Buying ad space shouldn’t take eons, and yet…
You need to propose a campaign budget based on the size of your target audience, but you have to contact your data provider directly to get counts.
You have budget approval, and you’re ready to create your campaign, but your data provider has to send your audience to the right ad platforms, which requires a separate request and several days of downtime.
It’s time to optimize; all you want to do is update your audience, but start stretching because you’re about to jump through several hoops.
Tunnl has built hundreds of issue-based audiences to make targeting faster and more accurate for advertisers like you, but what good are audiences you can’t access in your ad platforms?
Enter audience syndication, the process that puts audiences like ours on advertising and demand-side platforms (DSPs) like the ones you use to launch your campaigns. How does this process eliminate the middleman and improve your advertising process? It goes a little like this.
For example, Tunnl is an audience data provider with hundreds of prebuilt audiences available for advertisers. Several DSPs and ad platforms house our segments in their own audience library to make that audience data available to advertisers in one place, streamlining your media planning and placement into a single hub. The Tunnl audiences housed on those ad platforms and DSPs are considered “syndicated.”
These are the two significant reasons why ad platforms and DSPs syndicate audiences.
1. Seamless access to more audience data and targeting options improves your user experience on their platform.
2. It’s more convenient to make audiences easily accessible within their platform to limit the reasons advertisers like you would need to request support or exit the platform to access additional data.
And those audience syndication perks trickle down to advertisers like you in a few crucial ways.
There’s a lot of “hurry up and wait” between you and a launched campaign. Syndication is one way data providers and ad platforms can give you the autonomy you deserve as an advertiser.
By syndicating audiences, DSPs like Tunnl’s partners at Basis, StackAdapt, and Yahoo Advertising simplify your ad-buying process, save you time, and put you back in control of your campaigns. Here’s exactly what that looks like:
Feel like you’ve been accessing audiences all wrong? You may have already used a syndicated audience on your preferred ad platform or DSP without realizing it - that’s how seamless the process can be.
But if you want to be more intentional about using Tunnl’s proprietary audience data in your campaigns, there are plenty of places to find syndicated data to act on right now.
Most advertising and demand-side platforms offer an audience library replete with proprietary and syndicated audience data for advertisers like you to tap into as they place their ads.
While our partners host many of our prebuilt audiences, it is ultimately their decision which ones to offer. But how do they decide?
Even when an ad platform or DSP partners with a data provider, not all of the provider’s audiences will get syndicated. Each platform has its own audience syndication criteria - things that qualify and disqualify audiences from consideration - but there are consistent themes across the board.
Typically, the audiences chosen for syndication are (or would be) popular among platform users and are not based on:
Some platforms have more stringent criteria than others, and some only request a set number of audiences for syndication at a time, so the breadth and type of audiences you find on each DSP will vary. In Xandr and Google’s Data Marketplace, only 180 of Tunnl’s audiences are syndicated, but all of our audiences are syndicated in the Yahoo/Verizon DSP. It really just depends on the platform.
Tunnl Tip: Wondering if a prebuilt audience you’re interested in is syndicated on a particular DSP? Search for Tunnl in their audience selector to see what’s available.
We have plans to continue syndicating our audiences in as many DSPs as possible to make advertising with accurate audience data easier for advertisers like you. Let us know if there is another platform where syndicated Tunnl audiences would help you.
If you don’t see a Tunnl audience you want to use in your ad platform or DSP, it may not be syndicated, but you can certainly still advertise against the audience with a couple of extra steps.
Syndication is the smoothest way to access Tunnl audiences for your ads, but it’s not the only way. For audiences that haven’t been added to your ad platform’s data library yet, you will need to reach out to the Tunnl team, so we can send a prebuilt audience over from the Tunnl platform to your ad platform or DSP for use in your campaign. We call this audience activation.
We’ve made that process as hands-off as possible to keep you in the driver’s seat of your ad planning and placement. We don’t want to slow you down.
Here’s how to send a Tunnl audience to your ad platform or DSP:
While it’s not as independent as instantly applying a syndicated audience to your campaign in an ad platform, the Tunnl platform - including the audience activation process - is designed to eliminate as much back-and-forth communication as possible between you and your audience data provider (us).
We love to hear from you, but we know you can (and prefer to) pull audience counts on your own, analyze audience insights independently, and keep the ball rolling on your campaigns when it’s convenient. So, we do our best to give you the goods and get out of your way. Everything you need to know about an audience is accessible via our platform.
The only thing you would require us to do for you is to survey and build a custom audience, or send syndicated audiences to ad platforms.
Jumping through hoops is the old way of audience-based advertising. When you need to reach issue-based audiences fast, there’s nothing more frustrating than waiting on another team to get you what you need.
Audience syndication is a step in the right direction, and accessing syndicated audiences from data providers like Tunnl is easy when you know where to look. Your experience may vary from platform to platform regarding which audiences are available or how they calculate data usage fees, but there are several demand-side platforms that offer syndicated audiences to ease your audience targeting.
You’ll find Tunnl audiences on your favorite DSPs, like Basis, StackAdapt, Xandr, Google’s Data Marketplace, Yahoo/Verizon’s DSP, and DirectTV/Dish. Whichever you use, you can count on Tunnl’s syndicated audiences for accurate, up-to-date targeting on the key issues in your campaigns.
For even more strategic insights, your target audience comes alive in Tunnl's platform. You can browse all of Tunnl’s prebuilt audiences, analyze insights about your target segments, and even use our extensive data library to build your own target audience in minutes for use across DSPs and ad platforms.
You may even find a few audiences you want to activate while you’re in there.