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New club, same old problem: messy data
Zeta Global is signing up for Snowflake’s Open Semantic Interchange, or OSI — a nerdy-sounding but pretty important effort to make enterprise data mean the same thing everywhere. Think of it like finally getting every app in the office to agree on what “customer,” “conversion,” and “revenue” actually mean.
Why this matters for Zeta
Zeta’s whole pitch is built around identity, targeting, and personalization. That’s great… until your data is scattered across dashboards, notebooks, and machine-learning tools like socks in a college dorm room. OSI is aimed at cleaning that up with a vendor-neutral semantic model and a shared format for semantic metadata.
For Zeta, that could mean:
- easier data exchange with enterprise customers
- less integration friction
- more confidence in AI and analytics outputs
- a better story for companies trying to swap in more automated marketing tools
Snowflake gets a sidekick
Snowflake is leading the initiative, which makes sense: it’s been trying to be the Switzerland of enterprise data for years. Zeta jumping in gives the effort more credibility in the marketing-data corner of the market, where clean identity data matters a lot more than the average ad-tech buzzword salad.
The stock angle is a little noisy here — the article also leans on momentum-score chatter and outside bulls calling Zeta undervalued. But the core takeaway is simple: if AI is the flashy new car, trusted data is the gas. And Zeta wants to make sure it owns the gas station.
Big picture: this isn’t a giant revenue event on its own, but it’s the kind of partnership that can quietly make Zeta’s platform more relevant in an AI-heavy enterprise world.