[UA] Use your remarketing audiences in Google Ads [Legacy]

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If you close a remarketing list in Google Ads, that list no longer accumulates users, but it still serves ads.

Add your audience to an ad group

When you create a remarketing audience in Analytics, it is then available in the advertising account you selected. If you selected a Google Ads account, then you need to add that audience to at least one of your ad groups before the users in that audience are eligible to see your ads. (Remember, your ad still needs to win the auction before anyone sees it.)

 

Create custom-combination lists

In Google Ads you can use custom-combination lists to build sets of conditions from existing remarketing lists (including the remarketing audiences you created in Analytics), interest categories, and existing combinations of lists, and then display your remarketing ads to users who meet those conditions.

For example, if you wanted to remarket to people who had visited the product pages for your new hybrid car and whose web travels had also demonstrated an interest in hybrid vehicles, you could:

  • Create a list in Analytics based on a Segment that identified users who viewed your hybrid-car pages.

  • In Google Ads, combine that list with users who fall into the interest category of Hybrid & Alternative Vehicles.

 

The list of remarketing audiences contains a link for each audience to its respective Google Ads account.

If your current Analytics login has access to the linked Google Ads account, then the link in the table is active for you.

Click the link to start creating your Google Ads campaign based on the remarketing audience:

 

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