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# Add your Deal’s Audiences and Contextual Segments

### Deal's Audiences and Contextual Segment Workflow

This section guides you through the workflow for setting the Audience and Contextual Segment parameters in the Deal Portal. For the Add your Deal's Audiences and Contextual Segment field details, see the [Data Definition for Deal's Audiences and Contextual Segment](https://deal-portal-user-man.readme.io/reference/data-dictonary#add-audiences--contextual-segments-to-your-deal) section

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Follow these steps for **Add your Deal’s Audience and Contextual Segment** parameters:

#### 1. Add your Deal's Audience and Contextual Segments

* Click to expand the **Add your Deals’ Audience and Contextual Segments** section. This section allows you to target your deal setting based on EID, audience data provider and audience segment.

#### 2. EID

* From the **EID** dropdown menu for, select either the **Allow** or **Block** option. The default option is set to **Allow**.

  * When you select the **Allow** option, you permit your selected Universal ID/EID targeting to display your ads.

  * When you select the **Block** option, you restrict your selected Universal ID/EID targeting from displaying your ads.

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* From the dropdown list, click to select one or more **EID** option you want to allow or block for your ads.\
  As a result your deal will be passed downstream to DSPs only for requests that contain specific EIDs you want to target. You can select the following options:

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* After you select the **EID** option, your selected **EID**  option will be automatically added and saved to your deal.
* From the dropdown menu for **EID**, select either the **Allow** or **Block** option. The default option is set to **Allow**

  * When you select the **Allow** option, you permit your selected Universal ID/EID targeting to display your ads.

  * When you select the **Block** option, you restrict your selected Universal ID/EID targeting from displaying your ads.

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#### 3. Data Providers

* **Select Data Providers**:

  * **Data Providers**:

    * Click on the **Data Providers** dropdown to filter segments by **Audience Data Providers** or **Audience Name**.

    * Audience Data Providers include: Verve Audiences, Smaato Audiences, and 3rd Party Audiences.

    * Audience Name includes: MomentsAI, First Party Audiences, and Adelaide.

    <br />

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- Click the checkboxes next to the desired **Audience Data Providers** and **Audience Name** to include or exclude them from your deal targeting For example, the Figure below shows that multiple data providers, including Verve Audiences, Smaato Audiences, and their respective audience names, have been selected for deal targeting.

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- After  selecting your data providers and audience name, the Audience Segment table will display relevant field details such as **Description**, **ID**, **Cost**, and **Total Reach**.  
  You can further customize the view of the **Audience Segment** table by selecting additional fields from the **Column** dropdown menu.

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- Use the** Include** or **Exclude** options to specify which segments to add or remove in your deal targeting.
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* **AND Between / OR Within**:

  * The **Grouping Logic** dropdown  allows you to determine how audience segments are combined when creating audience groups.

  * From the dropdown menu, click to select either of the following options for logical grouping operations:

    * AND Between / OR Within
    * OR Between / AND Within

  * Select the **AND Between** / **OR Within** from dropdown menu when you want to target users who meet all specified conditions across different segments.

    * **AND Between**: You must meet both the **Smaato Geo Segment** for  Paris, France Museum Goers **AND** the **Verve Behavioral Audience** segment for Apparel – Men's Shoppers.
    * **OR Within**: You can be part of either the First Party Segments of Smaato or the selected Geo Segments.

  * Select the **OR Between** / **AND Within** from the dropdown menu when you want to target criteria to include any segments that meet the specified conditions.

* **Create New Group**:

  * After you set the segments, you create a Group 2 by clicking the **Create New Group** button.

  * Each new group can be set with different audience segments and targeting criteria.

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  <strong style="color: #007BFF;">📝 Note:</strong><ul><li>You can create up to 5 Groups.</li><li>Group 1 is created by default when you access this section.</li></ul></div>

#### 4. Column

* Click on the **Column** + dropdown menu to see available columns that can be displayed in the **Audience Segment** table. The Segment and Action columns are selected by default and cannot be unselected.

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* Mark or unmark the following fields to customize the view of the field details in the **Audience Segment** table. The figure below shows that selecting all columns will display all field details in the **Audience Segment** table, including columns, such as **Description**, **ID**, **Cost**, **Total Reach**, **Reach Device**, **Reach IP**, **Reach URL**, **Geo,** and **Last Refresh**.

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<ul>
  <li>
    <strong>Search Criteria:</strong>
    <ul>
      <li>You can search for a specific segment record in the <b>Audience Segment</b> table using the following criteria:
        <ul><li>
          <strong>Data Provider</strong>:  Search for segment record details by providing the Data Provider name in the Search bar. For example: Verve, Smaato, 3rd Party Audience, etc.
        </li></ul>
        <ul><li>
          <strong>Audience Name</strong>: Search for segment record details by providing the Audience Name in the Search bar. For example: Behavioral Audiences,  Customer Audiences, MomentsAI, First Party Audiences, or Adelaide.
        </li></ul>
        <ul><li>
          <strong>Segment Name</strong>: Search for segment record details by providing the segment name in the Search bar. For example, Mobile Carrier AT&T, Mobile Carrier Verizon, Mobile Carrier T-Mobile.</li></ul>

<ul><li><strong>Segment ID</strong>: Search for segment record details by providing the Segment ID in the Search bar. For example: 5003, 5004, 5005.</li></ul></li></ul>

<ul><li>Type the <b>Audience Name</b> or <b>Segment Name</b> in the <b>Search by Name </b>field. The <b>Audience Segment</b> table will dynamically update to display only the name and segment name that match your search criteria.</li></ul></li></ul>

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#### 5. Audience Segment Table

  <uL><li>When you click <b>Include</b>, the selected audience segment is actively targeted within your deal. This means your ads will be shown to users who belong to the selected audience segment.  For example, the Figure below selecting Include for <b>Smaato Audience</b> <b>></b><b>Geo Segment</b> <b>> </b><b>Smaato GeoSegment – Paris, France Museum Goers</b> ensures your ads will be displayed to users in Paris, France who are part of the Museum Goers segment.</li></ul>

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<ul><li>When you click <b>Exclude</b>, the selected audience segment is excluded from the deal target within the deal. For example, the Figure below selecting <b>Exclude</b> for the <b>Verve Audiences</b><b> ></b> <b>Behavioral Audiences</b> <b>> </b><b>Income_Below_35k segment</b> ensures your ads will not be shown to users whose income is below 35k, even if they meet other targeting criteria.</li></ul>

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#### 6. Targeting Summary

<ul>

<li>

After setting your audience segments, navigate to the <b>Targeting Summary</b> section available on the right side of the Targeting section

</li>

</ul>

<ul>
<li>The <b>Targeting Summary</b> displays details about the currently selected group. For example, </b>Group 1 </b> and  <b>Group 2 </b>. It includes the audience segments that have been included in each group's selection, such as :

</li>

<ul>
<li>Group 1 selection: Verve Audiences > Behavioral Audiences > Apparel - Mens Shoppers (1136)</li>

<li>Group 2 selection: Smaato Audiences > Geo Segments > Smaato Geo Segment - NYC, NY Museum Goers.</li>

</ul>

Using **AND Between**  indicates the deal will target users who are both men's apparel shoppers and museum goers in NYC, US.

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<ul><li>Click the <b>Remove X </b> button to  remove the segment name from the group.</li></ul>

#### 7. Target Summary Overview

<ul>
<li><b>Total</b>:</li>

<ul><li>Displays the total number of groups and data providers in the <b>Summary</b> section.</li>

<li><b>Total Groups</b>: Indicates the groups you have created (for example., Total Groups: 2) in audience segment.</li>

<li><b>Total Data Providers:</b> Displays the number of data providers included in your audience targeting (for example, Data Providers: 2).</li></ul>

</ul>

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<li><b>Total Audience Segments</b>:</li>

<ul><li>Displays the total audience segments for each group listed along with their associated CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) range.</li></ul>

<ul><li>In summary, the pricing for the segments within each group is uniform, with **Group 1** targeting audiences at $1.00 CPM and **Group 2** at $2.50 CPM.</li></ul></ul>

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<ul><li><b>Logic</b>:</li>
<ul><li>AND Between Group / OR Within Group: Indicates how the segments are combined when targeting for deal.</ul></li>

</ul>

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<ul><li><b>Total Cost</b> :

<ul><li>Displays the total cost for targeting both Group 1 and Group 2 and the sum of the individual CPM (Cost Per Thousand Impressions) values.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Based on information provided in Figure:</li>

<ul><li><b>Group 1 </b> has a CPM of <b>$1.00</b>. </li></ul>

<ul><li><b>Group 2</b> has a CPM of <b>$2.50</b>.</li></ul>

<ul><li>The total cost per thousand impressions (CPM) for both groups combined is: 1.00 (Group 1 CPM)+2.50 (Group 2 CPM)=3.50</li></ul>

<ul><li>You will pay $3.50 for every 1,000 impressions served to the combined audience from both groups.</li></ul>

</li>

</ul>

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#### 8. Update Audience

* Click the **Update Audience** button to update the audience segment to the targeting setting.