Creating Custom Audiences

What is a Custom Audience?

Custom Audiences let you reach customers you already know with ads on

Facebook.

You can upload a list of email addresses or phone numbers of at least 20 people

and we'll deliver your ad to those people if they're on Facebook. You can also

build audiences from the people that visit your website or from people who use

your mobile app.

You can open the Audience section by clicking on the button on the left side.

In this section you will see the following window:

How can I create a Custom Audience from my website?

1. Any Custom Audience from your website cannot be created without a

working Facebook Pixel. Read more about Facebook Pixel creation and

setting here.

2. Click the green “Create Audience” Button and choose Custom Audience.

3. You will see this window:

4. Depending on your objective you can create a Custom Audience from your

website for any group of visitors that you'd like to reach with targeted

Facebook ads. For example, you can run a campaign to reach people who

visited a product page but didn't complete a purchase to encourage them to

go back to the website to do so. Or, you can create an audience of everyone

who's visited your website in the past 30 days (it is possible to view up to

the last 180 days). You can also include or exclude your previous traffic.

5. If you made sure the Facebook Pixel is set up correctly, to create a Custom

Audience you need to chose rules, a tracking period and a name.

How can I build a Custom Audience from CRM data?

1. To create a custom audience using your CRM data you need to learn the

formats that Facebook can read and find in its own data base.

Email examples:

Telephone number:

Mobile App user IDs, IDFA, Facebook App User ID:

2. To create a Custom Audience you need to switch to the “Customer List”

tab:

As the screenshot above shows, ‘email’ is the default ‘Data Type’

selected. This window will look similar if you choose Phone Numbers or

Mobile Advertiser IDs.

To finalise your Custom Audience creation, you need to upload your

data, enter a name and click the “Create” button.