Location targeting helps you get your ad in front of people in a specific geographic location. You can target by country, region, metro area, postal code, or designated market area (DMA). We recommend choosing targeting locations based on places where your customers live and where your business can serve them.

Note: The default location used in Ads Manager is your business' country. For example, US businesses will default to targeting people located in the United States.

If you’re interested in targeting specific locations based on media markets, you can use DMA or designated market area targeting. This type of targeting is only available in the US and UK. In the US, there are 210 metros mapped to Nielsen’s DMA definition. In the UK, there are 15 ITV metros mapped to ITV’s definition of regional broadcasting locations.

If you’d like to add DMA targeting, select Pick specific locations under Locations. Then click Countries, regions and metros. Click  the caret right icon   next to either U.S. or United Kingdom, then click  the caret right icon next to Metros to select the metros you want to target.

Once you launch your campaign, we’ll review it to make sure it follows our Advertising guidelines. The campaign review process can take up to 24 hours.

If your campaign targeting goes against our advertising guidelines, we’ll send you a notification in Ads Manager letting you know what needs to change so that your ad can be reviewed again for approval. Once approved, we’ll start distributing your ad.

If you want to set up multiple different kinds of targeting on Pinterest or edit current campaign targeting, you can learn more in our targeting overview article.