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Source Audiences with MNTN Matched

Learn how to use MNTN Matched Audiences and Keywords to reach high-value prospects based on browsing intent.

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Written by Imani Clark
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Overview

There’s the old marketing phrase “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is, I don’t know which half.” This problem has always plagued TV and CTV, because traditional TV audiences waste impressions on people who are never going to buy your products.

MNTN solved this problem. We created a proprietary system called MNTN Matched that analyzes your brand and leverages AI scoring across multiple data to create a high-performance TV audience for your brand.

The result? Audiences built by MNTN Matched produce 3x better performance, on average, than traditional forms of TV audience targeting by matching your commercials with high-intent consumers — those most likely to engage with your brand and convert. Campaigns that use MNTN Matched rival if not out-perform what most advertisers see on paid search and social.

How Does It Work?

  1. MNTN’s Generative AI analyzes your website to determine your company’s products/services, then creates a list of recommended audience keywords. You can then add and remove keywords, just like you do with paid search.

  2. Our Audience AI uses those keywords to find consumers in over 99% of US households who most likely want to purchase your products based on their shopping behavior, meaningful life events, and most relevant interests.

  3. MNTN Matched builds you an audience that’s broken down into three categories:

    • High Intent Audiences who most likely visit your site and convert today. We recommend starting here because you can engage 100% of this audience and maintain a similar return on ad spend and cost per acquisition.

    • Medium Intent Audiences who are still likely to engage with your brand and convert — maybe today, or maybe in the near future. This audience is a great growth opportunity. After engaging their entire high-intent audience, most advertisers engage the largest percentage of this audience possible while still meeting, or exceeding, their goals.

    • Maximum Reach Audiences who align with your customer demographic and offer an opportunity to grow brand awareness and growth potential.


    📝 Note: You’ll receive available budgets for each category, and your ad budget will automatically apply to your highest intent audiences first, to make sure you’re always maximizing performance.


  4. Once you’re live, you’ll deliver best-in-class performance. On average, our advertisers deliver six times more site traffic, twice the revenue, and half the cost per acquisition than they did with traditional TV audiences.

  5. While your campaign is live, you’ll get real-time reporting down to the keyword level that you can use to inform optimizations in MNTN and across your marketing channels.

Build Keyword Audiences

Terms:

Keywords

Use these keywords to define your customer profile. This includes your AI-Generated Keywords

Expanded Keywords

Our system uses your customer profile to identify the top products your audience is most likely to purchase and the terms associated with those products.

Total Audience Composition

Your total audience composition is comprised of all households that are shopping for products related to your expanded keywords.

Purchase Intent Audience Sizes

Our system scores your total audience based on the likelihood that they’ll purchase your brand’s specific products and organizes them into three categories: high intent, medium intent, and maximum reach.


📝 Note: MNTN Matched audiences automatically exclude previous site visitors to help focus campaigns on generating new revenue.


How to:

  1. Create a New Audience from the Audience tab and navigate to the MNTN Matched sub-tab.

  2. You’ll see that MNTN Matched has already analyzed your website, automatically built you a company profile, and recommended Keywords that are most relevant to your business.

    You can uncheck any Keywords that you don't want to influence your Expanded Keywords.

  3. Click Add AI Recommended Keywords or click the Keywords tab.

  4. You’ll see the Keywords and the Expanded Keywords they’ve generated. At this stage, your Expanded Keywords will be added as inclusions to your campaign.

    To further customize your MNTN Matched audience:

    • Add a select keyword: You can click the green plus sign and type in a new Select Keyword. After you’ve done so, your Expanded Keyword list will adjust accordingly. Your inclusions will also automatically adjust to match your new Expanded Keyword list.

    • Remove a select keyword: You can hover over a Select Keyword and click the minus sign to remove it. Your Expanded Keyword list and inclusions will adjust accordingly.

    • Uncheck an expanded keyword: You can scroll through your Expanded Keyword list and uncheck any audience term that you do not want to target. When you uncheck an Expanded Keyword from your list, it will also be removed from your inclusions.

    • Delete an expanded keyword inclusion: You can also delete an Expanded Keyword from your inclusion list. Doing so will also uncheck that term from your Expanded Keyword list.

  5. Click Save Audience.

    Your MNTN Matched audience is now ready to activate.


💡 Tip: Once you have completed your MNTN Matched Keyword Audience, you can leverage MNTN's Audience Budget Planner tool to plan campaign investment and maximize performance against your audience.


Review MNTN Matched Keywords

From the Audience Segment report, you will be able to compare the performance of each MNTN Matched Keywords to test, learn, and optimize your campaigns.


💡 Pro Tip: MNTN Matched Keywords data will become available in reporting once Keywords are added to your live campaign. Prior performance against keywords will not be included, as this does not retroactively populate results.


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