Add audience targeting to an ad group or campaign

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.

You can show your ads to specific audience segments based on who they are, their interests and habits, what they’re actively researching, or how they've interacted with your business. Simply follow these step-by-step instructions to add audience segments like these (and more) to your ad groups.

The ability to show your ads online to people with specific interests can help you reach the right customers. You can do this in Google Ads by adding audience segments to your ad groups.

This article explains how to add audience segments to your ad group or campaign and copy audience segments from one ad group to another. Keep in mind that audience targeting is not available for all campaign types.

Instructions

Add audience targeting to your campaign or ad group

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 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.

Audience search and ideas

Audience search helps you quickly find your audience across all segments, without having to enter specific categories. Audience search is available for all campaigns supporting audience targeting or observation. Using Audience search, you can find additional audience segments that are also related to your search terms. You can find the audience segments you have recently selected in the space below “Audience search.”

Audience ideas can help you select the right audience segment for your product or brand and improve your reach by surfacing segments in your target market. You can find these suggestions in the “Search” tab. Your suggestions may, for example, be based on your audience selection, website, Search campaigns, and other advertisers like you. Suggestions use large amounts of aggregated advertising data, which can help you reach the audience segments that are best for your ads and potentially discover new segments.

Related links

• About audience targeting
• About your data segments
• Add targeting to your Video campaigns