Audiences

An audience is a named list of contacts — the recipients of your broadcasts. Newsletter subscribers, customers, beta users: one audience each.

Contacts

Each contact stores:

FieldTypeDescription
emailrequiredstringThe address. Unique within an audience.
first_namestringAvailable as {{first_name}} in broadcasts.
last_namestringAvailable as {{last_name}}.
unsubscribedbooleanUnsubscribed contacts are skipped by every broadcast.

Unsubscribes are automatic

Every broadcast email carries an unsubscribe link and a List-Unsubscribe header. When a contact clicks it, their unsubscribed flag flips immediately — nothing for you to build.

Unsubscribe (per-audience, marketing) and the suppression list (account-wide, deliverability) are separate: broadcasts skip both, but suppressions also block transactional sends.

Properties, segments, and topics

Each contact can carry custom properties (key/value JSON, edited inline on the audience page) that work as {{placeholders}} in broadcast content. Segments are saved filters over an audience — by contact fields or properties.<key> — that a broadcast can target instead of the whole list; membership is evaluated at send time. Topics (managed at the bottom of the Audiences page) are preference groups: tag a broadcast with one and its unsubscribe link opts the contact out of just that topic, keeping them subscribed to everything else.