How to Share a Facebook Advertising Audience or Pixel

If you are a consultant, work for an agency or ever need to advertise for others — or are a company working with someone who manages your Facebook ads — you may run into the need for sharing a Facebook advertising audience or pixel.

As we move forward, we’ll look at this from the perspective of the consultant, agency or entity that needs access to the pixel or audience.

Let’s take a closer look…

Why Share Audiences and Pixels?

If your client is an established brand that has advertised via Facebook before, they likely have the Facebook pixel on their website. They also likely have audiences that they have used before that have proven to be successful.

As a new advertiser working with this client, you can start from scratch with a new audience or leverage what was created before. Starting from scratch for a Website Custom Audience would mean adding a new pixel to the site, which is messy and won’t go back in time.

At this point, the client could add you to their ad account. However, that would likely give you access to things they don’t want you to access — like prior advertising, other pages and financial information.

Or they could add you to their Business Manager to simply grant you access to a specific audience or pixel. Let’s do that!

Add an Ad Account to Business Manager

Hopefully, that client is already using Business Manager. If not, this will be required to do what we’re going to do today. Have them set up a new Business Manager account by going here.

Now, they can go to their Business Manager Settings.

Go to Ad Accounts under People and Assets.

Click the blue button at the far right to “Add New Ad Accounts.”

They’ll want to claim an ad account or request access to an ad account.

They’d only claim an ad account if that account is associated with their business — they own it.

But in this case, they’ll likely want to request access to your ad account. After selecting to request access, they’ll need to enter in your ad account ID.

Share the Facebook Pixel

Now that your ad account has been added to Business Manager, it’s time to share the pixel.

Your client should go to “Pixels” under People and Assets.

Select the pixel on the left and click to “Assign Ad Accounts.”

Select the ad account(s) to assign this pixel to…

Now you and those who manage that ad account can go to the Pixels page in Business Manager…

And you will see all pixels that you can access. There will be a column highlighting the shared pixel(s).

You will now be able to create an audience or conversion off of that pixel or set up that pixel (you should probably do that first).

Share an Audience

Maybe instead of sharing the pixel, you want to share an established audience. That’s pretty easy to do, assuming your ad account was added to the client’s Business Manager.

Within “Audiences,” your client should select the audience or audiences they want to share, and click “Actions.” Then select “Share.”

They will need to select your ad account (entered into Business Manager earlier) to grant access to that audience.

They can allow access to both targeting and insights or targeting only.

Now when looking at audiences from your ad account, you will see the shared audience — and a column indicating where it was shared from.

Your Turn

Any questions about sharing audiences or pixels? Let me know in the comments below!

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