Data catalog

Designated marketing area

Indicates the Nielsen Designated Market Area (DMA) code for the individual's location. DMAs are geographic regions defined by shared television and radio broadcast coverage. They help target campaigns by media market. Mapping codes to market names requires Nielsen's copyrighted crosswalk file.

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Technical details

These technical details describe how Faraday represents this attribute internally.

PropertyValueAPI value
API name
designated_marketing_area
CategoryGeographyfig/geography
UnitNot applicablenull
Type Textstring
Statistical type Nominalnominal
Allowed valuesNot applicablenull
Deprecation Not deprecatedfalse
Directionality Not applicable