---
title: "Create an Audience"
slug: "create-an-audience"
updated: 2026-11-04T14:35:36Z
published: 2026-11-04T14:35:36Z
canonical: "docs.thrivelearning.com/create-an-audience"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.thrivelearning.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create an Audience

An Audience is a group of users within a Structure, used to target content, assignments, and other features at exactly the people who need them. **You can create as many Audiences as you need in a Structure**, each with its own membership.

> [!NOTE]
> Note:
> 
> An Audience always belongs to a Structure, so make sure you have the right one to create it in – see [Create a Structure and an Audience](/v1/docs/create-a-structure) if you haven’t set one up yet.

## Create Audience

1. In the Thrive menu, go to **Manage** > **Structures & Audiences**.
2. On the **All structures** table, click the Structure you want to create an Audience in.
3. On the **Audiences** tab, click **+ Create audience**.

The **Create audience** screen appears, where you’ll enter the Audience’s details across the sections below.

### Audience Details

In **Audience details**, enter an **Audience name**.

### Content Visibility and Sharing

In **Content visibility & sharing**:

1. Choose who can share content with this Audience:
  - **Everyone**: Any user can share content with the Audience.
  - **Admins**: Only Super Admins and Learning Admins can share content with the Audience. An Audience manager who isn’t a Super Admin or Learning Admin can’t share content here if this is selected.
  - **Only members**: Only users who are members of the Audience can share content with it. Admin users who aren’t members can still share with it regardless.
2. Choose a **Default content privacy** for this Audience – **Public** or **Private**. This is how new content’s privacy is set when it’s shared with the Audience as part of creating that content.

### Audience Type

In **Audience Type**, choose how members are added to the Audience:

- **Manual Audience**: Manually add members yourself – see [Manual Audience](/v1/docs/manual-audiences) for details.
- **Smart Audience**: Members are dynamically added based on rules you define – see [Smart Audience](/v1/docs/smart-audiences) for details.

### Review Audience

1. When you’re ready, scroll back to the top of the screen and click **Review audience** to check the details.
2. Click **Create audience** to confirm.

Your Audience is created and added to the Structure.