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Audience signals can be assigned to individual creatives

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IN BRIEF

Bram Van der Hallen spotted an option to choose age and gender signals for each creative within a single ad set. Meta can still deliver beyond the selected audience when it predicts a better response, so the setting is a signal rather than a strict targeting boundary.

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For you, this means persona-specific creative can be tested without duplicating ad sets, but compliance-sensitive age or gender restrictions should continue to use hard controls.

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Audience signals can be assigned to individual creatives

Bram Van der Hallen spotted an option to choose age and gender signals for each creative within a single ad set. Meta can still deliver beyond the selected audience when it predicts a better response, so the setting is a signal rather than a strict targeting boundary. For you, this means persona-specific creative can be tested without duplicating ad sets, but compliance-sensitive age or gender restrictions should continue to use hard controls.

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