---
title: "Add a contact to an audience"
method: POST
path: "/audiences/{audience_id}/contacts"
tags: ["Audiences"]
---

# Add a contact to an audience

`POST /audiences/{audience_id}/contacts`

Adds an existing contact to a manual audience.

## Path parameters

- `audience_id` string, required — The audience ID to add the contact to.

## Request body

- AudienceContactParams — Params for adding an existing contact to a manual audience
  - `id` string, required — The ID of the contact to add. The contact must belong to the same account as the audience.

## Response `201`

The contact, now a member of the audience

- Contact — A contact who has consented to receive messages
  - `email` string, email — The contact's email address.
  - `first_name` string — The contact's first name.
  - `id` string, required — Unique identifier for the object.
  - `last_name` string — The contact's last name.
  - `metadata` Metadata — Set of key-value pairs that will be stored with the object.
  - `phone_number` string, phone-number, required — The contact's phone number in E.164 format.

## Other responses

- `default` — Error

---

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