About your data segments

To provide a comprehensive and consolidated view of your Audiences and make audience management and optimization simpler, you’ll find the following improvements in Google Ads:

• New audience reporting
  Detailed reporting about audience demographics, segments, and exclusions is now consolidated in one place. Click the Campaigns icon and open the “Audiences, keywords and content” tab and click Audiences. You can also easily manage your Audiences from this report page. Learn more About Audience reporting.
• New terms
  We’re using new terms on your audience report and throughout Google Ads. For example, “audience types” (these include custom, in-market, and affinity) are now referred to as audience segments and “remarketing” is now referred to as “your data”. Learn more about the Updates to Audience terms and phrases.

Use your data to re-engage people who have previously interacted with your brand or services on mobile or desktop. Your ads are shown to people in this segment as they browse Google or partner websites.

Benefits

Whether you're looking to drive sales, increase registration, or promote brand awareness, targeting segments comprised of your data can be a strategic component of your advertising plan. Below are a few benefits of using your data:

• Prompt reach/Well-timed targeting: You can show your ads to people who’ve previously interacted with your business right when they’re searching elsewhere and are more likely to make a purchase. You can also help customers find you by showing them your ads when they're actively looking for your business on Google Search.
• Focused advertising: You can create segments comprised of your data to advertise for specific cases. For example, you may target people who added something to their shopping cart but didn’t complete a transaction.
• Large-scale reach: With segments comprised of your data, you can reach people across their devices as they browse over 2 million websites and mobile apps.
• Efficient pricing: You can create high-performance campaigns with automated bidding. Real-time bidding calculates the optimal bid for the person viewing your ad, helping you win the ad auction with the best possible price. There's no extra cost to use Google's auction.
• Easy ad creation: Produce text, image, and video ads for free with Ad gallery. Combine your dynamic remarketing campaign with Ad gallery layouts to scale beautiful ads across all of your products or services.
• Campaign statistics: You’ll have reports of how your campaigns are performing, where your ads are showing, and what price you're paying.

Note: You may disable the collection of your data for users who don't wish to view personalized ads. Learn how to disable the collection of your data for specific users

Ways to use your data audience segment with Google Ads

• Website visitors: Show ads to your past visitors as they browse sites and apps on the Display Network. Learn more about setting up your data segments
• Dynamic remarketing: Boost your results with dynamic remarketing that leverages, ads that include products or services that people viewed on your website or app. Learn more about dynamic remarketing
• Your data segment for Search ads: Show ads to your past visitors as they do follow-up searches for what they need on Google, after leaving your website. Learn more about your data segments for Search ads
• YouTube users: Show ads to people who have interacted with your videos or YouTube channel as they use YouTube and browse Display Network videos, websites, and apps. Learn more about how to use YouTube segments
• Customer Match: Upload lists of contact information that your customers have given you. When those people are signed into Google, you can show them ads across different Google products.

Create your data audience segment targeting in your campaign or ad group

Note: The instructions below are part of the new design for the Google Ads user experience. To use the previous design, click the "Appearance" icon, and select Use previous design. If you're using the previous version of Google Ads, review the Quick reference map or use the Search bar in the top navigation panel of Google Ads to find the page you’re searching for.

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Campaigns icon .
2. Click the Audiences, keywords, and content drop down in the section menu.
3. Click Audiences.
4. In the “Audiences segment” module, click Edit audience segments.
5. Click Select an ad group and then select a campaign and ad group from the list that appears. You can also search for the campaign or ad group you want to update.
6. Select the audience segments you want your campaign to reach. Learn more about the types of audience segments that are available for each campaign type
7. Click the checkbox next to the segment you'd like to add. This will add them to your targeting.
8. Click Save.

Related links

• About setting up your data segments
• Add audience targeting to an ad group or campaign