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You have a burning question. One thing you need to know to target your ideal audience. But how do you find the answer? Simple: Ask.

It’s Black History Month. People are reflecting, celebrating, and seeking ways to support black communities - and you know you have a particularly relevant message for them right now. But before you launch a thoughtful ad campaign embracing this month’s messaging, you have to figure out who to target. If that doesn’t give you pause, this is your sign that it should. At Tunnl, we’ve enabled advertisers to get their messages in front of the right people over thousands of campaigns. And it wasn’t always the audience that advertisers expected. We’re lending the limelight to three of our prebuilt audiences with unique relevance for you this month to give you a few ideas about how to advertise compassionately now and all year long.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been building an ad campaign on Hulu, and when you get to the audience selection section, you audibly heave a “that’s it?” about the available options. The alternative is to bring over third-party audience data like Tunnl’s, but then a new issue emerges: Platform-imposed data usage fees. Most ad platforms play nice with outside audience data, but only at a cost. Essentially, whenever you want to advertise against a third-party audience, your ad platform will tack on an extra charge. Why? All that data requires resources to collect, aggregate, and store securely without any liability landing on the advertiser. We’d know; Our Tunnl audiences sit atop billions of lines of media consumption insights and survey data that need genius teams and constant diligence to maintain. But since third-party audiences allow you to spend less, get your ads in front of the right people, and maximize your ad spend ROI, are data usage fees justifiable? There are a few things you should know, including how data usage fees are calculated, who you’ll pay them to, and whether or not they’re worth the added expense. Once you nail down those details, you’ll plan your next campaign with a clearer idea of what you’ll spend using third-party audience data.

Updated July 2023 When it comes to executing successful ad campaigns, the only thing as important as messaging is data. But any old data isn’t enough; you need the right data for your public affairs campaigns. Otherwise, you're squandering your audience investment.

You want to focus your advertising efforts — and budget — on reaching only the right people for your message. This kind of laser focus on the right audience using the right data helps to increase an ad campaign’s efficiency and return on investment.

Successful advertising hinges on reaching the right people, on the right channels, with the right message. That’s why savvy marketers leverage audiences to target their messaging to reach the people most likely to care about and engage with their efforts.