---
title: "Delete audience"
method: POST
path: "/v1/audiences/{audience_id}/delete"
tags: ["Audiences"]
---

# Delete audience

`POST /v1/audiences/{audience_id}/delete`

Hard-deletes the audience. Unlike `DELETE /v1/audiences/{audience_id}` (which archives and is reversible), a deleted audience cannot be recovered. Fails with the same association errors as archive: the audience must be detached from any campaign-controller membership trigger, create- or remove-membership controller action, or campaign component variable before deletion can succeed.

## Path parameters

- `audience_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Deleted audience.

- AudienceResponse — Stored audience definition. Fields `name` and `enabled` are unevaluated and appear in buildtime-evaluatable form.
  - `component_ids` string[], required
  - `component_references` ComponentReferenceResponse[], required
    - `component_id` string
    - `socket_names` string[]
  - `enabled` union, required — Whether the audience is currently evaluated at runtime.
    - boolean — Literal enabled
    - string — Handlebars expression with [AudienceBuildtimeContext](https://github.com/extole/extole-specification/blob/main/openapi/expression-context/com/extole/api/audience/AudienceBuildtimeContext.d.ts).
    - string — Javascript expression with [AudienceBuildtimeContext](https://github.com/extole/extole-specification/blob/main/openapi/expression-context/com/extole/api/audience/AudienceBuildtimeContext.d.ts).
  - `id` string, required — Stable Extole identifier for the audience.
  - `name` union, required — Display name for the audience, in the same buildtime-evaluatable form that was supplied on create or update.
    - string — Handlebars expression with [AudienceBuildtimeContext](https://github.com/extole/extole-specification/blob/main/openapi/expression-context/com/extole/api/audience/AudienceBuildtimeContext.d.ts).
    - string — Javascript expression with [AudienceBuildtimeContext](https://github.com/extole/extole-specification/blob/main/openapi/expression-context/com/extole/api/audience/AudienceBuildtimeContext.d.ts).
  - `tags` string[], required — Free-form tags applied to the audience.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad request. The named examples below cover the most common reasons an audience cannot be archived, deleted, or unarchived: it is still referenced by a campaign-controller membership trigger, by a create-/remove-membership controller action, or by a campaign component variable. The audience must be detached from those references before the lifecycle operation can succeed. The full set of association codes is auto-derived; inspect the response `code` field for the specific error.
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `402` — Payment Required
- `403` — Forbidden
- `415` — Unsupported Media Type
- `429` — Too Many Requests

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