Data collection has always been a stumbling block for marketing mix modeling. Marketing mix platform Keen Decision Systems is easing the way by partnering with TapClicks, a marketing cloud and data management platform. TapClicks customers will be able easily to upload data into Keen’s marketing mix platform and Keen will push marketing mix results back into TapClicks to support campaign decision-making.

Looking to strengthen its ad offerings, streaming platform Netflix is partnering with Snowflake, LiveRamp and InfoSum to provide data clean rooms to its advertisers. The rooms will allow advertisers to share data and build audiences in a privacy-compliant way. Snowflake Data Clean Rooms is available to Netflix partners today with solutions from LiveRamp and InfoSum arriving in the coming months.

Media mix models (MMM), originally developed in the 1960’s, have undergone a resurgence as new technologies make them easier to execute and click-based attribution becomes less credible. But evaluating MMM brings its own challenges. Australia-based Mutinex offers a vendor-neutral Open Source MMM Validation Framework which is now available for free to North American marketers and agencies.