Sync data from
Athena to TikTok

Model your Athena data using any of these methods

• dbt Model Selector

  

  Sync directly with your dbt models saved in a git.

• Looker

  

  Query using looks. Hightouch turns your look into SQL and will pull from your source.

• SQL Editor

  

  Create and Edit SQL from your browser. Hightouch supports SQL native to Athena.

• Table Selector

  

  Select available tables and sheets from Athena and sync using existing views without having to write SQL.

• Customer Studio

  

  For less technical users, pass traits and audiences from Athena using our visual segmentation builder.

Why is it valuable to sync Athena data to TikTok?

Thanks to Athena, it's easier than ever to access your customer data, run complex queries, and segment your customers/users into various categories or audiences.

However, to target users and send conversion data to TikTok, you need access to all of the unique behavioral data (e.g., last-login date, items in cart, pages viewed, etc.) and core business metrics like lifetime value, workspaces, subscriptions, annual recurring revenue, etc. that lives in Athena. You then need to be able to package this data to send to TikTok in the format expected. Plus, you want to do this in a real-time and automated way.

TikTok is only as good as the data you give them, and if you truly want to optimize your ad spend, increase your match rates, and drive conversions, you need to provide custom data from Athena within your warehouse.

Maybe you want to retarget users who abandoned their shopping cart in the last seven days, or upload a list of high-value customers to identify potential lookalike audiences, or perhaps you want to upload offline conversion events to reduce your customer acquisition costs and increase your return on ad spend.

Why should you use reverse ETL to connect Athena and TikTok data?

In the past, uploading customer data to TikTok meant hopping back and forth between your various SaaS applications or asking your data team for CSV files. Neither of these options is preferable because marketing teams want to self-serve, and data teams don't enjoy constantly fulfilling one-off marketing requests.

Even worse, if you truly want to optimize your advertising campaigns, you need to be uploading fresh data consistently. Non-fresh data can be expensive for ads. If you're using CSVs to define who to exclude from paid ads and you're uploading that data weekly, that's potentially one week of irrelevant ads. As a workaround, engineering teams will integrate directly with the TikTok API, and build and maintain custom in-house pipelines. The problem is that a single API change can break everything, and data engineers don't want to spend their time building and maintaining pipelines.

With Hightouch, you can leverage the existing data models and customer segments your engineering team has defined in your warehouse and sync that data directly to your ad platforms in real time. You can schedule your data syncs to run automatically, on a set cadence, or even for the exact duration of your marketing campaign. Hightouch lets your data teams establish the guardrails for your marketers to self-serve and build custom audiences through a drag-and-drop interface.