Scaup
The goal of Google's Scaup is to provide marketers look-alike modeling capabilities, without providing access to event data.[1]
Google's Scaup proposal relies on Multi-Party Computation (MPC) whereby the web client sends its information to one trusted server to build models and a second trusted server to apply them. The web client periodically queries the trusted server to receive guidance on whether it belongs to a look-alike model.
Impact
Prospecting is a critical activity for marketers. Prospecting chooses audiences that are believed to be more likely to become new customers. By centralizing control over this important function, marketers will have less choice on the vendors they can use.
Another potential impact is given the time delay in this look-alike modeling process assigning a given web client eligibility for a new audience attribute, the user experience will be diminished.
Open Questions
- Given each marketer would like to generate different look-alike models for different products, how much data is required to be sent and stored on the web client?