Acxiom Audience Connection destination

Use the Acxiom Audience Connection destination to enhance audiences with Acxiom’s Real ID™ technology. Then activate those audiences across platforms such as Altice, Ampersand, Comcast, and more.

NOTE
This destination connector and documentation page are created and maintained by the Acxiom team. For any inquiries or update requests, contact Acxiom directly at acxiom-adobe-help@acxiom.com.

Follow these steps to create an Acxiom Audience Connection destination connector using the Adobe Experience Platform user interface. Use this connector to build and distribute audiences to selected destinations.

Use cases use-cases

The following use cases show how to use the Acxiom Audience Connection destination.

Send audiences from Experience Platform to your Acxiom account send-audiences

Use this destination connector to send audiences from Experience Platform to your Acxiom account for cross-channel acquisition.

For example, the Marketing Operations department at a global financial services brand is interested in cross-channel customer acquisition through multiple advertising platforms. They can use the Acxiom Audience Connection destination connector to send audiences from Experience Platform to Acxiom, enhance the audiences with Acxiom’s Real ID technology, and activate the audiences to multiple platforms, such as Altice, Ampersand, Comcast, and more.

Prerequisites prerequisites

Before configuring the Acxiom Audience Connection destination, complete the following prerequisites.

  • Confirm terms of use: Read and sign Acxiom’s Terms of Use Agreement. You receive the link to the agreement once your executed sales order is complete. Until you sign the agreement, the Acxiom Audience Connection destination card does not appear in the Experience Platform destination catalog. After you accept and sign the agreement, Adobe completes your setup and the Acxiom Audience Connection destination card becomes visible.
  • Know your Adobe organization ID: Your Adobe organization ID is needed to complete your Terms of Use Agreement. See Adobe’s Organizations in Experience Cloud topic for details on how to view your organization ID.

Supported audiences supported-audiences

This section describes which types of audiences you can export to this destination.

Audience origin
Supported
Description
Segmentation Service
Yes
Audiences generated through the Experience Platform Segmentation Service.
All other audience origins
Yes

This category includes all audience origins outside of audiences generated through the Segmentation Service. Read about the various audience origins. Some examples include:

  • custom upload audiences imported into Experience Platform from CSV files,
  • look-alike audiences,
  • federated audiences,
  • audiences generated in other Experience Platform apps such as Adobe Journey Optimizer,
  • and more.

Supported audiences by data type supported-audiences-data-type

The following table describes which audience data types you can export to this destination.

Audience data type
Supported
Description
Use cases
People audiences
Yes
Based on customer profiles. Use them to target specific groups of people for marketing campaigns.
Frequent buyers, cart abandoners
Account audiences
No
Target individuals within specific organizations for account-based marketing strategies.
B2B marketing
Prospect audiences
No
Target individuals who are not yet customers but share characteristics with your target audience.
Prospecting with third-party data
Dataset exports
No
Collections of structured data stored in the Adobe Experience Platform Data Lake.
Reporting, data science workflows

Export type and frequency export-type-frequency

The following table describes the destination export type and frequency.

Item
Type
Notes
Export type
Audience export
Exports all members of an audience with the identifiers (name, phone number, or others) used in the Acxiom Audience Connection destination.
Export frequency
Batch
Batch destinations export files to downstream platforms in increments of three, six, eight, twelve, or twenty-four hours. Read more about batch file-based destinations.

Supported destinations supported-destinations

Activate audiences to the following platforms through the Acxiom Audience Connection destination.

Connect to the destination connect

Experience Platform handles authentication automatically for your Acxiom Audience Connection destination.

IMPORTANT
To connect to the destination, you need the View Destinations and Manage Destinations access control permissions. Read the access control overview or contact your product administrator to obtain the required permissions.

Destination-specific settings destination-settings

Some Acxiom Audience Connection destinations require additional information. The following sections provide detailed guidance on how to configure these options.

Amazon amazon

To configure details for the destination, complete the following fields.

  • Publisher Account ID: Enter the publisher account ID associated with this destination.

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Facebook facebook

To configure details for the destination, complete the following fields.

  • Destination Account ID: Enter the destination account ID for this destination.

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LG Ads lg-ads

To configure details for the destination, complete the following fields.

  • Segment Category: The target category or vertical that your segment falls into. Example: financial services, automotive, or health.

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Pinterest pinterest

To configure details for the destination, complete the following fields.

  • Destination Account ID: Enter the destination account ID for this destination.

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Vizio vizio

To configure details for the destination, complete the following fields.

  • Advertiser Name: Enter the name of the advertiser for this destination.

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Activate audiences to this destination activate

Read Activate audience data to batch profile export destinations for instructions on activating audiences to this destination.

IMPORTANT
NOTE
The Acxiom Audience Connection destination only supports full file exports.

Map attributes and identities map

To correctly receive audience data, map the source fields from Experience Platform to the correct Acxiom Audience Connection target fields.

The following target fields are prepopulated automatically in the order Acxiom requires. You must map a source field to every target field to complete the activation flow.

IMPORTANT
All target fields require mapping in the UI. However, only Last Name, Address Line 1, City, State, and Zip Code require actual data in your profile schema. Map any available source field to the remaining target fields to satisfy the UI requirement.
Field name
Description
Required by the UI
Data required for processing
Field order
Max length
First Name
First name of individual
Yes
No
1
255
Middle
Middle name or initial of the individual
Yes
No
2
50
Last Name
Last name of the individual
Yes
Yes
3
255
Generational Suffix
Suffix of the individual
Yes
No
4
10
Address Line 1
Address 1 field of primary residence
Yes
Yes
5
255
Address Line 2
Address 2 field of primary residence
Yes
No
6
255
City
City of primary residence
Yes
Yes
7
255
State
State abbreviation of primary residence
Yes
Yes
8
2
Zip Code
Full zip code of primary residence
Yes
Yes
9
10
Email
Primary email. By default, this field is used as a deduplication key to make the records unique.
Yes
No
10
255
Phone
Phone number of individual (area code + number). By default, this field is used as a deduplication key to make the records unique.
Yes
No
11
10

In the Source Field column, enter the name of each source attribute you want to map to the corresponding target field. Or select Select source field to browse available source fields.

Mapping screen showing source and target field columns with Acxiom's required fields prepopulated for the Acxiom Audience Connection destination. {modal="regular"}

After you map all the fields, select Next.

To use a non-standard schema, see the Query Service UI guide to map your field names to the Adobe standard schema.

Review your destination review

After you complete all the steps, review your destination connection status and audience details before activating it. The audiences you selected appear in a list. Each audience is a separate call to the Acxiom Audience Connection API.

If you are satisfied with the results, select Finish to activate your destination.

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Troubleshooting troubleshooting

If your destination representative is unable to locate your audience, contact your Adobe representative for assistance.

Provide the following information to your Adobe representative:

  • Audience name
  • Destination name
  • Audience activation date
  • Exported file name

Next steps next-steps

You have successfully activated an audience to the selected destination platform. Next, contact your destination platform representative to begin setting up your campaign.

Data usage and governance data-usage-governance

All Adobe Experience Platform destinations are compliant with data usage policies when handling your data. For detailed information on how Adobe Experience Platform enforces data governance, read the Data Governance overview.

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