Afford-X · Available on LiveRamp Data Marketplace

Affordability alignment for performance media

Modeled purchasing power — built on TransUnion financial data — that concentrates your budget on households with the economic capacity to convert, and removes those without it before the bid.

Data source TransUnion
Distribution LiveRamp Marketplace + Advanced TV
Geography U.S. — national
DSP compatibility TTD · DV360 · Amazon DSP
~30% of addressable households cannot afford the median DTC product
4.3× ROI on data cost when suppressing bottom 30% at $25 media CPM
10 purchasing power tiers scored at the household level — not the device
0% probabilistic device-to-household translation required for CTV

Intent and affordability are different signals

Your DSP knows who browsed. Your algorithm knows who clicked. Neither knows whether the household behind that device can actually afford your product. Behavioral intent overstates purchase probability — especially in DTC, where aspirational shoppers, deal-seekers, and researchers generate engagement signals that look identical to buyers. The result is wasted impressions, unstable CPA, and an algorithm that keeps optimizing toward the wrong population. Afford-X adds the missing economic layer: whether a household has the purchasing capacity to transact at your price point.

Remove misaligned households. Concentrat...