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: Go to Audiences within the Campaigns menu
for detailed reporting about audience demographics, segments, and exclusions. 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.
- New advertising policies: 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.
- User feedback
- Prevalence or severity of abuse
- Repeated violations of the Customer Match policy
Starting soon, you’ll find changes to some of the names in your audience report and throughout Google Ads. For example, “audience types” are now referred to as “audience segments,” and “remarketing” is now referred to as “your data”.
Here are changes that you’ll find:
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Remarketing | Your data |
| Affinity (audience) | Affinity (segment) |
| In-market (audience) | In-market (segment) |
| Life event (audience) | Life event (segment) |
| Detailed demographics (audience) | Detailed demographics (segment) |
| Custom audience | Custom segment |
| Combined audience | Combined segment |
| Similar audience | Similar segment |
| Combined list | Custom combination segment |
