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An ad exchange is a digital marketplace where advertisers and publishers buy and sell ad inventory programmatically, often using real-time bidding. Onboarding flow, in a marketing and digital strategy context, refers to the structured process through which new users or customers are introduced, engaged, and converted within a platform or service. The relationship between ad exchanges and onboarding flows lies primarily in the use of data-driven targeting and user identity resolution to optimize customer acquisition and engagement. Specifically, onboarding flows benefit from the audience data and insights derived from ad exchanges to tailor messaging and offers during the initial user experience, increasing conversion rates. Conversely, effective onboarding flows can feed first-party data back into the ad exchange ecosystem, improving audience segmentation and retargeting accuracy for future campaigns. This cyclical interaction enhances the precision of programmatic advertising and the efficiency of user activation strategies. For example, when a user is identified and onboarded through a flow that captures consent and preferences, this data can be matched with identifiers used in ad exchanges to deliver more relevant ads, thereby improving ad spend ROI and accelerating the customer journey from awareness to retention.