Create an Actalike (lookalike) audience via the Pinterest Ads API from a seed customer list or Pinterest Tag event source
domain: developers.pinterest.com/docs · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Set up the Pinterest Tag on the advertiser's site (for an event-based seed) or prepare/post a hashed customer list (for a list-based seed)
Create the seed audience by POSTing to /v5/ad_accounts/{ad_account_id}/audiences with audience_type CUSTOMER_LIST or VISITOR and the relevant rule fields (customer_list_id, or visitor_source_id/ingestion_source/event)
Create the Actalike audience with a second POST to the same audiences endpoint, setting audience_type to ACTALIKE and rule.seed_id to the seed audience's id, plus country and percentage
Poll GET /v5/ad_accounts/{ad_account_id}/audiences/{audience_id} until status is READY before targeting it
Reference the resulting audience id via the AUDIENCE_INCLUDE parameter in an ad group's targeting spec
Known gotchas
Audiences typically take up to 48 hours (occasionally 72) to reach READY status — a status of TOO_SMALL means it doesn't meet the 100-member minimum and can't be targeted
Creating an audience requires an OAuth token with both ads:write and ads:read scopes
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