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April 16, 2025

How to Turn First-Party Data into Activation-Ready Audiences with Lytics

You’ve connected your tools, structured your data, and the streams are flowing. But then comes the real test: building audiences that marketing teams can use with confidence—and that actually drive campaign performance.

At Soli & Co, we treat audience building not as a Lytics feature, but as a strategic discipline. Good audience logic mirrors how your team thinks about qualification, intent, and timing. And getting that logic right makes the difference between a CDP that collects data and one that powers outcomes.

How do I build a Lytics audience?


Audience Building is Strategy Work—Not Just Filter Stacking


Marketers are often handed a list of fields and told, “Go build something.” But filters alone don’t make an audience. What matters is how you combine behaviors, traits, and timing to answer a real campaign question.

Instead of pulling "people who clicked an email,” we define:

  • Users who clicked product-focused emails in the last 30 days
  • AND also downloaded a resource tagged with the same product line
  • AND have never attended a webinar from that brand


This isn’t about long logic trees—it’s about translating strategy into rules that Lytics can execute. It requires shared understanding across marketing, product, and data teams.

Soli & Co’s Take: The best audiences start as campaign briefs, not query strings.


Use Stream-Aware Logic to Avoid False Positives


One common mistake: treating all events equally—regardless of source. This creates audiences that are technically valid but logically broken.


Example: “clicked CTA = true” might refer to email, webinar, or on-site activity—unless you segment by brand_name, asset_type, and campaign_category.


We help teams enforce stream-specific logic to ensure audiences reflect actual user journeys—not just raw clicks.

Soli & Co’s Take: Behavior without context isn’t insight—it’s noise.


Test for Overreach Before You Launch


Don’t wait until a campaign goes live to see what’s wrong.

We stress-test segments:

  • Sample profiles for behavior accuracy
  • Check size and flow over time
  • Compare audience vs. suppression/exclusion logic


In one case, mid-funnel logic was bloated by a loose OR clause. Sampling surfaced the flaw and saved thousands in wasted impressions.

Soli & Co’s Take: Test your audience like it’s a product—because it is.


Let Audiences Drive More Than Just Campaigns


Once trusted, audiences become more than targeting tools.

They power:

  • Sales prioritization
  • Editorial personalization
  • Funnel visibility and reporting


We often sync Lytics segments across ad platforms, Slack alerts, CRMs, and BI tools.

Soli & Co’s Take: A strong audience can power more than your next send—it can shape your next strategy.

Need a Second Set of Eyes on Your Audiences?

We offer audits and co-working sessions to help you test, clean up, and strengthen your most important Lytics segments.

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