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. Click the Campaigns iconand open the “Audiences, keywords and content” tab and click Audiences. 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.
You can show personalized ads to millions of viewers across YouTube and video partner sites, based on their past interactions with your videos or YouTube channel. By reinforcing your message with people who have already seen your videos or channel, you’re more likely to succeed in increasing your return on investment. Learn more About your data segments.
Benefits
- Improved ROI: Advertisers have improved their return on investment (ROI) by displaying ads to YouTube visitors who have shown interest in their product or service.
- Broader scope: With YouTube's vast network, your video ad can reach potential customers. Learn more about How your data segments work.
- Efficient pricing: The Google Ads auction model offers competitive rates that meet your target ROI. With CPV bidding, you'll pay for video views and other video interactions, such as clicks on the call-to-action overlays (CTAs), cards, and companion banners.
- Flexibility: Show ads based on actions specific to your YouTube videos, including when viewers like, dislike, and share your video.
How it works
Your data segments are created by first linking your YouTube channel to your Google Ads account. Once you link accounts, you can reach people who have done the following YouTube-related actions:
- Viewed any video from a channel
- Viewed certain videos (includes both organic and ad views)
- Viewed any video (as an ad) from a channel
- Subscribed to a channel
- Visited a channel homepage
- Liked any video from a channel
- Added any video from a channel to a playlist
You can use these lists in your targeting settings for new or existing campaigns.
To manage your lists, click the Tools icon and click the Shared library dropdown in the section menu and then click Audience manager.
From the “Audience manager” page, click the plus button and select + YouTube users to add lists. Then enter all the necessary information.
List sizes
For "Initial list size," you can either pull list members from the last 30 days of activity on your channel, or start fresh.
Keep in mind that Google Ads doesn’t use your data segments to populate new memberships for YouTube channel and YouTube Masthead in ads on non-Google websites. As a result, any reporting for the YouTube channel and YouTube Masthead data segments will show as “0” under “Size: Display” on the “Audience insights” page in Google Ads.
Best practices
Improve your targeting by exploring these features:
- Various ad formats: Build your campaign to target website and/or app visitors, and existing customers with video ads and other creative formats (text, image, and rich media ads). Learn more About video ad formats.
- Engage mobile customers: Use square and vertical videos to engage mobile customers on the YouTube app. Learn how to Use square and vertical video to engage mobile customers.
- Detailed reports: Optimize your campaign based on performance metrics. For example, raise bids on specific topics or channels that generate the greatest ad response. Learn more Tips for optimizing your Video campaign.
- Ease of use: Easily create, manage, and target your data segments. Learn more about How your data segments work.
- Custom audience segments: Customize your targeting by combining your data segments. For example, you can reach people who viewed your movie trailer but haven’t yet viewed your ad promoting the DVD release. Learn more about how to Create a custom combination segment.
- Make sure your remarketing list is active or open: Video campaigns aren’t eligible to serve when targeting or excluding closed or removed remarketing lists.