Individual skill

audience-targeting

Builds and refines audience and segment targeting for paid campaigns - first-party audience construction, lookalike expansion, exclusion lists, platform sizing floors, and saturation diagnosis - and delivers a filled targeting matrix per campaign. Use when someone asks "who should I target with these ads", "why is my ad set stuck in learning", "my CPMs keep rising but conversions are flat", "should I use a 1% or 5% lookalike", or is launching a campaign, diagnosing poor reach quality, or expanding into a new customer segment. Do NOT use for auditing an entire paid program's structure and spend efficiency - use paid-acquisition-audit instead; do NOT use for defining the ideal customer profile itself - use icp-persona-builder instead; do NOT use for market segmentation strategy outside paid media - use segmentation-strategy instead.

skills/audience-targeting/SKILL.md

Read pinned source

Source commit 97a13607d669157a4a16d5ba79b77f208319f7b9

What was checked

Matches the observed repository HEAD
Yes
Scanner rules are current
No
Repository scan complete
No
Skill scan complete
No
Observed behavior
Not checked yet
Last checked
Nov 6, 2026

These are observations at the recorded commit, not a guarantee of safety. Review the source before running it.

Install this skill

Choose an agent in your Stack or copy a command below. Commands fetch the pinned commit and copy only this skill directory. Existing destinations are refused. Copying a command does not install anything.

An install command is unavailable: current rules, complete repository and skill scans, an eligible behavior level and a permitted license are required.

Repository context

Repository stars (not skill ratings)
24
Repository last updated
Oct 13, 2026
License
MIT

Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.

Files and excerpt

File metadata and permitted, redacted excerpts come from the recorded scan. Source links are pinned to that commit.

Browse files
Read excerpt

# Audience Targeting

A perfect ad shown to the wrong audience converts poorly, and the most common budget leak in paid media is not bad creative - it is unexcluded customers, oversized lookalikes, and ad sets too small to ever exit the learning phase. This skill defines who sees the ad, in what order audiences get built, and when an audience is exhausted. Targeting work begins before creative work and gets revisited monthly as audiences saturate.

## Operating procedure

### Step 1: Gather inputs

Collect before recommending any audience. Label estimates as guesses.

- Platform(s) and monthly budget per platform.
- Campaign objective: acquisition, retargeting, or retention.
- First-party assets available: CRM customer list (with LTV field if it exists), site traffic volume by page type, email engagement data.
- Target CAC or CPA, and the conversion event being optimized.
Back to top