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An audience segment created based on similarities to an existing customer or target audience

Eric Gilmore

Feb 14, 2024

As a business owner, you know that targeting the right customers is crucial to the success of your marketing campaigns. But how do you find those customers? Lookalike audiences may be the answer.\r\rLookalike audiences are groups of people who share similar characteristics to your existing customers. By targeting these audiences, you can increase the likelihood of reaching people who are more likely to be interested in your products or services.\r\rSo, how do you unleash the power of lookalike audiences? Here are a few tips:\r\r1. Start with your existing customer data. Look at your customer demographics, interests, and behaviors to identify commonalities.\r\r2. Use a tool like Facebook Ads Manager to create a lookalike audience based on your existing customer data. This will help you find people who are similar to your current customers.\r\r3. Test different lookalike audiences to see which ones perform best. You can create multiple lookalike audiences based on different customer segments.\r\r4. Use lookalike audiences in your ad targeting. By targeting people who are similar to your existing customers, you can increase the effectiveness of your ads.\r\rOverall, lookalike audiences can be a powerful tool for targeting the right customers. By leveraging your existing customer data, you can find people who are more likely to be interested in your products or services and increase the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns.

Eric Gilmore

Eric Gilmore is the Founder of Creative Automatic. He started the company after spending a decade in ad tech, where he saw firsthand the performance benefits of building and testing a wide range of creative variations and how time-consuming it was to make them. Prior to starting Creative Automatic, Eric was the Lead Creative Engineer at Rocket Fuel, where he specialized in building dynamic creative optimization systems that adjusted visual compositions of ad units on the fly depending on a wide range of inputs aimed to improve campaign performance. Eric graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a Master of Fine Arts in Interactive Design and Game Development.

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