First-Party Data Activation

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Modernize your marketing data platform
Alina D. Magauova, Oscar Kennis, and David H. Joosten
Foreword by Murat Genc
  • May 2025
  • ISBN 9781633436367
  • 264 pages
  • printed in black & white

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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

about the reader

For marketing professionals who want to maximize their data’s potential.

about the authors

Alina D. Magauova is the founder of Segment360, a brand strategist and a product marketing leader. Oscar Kennis is the founder of OPSangels Consultancy and has over two decades of experience in the technology sector. David H. Joosten is the co-founder of GrowthLoop and a former Google marketer.

Visionary and deeply practical.

Carrie Tharp, Google

This isn’t a trend—it’s a shift. If you’re not compounding growth with first-party data and agentic AI, you’re already behind. A must-read!

Chris O’Neill, GrowthLoop

A powerful guide for marketing activation on Snowflake.

Sridhar Ramaswamy, Snowflake

A strategic playbook for activating first-party data.

Jim Lecinski, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management

Timely, strategic, and actionable advice. Read it and use it.

Frank Cespedes, Harvard Business School
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