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LGBTQ+ issues are making headlines throughout the nation, prompting some brands, issue advocates, and consumers to speak up. And with Pride right around the corner, those conversations are gaining momentum. Even if you do not consider your organization enmeshed in the LGBTQ+ community, Pride Month is a great time to put your company’s beliefs at the forefront of your ads and reach LGBTQ+ allies who care about the causes you’re campaigning on. Tunnl’s audience library has audiences for every issue in the headlines, enabling you to reach the right people, even on sensitive subjects at polarized times. And what isn’t already prebuilt for you in our audience library, you can craft for yourself in minutes using Tunnl's Audience Builder. Consider this your guide to authentically optimizing your Pride campaigns for maximum reach with audiences that will appreciate your approach to the issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community.

You know those kitchen gadgets that your grandma keeps giving you for Christmas that only assist in one obscure culinary task like making quesadillas or pressing paninis? They do the job they’re built for, but stepping outside of that singular specialty is always an experimental gamble with a potentially poor payoff. In a saturated audience intelligence market, many of your options are like that. They specialize in one sector but don’t offer much benefit to audience-based buyers in other spaces. Nobody likes a one-trick pony, there isn’t space in your tech stack for a single-purpose tool, and you definitely don’t want to use the wrong audience insights to target your campaigns. But don’t be so quick to judge. Tunnl’s founders have successful pasts in politics as campaign strategists and data scientists, but they’ve also applied their microtargeting expertise to corporate marketing strategy, issue advocacy campaigns, and agency roles. They’ve built the Tunnl platform and the audiences it hosts to serve every advertiser and agency to reach accurate, issue-based audiences that move the needle on their message. Still think Tunnl audiences are only for politicians and public affairs? We have ten examples of campaigns that prove otherwise.

Have you ever ordered something new off the menu, just to be wildly disappointed with what the waiter brings out? After all that anticipation, you’ve got a bad taste in your mouth and shattered expectations. You’ve wasted your money. Your rare night out is a wash. And you’re still hungry. Ineffective ads conjure the same empty disappointment. Budget gone. Time lost. Goals still unmet. In the decades Tunnl’s team has collectively spent developing and analyzing cutting-edge microtargeting techniques for advertisers in public affairs, issue advocacy, and brand marketing, we’ve identified one single ingredient that’s critical to planning a satisfying ad campaign: audience intelligence. We’ll define what audience intelligence is, why it matters, and how you can access audience intelligence to start improving your campaign results fast.

Buying ad space shouldn’t take eons, and yet… You need to propose a campaign budget based on the size of your target audience, but you have to contact your data provider directly to get counts. You have budget approval, and you’re ready to create your campaign, but your data provider has to send your audience to the right ad platforms, which requires a separate request and several days of downtime. It’s time to optimize; all you want to do is update your audience, but start stretching because you’re about to jump through several hoops. Tunnl has built hundreds of issue-based audiences to make targeting faster and more accurate for advertisers like you, but what good are audiences you can’t access in your ad platforms? Enter audience syndication, the process that puts audiences like ours on advertising and demand-side platforms (DSPs) like the ones you use to launch your campaigns. How does this process eliminate the middleman and improve your advertising process? It goes a little like this.

Advocating for your initiatives with Congress is like trying to get one person’s attention in a sold-out stadium of pushing, screaming, single-minded others. Unless you’re on stage, you’ll be fighting for any scrap of attention. Ahead of a recess, like the one quickly coming up, is your prime opportunity to win votes and sway opinions on critical issues getting voted on this summer and later in the year. But with so many others seeing the same opportunity, how do you put your message center stage and get Congress to listen? You use the right audience. Before they created Tunnl, our founders spent decades building data-driven media strategies for public affairs and issue advocacy campaigns, discovering how to achieve targeted reach at scale. And now, Tunnl equips public affairs and issue advocacy advertisers with the issue-based audience insights they need to get their campaigns in front of the right people in the most efficient way possible. We offer several prebuilt audiences to connect you with the voters influencing Congress on top-of-mind issues in the weeks ahead. They can be analyzed in our platform and seamlessly sent directly to ad platforms at the click of a button. With these audiences, your ad campaigns will be ready to go live in front of your target audience in time to make an impact in Congress.

Audience data providers are a dime a dozen. Ad platforms offer you audience data, managed service providers offer to place media buys for you based on their own audience data, and third-party audience data sources promise improved reach efficiency with their insights. You have options.