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- Create new mobile audiences in Optimizely or add existing audiences to your experiments
- Target your experiment to certain types of visitors, based on a customizable list of attributes.
- Build Audience conditions using the Editor
Mobile audiences let you target your experiment or new experience to certain types of visitors, based on a customizable list of attributes. For example, you may want only visitors who are currently browsing on a iPhone in California to see your experiment, or you may want to exclude visitors who are browsing on a tablet and also visitors who are using an outdated version of your app. Visitors who match those conditions will be included or excluded from your experiment.
You can create Mobile Audiences based on the follow conditions:
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Android |
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Create a mobile audience in iOS or Android
There are two ways to create audiences: from the Audiences tab or from the Experiment Details bar.
From the Audiences tab
- Select your mobile project, then select the Audiences tab.
- Click New Audience to create a new audience. This opens the Create New Audience view.
- Drag and drop your audience conditions to determine which visitors qualify for your Experiment.
From the Experiment Details sidebar
- Select your mobile project, then select an Experiment. The sidebar labeled Experiment Details auto-populates with information about your experiment.
- To edit your audiences or create a new one, click Edit next to the Audiences field. The Experiment Audiences view appears.
Or, click Editor to open the Editor.
- Click Audiences to access the Experiment Audiences dialog.
- You can add an existing audience by clicking Add a Saved Audience. You can create a new audience by clicking Create a New Audience.
Target multiple Audiences
Optimizely lets you add multiple audiences to a single Experiment. A visitor who qualifies for any of the audiences you add is eligible to see the Experiment.
If you only want visitors who qualify for all the audiences to see the experiment, create a new audience. Define this new audience with all of the conditions from your multiple audiences. A visitor only sees this experiment if all of these conditions are met.
Custom tags
One of the most powerful features of audiences is custom tags. Custom tags allow you to target users based on attributes beyond the standard conditions defined in Optimizely.
For example, you can target users who:
- Spend over $100 in one purchase
- Use your app between 1pm and 2pm
- View a certain page
Custom Tags are implemented in your own codebase using JavaScript. To learn more about out how to implement Custom Tags, please check out the following articles or show them to your developer:
- Custom Tags on Android
- Custom Tags on iOS
Custom Tags and Activation Modes
Optimizely Experiments are activated automatically or manually. By default, Experiments are set to automatic activation mode.
- With automatic activation, the Experiment is activated when the Optimizely SDK is activated. You should make a call to
startOptimizelyWithAPIToken
when your app starts. - With manual activation, the Experiment is activated independent of the SDK. You choose when you want to activate your experiment by calling
activateManualExperiment
in your codebase.
In automatic activation mode, you can use any Custom Tags that were created prior to the current user session. In other words, custom conditions for an audience must be defined before the app starts; Custom Tags set during a session do not affect visitors in that same session.
To set and use a Custom Tag in a single session, use the manual activation model. This lets you specify a certain point in the app when you want to activate the Experiment. Any Custom Tags set before you activate the Experiment also apply.