At A Glance
Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution connects digital identifiers with rich consumer attributes. Our joint solution supports identity resolution, cross-channel media activation, analytics, and measurement, helping marketers unify fragmented signals and drive greater reach and insight.What is Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes?
Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution is a unified identity and data framework that connects digital identifiers with rich consumer attributes.
Experian’s Digital Graph connects digital identifiers to people and households, while Experian’s Marketing Attributes add depth, including demographics, interests, shopping behavior, and media preferences. Together, they help marketers and platforms with the insights and connectivity they need to understand who their customers are and reach them across digital channels.
How signal fragmentation and omnichannel are reshaping audience connection
Signal fragmentation and third-party cookie uncertainty are reshaping how our industry reaches consumers. At the same time, omnichannel media consumption spreads engagement across platforms, creating a broader but more complex view of consumer behavior. Together, these shifts are pushing marketers and platforms to rethink how they connect insights, activation, and reach across channels, opening the door to more unified approaches.
How Experian’s joint solution helps marketers and platforms address signal fragmentation and omnichannel behavior
Our Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution helps marketers and platforms navigate signal fragmentation and omnichannel behavior by providing identifiers for seamless cross-channel engagement. By adding Marketing Attributes to our Digital Graph, like demographic and behavioral data, marketers and platforms can gain a better understanding of their consumers. Our joint solution uses Experian’s identity keys, the Living Unit ID (LUID) and Person ID (PID), to combine offline and digital data, giving you deeper insights into consumer behavior, greater audience reach, and improved cross-channel visibility.
What are the benefits of Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution?
Our Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution brings identity and insight into a single framework, supporting the following benefits:
Four ways to use Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes
When our Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes come together, you get a 360-degree view of your consumers, powering four critical use cases:
How OpenX uses Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution
OpenX is an independent omni-channel supply-side platform (SSP) focused on audience and identity-based targeting across CTV, mobile, app, and desktop environments.
OpenX licenses Experian’s Digital Graph to support one of the largest independent supply-side identity graphs. The addition of Experian Marketing Attributes enriched this graph with consumer-level insight tied to IPs, MAIDs, and client identifiers.
This approach has supported greater addressability and insight for buyers and improved monetization opportunities for publishers during ongoing signal fragmentation.
“We built on our long-term partnership with Experian to enrich our digital IDs with Experian’s Marketing Attributes, which help provide buyers better insights to audiences, thereby helping our publishers monetize their inventory. With partners like Experian, OpenX effectively facilitates the value exchange between demand and supply, ensuring our partners are able to drive results for their business in the era of signal fragmentation”
OpenXCraig Golaszewski, Sr. Director of Strategic Partnerships
How StackAdapt uses Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution
StackAdapt is the multi-channel programmatic advertising platform used by marketers for campaign execution, insights, and measurement.
StackAdapt licenses Experian’s Digital Graph alongside Experian Audiences, which provides them with the level of information they want. Our Digital Graph supports first-party data onboarding, and Experian Audiences support segmentation for activation.
This product combination supports cross-channel reach, segmentation, and campaign measurement within the StackAdapt platform.
“StackAdapt has been recognized as the most trusted programmatic platform by marketers, and with the integration of Experian’s Digital Graph and Audiences, we are strengthening our leadership in the space. This partnership improves our ability to deliver precise cross-channel segmentation, reach, and measurement, helping advertisers run more successful campaigns. Our collaboration with Experian allows us to offer a differentiated solution in the market and ensure our clients can deliver the most precise and impactful ads to their audiences.”
StackAdaptDenis Loboda, Senior Director of Data
We recently announced a new collaboration with StackAdapt, bringing the power of Experian’s identity graph, syndicated and custom audiences directly to the StackAdapt platform.
How Experian supports cross-channel marketing strategies with our Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution
Our Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution helps marketers and platforms connect identity to insight so they can create, activate, and measure cross-channel media campaigns.
Connect with us to learn how our Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution can support your cross-channel strategy.
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Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution supplies marketers and platforms with the insights and connectivity they need to understand who their customers are and reach them across digital channels.
Experian’s Digital Graph unifies digital identity signals into a single, privacy-safe view of households and individuals.
Experian’s Marketing Attributes are consumer-level descriptors that include demographics, interests, shopping behavior, and media usage.are consumer-level descriptors that include demographics, interests, shopping behavior, and media usage.
Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution links digital identifiers with attribute data, allowing platforms and marketers to understand and engage audiences across channels.
Marketers, publishers, supply-side platforms, and demand-side platforms use Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution for analytics, activation, and measurement.
Experian’s Digital Graph and Marketing Attributes joint solution addresses signal fragmentation by reducing reliance on a single identifier type by supporting multiple digital identifiers within one identity framework.
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With the recent announcement of delaying third-party cookie deprecation to 2024, the industry has more time to rethink how to identify and communicate with consumers.
As today’s digital landscape gets more and more complicated there are more ways for brands to connect with users and drive purchases and more ways for ad tech to target and measure those touch points. As in-person shopping picks up steam due to the re-normalization of society post-COVID 19; the connection between digital ads and in-person purchases needs to be made once again. With the rise of Connected TV throughout the pandemic there are even more digital opportunities to target a user. But how do you make sure that those brand engagements are captured and correctly attributed to offline purchases and conversions? The answer lies in a holistic identity resolution strategy. Cross-device identity resolution with The Tapad Graph connects the identifiers and devices of individuals within a household to each other; enabling targeting, frequency capping, extension, segmentation and measurement or attribution between devices; including Connected TV and hashed (privacy-protected) email addresses along with Cookies, Mobile Ad Ids and IP Address. Brands can join their first-party data to The Tapad Graph to execute strategies that connect online and offline data for pre, mid and post-campaign efficiencies. Let’s imagine a scenario in which an outdoor retail brand is targeting users watching specific content on a Connected TV device. Powered by identity resolution, they start with a general ad on CTV and continue targeting down individual paths with each user. When one of them converts in store and makes a purchase; the outdoor retailer can connect that action through location and in-store traffic data with the cross-device identity resolution used to execute the digital campaign. Now the actions of the user online and offline are resolved for more accurate measurement and attribution after the campaign ends. But it doesn’t stop there– the brand's CRM data can be reactivated for the next digital campaign and leveraged to capitalize on the most effective media mix for the user who made the purchase previously. These combined insights can be invaluable in shaping up future campaign strategies with geo-contextual ads, recommended additional products and personalization to help drive more conversions and purchases in-store or online. As in-person shopping picks back up and marketers are tasked once again with balancing online and in-store KPIs, the right identity resolution strategy can unlock necessary efficiencies for retailers, ad tech vendors and agencies tasked with supporting these initiatives. Get in touch
Experian Marketing Services and Data Quality President Genevieve Juillard recently sat down with Zach Rodgers, host of the AdExchanger Talks podcast to discuss the future of identity, the importance of data transparency and privacy, and our recent acquisition of Tapad. Genevieve focused on the opportunity for our industry to reimagine an advertising ecosystem that is resilient and adaptable; one that takes advantage of emerging data and prioritizes data transparency and consumer privacy. She also discussed the importance of advertising strategies that put consumers at the heart of every decision and give them more control over their data. Genevieve shared with AdExchanger that Experian’s acquisition of Tapad, a global leader in digital identity resolution, was a natural fit for our company. Tapad’s approach and role in the ecosystem is very much aligned with Experian’s, which is to develop solutions that are resilient to industry and consumer changes. The combination of our capabilities supports interoperability across all types of identifiers, both online and offline, and will position us to help our clients navigate the post-third-party cookie world. To learn more about Experian’s plans to support an effective advertising ecosystem that will evolve with our dynamic industry, listen to the full podcast Embracing ‘Healthy Fragmentation’ In Ad Tech, With Genevieve Juillard. Get in touch