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, the “Audiences” tab within the left page navigation menu. 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 similar, 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
Just as you can show your ads to people based on their age, gender, and parental status, you can also exclude any of these specific demographic segments to make your advertising more efficient. This article shows you how to exclude selected demographic segments at the ad group level or at the campaign level.
Example
A female-only spa has a campaign that features the available services and hours for their spa centers. They're unable to serve male customers, so they decide to exclude the “Male” category from this campaign. They could set the exclusion at the ad group level. But because the spa wants to apply these settings to all the ad groups in their campaign, they can make demographic exclusions at the campaign level instead of adding them one by one.
Instructions
To exclude by demographic segments for your campaign targeting:
- Sign in to your Google Ads account.
- In the page menu, click Audiences.
- In the “Exclusions” module, click Edit Exclusions.
- Click the plus icon
and select the campaign or ad group that you want to update.
- Check the box next to the specific demographic segment that you want to exclude in the ad group.
- Click Save.
Notes
Excluding any demographic segment can significantly decrease the amount of traffic your ad group or campaign might receive.
Also, you can exclude people whose specific demographic traits we haven't identified by selecting the "Unknown" segment. However, excluding it might prevent a substantial number of people from seeing your ads. Many sites within the Display Network don't provide demographic data for customers, and we aren't able to estimate demographic information from everyone using the web or mobile apps. This means that many people fall under the "Unknown" demographic segment.