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Targeted advertising

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Targeted Advertising
Targeted advertising is a way to show ads not to everyone, but only to those who are most likely to buy your product. The system analyzes the interests, behavior, position and geolocation of users to show ads precisely on target.

What is targeted advertising?

Unlike a billboard on the street that everyone can see, a targeted ad (such as on Facebook or Instagram) is only shown to a select audience.

The main targeting criteria: • Demographics - age, gender, marital status • Geography - country, city or specific district (radius 2 km from your cafe) • Interests - what a person is interested in (fitness, IT, investments) • Behavior - which sites are visited, from which devices are accessed • Position (B2B) - on LinkedIn, you can target only CEOs or HR directors

Thanks to this, you do not spend your budget on people who objectively do not need your product.

How does targeting work?

Advertising platforms (Meta, LinkedIn, Google) collect huge amounts of data about users: what they like, where they go, what they buy. The advertiser sets a portrait of the ideal client, creates a creative, and the algorithm finds these people in social networks.

Options for use

01Local business

A beauty salon advertises to women aged 25–40 who live within a 3 km radius.

02Retargeting

Showing ads to people who put a product in their cart but didn't buy it. Returns up to 30% of "lost" customers.

03B2B

Logistics SaaS advertising is shown exclusively to the operations directors of logistics companies (via LinkedIn).

04Lookalike audience

You download the database of your best customers, and the system finds a million people who are as similar as possible to them.

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For B2C (clothing, services) - definitely Meta (Facebook/Instagram). For B2B with a high check - LinkedIn.

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