Kijiji partners with Infosum for privacy-first data sharing

The cookieless collaboration helps brands and advertisers more effectively target Canadian shoppers on Kijiji and Kijiji Autos.

In an effort to solve for cookieless tracking and attribution, Kijiji has partnered with Infosum to facilitate contextual and audience targeting through secure, first-party data collaboration.

Kijiji’s online marketplace collects data from 256 million monthly searches across 400 categories, including buy and sell, real estate, jobs and services, cars and trucks and non-passenger vehicles, but providing brands with those insights in a privacy-first fashion hasn’t been possible to date. Infosum’s identity infrastructure enables advertisers to collaborate across first-party data to build custom audiences, develop actionable consumer insights and inform omni-channel campaigns while protecting consumer privacy and the data integrity of each party.

Chris Quinn, head of display advertising at Kijiji Canada, said in a statement that the partnership will create a “clean room” for Kijiji that will enable user list matching against up to five million active logged-in shoppers.

The Kijiji classifieds platform reportedly connects over 14 million buyers and sellers each month. At any given time, there are 5 million listings on the network and two new ads are posted on Kijiji every second of every day. The Kijiji Autos properties marketplace has over 4 million monthly unique visitors.