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Ads DevCast episode 2: Data Manager API unifies audience and conversion ingestion

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Cory Liseno has published episode 2 of the Ads DevCast podcast, focused on the Data Manager API with Product Manager Melissa Ng. The episode covers how the unified ingestion API enables first-party data to be sent to multiple Google advertising products: Google Ads, DV360, and others: in a single API call, reducing engineering overhead and the need for fragmented pipelines.

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What changed

Confidential Matching is built in by default for privacy compliance. An upcoming addition will surface API diagnostic information directly in the Google Ads UI, though this has not yet launched.

THE COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVE

Why it matters for advertisers

For you, this means any team currently managing separate audience and conversion pipelines across Google products should evaluate the Data Manager API as a consolidation path: particularly relevant following the ActiveCampaign integration announced last week.

Perspective from the original PMC newsletter.

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Cory Liseno presents the episode with product manager Melissa Ng as the guest. They are credited for the episode, rather than assigning authorship to the newsletter curator.

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Read Cory’s original episode announcement, which identifies Melissa Ng and says they discuss the Data Manager API together.

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Ads DevCast episode 2: Data Manager API unifies audience and conversion ingestion

Cory Liseno has published episode 2 of the Ads DevCast podcast, focused on the Data Manager API with Product Manager Melissa Ng. The episode covers how the unified ingestion API enables first-party data to be sent to multiple Google advertising products: Google Ads, DV360, and others: in a single API call, reducing engineering overhead and the need for fragmented pipelines. Confidential Matching is built in by default for privacy compliance. An upcoming addition will surface API diagnostic information directly in the Google Ads UI, though this has not yet launched.

For you, this means any team currently managing separate audience and conversion pipelines across Google products should evaluate the Data Manager API as a consolidation path: particularly relevant following the ActiveCampaign integration announced last week.

Source captured . No explicit first-contributor label was provided for this update.

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