Device Targeting With Platform-level Keys
- Topics:
- Traits
WARNINGUser-Agent header.Starting with March 2023, Audience Manager supports these updates by leveraging Experience Platform Web SDK. To continue using trait information provided via the
User-Agent header, you must use Web SDK and enable High Entropy User-Agent Client Hints.These updates are not supported by DIL, so Audience Manager customers who use DIL will not be able to collect trait information via the
User-Agent header.Describes the common platform-level key-value pairs you can use to target users with device-related variables across all properties in your Audience Manager account.
Purpose of Platform-level Variables
Platform-level variables let you take data passed in from a particular site and make it available for targeting across all the properties in your Audience Manager account. These variables are formed by key-value pairs with the key prefixed by d_ as shown below.
Platform-level Keys Defined by User Agent
The Data Collection Servers extract the values for these keys from the user agent header in HTTP requests. The values represent device-level information from the Device Atlas database. The signals in the table below are available, as extracted from the user agent example. Download a list of the most common keys, according to Device Atlas measurements.
| Signal | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|
d_device_vendor | VENDOR | apple |
d_device_hardware_type | HARDWARE | mobile phone |
d_device_os_version | OS VERSION | 5_0 |
d_device_os_name | OS NAME | ios |
d_device_model | MODEL | iphone |
d_device_marketing_name | MARKETING NAME | iphone |
d_device_manufacturer | MANUFACTURER | apple |
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3
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