Account administration

To ingest audiences from Audience Manager and activate them to social and advertising destinations, you must first create an Expanded Activation user account and assign the account to the correct permission role.

This page explains how to creata a user account in the Admin Console and assing the correct permissions for Expanded Activation.

Create user accounts create-users

Before you can use Audience Manager Expanded Activation, you must create a user account.

To create a user account for Expanded Activation, follow the instructions on managing users from the Adobe Admin Console documentation.

Add users to permission role permissions

After you have created a user account, you must add it to the Expanded Activation permission role, in the Expanded Activation user interface.

Go to Administration -> Permissions -> Roles, and select the Expanded Activation Default Role.

Expanded Activation user interface image showing the Roles page.

Go to the Users tab and select Add Users.

Expanded Activation user interface image showing the Users page.

Select the newly created user from the available list and select Save.

Expanded Activation user interface image showing the Add Users page.

The user account is now created and assigned to the correct role. It is now ready to access the Expanded Activation user interface.

Monitor license usage license-usage

Your Audience Manager Expanded Activation contract specifies the maximum number of hashed emails you can ingest to your account.

You can find this information by going to the Administration -> License Usage page.

Expanded Activation user interface image showing the license usage screen.

On this page you can find the following information:

  • Product: The Adobe product that you are licensed for. This will always be Audience Manager Expanded Activation.

  • Primary metric: The name of the metric being tracked for usage. This will always be Addressable audience.

  • License amount: The maximum number of hashed emails that you are licensed to ingest.

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    You ingest hashed emails through the Audience Manager source connector. See the documentation on how to activate audiences for more details.
  • Usage: the number of hashed emails that you have ingested.

  • Usage %: the percentage of your license amount that you have used.

To learn more about license usage in Experience Platform, see the license usage documentation.

Next steps next-steps

Now that you have configured at least one user account with the correct access to Expanded Activation, you can start using the account to activate audiences.

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