[GA4] Set up an audience of repeat visitors who aren't leads

Follow these instructions to create an audience of users who have completed a purchase on your website or app in the last 7 days.

You can use this audience to exclude recent purchasers from your ad campaigns.

Before you begin

To create the audience you need to:

• Have the Editor role for the property in which you want to create the audience
• Set up a purchase or ecommerce_purchase event for your website or app, and/or have the in_app_purchase automatically collected event for your app

Create the audience

1. In In Admin , under Data display, click Audiences .
   Note: The previous link opens to the last Analytics property you accessed. You must be signed in to a Google Account to open the property. You can change the property using the property selector.  You must be a  Marketer or above  at the property level to create the audience.
2. Click New audience.
3. Under Suggested Audiences, go to Generaland select Purchasers.

   

4. Next to in_app_purchase, go to + Add parameter> Other> Event count.
5. Click the Time periodtoggle to ON.
6. Under Time periodenter 7 Daysand select Most recent time period.

   

7. Click Apply.
8. Repeat steps 4-6 for purchaseand ecommerce_purchaseso that each purchase type is limited to the last 7-day period.
9. Set the Membership durationto 7 days.

   

10. Rename your audience and change your description to something you'll find memorable. Click Save.

    

11. Your new audience appears at the top of the management table.

Use the audience in Google Ads