Billing for Data Feed Providers

Generate an Audience Marketplace billing report to view data feed usage for the previous month for each of your subscribers. You can create a report for the previous month at any time. However, the report is more accurate when you generate it on or after the 10th day of the current month.

Download a Billing Report

To download a report:

  1. Go to Audience Marketplace > Receivables.
  2. Click Generate Billing Report.

Report Fields Defined

A billing report contains the following information.

Report Field Description

Data Provider PID

Your Audience Manager data provider ID.

Data Provider Name

Your company or organization name.

Buyer PID

Buyer (subscriber) ID.

Buyer Name

The buyer's company or organization name.

Feed ID

The ID of the data feed

Feed Name

The name of the data feed.

Plan Use Cases

Use cases let sellers control how buyers use data. Options include:

  • Segments and overlap
  • Modeling
  • Activation

See Plan Types for Data Feeds.

Unit of Measure

Indicates CPM or flat fee billing.

List Price

The subscription fee for each data feed.

Discounted Price

The subscription fee for a discounted data feed. See Discounts for Data Providers.

Units

Varies by feed price type:

  • Flat fee data feeds: Returns 1 only.
  • CPM data feeds: Returns the actual usage amount for CPM data feeds. If a subscriber has not provided impression data for a CPM feed, the Units cell is empty and the Flag cell is set to 1.

Total Cost

The amount Audience Manager bills a buyer.

Billing Period

In the report, this is the last day of the previous month.

Entry Date

The date a buyer entered subscription / usage information.

Subscription Start Date

The date a buyer started their data feed subscription.

Subscription End Date

The date a buyer ended their data feed subscription.

Flag

For CPM feeds only. Flag options include:

  • 0: Indicates a subscriber has reported usage information to Audience Manager.
  • 1: Indicates a subscriber has not reported usage information to Audience Manager.

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