Account audiences
With account segmentation, ۶Ƶ Experience Platform allows you to bring the full ease and sophistication of the marketing segmentation experience from people-based audiences to account-based audiences.
Account audiences can be used as an input for account-based destinations, allowing you to target the people within those accounts in downstream services. For example, you can use account-based audiences to retrieve records of all the accounts that do not have contact information for any people with the title Chief Operating Officer (COO) or Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).
Terminology terminology
Before getting started with account audiences, please review the differences between the different audience types:
- Account audiences: An account audience is an audience that is created using account profile data. Account profile data can be used to create audiences that target people within downstream accounts. For more information about account profiles, please read the account profile overview.
- People audiences: A people audience is an audience that is created using customer profile data. Customer profile data can be used to create audiences that targets your business’ clientele. For more information on customer profiles, please read the Real-Time Customer Profile overview.
- Prospect audiences: A prospect audience is an audience that is created using prospect profile data. Prospect profile data can be used to create audiences from unauthenticated users. For more information about prospect profiles, please read the prospect profile overview.
Access access
To access account audiences, select Audiences in the Accounts section.
The Browse page is displayed, showing a list of all the account audiences for the organization.
This view lists information about the audience, including name, profile count, origin, lifecycle status, created date, and last updated date.
You can also use the search and filtering functionality to quickly search and sort for specific account audiences. More information about this feature can be found in the Audience Portal overview.
Create audience create
To create an account audience, select Create audience on the Browse page.
The Segment Builder appears. The account attributes and audiences are displayed on the left navigation bar. Under the Attributes tab, you can add both Platform-created and custom attributes.
When creating account audiences, please note that events are listed under People, rather than being their own tab, since these attributes are associated with people.
Under the Audiences tab, you can add previously created people-based audiences to build off of when creating your own account audience.
For more information on using the Segment Builder, please read the Segment Builder UI guide.
Establish relationships relationships
By default for account audiences, the Segment Builder UI displays the direct relationship between an account and a person. However, other relationship types are available for account audiences.
To use the alternate relationship types, select .
On the Settings tab, select Show relationship selectors in the Relationship of fields section.
Select again to return to the Fields tab. You can now see the Establish relationships section, which lets you establish how the account is connected to the person and how the person is connected to the opportunity.
When connecting the account to the person, you can choose from the following options:
accountID
values in the personComponents
array on the person schema. This path is the most frequently used.accountPersonRelation
object. This path also allows each person to be connected to multiple accounts. It is used when your organization has defined an explicit relationship table from your source data.opportunityPersonRelation
object. This connects the person to an account by going from the opportunity-person to the opportunity to the account. This lets you describe which companies the person is attached to opportunities at.When connecting the opportunity to the person, you can choose from the following options:
After establishing the desired relationship, you can add the requisite people-audiences to your segment definition.
Activate audience activate
After creating your account audience, you can activate the audience to other downstream services.
Select the audience you want to activate, followed by Activate to destination.
The Activate destination page appears. For more information on the activation process, including supported destinations and details on field mappings, please read the activate account audiences tutorial.
Next steps next-steps
After reading this guide, you now have a better understanding of how to create and use your account audiences in ۶Ƶ Experience Platform. To learn how to use other types of audiences in Platform, please read the Segmentation Service UI guide.
Appendix appendix
The following section provides additional information about account audiences.
Account segmentation validation validation
When using account audiences, the audience must comply with the following constraints:
- The maximum lookback window for Experience Events is 30 days.
- The maximum depth of nested containers is 5.
- This means that you cannot have more than five nested containers when creating your audience.
- The maximum number of rules within a single container is 5.
- This means that your audience cannot have more than five rules that compose your audience.
- The maximum number of cross entities that can be used is 5.
- A cross entity is when you change between different entities within your audience. For example, going from an Account to a Person to a Marketing List.
- Custom entities cannot be used.
- The maximum number of values that can be checked for a single field is 50.
- For example, if you have a field of “City Name”, you can check that value against 50 city names.
- Account audiences cannot use
inSegment
events. - Account audiences cannot use sequential events.
- Account audiences cannot use maps.
- The maximum depth of nested arrays is 5.
- The maximum number of nested objects is 10.