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title: Audiencestream tutorial
description: This guide introduces you to Tealium AudienceStream, the application interface and the fundamental concepts of a customer data platform (CDP).
url: https://docs.tealium.com/server-side/getting-started/audiencestream-cdp/tutorial/
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Step through this guide to learn how to quickly set up a working CDP with visit and visitor attributes, a dynamic audience, and a vendor connector. You can then see it in action using live data from your site or application.

## Requirements

What you'll need to complete this guide:

* Tealium server-side login credentials
* An existing Tealium EventStream account
* An activated AudienceStream account
* A vendor that offers a server-side API (Optional)

## What is Tealium AudienceStream?

![](https://docs.tealium.com/images/tutorials/audiencestream-customer-evolution.jpg)

Tealium AudienceStream is a customer data platform (CDP) that offers identity resolution, data enrichment capabilities, and robust audience management. It's used to create visitor profiles, representing your most valuable first-party data, which are segmented by shared behaviors to create audiences that fuel your marketing technology stack in real-time through connectors.

Tealium AudienceStream offers the following benefits:

* Visitor stitching technology creates a unified view of the customer profile to help you deliver a consistent and relevant customer experience.
* API integrations with your vendors to trigger actions based on real-time customer data signals.

Use Tealium AudienceStream to manage visitor attributes, define an identity resolution strategy, create visitor segments, and configure connector integrations, using the following features:

## Explore the User Interface

Go to <https://my.tealiumiq.com/> and log in to Tealium to explore the interface.

AudienceStream is organized into the following areas:

* **Dashboard** - An overview of visitor, audience, and badge activity.

* **Discover** - Discover live and historical segments of your visitors by exploring their attributes.

* **Attributes (Visit/Visitor)** - Manage visit/visitor attributes, the building blocks of your AudienceStream configuration, that describe your customers and their activity.

* **Audiences** - Build audiences, a collection of visitor profiles that share a set of attributes that trigger real-time actions to your vendors.

* **Connectors** - Manage the vendor integrations at the core of the AudienceStream CDP. These server-side actions will trigger vendor APIs using the visitor data mappings that you configure.

Click **Next** to learn about attributes.