ID Sync

Use ID Sync to select identifiers and a sync strategy when you send Audience data to your destinations. Configure how you send identifiers, which provides more control over the data you send downstream.

On this page, you’ll learn how to configure and begin using ID Sync.

Set up ID Sync

To configure ID Sync:

1. Navigate to Engage > Audiences.
2. Create a new Audience. From the Select Destination tab in the Audience builder, select your destination.
   • If you don’t see any destinations to add, you’ll need to add the destination to your Engage space first.
   • For existing Audiences, you’ll find your connected destination on the Audience Overview page.
3. In the Event Settings section, you’ll see two options: Default Setup and Customized Setup. To use ID Sync, select Customized Setup.

Default setup

Default setup uses default Segment Destination behavior. To use the default settings, click Save and resume building your Audience.

You can customize additional event settings at any time.

Customized setup

With Customized setup, you can choose which identifiers you want to map downstream to your Destination.

1. Using Customized Setup, click + Add Identifier and add the identifiers:
   • Segment: Choose your identifiers from Segment.
   • Destination: Choose which identifiers you want to map to from your destination. If the destination doesn’t contain the property, then outgoing events may not be delivered to your destination.
   • Facebook Custom Audiences and Google Ads Remarketing Lists display a dropdown for you to choose available identifiers.
2. Add an ID strategy.
   • This is a strategy for a particular identifier which sends either the last added, first added, or all identifiers to your destination.
3. Click Save, then finish building your audience.

Limits and best practices

• Segment recommends using ID Sync with new audiences.
• ID sync configuration changes apply to new data flowing after about five minutes. Changes don’t apply to active or running syncs.
• ID Sync used on existing audience destinations doesn’t resync the entire audience. Only new data flowing into Segment follows your ID Sync configuration.
• Segment doesn’t maintain ID Sync history, which means that any changes are irreversible.
• You can only select a maximum of three identifiers with an All strategy.

Frequently asked questions