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New York, NY (February 15, 2024) – Lotame, a technology company that makes customer data smarter, faster, and easier to use for digital marketers, today reinforced its commitment to enabling data collaboration with the launch of Lotame Collaborate and Lotame Onboarding. Available through Spherical, Lotame’s comprehensive end-to-end data collaboration platform, Lotame Collaborate simplifies how digital marketers and media owners unlock the potential of first-party data within their organization and across partners, while Lotame Onboarding enables digital marketers to match first-party data, such as email addresses, with digital identifiers. Both tools empower digital marketers with more portable data, analysis, and activation, all while acknowledging evolving privacy standards.
The demand for data collaboration technology has never been higher. Data collaboration platforms provide secure environments to allow sharing data safely, meeting increased privacy and security concerns. With the decline of third-party cookies, digital marketers and media owners are also turning to collaborative approaches to improve their data’s scale and value. Additionally, as customers demand better online experiences, companies must use data to understand and meet these needs. Enter data collaboration platforms, like Spherical, which ensure brands can adapt and thrive in this evolving landscape.
“Data collaboration is table stakes today,” said Andy Monfried, CEO at Lotame. “Unfortunately, fragmented data sets, non-interoperable platforms, and constantly evolving privacy standards have stalled the industry’s ability to deliver on true data enablement and collaboration. With our new offerings in Spherical, which we believe is the industry’s most intuitive, interoperable, and high-performing data collaboration platform, we are making data collaboration smarter, faster, and easier than ever.”
Launched in January 2023, Spherical empowers thousands of marketers, agencies, and media owners to onboard, analyze, and activate the data they need to understand and engage consumers, including RE/MAX, LLC; Publicis; and Dentsu. With today’s announcement, Spherical users now have the option of accessing Lotame Collaborate and Lotame Onboarding.
Lotame Collaborate represents the evolution of Lotame’s exclusive, private, and secure data exchange, PDX, introduced in 2019. With Lotame Collaborate, multiple parties can share permissioned data within the platform. Unlike data clean rooms, Lotame Collaborate addresses a company’s needs to enrich, analyze, and activate first-party data with external partners. It also allows marketers to combine authenticated (logged-in) and non-authenticated (web visitation) data. This integration can result in up to 10x more data available for analysis and scalable activation. Lotame Collaborate is now available to Lotame users globally.
In addition to Lotame Collaborate, Lotame has also launched Lotame Onboarding, a new tool for digital marketers and media owners to match first-party data assets, such as email addresses, with digital identifiers. This integration equips them with the capability to retarget their audience effectively, utilize first-party data as a foundation for reaching larger audiences, and enhance customer persona development and intelligence. Lotame Onboarding is now available in the U.S., with other markets forthcoming.
Spherical’s combination of Lotame Collaborate and Lotame Onboarding delivers the only platform digital marketers and media owners need to onboard, unify, model, enrich, collaborate, and activate data, whether they have it or need it. Using Lotame Onboarding, they can maintain addressability in a cookieless world by importing their data and merging it using Lotame Panorama ID™, including hashed emails, mobile ad identifiers, connected TV IDs, and other signals. Then, they can leverage Lotame Collaborate as a private and secure environment for collaboration, allowing data analysis, enrichment, modeling, and activation.
“Lotame has been a fantastic partner, and we are excited to support Spherical’s new data collaboration capabilities,” said Josh Culver, Executive Director of Integrated Marketing at RE/MAX. “We have been excited by the results. These new tools can help innovate how we think about leveraging first-party data through data collaboration, making analyzing, planning, and activation more efficient and effective with premium publishers, like Advance Local.”
“Our clients rely on us for our global digital leadership and data transformation capabilities,” said Miles Pritchard, Partner, Data & Technology Transformation, OMD EMEA. “Lotame, who we’ve partnered with for many years, are consistently ahead of the curve in extracting value from data. We’ve tested early iterations of Lotame Collaborate with great success. Data collaboration is increasingly important as part of a privacy-preserving, portfolio-based approach to audience targeting, and we look forward to working closely with Lotame to deliver innovation and meaningful impact for clients.”
“Collaboration is core to our values and culture as a client-first company,” said Andres Gutierrez, Managing Director at Kinesso México. “Clean room functionality like Lotame’s will enable us to invest smarter and grow our client’s businesses, both with brands in our portfolio and select partners. It’s an exciting time to be working on behalf of and with brands to uncover new ways to safely use first-party data to understand consumers and engage them respectfully and meaningfully.”
“First-party data sharing opens up more opportunities to generate meaningful insights and to leverage each marketing touch point for real brand-building impact,” said Jo Mackenzie, head of data solutions, Publicis Media APAC. “Evaluating and testing innovative technologies like clean rooms and data collaboration are critical to delivering cutting-edge, data-driven solutions for our clients, so we’re excited to leverage this new offering as an extension of our existing intelligence suite.”
“Data collaboration is all about creating new paths to growth, which is core to our philosophy at dentsu,” said Sunil Naryani, Chief Product Officer Media APAC at dentsu. “Sharing first-party data by brands seemed radical only a few years ago, but with the transition away from third-party cookies, clean rooms and data collaboration platforms become an essential element for a brand’s data strategy. As these technologies and collaboration efforts mature, brands will uncover fresh insights on their first-party data to build richer customer profiles and activate them at scale across the madtech ecosystem, comprising publishers, retailers, and platforms, in a privacy-compliant manner.”