Create and publish audiences

This topic discusses how to create and publish audiences identified in Customer Journey Analytics (CJA) to Real-time Customer Profile in Adobe Experience Platform for customer targeting and personalization.

Read this overview to familiarize yourself with the concept of CJA audiences.

Create audience

1. To create audiences, you have three ways to get started:

   Creation method	Details
   From the main Components > Audiences menu	The Audiences Manager page opens. Click Create audience and the Audience builder opens.
   From within a Freeform table	Right-click an item in a Freeform table and select Create an audience from selection. Using this method pre-populates the filter with the dimension or dimension item you selected in the table.
   From the filter creation/editing UI	Check the box that says Create an audience from this filter. Using this method pre-populates the filter.

2. Build the audience.

   Configure these settings before you can publish the audience.

   

   Setting	Description
   Name	The name of the audience.
   Tags	Any tags that you want assigned to the audience for organizational purposes. You can use a pre-existing tag or enter a new one.
   Description	Add a good description of the audience, to differentiate it from others.
   Refresh frequency	The frequency at which you want to refresh the audience. You can choose to create a one-time audience (default) that needs no refreshing. For example, this could be helpful for specific, one-time campaigns. You can select other refresh intervals. For the 4-hour refresh frequency, there is a limit of 75 to 150 audience refreshes, depending on your CJA entitlement.
   Expiration date	When the audience will stop refreshing. The default is 1 year from the creation date. Expiring audiences are treated similarly to expiring scheduled reports - the admin gets an email a month before the audience expires.
   Refresh lookback window	Specifies how far back in your data window you want to go when creating this audience. The max is 90 days.
   One-time date range	Date range when you want the one-time audience to be published.
   Filter	Filters are the main input to the audience. You can add up to 20 filters. These filters can be joined with And or Or operators.
   View sample IDs	A sample of IDs in this audience. Use the search bar to search for sample IDs.

3. Interpret the data preview.

   The audience preview appears in the right rail. It allows for a summarized analysis of the audience you have created.

   

   Preview setting	Description
   Data preview window	The date range for the audience.
   Total people	A summary number of the total number of people in this audience. It can go as high as 20 Million people. If your audience exceeds 20 Million people, you must reduce the audience size before you can publish it.
   Audience size limit	Shows how far from the 20 Million limit this audience is.
   Estimated audience return	This setting is useful for retargeting customers in this audience that come back to your site. (In other words, that are seen in this dataset again.) Here, you can select the time frame (next 7 days, next 2 weeks, next month) for the estimated number of customers who may return.
   Estimated to return	This number gives you an estimated number of returning customers over the time frame that you selected from the drop-down list. We look at the historical churn rate for this audience to predict this number.
   Preview metrics	This setting allows you to look at specific metrics to see whether this audience contributes a disproportionate amount to this metric, such as ‘Revenue’ or ‘Average time on site’. It gives you the aggregate count of the metric, as well as the percentage of the total it represents. You can select any metric that is available in your data view.
   Namespaces included	The specific namespaces that are associated with the people in your audience. Examples include ECID, CRM ID, email addresses, etc.
   Sandbox	The Experience Platform sandbox in which this audience resides. When you publish this audience to Platform, you can only work with it within the confines of this sandbox.

4. Double-check your audience configuration and click Publish.

   If everything went well, you will receive a confirmation message that the audience was published. It takes only minute or two for this audience to show up in Experience Platform. (Even for audiences with millions of members, it should take less than 5 minutes.)

5. Click View audience in AEP within the same message and you will be taken to the Segment UI in Adobe Experience Platform. See below for more information.

What happens after an audience is created?

After you have created an audience, Adobe creates an Experience Platform streaming segment for each new CJA audience. An AEP streaming segment will only be created if your organization is set up for streaming segmentation.

• The AEP segment shares the same name/description as the CJA audience, but the name will be appended with the CJA audience ID to ensure that it is unique.
• If the CJA audience name/description changes, the AEP segment name/description reflects that change as well.
• If a CJA audience is deleted by a user, the AEP segment is NOT deleted. The reason is that the CJA audience may later get undeleted.

Latency considerations

At several points prior to, during, and after audience publishing, latencies can occur. Here is an overview of possible latencies.

Use CJA audiences in Experience Platform

CJA takes all the namespace and ID combinations from your published audience and streams them into Real-time Customer Profile (RTCP). CJA sends the audience over to Experience Platform with the primary identity set, according to what was selected as the Person ID when the connection was configured.

RTCP then examines each namespace/ID combination and looks for a profile that it may be part of. A profile is basically a cluster of linked namespaces, IDs and devices. If it finds a profile, it will add the namespace and ID to the other IDs in this profile as a segment membership attribute. Now, for example, “user@adobe.com” can be targeted across all their devices and channels. If a profile is not found, a new one is created.

You can view CJA audiences in Platform by going to Segments > Create segments > Audiences tab > CJA Audiences.

You can drag CJA audiences into the segment definition for AEP segments.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions on audience publishing.

Next steps

• To manage this audience, go to the Management UI.

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