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Understand SmartReach™

Learn how SmartReach™ turns product and audience signals into relevant audience segments

Written by STARTI AI

Overview

SmartReach™ is an intelligent audience discovery and lookalike activation solution.

It analyzes your product, who it is designed for, and the audience signals most relevant to your campaign. SmartReach™ then organizes these signals into a structured audience profile across five dimensions and more than 500 granular audience tags.

SmartReach™ uses these insights, together with your available first-party data, to identify similar audience segments within the Data Management Platform (DMP). This helps you expand beyond your existing audience while keeping audience discovery aligned with your product and campaign goal.


Why it matters

Start with the product

SmartReach™ begins by understanding your product — what it does, the needs it addresses, and who is most likely to value it.

Build a richer audience profile

Rather than relying on a single demographic or interest signal, SmartReach™ builds a broader audience view across Audience Intents, Use Cases, Audience Traits, Content Contexts, and Product Model.

Expand from your existing signals

Your first-party audience or conversion data can provide an additional foundation for audience discovery. SmartReach™ uses these signals to identify similar audiences within the DMP and support scalable campaign growth.

Keep discovery aligned with your campaign goal

SmartReach™ considers your campaign goal when prioritizing audience signals, helping keep the audiences it discovers relevant to the outcome you want to drive.

Reduce manual audience research

SmartReach™ reduces the manual work of translating product information and campaign strategy into actionable audience segments.


Five Dimensions of Audience Intelligence

SmartReach™ organizes the signals it identifies across five core dimensions, supported by more than 500 granular audience tags.

Dimension

What it captures

Examples

Audience Intents

What people are actively looking for, considering, or trying to achieve

casual_puzzle_play, sports_news_consumption, digital_banking

Use Cases

The situations, moments, and environments in which the product may be used

quick_casual_session, reward_claiming, live_game_following

Audience Traits

Relevant demographic, behavioral, lifestyle, and preference characteristics

fantasy_players, deal_seekers, grocery_household_shoppers

Content Contexts

The topics, themes, and content environments that attract the audience

casino_slots, mlb, short_drama

Product Model

The product's functions, features, use cases, and needs it helps address

subscription_access, ad_supported_free, points_loyalty

Together, these dimensions help SmartReach™ build a more complete view of your product and the audiences most relevant to it.


How SmartReach™ works

SmartReach™ follows a structured audience discovery process:

  1. Understand your product
    SmartReach™ analyzes your product category, core functions, use cases, and value proposition.

  2. Map audience signals
    It identifies relevant signals across Audience Intents, Use Cases, Audience Traits, Content Contexts, and Product Model.

  3. Build your audience profile
    SmartReach™ organizes these signals into a structured profile supported by more than 500 granular audience tags.

  4. Incorporate your first-party data
    When available, your audience or conversion data provides additional signals that can support lookalike discovery.

  5. Align with your campaign goal
    SmartReach™ prioritizes the audience signals most relevant to the outcome you want to drive.

  6. Discover similar audiences
    It searches within the DMP for audience segments that share relevant characteristics and behavioral patterns.

  7. Support campaign activation
    The resulting audience segments can then be used for targeting and media activation in your campaign.


Who it is for

SmartReach™ can be especially useful if you:

  • Have first-party customer, conversion, or engagement data

  • Want to expand beyond existing audiences

  • Promote products with specific use cases or interest groups

  • Need to discover niche or high-intent audiences

  • Want to connect product intelligence with media activation

  • Need a more scalable and consistent approach to audience planning


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