Microsoft Ads Connection
What you can do
- Customer Match — upload your first-party user lists to Microsoft Advertising for remarketing and targeting on Bing Search, the Microsoft Audience Network, and partner sites.
Prerequisites
- A Microsoft Advertising account (formerly Bing Ads).
- A Microsoft account with access to the target advertising account.
Setup
- Navigate to Connections and click New Connection.
- Select Microsoft Ads as the connection type.
- Click Authenticate with Microsoft — you will be redirected to Microsoft's login page. Grant the required permissions.
- After authentication, select the target advertising account.
- Give the connection a name.
- Click Save.
The connection status will show Active once authentication succeeds.
Supported export types
| Export type | Used with | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Match | Audiences | Upload hashed user identifiers to Microsoft Advertising audience lists. |
Reconnecting
If the connection shows Error status (e.g., because the OAuth token expired), open the connection and re-authenticate via Microsoft. All audiences using this connection will resume automatically on the next scheduled run.