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Introducing Experian Third-Party Onboarding

by Scott Kozub, VP, Product Management 4 min read June 11, 2024

At A Glance

Experian Third-Party Onboarding enables data providers to easily monetize their audiences across more than 20 programmatic, social, and TV platforms. By simplifying integrations and using Experian’s expansive identity graph, Experian Third-Party Onboarding expands reach, improves addressability, and ensures transparency and trust for third-party data providers.

What is Experian Third-Party Onboarding?

Experian Third-Party Onboarding is a our capability that streamlines how third-party data providers distribute and monetize their audience segments across Experian’s connected ecosystem. It reduces friction in the onboarding process, allowing data providers to reach more buyers through direct integrations with over 20 programmatic, social, and TV platforms.

Key benefits at a glance

  • Future-proofed addressability
  • Access to premium connected TV (CTV) and cross-channel activation
  • Clear pricing and faster reporting
  • Self-service control and expert support
  • Flexible audience support

Data providers including AnalyticsIQ, Circana, Dun & Bradstreet, PurpleLab, PlaceIQ, and over 20 more are already using Experian Third-Party Onboarding.

Why now? The industry shift driving third-party onboarding

Marketers and platforms are under growing pressure to maintain audience addressability amidst signal loss and increasing privacy regulations. Experian’s Third-Party Onboarding meets this demand by unifying AI-enhanced identity, compliance, and monetization in one place.

What’s the difference between first-party and third-party onboarding?

How does Experian Third-Party Onboarding improve connectivity and addressability?

Experian Third-Party Onboarding builds on the infrastructure that powers our own syndicated audience distribution. Since 2020, we’ve shifted from third-party partners to direct platform connections, giving data providers access to the same high-performance network.

Verified performance metrics

The data below highlights the performance advantage of Experian Third-Party Onboarding compared to our competition.

MetricExperian performance
Programmatic addressability50% higher
Connected TV (CTV) addressability73% higher
Active digital IDs (weekly)4.2 billion

“Moving beyond cookie-only third-party onboarding solutions is critical for our users in the age of cookie deprecation, and Experian’s identity graph does that. Experian’s match rates and speed to turn around audiences to a large number of platforms is critical for our political buyers during this very busy campaign season.”

L2Paul Westcott, EVP

What unique advantages does Experian Third-Party Onboarding offer?

Experian Third-Party Onboarding combines AI-powered identity technology with user-centric design to make onboarding seamless and scalable.

Future-proofed addressability

With Experian’s advanced Digital and Offline Graphs embedded within our Third-Party Onboarding solution, user audiences will automatically be expanded to a deep set of identifiers to ensure scale and maximum addressability. Identifiers include:

  • CTV IDs
  • Mobile ad IDs (MAIDs)
  • IP addresses
  • Unified I.D. 2.0 (UID2)
  • Hashed emails (HEMs)
  • and more

Access to premium CTV and cross-channel activation

Tap into 300 million CTV IDs and 350 million UID2s through integrations with TV and digital platforms.

Clear pricing and faster reporting

Enjoy a straightforward, revenue-share pricing model with self-service reporting available within days. Track segment adoption, advertiser usage, and destination performance instantly.

Flexible audience support

Seamlessly onboard bulk syndicated audience taxonomies and custom audiences to programmatic, social, and TV platforms through our existing integrations.

“Both activation platforms and data providers familiar with our world-class identity graph and top-notch service have proactively asked Experian to provide third-party onboarding services. After listening carefully to how we can improve upon their current setup, we are excited to bring a solution to the market that directly addresses their needs.”

ExperianScott Kozub, VP, Product


Key takeaways

  • Experian Third-Party Onboarding streamlines audience monetization for third-party data providers.
  • Built on Experian’s AI-powered identity graph with direct integrations across more than 20 programmatic, social, and TV platforms.
  • Experian Third-Party Onboarding provides 50% greater programmatic addressability and 73% higher CTV reach than the competition.
  • Experian Third-Party Onboarding is privacy-first, transparent, and designed for interoperability.

Connect with our team to learn more about Experian Third-Party Onboarding and how you can get started

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About the author

Scott Kozub headshot, VP, Product, Experian

Scott Kozub

VP, Product, Experian

Scott leads the Product Strategy team at Experian Marketing Services working across the entire product portfolio. He has over 20 years of product experience in the marketing and advertising space. He’s been with a few startups and spent many years at FICO and Oracle Data Cloud heavily focused on loyalty marketing and advertising technology.


Experian Third-Party Onboarding FAQs

What makes Experian’s onboarding process different from other providers?

Experian Third-Party Onboarding eliminates intermediaries and uses direct integrations with more than 20 programmatic, social, and TV platforms. This creates faster audience availability, higher match rates, and transparent pricing.

Can data providers onboard both syndicated and custom audiences?

Yes. Data providers can upload and manage syndicated taxonomies or custom audience builds for activation across Experian’s network of programmatic, social, and CTV destinations.

How quickly can data providers access reporting?

Self-service reporting is available within days of audience activation, giving providers near real-time visibility into usage by destination, advertiser, or campaign.

Where can I learn more about Experian’s identity capabilities?

Visit our website to learn more about Experian’s AI-powered identity solutions.


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