Glossary

Last update: August 19, 2021

Definitions and links to further reading.

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Algorithmic Modeling

Use Algorithmic Modeling as a means of extending reach beyond the core of users you’ve identified. The feature helps you discover new, unique audiences through automated data analysis. Manage your Algorithmic Models in Audience Data > Models.

See Understanding Algorithmic Models.

BAAAM

Bulk Management Tools. The Bulk Management Tools in Audience Manager are a Microsoft Excel-based set of tools that let you create, modify or delete multiple objects at once with a single operation. You can work with data sources, derived signals, destinations, folders, segments, and traits. The feature uses a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with macros that make secure, authenticated calls to the Audience Manager APIs.

See Bulk Management Tools.

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CDF

Customer Data Feed. A CDF file represents a bulk download of data collected by Audience Manager and enables you to work with Audience Manager data outside of the limits imposed by our user interface. A CDF file contains the same data that an Audience Manager event call ( /event) sends to our servers. This includes data like user IDs, trait IDs, segment IDs, and all the other parameters captured by an event call.

See Customer Data Feeds.

CRM ID

The CRM ID is the ID by which customers identify users in their own CRM system. Instead of CRM ID, we use the term DPUUID in Audience Manager.

See DPUUID in the Index of IDs in Audience Manager.

Customer Addressable Audience

In Addressable Audience, this metric represents devices that:

  • Have realized either a rule-based or an onboarded trait during the look-back window
    AND
  • Have an ID sync with the chosen destination regardless of the time of syncs.

Customer Attributes

See Customer Attributes in the Experience Cloud Core Services product documentation.

Customer Match Rate

Customer Addressable Audience ÷ Customer Total Audience expressed as a %. See Addressable Audience.

Customer Total Audience

In Addressable Audience, this metric represents a count of devices that have realized either a rule-based trait on your properties or an onboarded trait from your offline files during the look-back window.

demdex.net

Demdex.net is a legacy domain controlled by Adobe. It reflects Audience Manager’s original, pre-acquisition name ( Demdex). Adobe acquired Demdex in 2011 and re-branded the company as Audience Manager. All HTTP calls to demdex.net domains are calls sent in to Adobe.

See Understanding Calls to the Demdex Domain.

DAID

Device Advertising IDs are unique device identifiers, used to identify a mobile device. These IDs are assigned by the device manufacturer, not by Adobe. We support iOS and Android device IDs in Audience Manager.

See the Index of IDs in Audience Manager.

Destination

In Audience Manager, a destination is any other system (ad server, DSP, ad network, etc.) that you want to share data with. The Destination Builder in our UI provides the tools that let you create and manage these data delivery processes. Audience Manager destination features are located in Audience Data > Destinations.

DIL

The Data Integration Library is an API library used by Audience Manager to collect user interaction data. See Data Integration Library (DIL) API.

dpm

Data Provider Match. It tells internal Adobe systems that a call from Audience Manager or the ID service is passing in customer data for synchronization or requesting an ID. See Understanding Calls to the Demdex Domain.

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Experience Cloud ID (ECID)

Previously named the Marketing Cloud ID (MID or MCID). The Experience Cloud ID is central to the ID Service. It is a unique and persistent identifier for your site visitors. See Cookies and the Adobe Experience Platform Identity Service.

Folder Trait

Automatic grouping of traits inside your folder taxonomy. Each folder in your hierarchy automatically creates a trait which can be used to define segments.

See Folder Traits: About.

Frequency Capping

A limit of a number of times that an advertiser wants to display a given creative to an end user. You can configure various frequency capping expressions in Segment Builder.

See Recency and Frequency.

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GAID

Google Advertising ID, the unique device ID that Google assigns to hardware devices running the Android operating system. See the Index of IDs in Audience Manager.

GUID

An acronym for Globally Unique Identifier. We don’t use the term GUID in Audience Manager. In our case, the GUID is the Audience Manager UUID.
See Index of IDs in Audience Manager.

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IDFA

Identifier for Advertisers, the unique device ID Apple assigns to its products. See the Index of IDs in Audience Manager.

Inbound

The process by which you can send audience data from other sources to Audience Manager. See Sending Audience Data.

Integration Code

When working with the Audience Manager UI or API, you have the option of adding an integration code when creating traits, segments, or data sources. Integration codes serve different purposes in those cases:

  • Traits: an integration code is a field for an ID, SKU, or other value used by your internal business processes. Optional.
  • Segments: an integration code is a field for a user-defined ID or other company-specific information. Optional.
  • Data Sources: integration codes are required when you want to create cross-device data sources, use the Adobe Experience Platform Identity Service, or work with Profile Merge Rules. See Create a Data Source for more information.

K-L

Look-alike modeling

See Algorithmic Modeling.

M-N

MCID, MID

See the Experience Cloud ID.

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PCS

Profile Cache Server. The PCS is a large database, running on Apache Cassandra. It stores data received for active users from server-to-server transfers and the DCS. PCS data consists of device IDs, authenticated profile IDs, and their associated traits.

See Data Collection Components.

Profile Link

See Profile Merge Rule Options Defined.

Profile Merge Rules

Profile Merge Rules let you control the type of data Audience Manager uses for segmentation.

See Profile Merge Rule Options Defined.

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Realization

The action by which a visitor on your site qualifies for a trait. You can use the Visitor Profile Viewer tool to obtain information on trait realization by a specific user.

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Segment

A segment (or an audience) is a set of users who share common attributes.

See Segments: Purpose, Composition, and Rules.

Segment Addressable Audience

In Addressable Audience, this metric represents the number of users who have belonged to the segment during the report look-back period and have an active ID sync on your site. Segments can include your own first-party data and second party and third party data, via traits acquired in the Audience Marketplace.

Segment Total Population

In Addressable Audience, this metric represents a count of all the devices that were a member of your segment during the report look-back period.

Segment Match Rate

Segment Addressable Audience ÷ Total Segment Population expressed as a %. See Addressable Audience.

Signal

Signals are the smallest data units in Audience Manager and are expressed as key-value pairs.

See Signals, Traits, and Segments.

Trait

A trait is a combination of one or more signals. See Signals, Traits, and Segments.

Trait Population

See Trait and Segment Population Data in Segment Builder.

TTL (Time-to-Live)

TTL defines how many days a qualified visitor remains in a trait. TTL is set on traits and not on segments. Visitors fall out of a segment if they do not see a qualifying trait before the end of the TTL interval. Read more in Segment and Trait Time-to-Live Explained.

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UUID

Audience Manager Unique User ID. See the Index of IDs in Audience Manager.

Visitor ID

The Experience Cloud ID Service (formerly visitor ID) provides a universal, persistent ID that identifies your visitors across all the solutions in the Experience Cloud.

See the Adobe Experience Platform Identity Service documentation.

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