The Trade Desk connection
Overview overview
The Trade Desk destination helps you send profile data to The Trade Desk.
The Trade Desk is a self-service platform for ad buyers to execute retargeting and audience targeted digital campaigns across display, video, and mobile inventory sources.
To send profile data to Trade Desk, you must first connect to the destination.
Use cases use-cases
As a marketer, I want to be able to use audiences built off of Trade Desk IDs or device IDs to create retargeting or audience targeted digital campaigns.
Supported identities supported-identities
The Trade Desk supports the activation of audiences based on the identities shown in the table below. Learn more about identities.
Supported audiences supported-audiences
This section describes which types of audiences you can export to this destination.
Export type and frequency export-type-frequency
Refer to the table below for information about the destination export type and frequency.
Prerequisites prerequisites
Connect to the destination connect
To connect to this destination, follow the steps described in the destination configuration tutorial.
Connection parameters parameters
While setting up this destination, you must provide the following information:
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Name: A name by which you will recognize this destination in the future.
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Description: A description that will help you identify this destination in the future.
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Account ID: Your Trade Desk Account ID.
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Server Location: Ask your Trade Desk representative which regional server you should use. These are the available regional servers you can choose from:
- Europe
- Singapore
- Tokyo
- North America East
- North America West
- Latin America
Enable alerts enable-alerts
You can enable alerts to receive notifications on the status of the dataflow to your destination. Select an alert from the list to subscribe to receive notifications on the status of your dataflow. For more information on alerts, see the guide on subscribing to destinations alerts using the UI.
When you are finished providing details for your destination connection, select Next.
Activate audiences to this destination activate
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To activate data, you need the View Destinations, Activate Destinations, View Profiles, and View Segments access control permissions. Read the access control overview or contact your product administrator to obtain the required permissions.
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To export identities, you need the View Identity Graph access control permission.
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See Activate audience data to streaming audience export destinations for instructions on activating audiences to this destination.
In the Audience schedule step, you must manually map your audiences to their corresponding ID or friendly name in the destination platform.
When mapping segments, we recommend you use the Platform audience name or a shorter form of it, for ease of use. However, the audience ID or name in your destination does not need to match the one in your Platform account. Any value you insert in the mapping field will be reflected by the destination.
If you are using multiple device mappings (cookie IDs, IDFA, GAID), make sure to use the same mapping value for all three mappings. The Trade Desk will aggregate all of them into a single segment, with a device-level breakdown.
Exported data exported-data
To verify if data has been exported successfully to The Trade Desk destination, check your Trade Desk account. If activation was successful, audiences are populated in your account.