Integrations / Advertising
The Trade Desk
Real-time conversion events with TDID matching for programmatic campaigns.
Datafly Signal delivers first-party events to The Trade Desk server-to-server from infrastructure you control, using a pre-built blueprint that maps your event schema to the payload The Trade Desk expects.
Why route The Trade Desk 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 The Trade Desk 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 The Trade Desk 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 The Trade Desk attributes the event to the right session.
Delivery is batched, rate-limited, and retried
Signal buffers to Kafka, respects the The Trade Desk rate limit, and retries on 429 or transient failure rather than dropping the event.
One consent decision governs every destination
The Trade Desk 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
pagepurchaseview_itemVertical presets
Retail. 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 The Trade Desk documentation.
Frequently asked questions
Does Datafly Signal integrate with The Trade Desk?
Yes. Datafly Signal delivers first-party events to The Trade Desk server-to-server from infrastructure you control, using a pre-built blueprint that maps your event schema to the payload The Trade Desk expects. The integration is included in every deployment at no additional cost.
How is server-side The Trade Desk tracking different from the The Trade Desk tag?
The The Trade Desk 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 The Trade Desk from your server, so delivery does not depend on browser conditions.
What personal data is sent to The Trade Desk?
Email are normalised and SHA-256 hashed inside your own deployment before delivery, so The Trade Desk receives match keys rather than raw personal data. Which fields are sent is configured per pipeline.
Which events can Signal send to The Trade Desk?
The blueprint ships with mappings for page, purchase, view_item. Any event in your schema can be mapped to The Trade Desk through pipeline configuration without a code change.
Do I need to keep the The Trade Desk 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 The Trade Desk deduplicates, then remove the tag once server-side volume matches.
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