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Advertiser CRM onboarding

Advertiser CRM onboarding lets a publisher bring an advertiser's first-party data into a data clean room and match it against the publisher's own audience. 

For the publisher, that is a monetization route: it can offer advertisers targeting built on their own customer data, which supports better ad yield and helps retain media spend. 

Advertisers experience the same match as remarketing or exclusion targeting; this page covers it from the publisher's side.

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How it works

The advertiser uploads its customer data, and the publisher's audience segments sit alongside it in the clean room, where the two are matched. The resulting audience can then be activated on the publisher's inventory. In a Decentriq data clean room, the match runs inside a confidential computing environment, so neither side's raw data is exposed to the other or to Decentriq.

Frequently asked questions

What does a publisher need in place to onboard advertiser data?

Audience segments in the clean room that the advertiser's hashed customer data can be matched against. Publishers can import their own data from selected sources without engineering work.

What match rate can a publisher expect when onboarding advertiser data?

There’s no single answer, because it depends on the quality of the two datasets and the identifier used to match them. Match rate also matters less than it might seem for most use cases, as this article explains.

What if the advertiser's customers barely overlap with the publisher's audience?

Lookalike modeling can extend reach beyond the overlap by finding similar users across the publisher's full audience, rather than limiting the campaign to customers the publisher already recognizes.

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