ads Data Hub and Amazon Marketing Cloud is to give more flexibility to the advertisers and publishers that use walled garden clean rooms.
Data clean room startup Samooha wants to make it easier for marketers who don’t have a data science background to securely access and share data regardless of where it sits. Because the dirty secret about clean rooms is they can be rather difficult for nontechnical people to use.
The question “How do you define a data clean room?” no longer has a subjective answer.
