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PLD report overview
Practitioner Level Data (PLD) Insights are on-demand reports that include key details about healthcare professionals that you targeted in current and prior campaigns. Uncover ad-exposure and engagement data, demographic data, and physician-specialty data for your healthcare audiences. With these insights, you can compliantly assess and optimize your campaign’s targeting strategy while upholding stringent healthcare data-privacy regulations.
PLD report eligibility requirements
If you’re a healthcare advertiser and have signed IQM’s master service agreement (MSA), you may be eligible to generate a PLD report.
A campaign must also meet each of these conditions before it becomes eligible for PLD Insights reporting.
Requirement type | Requirement details |
Campaign vertical | Healthcare* |
Campaign status | Running Expired (within the past two years) Paused |
Campaign duration | 3 or more days |
Audience type** | Matched audience created from raw data |
*Healthcare: Any campaign created under a healthcare advertiser account is a “Healthcare” campaign.
**Audience type: The campaign must only include the audience types listed in this requirements table. For example, you cannot generate a PLD report for a campaign if it includes a matched audience created from NPI IDs and a retargeted audience consisting of your website’s past visitors.
PLD report pricing
There is a cost associated with generating a PLD report. You can reference its price after you enter key details—like the campaign’s total number of impressions and date range—and before you generate the report. We calculate these impressions on a CPM basis.
Refer to Generate or manage a Practitioner Level Data (PLD) report for more information on where to reference the report-price preview.
Price deduction - Sufficient funds
The workflow to generate a PLD Insights report ends with a Generate button that you can use to create your report. We’ll deduct the PLD Insights Cost from your account’s available balance once your report successfully generates. In most cases, this will take place immediately after you select Generate in the Generate Practitioner Level Data widget.
Refer to Generate or manage a Practitioner Level Data (PLD) Insights report for step-by-step instructions on creating a new report.
Price deduction - Insufficient funds
Funds notice: Organization administrators can add funds to an account. Contact yours to complete this process. |
The workflow to generate a PLD Insights report ends with a Generate button that you can use to create your report. If your account’s available balance is less than the PLD Insights Cost, then this button will prompt you to add funds to your account instead. We’ll redirect you to enter a fund amount and select a payment method when you click Add Funds.
Pricing for PLD reports with overlapping datasets
There may be instances when you generate multiple PLD reports with partially overlapping date ranges for the same campaign. This means that the insight data also overlaps. You’ll pay only once for PLD Insights for each date.
Example: You generate two reports for the same campaign—one with a date range of August 1st-10th, and another with a date range of August 5th-20th. Since you already paid for the insights from August 1st-10th, we’ll only change you for a portion of the second report: the new data generated for the August 11th-20th date range. We’ll still aggregate data from the full August 5th-20th date range in the second report.
PLD report metrics
PLD reports return ad exposure metrics at a user level. If you used NPI data for audience creation, you can also reference each user’s NPI ID and multiple demographic data points.
Metric title | Description |
Impressions | The number of times the user viewed your ad. |
Clicks | The number of times the user clicked on your ad. |
Conversions | The number of a user’s conversions that can be attributed to your ad. |
Completes | The number of times that the video creative played for its entire duration. |
NPI ID* | The 10-digit numeric identifier devoid of intelligence that’s used to correlate covered healthcare providers with their respective digital identities. |
First Name | The user’s legal first name. |
Last Name | The user’s legal last name. |
Specialty Group | The primary medical specialty for which the user is licensed. |
Primary Specialty | The branch of patients, diseases, or skills that the user evaluates, diagnoses, or manages at medical practice. |
Secondary Specialty | The subspecialty that the user evaluates, diagnoses, or manages at a medical practice (e.g., Primary Specialty: Anesthesiology, Secondary Specialty: Pediatric Anesthesiology). |
ZIP Code | The user’s permanent residence location details. |
Age Group | The lower and upper ages that the user’s age falls into. |
Gender | The user’s legal sex. |
Dev Geo Lat | The latitudinal coordinates of the device that the ad was served on. |
Dev Geo Lon | The longitudinal coordinates of the device that the ad was served on. |
IP | The IP address that the device was connected to when the ad was served. |
DMA | The Designated Market Area (DMA) that the campaign targeted, which is a region of the United States that Nielsen defined to measure local television viewership. |
ZIP Code | The user’s permanent residence location details. |
Exchange Name | The tech platform that made the buying and selling of ad inventory across ad networks possible. |
Creative Type | The format of the ad creative (image, HTML, video, audio, or native). |
Advertiser | The advertiser account that created the campaign. |
Browser | The web browser that the ad was served on. |
Creative Size | The dimensions of the ad. |
Device Type | The category of device (TV, tablet, desktop, or mobile) that the ad was served on. |
Device Manufacturer | The company that created the device that the ad was served on. |
IAB Category | The IAB Tech Lab page-content category that the campaign targeted. |
Device OS | The Operating System (OS) that the user was connected to when they were served the ad. |
Carrier Name | The company that provided the cellular data necessary for the ad to serve over SMS, phone calls, or internet access. |
*NPI ID: The NPI is a component of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and serves as a unique identification number for covered healthcare providers. Refer to What is NPI Matching? for more information.
PLD report statuses
You can review a PLD Insights report’s current status on the Practitioner Level Data page.
Status | Definition |
Ready | Your insights are generated. You can view, download, or email the PLD report. |
Processing | We’re working on generating your insights. Check back in about 15 minutes. |
Failed* | You either encountered a technical error during report generation, or the campaign you selected is no longer eligible for PLD Insights. Try again in a few minutes to rule out a technical error. |
* If a PLD report features a Failed status, no PLD Insights Cost will be deducted from the advertiser’s balance.