Audiences & Targeting: practitioner answers

Audiences and targeting control who sees your ads: keywords and match types on Search, plus audience segments such as your own data (remarketing and Customer Match), in-market, affinity and custom segments.

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Official documentation

1. Google Ads Help: About keyword matching options
2. Google Ads Help: About audience segments
3. Google Ads Help: About Customer Match
4. Google Ads Help: About your data segments
5. Google Ads Help: About Demand Gen campaigns
6. Google Ads Help: About Display ads and the Google Display Network
7. Microsoft Advertising: Microsoft Advertising Help
8. Wikipedia: Pay-per-click
9. Wikipedia: Search engine marketing