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References reports provide a view of all the active reference files and associated matches.
Weekly references
This weekly report lists all of the references provided by a partner and provides important information about reference files, such as exclusions and a mapping of reference IDs to reference video IDs and assets.
The reportType id for this report is content_owner_active_references_a1.
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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.
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