A clear path to activation and measurement for brands

Brands want more from their media investments: better insights, more efficient reach, and clear proof of performance. Whether you’re starting with high-quality first-party data or need help reaching new audiences, Experian offers flexible solutions to drive reach among key audiences and to measure the impact.

We’ve built two primary activation and measurement solutions tailored to how brands operate, so you can spend less time managing data and more time driving outcomes.

Use case 1: First-party insights to activation and measurement

Best for: Brands with first-party data looking to deepen their understanding of existing customers, activate intelligently, and measure what matters – all through a single trusted partner.

Solution: Audience Engine + Outcomes

Audience Engine

Audience Engine is our self-service platform designed to help you onboard first-party data, gain key insights into your customers, build custom audiences using our powerful data assets, and activate them across 200+ platforms — all within a single workflow.

Outcomes

Experian Outcomes closes the loop by measuring real-world results of your campaigns (such as visits, purchases, and website actions) and tying them back to specific media exposures across digital and TV channels.

Together, these tools offer a full-funnel audience and measurement solution, from planning and activation to proving performance.

Let’s bring this to life

A leading athletic retailer partnered with Experian and Yieldmo to drive in-store foot traffic, targeting shoppers likely to buy from their competitors during key sales windows.

Using Experian’s Audience Engine, which includes our proprietary and third-party data marketplace, Yieldmo built a high-performing, self-serve targeting strategy for the retailer. By combining Experian Audiences with Partner Audiences from Alliant, Circana, Webbula, and Sports Innovation Lab, Yieldmo was able to build apparel and footwear audiences from the data marketplace including:

• In-store shopper segments
• Athleisure purchasers
• Competitive purchasers

Audience Engine also enabled Yieldmo to tap into Experian’s identity graph, expanding cross-channel reach and maximizing campaign scale and precision.

And while not used for this campaign, our Outcomes solution allows advertisers to tie media spend to in-store activity, so retailers can measure true business impact.

Benefits

Understand your customers more deeply

To reveal behavioral, demographic, and lifestyle trends.

Reach your first-party audiences at scale

Across top activation platforms, using Audience Engine’s onboarding capabilities.

Increase your brand awareness

By reaching prospective audiences, using Experian Audiences, Partner Audiences, and lookalike audiences.

Measure campaign effectiveness

With Outcomes, which correlates media exposures (digital and/or TV) with offline and online conversions, visits, or sales.

Optimize future media buys

By using attribution insights to refine targeting, creative, and channel mix based on what’s actually driving results.

Use case 2: Activation and measurement

Best for: Brands that already know who they want to reach and are looking to activate high-quality, data-driven audiences across their preferred media platforms and want to clearly understand what’s driving performance.

Solution: Audiences + Partner Audiences + Outcomes

Audiences

Experian Audiences are pre-built audience segments grouped by shared attributes from Experian Marketing Data built for activation on-the-shelf of top programmatic, TV, and social destinations like FreeWheel, Magnite, and Madhive, in addition to Audience Engine.

Partner Audiences

Experian’s Partner Audiences are high-quality audience segments sourced directly from 30+ leading third-party data providers like Affinity, Circana, and Dun & Bradstreet. These segments are curated across verticals like Business, CPG, Health, Retail, and Travel, and are available through on top media destinations, in addition to our data marketplace for easy selection and deployment.

Outcomes

Experian Outcomes helps close the loop by tying real-world results back to media exposures across digital and TV channels.

Together, these products empower marketers to activate smarter and prove success with confidence.

Let’s bring this to life

A leading fashion brand set out to grow their customer base by reaching high-intent shoppers where they spend their time: online. Their goal: drive e-commerce conversions through a programmatic campaign powered by The Trade Desk.

To do it, they needed more than just reach, they needed accuracy. That’s where Experian came in.

On The Trade Desk, the brand quickly discovered Experian’s prebuilt audience segments, readily available and easy to activate. They selected:

• Age Range: 25–44
• Women’s Fashion Frequent Spenders: Households identified as frequent purchasers of women’s apparel, cosmetics, jewelry, and accessories—based on verified, consumer-reported transactions from the past 24 months.

These segments gave the brand confidence that it was putting its message in front of the right consumers, those most likely to engage and buy.

To understand whether their campaign was driving results beyond impressions, the brand implemented a site pixel to capture both top-of-funnel visitation and bottom-of-funnel conversions.

Using Experian’s Outcomes solution, they were able to close the loop—tying ad exposure directly to e-commerce sales. The Outcomes report showed clear campaign lift, highlighting which channels and audience segments performed best. Armed with these insights, the brand refined their targeting and messaging for future media buys—boosting ROI with each iteration.

Benefits

Reach your ideal audience at scale

By activating Experian Audiences and Partner Audiences off the shelf at digital and TV platforms.

Access privacy-conscious, diverse data

Curated by 30+trusted data providers in verticals like Business, CPG, Health, Retail, and Travel without needing to manage multiple data contracts.

Understand what’s working

Through Outcomes reporting, which connects media exposure to offline and online outcomes like conversions, purchases, or visits.

Continuously improve performance

By using attribution insights to inform audience selection, creative strategy, and media channel mix for future campaigns.

Bring this to your brand

Experian’s activation and measurement solutions for brands gives you the tools to act with clarity: from onboarding your first-party data to reaching new customers and tying media back to real results.

Whether you’re starting with deep customer insights or building campaigns from scratch, here’s how our solution helps:

Audience Engine

Onboard your first-party data, gain insights into audience composition, build custom audiences using Experian and Partner Audiences, and activate them across 200+ leading platforms — all through a centralized, self-service platform.

Audiences and Partner Audiences

Reach high-intent prospects using Experian’s syndicated audiences or custom-built segments from partners like Circana, Dun & Bradstreet, and more.

Outcomes

Understand what worked. See how media exposure correlates with actions like store visits, quote requests, site activity, or purchases.

Every element is built to help you scale campaigns, improve addressability, and tie media spend to results that matter—without the overhead of multiple vendors or disjointed systems.

Ready to see it in action? Get in touch with our team.

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