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Campaigns built on quality audience data work harder, driving better results.
How do you bridge the gap between media planning and reaching the right audience?
Well, it’s not just about the channels. It’s about building attitudinal and behavioral audience segments and targeting the exact consumers you’ve defined with industry-leading intelligence. Connecting panel data to pioneering technology, only YouGov's targeted advertising tools allow you to create lookalike audiences, refine ad targeting, and activate campaigns that reach and resonate with the right people.
The result? Tailored marketing experiences delivered to target audience segments across media channels – at scale and without losing granularity.
Audience activation for elevated outcomes
Imagine your perfect campaign audience – and then connect with them. Any audience created with YouGov panel or shopping basket data can be turned into a real-life addressable audience for ad targeting.
Remove doubt: deliver the right message at the right moment
Don't waste time with multiple providers. Create any audience using YouGov’s syndicated data or your custom research, and activate instantly. We’ll build a scaled model of your seed audience and push them to your buying platform.
Connection that speeds up conversion
Execute campaigns that truly resonate. With audience activation using YouGov's unrivalled breadth and depth of data, you can precisely reach segments defined by purchase behavior, lifestyle, demographics, life stage, attitudes and much more.
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Audience activation case studies
Take a look at our success stories and discover the amazing things clients have accomplished with highly targeted advertising campaigns.
“The affluential segmentation that we were able to build out using YouGov’s solution gave us a unique way to reach those in the best position to donate... It is now an integral part of our always-on outreach programme across display & continues to deliver extremely an strong ROAS for our client.”
Michael Loizou, Business Director, OMD
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Audience activation FAQs
What platforms can I activate my audience via?
Common platforms include, but are not limited to: Google DV360, The Trade Desk, Adform, Adition, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, PubMatic, Amazon, and Nexxon, as well as various CTV platforms.
What markets is audience activation available in?
Audience activation based on opinion data is available in: US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and Thailand.
Audience activation based on purchase data is available in Germany, Italy, Poland, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
How does audience activation work in the YouGov platform?
When you click the ‘activate’ button, we’ll confirm your audience, then we’ll send a seed audience to an activation partner who connects it to their own data and extends this audience via lookalike modelling. This is then pushed to the relevant buying platform where you want to start buying audiences as part of your ad campaign.
How long does it take to create custom audiences?
It takes one to two weeks from the audience request for you to see your new addressable audience in the buying platform.
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Why do the top brands rely on YouGov’s targeted advertising tools? Because campaigns built on quality data work harder and drive better results.
