Chord Commerce Data Platform
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Data Insights and Activation
Audiences

Custom Audiences via LookML

4min

Overview

Chord's pre-built audiences gives brands a quick and easy way to view (and activate) a specific customer segment for marketing purposes (and more). Now, Chord allows brands to modify pre-built audience templates and send these customized audiences to a third-party tool via the data activation suite to further drive e-commerce insights and customer engagement.

Note: Chord brands are also able to create audience segments organically (without the pre-built templates) via the existing data platform through Explores. Once you create a copy of this audience (or audience "report") to your organization's shared folder, it will also appear under the Data Activations sources field. Should you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].

How to Create and Activate Custom Audiences via LookML

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  1. Once logged into the Chord data platform, navigate to the My Audiences page.
  2. Click on Browse Templates.
  3. Select a pre-built template audience that you'd like to customize.
  4. Once you select a pre-built template, you can create a new audience from this template to edit and customize however you wish.
  5. After you have made the desired changes to your audience segment, click Activate Audience.
  6. Enter the name of your newly created audience segment and click Activate to send it to Chord's Data Activations suite.

Note: At this time, our data activation integration refreshes and syncs audience lists every 3 hours. We are working on making the sync refreshes occur more frequently. Should you require immediate activation of an audience, please reach out to [email protected] for assistance.

Troubleshooting and FAQs

  • Question: I clicked "Activate Audience" after creating a customized pre-built audience and nothing happens. What did I do wrong?
    • Does your organization have access to Chord's Data Activations suite? If not, your team manager can request access to the Data Activations features and a Chord representative will be in touch shortly!
    • If you organization does have access to the Data Activations features, you will see the below Data Activations page:
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    • From here, you can follow the existing steps to create a data activations destination and will see your customized pre-built audience list in the data sources dropdown menu.
  • Question: I just created a custom segment and sent it to activations following the instructions above but don't see the audience segment I need in the activations suite. What did I do wrong?
    • Once you activate an audience segment, the activations suite is refreshed every 3 hours and will appear in due time. If you need to activate your customized audience segment right away, please reach out to [email protected] for assistance.
  • Question: Can I edit and activate a custom audience segment that has been previously activated?
    • No, you will not be able to edit a custom audience segment that has been previously activated. You will need to create new audience segments each time in order to send the customer list to the Chord data activations suite.
  • Question: What if I am not creating an audience through the Chord data platform and want to send information to a third-party app like Klaviyo or Google Sheets?
    • This is something the Chord team is working on supporting through a separate custom data activations feature. This workflow is not supported by Custom Audiences.