# `bird audiences update`

## Usage

```bash
bird audiences update <audience-id> [flags]
```

## Description

Update an audience's name or description.

Only the fields you pass change; pass --name, --description, or both.

Build the request from flags, a JSON AudienceUpdateRequest body via --body-file ("-" reads
stdin), or both — a flag 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 update --example

# the body it prints:
```

```json
{
  "name": "Newsletter subscribers"
}
```

```bash
# rename an audience
bird email audiences update aud_123 --name "VIP customers"
```

## Options

#### Audience

| Name            | Description      |
| --------------- | ---------------- |
| `--name`        | New display name |
| `--description` | New description  |

#### 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 create`](/docs/cli/reference/audiences-create)                   | Create an 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. |