Automatically update your custom audiences with CSV files

Usage

Remote or online CSV files can be used as:

• Audience flow source
  

Content requirements

In order to be able to use your remote or online CSV files as sources for your audience flows, you need to bear in mind that the first line of content must include the headers or field names that will be used for the mapping when adjusting your flow.

Connecting your file

Connecting your remote or online CSV file with Ads Workbench is really simple. But before creating the connection you need to gather the public URL of the file. Depending on the system you are using to store or host your CSV file you will need to proceed in a specific way to get the URL:

• Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/help/files-folders/view-only-access#link
• Google Drive: see the section “Share a file publicly” in https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2494822
• Box: you need the “Direct URL” in the Shared Link Settings as describe in https://community.box.com/t5/Using-Shared-Links/Shared-Link-Settings/ta-p/50250

Once gathered the required information, you just need to follow these steps:

• Go on the left menu  -> Integrations
• Click on the button “Create new”
• Enter a name for the integration and select “CSV file” from the Type dropdown list
• Enter the public URL of the CSV file
• Finally click on the button “Save”

Creating an audience flow

An audience flow is an automation that allows you to keep fresh your custom audiences using as an input your subscribers' or contacts' data. Once your ad account is connected and your have created the integrations for the systems where your contacts' data is stored you can create you audience flow as described in the following video:

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