How To Create Lookalike Audiences

How to create lookalike audiences using ToneDen's Facebook Advertising platform

A Lookalike Audience is a group of people likely to be interested in your business because they're similar to your best existing customers.

When you create a Lookalike Audience, you choose a source audience (such as a Custom Audience created with your Facebook pixel or fans of your Facebook page). Facebook then identifies the common qualities of the people in it.

There are two steps to creating a Lookalike Audience in the service.

1. Creating or importing the Custom Audience that will be the source audience

2. Creating the Lookalike Audience

A general rule of thumb: if the source audience can be created in the service, you can create the Lookalike Audience without having to import the Custom Audience from Facebook Ads Manager.

Step 1: Creating or Importing Your Source Audience

You can use any of the following sources as a Source Audience for a Lookalike:

• Facebook Page Likes

• Customer List (aka your Email Subscribers, etc.)

• Website Traffic (also includes Facebook Pixel Events)

• Video Viewers

• Lead Form

• Fullscreen Experience

• Facebook Page Engagers

• Instagram Business Profile

• Events

A guide to building Custom Audiences based on each source is provided in the service.

Step 2: Creating a Lookalike Audience Using the Source Audience

To recap, there are two ways to build a Lookalike Audience in ToneDen:

1. Using the "Facebook Custom Audience Lookalike" Audience Template

2. Using the service Audience Template that automatically includes building a Lookalike Audience

Let's start with the first method—using the "Facebook Custom Audience Lookalike" Audience Template.

Method 1: Using the "Facebook Custom Audience Lookalike" Audience Template

After building a Custom Audience for a source audience, click on "Add New" or "Change Template" during the ad campaign creation process in the service. Then, click "Facebook" followed by "Facebook Custom Audience Lookalike." From there, select the Custom Audience you'd like to use as a source audience in the "Template Options" section:

Method 2: Using ToneDen's Audience Template (automatically includes building a Lookalike Audience)

The service's Audience Builder feature includes multiple Lookalike Audience audience templates.

Most of them do not require that you build a Custom Audience as a source audience ahead of time. If they do, you'll be able to quickly select the source audience in the "Template Options" section.

Some of these options include:

• Facebook Page Likes Lookalike

• Lookalike of People Who Engaged with Your Facebook Page

• Pixel Event Lookalike Audience

• Website Visitors Lookalike Audience

• and more

Here's an example of how you would build the Facebook Page Likes Lookalike Audience:

Click "Add New" or "Change Template" during the ad campaign creation process in the service. Then, click "Facebook," followed by "Facebook Page Likes Lookalike." From there, select the Facebook Page you'd like to use as a source audience in the "Template Options" section: