Microsoft Monetize - Demography targeting

Note

If you are advertising in connection with any financial, insurance, education, career and employment, and/or housing services, you may not use individuals’ demographics for the purpose of personalizing advertising, segmenting, or profiling customers.

Note

This feature is currently available for selected clients only. If you want this feature to be enabled, please reach out to your Microsoft Advertising Account Manager.

Occasionally, publishers pass the age or gender of users in the query string of their ad calls. In these cases, you can target users based on this information.

Warning

User age and gender are passed for a small portion of impressions. Targeting specific age groups and/or genders will drastically limit reach.

  1. In the Demographics section in the Audience & Location Targeting section of the augmented line item, click the pencil icon next to Demographics. (For a standard line item or campaign, this setting is located in the Targeting settings.)
  2. By default, any age or gender is targeted. For Age, you can narrow your targeting to only specific preset age ranges, or you can define custom age ranges.
  3. For Gender, you can narrow your targeting to one gender or the other.

Tip

If you target specific ages or a specific gender, you should consider selecting Allow unknown age or Allow unknown gender as well to avoid severely restricting reach.