Integrations / Advertising
Criteo
Product-level event tracking for Criteo retargeting campaigns.
Datafly Signal delivers first-party events to Criteo server-to-server from infrastructure you control, using a pre-built blueprint that maps your event schema to the payload Criteo expects.
Why route Criteo through Datafly Signal
Conversions survive ad blockers and tracking prevention
A browser tag served from an advertising domain is blocked outright for part of your traffic, and Safari's ITP shortens the cookies it can set. Signal sends the event from your own server, so the conversions Criteo optimises against are not filtered by the browser.
Email hashed before it leaves your infrastructure
Signal normalises (trim and lowercase) and applies SHA-256 inside your own deployment, so Criteo receives match keys rather than raw personal data.
Client IP and user agent are preserved
Server-to-server delivery normally loses both, which weakens matching. Signal forwards the genuine visitor values as request headers so Criteo attributes the event to the right session.
Delivery is batched, rate-limited, and retried
Signal buffers to Kafka, respects the Criteo rate limit, and retries on 429 or transient failure rather than dropping the event.
One consent decision governs every destination
Criteo is gated by the same consent state as the rest of your stack, so a withdrawal applies everywhere at once.
What ships in the blueprint
Mapped events
add_to_cartpagepurchasesearchview_itemview_item_listVertical presets
Retail, Travel. Each preset starts from a working configuration for that vertical rather than a blank field map.
Full field mappings, configuration fields, and troubleshooting are in the Criteo documentation.
Frequently asked questions
Does Datafly Signal integrate with Criteo?
Yes. Datafly Signal delivers first-party events to Criteo server-to-server from infrastructure you control, using a pre-built blueprint that maps your event schema to the payload Criteo expects. The integration is included in every deployment at no additional cost.
How is server-side Criteo tracking different from the Criteo tag?
The Criteo tag runs in the visitor's browser, so it is subject to ad blockers, tracking prevention, and page-unload races. Signal collects the event through a first-party endpoint on your own domain and delivers it to Criteo from your server, so delivery does not depend on browser conditions.
What personal data is sent to Criteo?
Email are normalised and SHA-256 hashed inside your own deployment before delivery, so Criteo receives match keys rather than raw personal data. Which fields are sent is configured per pipeline.
Which events can Signal send to Criteo?
The blueprint ships with mappings for add_to_cart, page, purchase, search, view_item, view_item_list. Any event in your schema can be mapped to Criteo through pipeline configuration without a code change.
Do I need to keep the Criteo tag on my site?
No. Server-side delivery is designed to replace the tag. Most teams run both briefly during migration, using shared event IDs so Criteo deduplicates, then remove the tag once server-side volume matches.
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Ready to move Criteo server-side?
See how Datafly Signal delivers first-party events to Criteo from infrastructure you control, with hashed identity and consent enforcement built in.