ProgLog: Latest Integrations, Releases, and Fixes
Star Date 102024
New Integrations:
AP Election Feed: CTA was thrilled to get to offer access to critical election results data to partners right in PAD. We look forward to offering this again in future years!
Features and Updates
TargetSmart Matching Improvements: We re-engineered our TargetSmart Matching offering in PAD UI to now support 26 available input fields
Strengthening Existing Integrations: We are migrating a number of our existing migrations to cloud systems to support their sustainability and resilience. These have included: Blocks, Google Directory, Hustle, Mobile Commons, NGP VAN, Snapchat, SoSha, Spoke, Sprout Social, StackAdapt, and Zoho Creator.
Swayable Sync, Redux: CTA worked collaboratively with Swayable’s team to redesign our Swayable integration to accommodate current architecture
Upcoming:
Investing in CTA's technical future: A slowdown in partners’ programming at the end of the year has given our team some time to prioritize infrastructure and architecture improvements. Some of these are already underway, and we look forward to being able to roll out new features as a result in 2025!
Star Date 102024
New Integrations:
DNC I Will Vote Polling Place Data: As we teased above, CTA can now provide I Will Vote Polling Place data to any partners that request access in PAD.
TargetSmart Media Buying Platform (MBP) Integration: CTA has partnered with TargetSmart to bring a direct integration from PAD to the TargetSmart Media Buying Platform for partners to ship lists and audiences directly to the DSP for targeting.
L2 Head to Head Model Integration: Partners working L2 can access their Head to Head model in PAD with approved contracts.
TargetSmart Voter Registration Prospecting (VRP) Dataset: In addition to the above work with TargetSmart, CTA has also made available the TargetSmart Voter Registration Prospecting dataset in PAD. VRP is available to existing TargetSmart Analytics Install clients, at no cost and with no usage or export fees.
Features and Updates:
Expanded GetThru Integration: Partners can now access both their ThruTalk and ThruText data in PAD via our integration with GetThru.
Stability and Scheduling updates to Action Network Integration: In partnership with Action Network, CTA has updated the stability and scheduling of our Action Network syncs to ensure timely data deliveries.
Bug Fixes:
Catalist Matching Integration Restored: CTA has worked in partnership with Catalist to restore our integration. Partners using Catalist Matching via PAD will receive updates as access rolls out this week.
Upcoming:
AP Election Feed: Partners will be able to access election critical data via the AP Election Feed in PAD.
Star Date 092024
New Integrations:
HubSpot ETL Integration: CTA can now bring all your HubSpot data into PAD!
Features and Updates:
America Votes Model Scores: Partners can now access free America Votes Harris and GOTV Model Scores via PAD.
TargetSmart September Updates: TargetSmart voter file updates for September are now available to partners. This includes updated Ethnicity and Harris scores.
Enhanced Rolling AVEV Ingestion: CTA has improved its AVEV ingestion pipelines with both Catalist and TargetSmart ensuring PAD partners are getting access to the data as soon as it becomes available!
Catalist September Updates and Ballots Data Delivery: Our Catalist voter file ingestion flow has been updated to include the delivery of the Ballots datasets and the September updates, including an updated Religions model.
Bug Fixes:
Column names with spaces cause matching jobs to fail: An issue related to column names including spaces not being caught by our data validation flows and causing matching jobs to fail has been fixed.
Star Date 082024
New Integrations:
Echo19 to PAD: CTA developed an integration with Echo19 and is now able to make their data available to partners in PAD.
Indigo Stacks Data: CTA worked with Indigo to make their Stacks Data offering available to PAD users.
GetThru to PAD: CTA developed an integration with GetThru and is now able to make their data available to partners in PAD.
Features and Updates:
Add new tables to ActionBuilder Ingestion
Add new tables to UnionWare Ingestion
Updated Catalist ACS 2021 data
Bug Fixes:
Matching: Accept column names with spaces
Star Date 0702024
Major Updates:
VoteAmerica+ to PAD Hopper Integration: CTA is very excited to announce that we now have a Hopper Integration that can ingest data from VoteAmerica’s product suite.
PAD to BlueBell Hopper Integration: We also now have a Hopper Integration that can deliver data to BlueBell.
Additional New Releases:
TargetSmart VoterFile Schema Changes
Enhance Snapchat Sync to Retrieve Most Available Data
Upcoming Releases:
Improved Stability: Airbyte Cloud Migration
Updated Catalist Voter File Supplements and Views
Star Date 062024
Released in June:
Hopper — Integration for BallotReady to VAN: Our point-to-point integration that supports moving your BallotReady data directly into VAN.
Integration for DDx Universe Builder: The ability to import your DDx Universe Builder data into PAD and to any of our destinations.
Deprecated the PAD Chrome Extension: Our Chrome extension has been deprecated, but you can find all the same functionality in our PAD UI.
Enhanced Snapchat Source Sync: We have updated our Snapchat source sync to pull in all data available during refresh intervals.
Upcoming Feature Releases:
Integration for VoteAmerica+ to PAD: The ability to import all of your VoteAmerica+ data points, across products, into PAD, and to any of our destinations.
Hopper — Integration for Mailchimp to Bluebell: Our point-to-point integration that supports moving your Mailchimp data directly to Bluebell.
Hopper UI Launch: Our self-service tooling to bring our partners the ability to establish their own syncs using our existing catalog of sources and destinations