Amazon DSP

Overview

Amazon DSP is a demand-side platform that allows advertisers to programmatically buy display and video ads at scale. Connect Lytics with Amazon DSP to leverage the behavioral scoring, content affinities, and Insights from Lytics to improve your targeting for Amazon ads.

Authorization

If you have not already done so, you will need to set up an Amazon Advertising account before you begin the process described below. Authorizing as an Amazon Advertising user will guide you through an OAuth process to authorize access to ad accounts tied to that particular Amazon Advertising user.

If you are new to creating authorizations in Lytics, see the Authorizations documentation for more information.

  1. Select Amazon DSP from the list of providers.
  2. Select the method for authorization. Note that different methods may support different job types. Amazon DSP supports the following authorization methods:
  3. Enter a Label to identify your authorization.
  4. (Optional) Enter a Description for further context on your authorization.
  5. Complete the configuration steps needed for your authorization. These steps will vary by method.
  6. Click Save Authorization.

Login with Amazon - US

  1. Enter your Amazon DSP login credentials in the login popup.
  2. In the Label text box, enter a name for the authorization
  3. (optional) In the Description text box, enter a description for this authorization

Login with Amazon - EU

  1. Enter your Amazon DSP login credentials in the login popup.
  2. In the Label text box, enter a name for the authorization
  3. (optional) In the Description text box, enter a description for this authorization

Export Audience

Send Lytics user profiles to Amazon Ads to reach and connect with your customers.

Integration Details

  • Implementation Type: Client-side Integrations and Server-side Integration
  • Implementation Technique: JavaScript Tag Integration, REST API Integration, Audience Trigger Integration
  • Frequency: Real-time Integration
  • Resulting data: A Lytics audience is exported to Amazon Ads Audience.

This workflow uses the Amazon Ads API to create an audience in the Amazon Ads platform and uploads the Lytics user profiles for matching.

Once the job is created, the job will:

  1. Create an Amazon ads audience for the configured Lytics audience with name format: lytics_{audience_slug}_{current_timestamp}.
  2. Runs the backfill of the audience (if configured) and adds the users in Amazon ads audience.
  3. For each user entering the audience, it will add them in the queue to add them in the Amazon ads audience.
  4. For each user exiting the audience, it will add them in the queue to remove them from the Amazon ads audience.
  5. The queue will be sent to Amazon ads every minute or when the queue reaches 10,000 users.
  6. The job will run continuously repeating steps (3)-(5).

Fields

The export job gives you an option to send following fields to Amazon Ads:

Lytics User Field (configurable)DescriptionAmazon Ads PII FieldType
emailEmail AddressEmailstring
first_nameFirst Namefirstnamestring
last_nameLast Namelastnamestring
addressAddressaddressstring
phonePhone Numberphonestring
cityCitycitystring
postal_codePostal Codepostalstring
stateStatestatestring

Configuration

Follow these steps to set up and configure an export to Amazon DSP from Lytics.

  1. Select Amazon DSP from the list of providers.
  2. Select Amazon Ads: Export Audience from the list.
  3. Select the Authorization you would like to use or create a new one.
  4. Enter a Label to identify this job you are creating in Lytics.
  5. (Optional) Enter a Description for further context on your job.
  6. Select the Lytics audience to export.
  7. From the Profile ID input, select the Amazon DSP Profile/region you wish to export to.
  8. In the Advertiser ID text box, enter your Amazon Ads Advertiser ID.
  9. From the Identifier Mappings input, map the value from Lytics field to Amazon Ads PII field. At least one PII field must be mapped. We will hash the field if required according to Amazon's requirements.
  10. From the Country Code input, select the 2 letter country code where the users belong to. This is used to normalize the phone number and address according to Amazon's hashing requirements.
  11. (Optional) Check the Existing Users to immediately send users who currently exist in the selected Lytics audience. Deselecting will only push users as they enter or leave the audience.
  12. Click the Start job button to start the job
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