Ad Audience Best Practices

Below are the best practices for adjusting your ad profile settings based on your growth goal and the metric you're trying to move.

ObjectiveRecommended SizeStrategyMeasurementWays of Thinking

Awareness / Lead-Gen

30k - 100k

*can also use this as basis for LAL

Set an objective of traffic, brand awareness, or reach.

*Note: You can try conversions or lead form fills but reach will be heavily constrained, depending on pre-exposure brand awareness and willingness to convert off a single paid media placement

Last click sign ups via UTM params

New approach to view-through CVRs: Look at sign ups CVRs from organic and direct traffic and match them back to audience membership

Saturate your audience. Ignore traditional thoughts about frequency cap.

Reset audience & rotate creative frequently to engage audience, maintain relevance and reset the algorithm.

Awareness + Outbound

10K - 50K

Set an objective of traffic or brand awareness

Export your audience and take it to Twitter, Reddit, Quora, etc.

Reach as a proxy for match rate

Last click via UTM params not conversion events as measured by ad platforms. This will constrain your reach

New approach to view-through CVRs: Look at sign ups CVRs from organic and direct traffic and match them back to audience membership

Goal: Higher CVRs in your core ICP & lower CPL

Saturate your audience. Ignore traditional thoughts about frequency cap.

Reset audience & rotate creative frequently to engage audience, maintain relevance and reset the algorithm.

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