# `bird audiences create`

## Usage

```bash
bird audiences create <name> [flags]
```

## Description

Create an audience.

New audiences start empty. Add contacts with "bird email audiences add-contacts"
or the bulk "bird email contacts batch". --type defaults to static; dynamic and
external are preview values and are currently rejected.

Build the request from the &lt;name> argument and flags, a JSON AudienceCreateRequest body via
--body-file ("-" reads stdin), or both — an inline value overrides the matching
body field. Run --example to print a ready-to-edit body, or --dry-run to print
the resolved request without sending it.

## Examples

```bash
# print the body shape (no credentials needed)
bird audiences create --example

# the body it prints:
```

```json
{
  "description": "Contacts who opted into the monthly product newsletter",
  "name": "Newsletter subscribers"
}
```

```bash
# create a static audience
bird email audiences create "VIP customers"

# preview the request without creating
bird email audiences create "VIP customers" --dry-run
```

## Options

#### Audience

| Name            | Description                                                                               |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--description` | Longer description of who this audience is                                                |
| `--type`        | Audience type: static (dynamic and external are preview and unavailable) (default static) |

#### Request

| Name                | Description                                                  |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `--body-file`       | Read the JSON request body from this file; "-" reads stdin   |
| `--example`         | Print a complete example request body, then exit             |
| `--dry-run`         | Print the resolved request without sending it, then exit     |
| `--idempotency-key` | Deduplication key; a retry with the same key won't act twice |

#### Options

| Name                | Description                                      |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| `--response-schema` | Print the fields this command returns, then exit |

## Related

| Name                                                                              | Description                               |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| [`bird audiences add-contacts`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-add-contacts)       | Add contacts to a static audience.        |
| [`bird audiences delete`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-delete)                   | Delete an audience                        |
| [`bird audiences get`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-get)                         | Get an audience                           |
| [`bird audiences list`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-list)                       | List audiences                            |
| [`bird audiences list-contacts`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-list-contacts)     | List an audience's contacts               |
| [`bird audiences remove-contact`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-remove-contact)   | Remove a contact from an audience         |
| [`bird audiences remove-contacts`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-remove-contacts) | Remove contacts from a static audience.   |
| [`bird audiences update`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-update)                   | Update an audience's name or description. |