VDP Connect - New Audience Management Enhancements (2025-11-19)

(1) New: Replace Audience Endpoint

Added support for completely replacing all audience IDs within an existing audience segment.

  • Replaces all existing audience IDs with a new batch within 24 hours
  • Intended for bulk refresh or full overwrite of an active (live) segment
  • Returns a JOB ID used for asynchronous status checks
  • Best practice: do not add or replace audiences again until the job is complete

Key Notes:

  • The viantSegmentId in the request body must match the URL
  • Audience data type must match the original segment’s data type (cannot infer from hashed values)

(2) New: Expire Specific Audiences

Introduced a new method to expire (remove) individual audience IDs from an active audience segment.

  • Removes only the specified hashed values
  • Action completes within 24 hours
  • Returns a JOB ID to check status via Job Status Retrieval

Key Notes:

  • segmentId in the body must match the endpoint
  • dataType must match the original segment configuration

(3) New: Support for SHA256 Phone Number–Based Audience Creation

You can now onboard and activate phone number–based 1P audiences using SHA256-hashed phone numbers.

Preprocessing requirements (before hashing):

  • Strip country code (U.S. numbers must be 10 digits)
  • Remove all symbols: +, -, parentheses, spaces
  • No extensions
  • Hash the final 10-digit number

This enhancement adds full parity between email and phone-based identifiers for audience ingestion workflows.