# audience

Audience is an effective targeting option that lets you intersect different segment attributes, such as detailed demographics and affinities, to create audiences that represent sections of your target segments.

| Attributed resources |
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| [customer](https://developers.google.com/search-ads/reporting/api/reference/fields/v0/customer) |

Fields from the above resources may be selected along with this
resource in your SELECT and WHERE clauses. These fields **will not segment**
metrics in your `SELECT` clause.

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| | ## audience.description || |---|---| | Field description | Description of this audience. | | Category | `ATTRIBUTE` | | Data Type | `STRING` | | Type URL | `N/A` | | Filterable | True | | Selectable | True | | Sortable | True | | Repeated | False | |
| | ## audience.id || |---|---| | Field description | ID of the audience. | | Category | `ATTRIBUTE` | | Data Type | `INT64` | | Type URL | `N/A` | | Filterable | True | | Selectable | True | | Sortable | True | | Repeated | False | |
| | ## audience.name || |---|---| | Field description | Required. Name of the audience. It should be unique across all audiences. It must have a minimum length of 1 and maximum length of 255. | | Category | `ATTRIBUTE` | | Data Type | `STRING` | | Type URL | `N/A` | | Filterable | True | | Selectable | True | | Sortable | True | | Repeated | False | |
| | ## audience.resource_name || |---|---| | Field description | The resource name of the audience. Audience names have the form: `customers/{customer_id}/audiences/{audience_id}` | | Category | `ATTRIBUTE` | | Data Type | `RESOURCE_NAME` | | Type URL | `N/A` | | Filterable | True | | Selectable | True | | Sortable | False | | Repeated | False | |