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Lookalike audience

A lookalike audience is a platform-built audience of users statistically similar to a source list you provide — typically your customers or highest-value converters.

— In practice

Lookalike quality is inherited from seed quality: a seed of your top-quartile customers by margin produces a very different audience than a seed of everyone who ever bought. Garbage seeds produce confident garbage.

Their role has shrunk as Meta’s broad targeting improved — Advantage+ often matches or beats manual lookalikes — but high-quality seeds still matter because the same customer lists now feed the delivery system’s optimization directly.

— What we learn

Knowing what Lookalike audience means isn’t the edge.

Knowing what it’s doing to live accounts right now is. Operator notes from $200M+ in managed spend — sent when we find something worth your time.

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