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Journeys 2.0

Journeys 2.0 is a new way of creating and working with your customer segments that provides greater flexibility and control in how you target high-value users. By giving you the ability to create and easily visualize nested customer segments, Journeys 2.0 lets you easily hone in on the users that matter most to your business.

Opting in / out

To opt in to Journeys 2.0, navigate to either Audiences > Journeys or Audiences > Real-time, and hover over the text “LEGACY EXPERIENCE” next to the top breadcrumb navigation. Then, click “Try the New Experience” in the modal that appears upon hover:

Journeys 2.0 opt-in modal

Once opted in to Journeys 2.0, you can revert to the legacy Audiences experience at any time by hovering over “NEW AUDIENCES EXPERIENCES” in the top navigation and clicking “Revert to Legacy Experience”:

Journeys 2.0 opt-in modal

Journeys landing page

After opting in, the Audiences > Journeys section of the UI will display a table that includes every Audience and Journey you have created, sorted by Last Updated by default.

Journeys 2.0 opt-in modal

The Journeys 2.0 landing page represents two main types of customer segments:

  • Single-step Journeys Rows with a Total Audiences value of 1 represent both single-step Journeys that you have created in the past, as well as legacy Real-time Audiences that have been migrated here as single-step Journeys.
  • Multi-step Journeys Rows with a Total Audiences value greater than 1 are multi-step Journeys, which are represented in this view as nested Audiences. Click on the ”+” icon next to the name of a multi-step Journey to expand it to expose the individual milestones (or Audiences) the Journey contains. Clicking any of the nested Audiences will bring you to the Journeys canvas, where you can update this or any Audience contained within the Journey.

Audiences vs. Milestones

Functionally, a Milestone and an audience are the same. Both represent a targeted segment of customers that you can forward to integration partners, run A/B splits on, and otherwise leverage in campaigns. Their only difference is how you create them in mParticle:

  • A Milestone is an individual step within a journey that you have defined to capture a meaningful moment in the customer lifecycle (i.e. a free trial signup, an email interaction, or an ad click). Each Milestone creates an audience of customers who fit the criteria you have set for it.
  • An audience is a customer segment that you have created.

Update an existing Journey / Audience

To update a journey (either single- or multi-step), expand it by clicking the ”+” icon to the left of its name, then click on one of the milestones nested beneath it. This will display the Milestone editor within the Journey canvas, where you can update the inclusion criteria for this particular Audience:

Journeys 2.0 opt-in modal

Closing the Milestone editor will display the full Journey canvas, which you can use to add additional Journeys features like new paths, additional milestones, and A/B tests.

Journeys 2.0 opt-in modal

Edit Journey Inputs

At any time after a Journey has been created, you can edit that Journey’s data inputs. First, click on the top node in the Journey which has the heading “Journey Inputs”:

Top Journey node

Next, add or remove inputs as you see fit, then click Update.

Edit Journey inputs

Create a new Journey

The Journeys canvas provides a flexible and powerful tool for creating targeted customer segments. Let’s look at two of the main ways you can use Journeys to create audiences:

Single-Milestone Audiences

As mentioned above, creating a Milestone within a Journey is functionally equivalent to a creating a Real-time Audience. By using the selection criteria and logical operators within a Milestone, you can create highly targeted customer segments for your campaigns. Let’s explore how to do this.

At the Journeys landing page (Audiences > Journeys), click the New Journey button in the top right-hand corner of the screen.

Create a new Journey

At the Create Journey modal, name your Journey, select your inputs, and click Create.

In the Journey canvas, click the ”+” icon followed by the Milestone option to create your first (and only) Milestone in the Journey.

Add your first Milestone

Choose your audience environment

For each audience you create, you can select the environment(s) from which you want users in that audience to come from (Production, Development, or both).

Choose an environment for your audience

Considerations for selecting an audience environment

  • Test data in Development may overwrite Production data in partner systems. If you send dummy or anonymized data to your Development environment, you should select the Production environment for any audiences you forward to partners to prevent unwanted overwriting. For example, you send test customer profiles to Development environment with real customer IDs but anonymized emails for privacy purposes, the anonymized emails can overwrite real ones in any system you forward them to.
  • Parent and child audience environment should align. If a parent audience pulls its members from Development and its child pulls its members from Production, the child audience will be empty (and vice versa).

In the example below, Wait list Subscribers (child) and Interested and Engaged (parent) both use the Development environment, which is why the child audience has been populated with users. The other child audiences (Lapsed Subscribers and Abandoned Cart Subscribers) both use the Production environment which conflicts with their parent’s environment, and therefore have no users. Aligned audience environment

Combine criteria with Boolean operators

In the Milestone editor, you can begin adding criteria to target the users you want in your audience. Once you have added your first criterion, you can use the Boolean operators And, Or, and Exclude to create logical relationships with subsequent criteria.

Boolean operators

Click to toggle

Continue adding and combining operators to hone in on the precise user segment that matters to your business goals. The Milestone below, for example, uses three criteria and two Boolean operators to create a segment of customers who are on iOS 10.0, have started at least three sessions within the last seven days, who are not located in New York City.

Exclude location

Nested audiences from multiple Milestones

Now let’s see another approach to using Journeys and Milestones to create targeted customer segments, which is is equivalent to creating nested audiences in the legacy Real-time Audiences experience. To explore how this works, let’s first look at a nested audience created with the legacy Real-time Audience builder as an example:

Sample nested audience in Real-time Audience builder

This customer segment uses membership in three separate Audiences––App Downloaders, Recent Users (Last 30 Days), and Engaged with Ad––as its membership criteria (which is what makes it a “nested” audience). Now, let’s see how we can recreate this segment as a Journey.

First, create a new Journey, then click the ”+” icon under the top (and only) node in your Journey to create a new Milestone. For this Milestone, set membership in the first audience from your nested audience (App Downloaders) as the sole inclusion criteria:

Set first Milestone

Now, create two more Milestones for the remaining two audiences in the original nested audience:

Complete Milestones

This Journey is now effectively the same customer segment as the nested audience created with the legacy Real-time Audience builder, with the added advantages of being able to add A/B Tests, new paths, and partner integrations at each individual Milestone (or nested audience), and the ability to visualize each Milestone that comprises the segment in one place.

Activate a Milestone in a campaign

Once you have created a Milestone that you want to forward to an external tool for use in a campaign, click the Connect Output button in the Audience tile under the Milestone in your Journey, then follow the steps to connect that audience to any of your connected outputs.

Complete Milestones

Selective User Attribute forwarding

You can optionally include additional User Attributes, beyond identities, when forwarding to each Audience output. This enables you to use richer data in your activation platform, such as LTV, lead score or propensity to convert. In the last step of the process to connect an output, select which account and workspace level attributes you would like to forward to that particular tool:

User Attribute forwarding

Organize journeys / audiences with Tags

As you continue to use create new audiences, you can use tags to keep them organized and allow team members to easily see the purpose of each audience at a glance. For example, you can use tags to group your audiences by campaign type, giving them names like retargeting, lead gen, and product launch.

Create a new tag

  • Navigate to the Journeys homepage.
  • Click the + icon next to the name of a Journey to expose its milestones.
  • Click the Tags icon in the row for that milestone.
  • Enter the name of your new tag in the text bar. Note: Tags have an 18 character limit.

Create a new tag for a milestone

To apply your tag, click the name of the new tag below the text bar. To add additional tags, select name of the tag(s) that has already been applied, open the dropdown menu, and click the additional tags you would like to add.

Search milestones by tag name

Tag names can be used as search queries to return all audiences that have that particular tag applied.

Share Audiences within Journeys between accounts

You can share Audiences within Journeys between your organization’s accounts, with detailed control over what data is shared. Share data broadly or restrict it to only what’s needed for a campaign. This feature does not affect data shared with third-party tools.

Adjust sharing settings

  • At the Journey’s homepage, open the Actions menu for the Audience you wish to share.
  • Select Share to open the sharing modal.

Audience sharing modal

In the modal, view accounts the audience is shared with and their sharing permissions. There are four sharing permission levels:

Permission Levels | Level | Access Details | | --------- | -------- | | Owner | Full access to the audience, including editing, audience updates, and connecting outputs. Admins can set permissions. | | Private | The audience is invisible to the receiving account. | | View only | Visible to the receiving account but cannot connect to outputs. | | Usable | Visible to the receiving account and can connect to outputs. Audience definition cannot be edited. |

Share audience with new account

  • In the sharing modal, select the + icon.
  • Choose the account and the desired permission settings.

View shared audiences

To view audiences that have been shared with an account, navigate to Segmentation, then select Shared Audiences in the left-hand navigation.

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    Last Updated: January 23, 2025