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LiveRamp

by LiveRamp · Since 2011
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Quick facts
VendorLiveRamp
Year launched2011
StatusActive
Location225 Bush St, Flr 17, San Francisco, CA 94105, US
Countries servedGlobal
Languages8
IntegrationsN/A
Free tierN/A
Free trialN/A
Contact salesYES

About LiveRamp

LiveRamp is a data collaboration platform from LiveRamp that supports businesses in building brand and business value through flexible collaboration. It combines features like strengthening enterprise identity, improving consumer data strategy, and activating and improving media to help measure impact across various channels. LiveRamp provides access to one of the world’s most capable data collaboration networks, facilitating intelligent solutions for ambitious marketing and business goals. The platform is proven by industry leaders and recognized for its leadership and advancements. Key capabilities: Strengthen Enterprise Identity improve Consumer Data Strategy Activate + improve Media Power Measurement + Analytics Build + Grow My Media Network Best for: businesses that need effective data collaboration and measurement solutions.

LiveRamp is a cloud-based data management platform built to empower businesses with seamless data connectivity, identity resolution, and privacy-compliant activation. Designed primarily for marketers, advertisers, and data professionals, LiveRamp’s core functionality revolves around linking disparate data sets to real people across digital and offline environments. Its main goal is to help organizations unlock the full value of their data by making it usable across a wide ecosystem of platforms and partners. Through identity resolution, audience segmentation, data onboarding, and analytics, LiveRamp allows brands to activate their first-party data for targeted campaigns, measurement, and personalization—all while maintaining strict compliance with global data privacy standards. The user interface of LiveRamp is clean, modern, and built with usability in mind. While the platform is deeply technical in the background, the front-end experience remains approachable even for users who may not have a data science background. Navigation is straightforward with a left-hand panel structure that organizes tasks like uploading data, managing audiences, running reports, or viewing campaign performance. The design uses clear icons, concise labels, and interactive dashboards to guide users through key workflows.

Pros & Cons

Pros
  • Exceptional Identity Resolution: Connects fragmented customer data across online/offline sources with high accuracy, crucial in a cookie-less world.
  • Strong Privacy Focus: Built with privacy by design, GDPR/CCPA compliance, and advanced privacy-enhancing technologies.
  • Vast Partner Network: Extensive ecosystem allows broad activation and measurement across many platforms and publishers.
  • Clean Room Capabilities: Enables secure, privacy-safe data collaboration and analytics with multiple partners.
  • Proven ROI: Demonstrates significant return on investment for marketing spend.
Cons
  • Performance Issues: Some users report slow performance, delays, freezing, and glitches, especially with larger files.
  • Customer Support: Frustration with poor call support, slow response times, and reliance on automated agents has been noted.
  • Complexity & Cost: Can be complex to implement and potentially expensive, making it less suitable for smaller businesses.

Features

Key features

Expansive Data Collaboration Network

LiveRamp offers the industry's most extensive network (650+ partners), enabling seamless and responsible data connection and collaboration across various platforms and clouds.

Enterprise Identity Resolution (Identity Framework)

Provides a consistent, unified identity framework that connects disparate customer data across an entire enterprise, breaking down data silos and ensuring a complete customer view.

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) & Data Ethics

Built on a foundation of data ethics and advanced privacy-enhancing technologies, allowing secure and compliant data collaboration without relying on deprecated signals like third-party cookies.

Cross-Media Activation & Measurement

Enables brands to reach valuable customers and measure marketing performance across every platform, channel, and walled garden (programmatic, CTV, social, etc.) globally.

Clean Room Analytics

Offers secure clean room environments to easily access and measure advertising effectiveness across various channels and clouds while maintaining data privacy.

First-Party Data Strategy & Enrichment

Helps organizations augment their limited first-party data by connecting with trusted new data sources and building robust consumer data strategies.

Proven ROI

Demonstrated a 313% ROI for brands in a Total Economic Impact™ Study, highlighting its measurable impact on revenue growth.

Additional features

Expansive Data Collaboration Network (650+ Partners)

LiveRamp provides access to the industry's most extensive network of media and data partners (including major ad platforms, DSPs, social networks, and streaming services like Disney, Hulu, Pinterest, Snapchat, Spotify, and TikTok), enabling unprecedented scale for activation and insights.

Enterprise Identity Resolution (RampID & Identity Engine)

Builds and maintains a consistent, unified customer view by connecting disparate online and offline data points (CRM records, website behavior, offline purchases) into a single, privacy-safe identity framework (RampID), using an Identity Engine that leverages various identifiers (emails, phone numbers, cookies, device IDs, custom IDs, AbiliTec IDs) to create a robust identity graph.

Data Onboarding

Facilitates the ingestion of offline customer data (e.g., CRM records, purchase history, loyalty program information) and transforms it into online-ready data for digital marketing and analytics, supporting various upload methods like SFTP and AWS S3.

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs)

Employs advanced privacy measures like anonymization, hashing, encryption, noise injection, and suppression to ensure secure and compliant data collaboration, allowing data use without direct exposure of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

GDPR, CCPA & HIPAA Compliance

Designed to adhere to strict global and regional privacy regulations, ensuring data collaboration and activation processes are fully compliant.

Authentication Traffic Solution (ATS)

Enables publishers to engage visitors in a transparent exchange of value, offering premium content in return for authenticated first-party data (like email addresses), reducing reliance on third-party cookies.

Preference and Consent Management Tools

Equips publishers with tools to build trust by giving visitors control over their data, allowing users to specify data sharing preferences and providing an audit trail for consent transactions.

Flexible Data Collaboration

Allows collaboration across any platform or cloud (AWS, Azure, Databricks, Google, Snowflake) while minimizing data movement, often utilizing a "zero-copy" principle where data remains at the source.

Cross-Media Activation

Enables activation across diverse channels and environments, including browsers, mobile devices, Connected TV (CTV), social media, and programmatic advertising, for personalized experiences at scale.

Cross-Media Measurement & Analytics (Cross-Media Intelligence)

Provides a unified, de-duplicated view of media performance across all forms of advertising (walled gardens, programmatic, CTV, social, linear TV) to gain unprecedented clarity into media investments, optimize media mix, and understand true reach and frequency.

Clean Room Analytics

Offers secure, neutral, and interoperable clean room environments for safe data collaboration, allowing multiple parties to combine and analyze data for insights (e.g., ad effectiveness, audience overlap) without exposing raw PII.

Quick Start Insights (for Clean Rooms)

Provides pre-configured queries and templates within clean rooms to swiftly move from data collection to execution, offering immediate campaign and audience insights for both technical and non-technical users.

Consumer Data Strategy

Helps brands augment limited first-party data by accessing and integrating trusted new second- and third-party data sources from LiveRamp's dynamic marketplace to build a richer and more complete customer understanding.

Marketing Impact Optimization

Maximizes marketing effectiveness across the evolving advertising ecosystem by ensuring accurate onboarding and activation for targeted campaigns.

Media Networks Solution

Empowers businesses to build and scale high-performing media networks by leveraging their first-party data to create additional value, fuel growth, and deepen customer loyalty.

Data Marketplaces

Allows publishers to classify and sell anonymized data segments and enables advertisers to purchase such segments for their own use, all within a privacy-safe environment.

Data Hygiene & Quality Features

Supports best practices like data standardization, normalization, deduplication (exact and fuzzy matching), and appending/enrichment to build richer and more accurate customer profiles.

Cross-Device and Cross-Channel Attribution

Accurately connects consumers' various online and offline identifiers to understand the complete customer journey and attribute conversions across different devices and channels.

API/Integration Support

Integrates with 500+ data destinations and major ad platforms, data warehouses, and analytics tools, providing extensive connectivity without the need for expensive custom integrations.

Cloud-First Architecture

Built with a multi-plane, cloud-native architecture that supports secure, scalable analytics and machine learning across major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks) with multi-cloud compatibility and isolated data planes for security.

Data Governance & Access Policies

Defines and enforces data access policies, query controls, and governance standards within clean room configurations and across the platform, with advanced permissioning.

Ethical Data Use Program

A core company commitment to ensure data use is not only legally compliant but also ethical and fair, with a dedicated program to assess and control risk.

Customer Journey Mapping

Enables marketers to understand the customer journey across various touchpoints by creating a unified and anonymized customer profile.

Ad Frequency Capping & Audience Suppression

Helps prevent over-serving ads to the same people or households and ensures more precise targeting.

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Interface languages
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