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Audiences & ad targeting
Matched and custom audiences built from lists: retargeting, suppression and ABM targeting on every ad platform.
GuideAudiences & ad targeting
How a list becomes an ad audience: what each platform matches on, the pipeline from rows to a live audience, retargeting, suppression and ABM audience types, the hygiene that decides match rates, and the approval gate that belongs in front of every ad account.
Sep 1, 2026 · 11 min read
GuideAudiences & ad targeting
Customer Match is Google Ads’ mechanism for building audiences from your own customer data - hashed emails, phones, names and addresses - across Search, YouTube, Gmail and Display. What it matches on, the policy and size requirements, and how B2B teams use it well.
Sep 1, 2026 · 4 min read
GuideAudiences & ad targeting
A matched audience is an ad audience built from a list you own, matched by the platform against its members. The definition, what the platforms match on, the four audience types, and why the match rate is a data-quality score in disguise.
Sep 1, 2026 · 4 min read