Manage Data Feed Subscriptions

The Marketplace is where data buyers go to research and subscribe to public and private data feeds. Follow these steps to subscribe to a public data feed.

Subscribe to a Public Data Feed

The Marketplace is where data buyers go to research and subscribe to public and private data feeds. Follow these steps to subscribe to a public data feed.

To subscribe to a public data feed:

1. Go to Audience Marketplace > Marketplace. Use the search feature or browse through the list to find a data feed.

   

2. Click the name of the data feed you want to use. This opens the plan details page for the selected feed.

   

3. Choose a use case from the subscriptions table and:

   • Move the Subscription slider to On.
   • Click Review & Subscribe. This opens the Terms and Conditions window.

   

4. In the Terms and Conditions window:

   • Important: Leave the ID sync check box checked. This setting helps improve match rates with your data provider.
   • Check the terms and conditions box and click Accept to complete the subscription process.

   

Next Steps

After you subscribe to a data feed:

• Verify the subscription by checking your Traits folder. See Storage for Subscribed Data Feeds.

• Review the billing and payment documentation. See the related links below.

Best Practices

Here is a set of best practices that we recommend you follow when working with Audience Marketplace:

When exploring new third and second-party data sets through Audience Marketplace, the first step we recommend is to enable data feeds for Segments & Overlap. This allows users to explore data by building segments to evaluate audience size, and running overlap reports to gain initial audience insights. Most data providers offer this use case for free, so you can perform this analysis at no extra cost.

When running overlap reports, follow these best practices to make sure you’re getting useful results.

1. Ensure that your overlapping data sets are similar in terms of data type and collection methodologies, such as:

   • Visitor geography
   • Cookie vs. Mobile IDs
   • Lookback window
   • Offline vs. Online activity
   • The frequency at which the data provider refreshes the data

2. Overlap can grow slightly over time, so make sure you allow up to 30 days to pass before running overlap reports to allow for the data to sync.

3. Overlap can increase if you use data from a data provider in multiple marketing campaigns.
   and initiatives. This allows for more opportunities for users from the two data sets to sync.

4. There is no guarantee that there will be an overlap between your data sets. For an overlap to be valid, a user from the customer’s data set must be associated with the data
   provider data set during the reporting time frame. If the customer’s media data didn’t get served to the users in the data provider data set, there will never be an overlap.

5. Don’t think of low overlap as a bad thing. Take advantage of a low overlap to prospect and engage new users.

Subscribe to a Private Data Feed

Buyers subscribe to private data feeds and plans in Audience Marketplace > Marketplace.

To subscribe to a private data feed:

1. Click the data feed name in the Marketplace.

2. Click Request Access. This opens the request dialog box.

3. In the request dialog box, write the provider a note expressing your interest in their data feed and click Send. The seller will review your message and approve or reject your request. While waiting for approval, “Requested” appears in the Marketplace list for that data feed.

   • Request approved: The status in the Marketplace list changes to “Access Granted” and you’ll receive an automated notification. At this point you can subscribe to the feed. See Subscribe to a Public Data Feed for instructions.
   • Request denied: The “Requested” text is removed from the Marketplace list for the feed. You can try to subscribe again or choose a different feed.

Data Feed Discounts for Buyers

In Audience Marketplace, providers can offer buyers a discount on the published price of a CPM or flat rate data feed. However, discount amounts aren’t visible to buyers in the Marketplace feed list. But, you can also ask for a discount when you subscribe to a private data feed or when requesting more information about a particular feed.

Request a Discount

Review Discounted Feeds

To review your discounted feeds:

1. Go to Audience Marketplace > Marketplace.

2. Click the name of a feed you’re already subscribed to.

3. Look at the Price and Your Price columns in the Plan Details table. If the feed is discounted:

   • The original price is marked with a red line.
   • The fee in the Your Price column will be lower than the fee in the Price column.

In the example, the buyer gets a 10% discount on the Segments and Overlap plan in the Software Audience Feed.

Finding Subscribed Feed Data

The data (traits) for your data feeds appears in their own trait storage folders. Go to Audience Data > Traits and expand the 3rd-Party Data folder to view and work with the traits in your subscribed feeds. Look for the sub-folder named after your data provider. Those contain folders named after the individual data feed and list traits provided by the feed.

Unsubscribe from a Data Feed

Data buyers unsubscribe from data feeds and plans in Audience Marketplace > Marketplace.

To unsubscribe from a data feed:

1. Click the data feed name in the Marketplace.
2. In the Use Case section find the plan you want to use and move the Subscription slider to Off.

Data Feed Deactivation: Why It Happens and How to Respond

In Audience Marketplace, data providers can revoke access to your subscribed data feeds. Don’t be alarmed if this happens to you. We’ve got you covered. Review this section for processes and procedures related to data feed deactivations.

Common Reasons for Data Feed Deactivation

It may be puzzling or even upsetting if a feed you subscribe to is shut off. However, data providers can deactivate a data feed for a variety of reasons. Some common reasons include:

• Billing: Data providers will deactivate a feed if you’re consistently late with fee payments or if you fail to pay your fees.
• Feed Updates: Data providers need to deactivate feeds when they update their feed taxonomy or cost structures.
• Inactive Buyers: Data providers reserve the right to deactivate feeds if subscribers show no spending over an extended period of time.
• Inactive Sellers: Data providers who leave Audience Marketplace will deactivate and delete all their data feeds.

Deactivation Email

When a data provider deactivates one of your data feeds, Audience Manager sends an email to the users in your company who have Administrator permissions. Sometimes email filters classify this message as spam. As a result, you may miss this important notification. To help you identify the deactivation message, this email contains the following elements:

• From: The deactivation email comes from aam-noreply@adobe.com. Pro-tip: Don’t reply to this email.

• Subject line: Subscription to name of data feed here is Cancelled.

• Attachments: The email includes an attachment titled, " list-of-affected-entities-by-feed-revocation.csv." That is a convoluted way of saying the attachment lists all the traits included in the cancelled feed. As a data buyer, you should review this attachment. It will help you find and remove deactivated traits from your segments and algorithmic models.

Deactivated Trait List

The list that accompanies a deactivation email contains the fields as shown below.

Remove Deactivated Traits

As a data buyer, you’re responsible for removing the traits in a cancelled feed from all your active/in-use or inactive segments. Removal options include:

• Bulk removal with the REST APIs or the Bulk Management Tools.

• Manually search for affected segments and remove deactivated traits using Segment Builder. See Remove Traits from a Segment.

Unsubscribe from the deactivated data feed after you remove all the revoked traits from your account. If this is a temporary deactivation, you can re-subscribe after the data provider finishes making their required changes and reactivates the feed. As with most things, good communication with your partners (the data provider and Adobe) can help you work through this process.

Understanding the Plan Details Page in Audience Marketplace

When you click the name of a data plan in the Marketplace, Audience Manager provides information that can help you make informed choices about subscribing to a data feed.

This page gives you the following information:

1. Basic Plan Information. This includes feed information such as:

   • Data feed name. For example, as shown above, the name of this feed is “Sample Data Feed.”
   • The name of the data provider;
   • Data Feed ID;
   • Description;
   • Number of traits in the feed;

2. Plan Information Buttons.

   • Click Explore All Traits to see details about all the traits in the selected data feed.
   • Click Request More Details to ask the data provider questions about the selected data feed or to request a discount. This feature sends your comments and questions directly to the data provider.

3. Data Feed Report Metrics. The Venn diagram (and related metrics) shows you trait overlap data for the last 30 days. See The Marketplace: About for details.

   • 30 Day Overlapped Uniques: The number of unique users in your account that overlap with the users in the provider’s account. For a definition of unique users, see AAM UUID in the Index of IDs in Audience Manager.
   • 30 Day Provider Unique Users: The number of unique users coming from the provider’s account.
   • Your Unique Users: The number of unique users coming from your account.

4. Plan Details Table. This table shows you the use cases that you can subscribe to the data feed for, as well as its pricing model. See Understanding Data Feed Use Cases.

5. Plan Action Buttons.

   • Click Cancel to leave the page without making changes.
   • Click Review & Subscribe to subscribe to a data feed. This button is greyed out until you switch a Subscription toggle to On. See also Subscribe to a Public Data Feed and Subscribe to a Private Data Feed.

Understanding Data Feed Use Cases

As an Audience Marketplace data buyer, you can purchase data for overlap, modeling, and activation use cases. Each use case is designed for a specific purpose and limits what you can do with the data. These use case descriptions can help you make the right decision about which type of data plan to buy.

Make Comparisons with Segments and Overlap Plans

Segments and Overlap

This use case lets you compare your traits with provider traits in a trait-to-trait overlap report. Also, you can create or add provider traits to a segment and make additional comparisons with the segment-to-trait and segment-to-segment reports. Overlap comparisons can help you:

• Extend audience reach: Low overlap suggests your traits contain users you have not seen before. You may want these traits to try and reach new users.
• Enhance existing audiences: High overlap suggests your traits are similar to those owned by the data provider. You may want these traits to help make targeted, incremental improvements to an already developed audience.

Algorithmic Models

This use case lets you evaluate supplier traits against your traits with algorithmic modeling. For example, our algorithmic modeling system uses one of your traits as a basis for comparison against a supplier trait. When the model runs, it can show if audiences in supplier traits share similar conversion attributes to your traits.

Activation

This use case lets you send data to a destination. In Audience Manager, a destination is any third-party system (ad server, DSP, DMP, exchange, etc.) that you want to share data with. However, with an Activation use case, you cannot run overlap reports or test the data in an algorithmic model.

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