Three changes coming to Google Ads audience features
A new article on Martech.org reports that advertisers will be able to reuse audience across campaigns. Google is also redefining some terms and reorganizing reporting.
Google Ads is reminding advertisers about some changes to its audience targeting and reporting features. These changes, which were shared via email with advertisers, are fairly minor and some have already started rolling out to accounts.
Reuse audiences
Advertisers will be able to reuse audiences across campaigns. When you build an audience to use in a campaign, Google Ads will save it so you can use it again in a future campaign.
This feature is now available for use as an audience signal on Performance Max and is coming soon to Discovery, Video Action and App campaigns. The ability to reuse audiences will be expanding to more campaign types in the coming months, according to a tweet from Ginny Marvin, Google's ad products liaison.
New audience reporting
Google is consolidating audience reporting into a new Audiences tab. Located in the left-side navigation menu, you'll find reporting about demographics, audience segments and exclusions. Google said this is a "simplified view" of all the same reporting features. This is another change you may have seen already in some accounts.
Why you should care
Instead of rebuilding audiences manually in each campaign, new reusable audiences will allow advertisers to save time while keeping targeting consistent across campaigns. The experience should be similar to how custom segments act currently, where once an audience is created, it can be applied to any campaign instead of manually checking off types in each campaign. Changes to the audience segments will then be distributed to all campaigns targeting the audience segment.
Google Ads is reminding advertisers about some changes to its audience targeting and reporting features. These changes, which were shared via email with advertisers, are fairly minor and some have already started rolling out to accounts.
Reuse audiences
Advertisers will be able to reuse audiences across campaigns. When you build an audience to use in a campaign, Google Ads will save it so you can use it again in a future campaign.
This feature is now available for use as an audience signal on Performance Max and is coming soon to Discovery, Video Action and App campaigns. The ability to reuse audiences will be expanding to more campaign types in the coming months, according to a tweet from Ginny Marvin, Google's ad products liaison.
New audience reporting
Google is consolidating audience reporting into a new Audiences tab. Located in the left-side navigation menu, you'll find reporting about demographics, audience segments and exclusions. Google said this is a "simplified view" of all the same reporting features. This is another change you may have seen already in some accounts.
Why you should care
Instead of rebuilding audiences manually in each campaign, new reusable audiences will allow advertisers to save time while keeping targeting consistent across campaigns. The experience should be similar to how custom segments act currently, where once an audience is created, it can be applied to any campaign instead of manually checking off types in each campaign. Changes to the audience segments will then be distributed to all campaigns targeting the audience segment.
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