First-Party Data Activation: Modernize your marketing data platform

Take a new approach to digital marketing based on transparency, relevance, and delivering real value to your audience.

First-Party Data Activation shows you how to transform general user data into a deep understanding of who your customers are, what resonates with them, and where to focus your marketing efforts. You’ll discover how to effectively collect, analyze, and act on data from direct customer interactions—all with your user’s consent.

In First-Party Data Activation you will learn how to
Transition away from third-party cookies and point solutions
Modernize and unify your marketing technology with data lakehouses and composable CDPs
Build sustainable and privacy-compliant data collection strategies
Hyper-personalization and collaboration using generative AI and data clean rooms
Embed transparency, consent, and data ethics in your marketing process
Drive faster marketing operations to achieve higher growth for your company
The future of marketing lives in first-party data—and this book is your key to unlocking its full potential. More than a manual, First-Party Data Activation is a strategic guide to navigating the complex data landscape with confidence, ethics, and unprecedented strategic insight.

About the Technology
Website clicks and interactions, customer purchase history and contact data, email opens and unsubs, and other data you collect directly from your customers is pure gold for modern digital marketing. This first-party data tells you exactly who your customers are and what resonates with them. In this book, you’ll learn how to transition from cookies and other third-party tools toward sustainable and privacy-compliant data-driven marketing.

About the Book
First Party Data Activation introduces techniques to collect and act on first-party data to drive growth—all with your customer’s consent. You’ll start with the basics of privacy-centric marketing, including the evolving regulations around data collection and usage. Then, you’ll explore concrete techniques for gathering, storing, and analyzing first-party data to level up targeting and personalization, including how to use AI agents and applications effectively. Along the way, you’ll also develop a first-party data platform that provides a clear view of your customers to your marketing tools and teams.

What's Inside
Transparency, consent, and data ethics in your marketing
Modernize marketing technology with data lakehouses and composable CDPs
Hyper-personalize messaging using AI and data clean rooms
Achieve higher growth for your company