Download Audience File
Instructions how to download an audience to a local machine
For scenarios where an audience file can be uploaded to an advertising platform for activation, the Audience Builder provides a convenient method to export the audience to your local machine.
Navigate to the audience detail view and click on the Export button.
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Click the Download File button to initiate the audience export to a local file.
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The Download File button will transition to a Preparing File status.
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The file is downloaded to your local machine as CSV file with a default file name of the "audience name-YYYY-MM-DD.csv".
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Updated over 4 years ago