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Another partner trophy for the shelf
Snowflake showed up to its own annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26, and gave Hightouch a little glow-up: 2026 Marketers and Advertisers Snowflake Product Partner of the Year. Not exactly the Super Bowl halftime show, but in cloud-land, these awards are how vendors signal, “Hey, the ecosystem is alive and well.”
Why this matters
Hightouch isn’t just a random logo in the crowd. The company uses Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to help marketing and advertising teams build a more “composable” customer data platform and an agentic marketing platform — which is tech-speak for making data less messy and more useful.
For Snowflake, that’s the whole game. The company wants to be the place where data lives, gets activated, and eventually turns into customer action instead of collecting digital dust.
The investor angle
This isn’t the kind of announcement that moves revenue tomorrow. But it does reinforce a few things investors care about:
- Snowflake is still leaning hard into partner-led distribution
- Its platform is being framed as useful beyond storage and analytics
- The company is keeping the AI narrative warm, especially in marketing and advertising use cases
Big picture: when a cloud company keeps winning ecosystem trophies, it’s usually trying to prove the party is still getting bigger — not just louder.