Types of audiences
- What are my options for audiences?
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What are my options for audiences?
- What are my options for audiences?
- Remarketing: Target people who have visited your site before
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Remarketing: Target people who have visited your site before
- Remarketing: Target people who have visited your site before
- Auto-generated remarketing lists
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Auto-generated remarketing lists
- Auto-generated remarketing lists
- In-market audiences: Reach people who are ready to buy
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In-market audiences: Reach people who are ready to buy
- In-market audiences: Reach people who are ready to buy
- Custom audiences: Create richer user segments with your own data
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Custom audiences: Create richer user segments with your own data
- Custom audiences: Create richer user segments with your own data
- Dynamic remarketing lists: Remarketing for products
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Dynamic remarketing lists: Remarketing for products
- Dynamic remarketing lists: Remarketing for products
- Remarketing lists based on UET parameters
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Remarketing lists based on UET parameters
- Remarketing lists based on UET parameters
- LinkedIn profile targeting
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LinkedIn profile targeting
- LinkedIn profile targeting
- Similar audiences: Reach a wider qualified set of customers
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Similar audiences: Reach a wider qualified set of customers
- Similar audiences: Reach a wider qualified set of customers
- Combined lists: Mix and match audiences to reach just the right customers
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Combined lists: Mix and match audiences to reach just the right customers
- Combined lists: Mix and match audiences to reach just the right customers
- Customer match: Use your own data to find customers
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Customer match: Use your own data to find customers
- Customer match: Use your own data to find customers
- Predictive targeting
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Predictive targeting
- Predictive targeting
- Custom segments: Reach your ideal audience based on their interests and behaviors
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Custom segments: Reach your ideal audience based on their interests and behaviors
- Custom segments: Reach your ideal audience based on their interests and behaviors
- Impression-based remarketing: Reach people who have viewed your ads
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Impression-based remarketing: Reach people who have viewed your ads
- Impression-based remarketing: Reach people who have viewed your ads
In-market audiences: Reach people who are ready to buy
In-market audiences: Reach people who are ready to buy
Learn how to use in-market audiences to increase conversions and improve bids and targeting.Note
Learn more about where in-market audiences are available.
In-market audiences are curated lists of customers who have shown purchase intent signals within a particular category, including searches and clicks on Bing and page views on Microsoft services. Microsoft Advertising supplies the curated list of potential customers, unlike remarketing in a paid search where the advertiser creates the list. You can target and modify bids for these audiences by associating in-market audience lists to ad groups or campaigns, similar to what you do with remarketing lists.
Why use in-market audiences?
Increase conversions. Reach curated audiences that are more likely to convert in your category.
Improve bids and targeting. Set up your ad group or campaign to be exclusive to an audience with an in-market audience or available to everyone, but with a bid adjustment for your targeted audience.
Simple set-up. In-market audiences are simple to set up and don’t require UET tags.
Using in-market audiences
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From the navigation menu on the left, hover over Campaigns and select Audiences.
- Select Create association.
- Under Ad group targeting or Campaign targeting, select In-market audiences.
- Select the in-market audience you want to associate with the ad group or campaign. Note: Under the list size column, you can view the estimated number of customers included in each audience as well as a breakdown by supported network and market.
- Select your targeting settings.
- Select Save.
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From the navigation menu on the left, select Tools > Audiences.
- Select the existing audience associations you want to edit from the table.
- Select Edit to Pause, Delete, Exclude, or Change the bid adjustment.
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From the navigation menu on the left, hover over Campaigns and select Ad groups > Ad groups.
- Select the ad groups or campaigns you want to associate with audiences from the table.
- Select Edit > Associate with audiences.
- Update the Ad group targeting/Campaign targeting and Ad group exclusions/Campaign exclusions details for the selected ad groups or campaigns.
- Select Save.
Take a look at this up-to-date list of all the available in-market audiences.
Who should use in-market audiences?
Businesses large and small can benefit from using in-market audiences. If you have customers who are represented in one of the in-market audiences, you should use this feature to reach more potential customers. For example, an auto business should associate ad groups or campaigns to the "Vehicles/Motor Vehicles/Cars & Trucks" in-market audience.
Who shouldn't use in-market audiences?
If you don’t have customers in one of the available in-market audience categories listed, you shouldn’t use this feature, as you’d be extending your reach to the wrong audience.
Are additional in-market audiences going to be released?
Yes. Additional in-market audiences will be released soon and Microsoft Advertising will continue to evaluate additional in-market audiences.
What campaign and ad types do in-market audiences work with?
In-market audiences work with all campaign and ad types, including Dynamic Search ads and Microsoft Shopping campaigns. (While in-market audiences are not specifically optimized for Microsoft Shopping campaigns, you can associate in-market audiences to Shopping campaigns and monitor their performance.)
Can I use in-market audiences in my campaigns that run across all device types?
Yes. In-market audiences can be associated to ad groups or campaigns for computer, tablet, and mobile devices.
Can I use in-market audiences in my campaigns that run across the entire Microsoft Search Network, including syndicated partners?
No, in-market audiences are only supported on sites owned and operated by Bing, AOL, and Yahoo.
Are exclusions allowed for in-market audiences?
Yes. Exclusions can be used for in-market audiences and all audience targeting offerings.
How do I edit the targeting setting for an association?
The targeting setting can be edited one ad group or campaign at a time from the Audiences page by selecting Create association and then selecting the relevant ad group or campaign. The updated targeting setting is applied to all the associations of that ad group or campaign. If you want to do this in bulk for multiple ad groups or campaigns, please use Microsoft Advertising Editor. Learn more about editing the targeting setting for an association.
Can I use a "Target and bid" setting for one audience list and a "Bid only" setting for another audience list in the same ad group or campaign?
No, you can only select one targeting setting per ad group or campaign that will apply to all your audience lists in that ad group or campaign (either "Target and bid" or "Bid only"). It isn't possible to use different targeting settings in the same ad group or campaign for remarketing lists, in-market audiences, and custom audiences. Whichever setting you've selected most recently ("Target and bid" or "Bid only") overrides any previous settings.
Does enhanced CPC (auto-bidding) work with in-market audiences?
Yes. Enhanced CPC works with in-market audiences.
How should I use in-market audiences with remarketing?
Use in-market audiences with remarketing to reach even more potential customers. Remarketing focuses on customers who have previously interacted with your website, while in-market audiences helps to acquire new customers and grow your remarketing lists.
How should I evaluate in-market audience performance?
We recommend you run one campaign with no audience targeting and run the same campaign with in-market audiences associated. This will help you understand how audience targeting can help to optimize your campaign performance.
How many in-market audience associations can I have?
Take a look at the table in What are my options for audiences?
What is the ad delivery behavior when multiple audiences are associated with the same ad group or campaign?
If multiple audiences (for example, remarketing list and in-market audience) are associated with the same ad group or campaign and a user qualifies to be part of those multiple audiences, the audience with the highest bid will be applied.
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In-market audiences are just one of our audience targeting options.