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As a Groups administrator, you can create a target audience to help users share items with appropriate departments, teams, or groups.
After you create a target audience, you can add members and apply it to a Google service, such as Google Drive, to make it available in users' sharing settings.
Before you begin
For tips on creating target audiences, see Best practices for deploying target audiences .
Create target audiences
- Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.
If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.
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Go to Menu Directory > Target audiences .
Requires having the Groups administrator privilege .
- Click Create target audience.
- Under Name, enter a name for the target audience that helps users understand who's a member (40 characters maximum).
- (Optional) Under Description, enter a description that helps users understand the purpose of the target audience (150 characters maximum). The description appears when a user points their cursor to the target audience in their sharing settings.
- Click Create.
- (Optional) To add members (groups or users) to the target audience, click Add members. For details and recommendations for adding members, go to Add or remove target audience members
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You can also complete this step later.
Important:Because a new target audience doesn't have any members, make sure you add them before applying the audience to a Google service.
- (Optional; requires the Service Settings administrator privilege
) To apply the target audience to a Google service, click Apply to Google services,and choose the service. For details, go to Set target audiences for a Google service
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You can also complete this step later.
- (Optional) To create more target audiences, click Create another.
- (Optional) If you don't want to add members or apply the target audience to a Google service now, click Done.
Next steps
Add or remove target audience members
