Google Ads Audience Planner
Google Ads audiences fall into two families — Google's data (in-market, affinity, custom segments, detailed demographics) and your own data (remarketing, Customer Match, audience expansion). Pick your objective, model and data below and get a prioritized, funnel-mapped audience stack, with targeting-vs-observation guidance and segment examples.
From the Paid Growth & Performance Media toolset.
Build your audience plan
Your recommended audience stack — conversion, Ecommerce / DTC
Point budget at ready-to-buy demand, and let optimized targeting expand to converters beyond the seed.
Recover the warmest demand you have — people who nearly converted.
Bid up known buyers on Search and expand from them on Demand Gen.
Catch people on high-purchase-intent searches like brand, pricing and "best".
Rule of thumb: on Search, add audiences in Observation so you learn and bid up without narrowing reach. On Demand Gen, Display and Video, use Targeting to prospect and Observation to broaden. Always exclude recent converters from prospecting.
Google Ads audience types, explained
People actively researching or comparing products in a category right now. The closest thing Google has to live purchase intent — lead with these for consideration and conversion.
Broad, lifestyle-based interest groups for brand-building. Wide reach, lower intent — best for awareness on YouTube and Display.
Audiences you build from keywords people searched, and URLs or apps they used. The most flexible way to reach competitor and high-intent audiences.
Longer-term life facts — parental status, homeownership, education, marital status. Useful as an observation layer to learn who responds.
Moments like moving, graduating, or starting a job that briefly change buying behavior. Powerful for timely, relevant offers.
People who visited your site, used your app, or engaged with your YouTube channel. The warmest audiences you own — essential for consideration and conversion.
Audiences built from a customer list you upload (emails, phones). Use to re-engage customers, exclude them from prospecting, and seed lookalike expansion.
Google expands beyond your selected audiences to find more converters, guided by your signals. Turn it on for conversion campaigns once your seed audiences are proven.
Let's grow.
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