Data clean room platforms: AI search visibility ranking (2026)
How AI search engines rank data clean room platforms by visibility and citations. 20 brands measured monthly across Google AI Mode: which brands the AI names in answers, which domains it cites as sources, and how the leaders compare. Data clean room platforms used by advertisers, publishers, and enterprise teams to collaborate on data analysis while preserving privacy and access controls. Composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
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At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
Decentriq and Snowflake share the top composite score of 47.5, but their routes there differ sharply. Snowflake holds the highest visibility in the category at 62.5%, well above the 5.6% category average, yet its citation rate is only 12.5%. Decentriq, by contrast, sits at just 25% visibility but achieves a 100% citation rate. That gap matters because it shows Snowflake is mentioned broadly while Decentriq is treated as a trusted source almost every time it appears.
LiveRamp Safe Haven presents the starkest divergence between visibility and citation in this dataset. It records 0% visibility yet a 75% citation rate, meaning Google AI Mode cites its domain as a reference source without naming it as a brand answer. InfoSum follows a more balanced pattern at 25% visibility and 25% citation. Below rank four, all ten remaining brands including AWS Clean Rooms and Google Ads Data Hub score zero on both metrics, leaving the landscape extremely concentrated at the top.
Google AI Mode is the sole engine recorded across all 20 brands in this audit. The top cited sources list is anchored by brand-owned domains such as decentriq.com and liveramp.com alongside third-party validators including gartner.com, reddit.com, and youtube.com. The presence of bebolddigital.com and databricks.com in that citation list suggests the AI is drawing on practitioner commentary and adjacent data-platform content rather than restricting itself to pure clean-room specialist publishers.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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Snowflake 12% → 62% · rank #2 → #2+50pp
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Decentriq 0% → 25% · rank #1 → #1+25pp
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InfoSum 0% → 25% · rank #3 → #3+25pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
decentriq.com
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25% | 100% | Google AI Mode |
Decentriq matches Snowflake's composite score of 47.5 despite half the visibility, because its 100% citation rate is the highest of any brand in the category. |
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| 2 |
snowflake.com
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62% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Snowflake's 62.5% visibility is more than 11 times the 5.6% category average, but its 12.5% citation rate reveals that appearances rarely convert to sourced references. |
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| 3 |
infosum.com
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25% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
InfoSum holds a balanced 25% visibility and 25% citation rate, placing it third overall with a composite score of 25.0, exactly half that of the joint leaders. |
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| 4 |
liveramp.com
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0% | 75% | Google AI Mode |
LiveRamp Safe Haven earns a 75% citation rate despite 0% visibility, indicating Google AI Mode uses liveramp.com as a reference source without surfacing it as a named answer. |
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| 5 |
acryldata.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Acryl Data scores zero on both visibility and citation, placing it level with six other brands including AWS Clean Rooms and Google Ads Data Hub at the bottom of the ranking. |
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| 6 |
measured.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
appsflyer.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
aws.amazon.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
google.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
habu.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
datavant.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
doubleverify.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
anonos.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
samba.tv
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
optable.co
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
ketch.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
nexxen.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
epsilon.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
experian.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
narrative.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on data clean room platforms, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer.
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence — different from being named.
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps.
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically.
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Frequently asked about data clean room platforms AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in data clean room platforms?
Snowflake leads on raw visibility at 62.5%, while Decentriq leads on citation rate at 100%. Both share the top composite score of 47.5.
How concentrated is AI visibility across the category?
It is highly concentrated. The category average visibility is just 5.6%, and 10 of the top 20 brands including AWS Clean Rooms score zero on both visibility and citation.
Can a brand be cited frequently without being named as a visible answer?
Yes. LiveRamp Safe Haven has 0% visibility but a 75% citation rate, meaning Google AI Mode references its domain as a source without surfacing it as a brand-level answer.
What third-party sources does Google AI Mode anchor on for data clean room research?
The top cited sources include gartner.com, reddit.com, youtube.com, databricks.com, and bebolddigital.com alongside brand-owned domains.
Which brands have grown AI visibility most recently in this category?
Snowflake added 50 percentage points of visibility in the latest period, while Decentriq and InfoSum each grew by 25 points from a previous baseline of zero.
Is high visibility always paired with high citation in this category?
No. Snowflake's 62.5% visibility is accompanied by only a 12.5% citation rate, showing that frequency of mention does not guarantee being used as a trusted source.