Stop guessing.
Reach buyers
already looking.

Intent Audiences let you target real people who are actively researching what you sell — right now.

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James Rivera
Ops Manager · GreenBox Co.
Active
Fleet Software
76
C
Maria Chen
Owner · Maria's General Contracting
🔥 Surging
Intent Score
Commercial Ovens
91
Kitchen Equipment
74
Supplier Reviews
60
↑ Research accelerating this week
35B+
Daily intent signals processed
26K+
Topics tracked across the web
3.2×
Higher lead-to-meeting rate
5–10%
Of your market is buying right now
The Basics

What is an Intent Audience?

An Intent Audience is a group of people identified by their real online research behavior — not demographics or job titles, but what they're actively reading, comparing, and searching for right now.

Signals from the open web

Intent data is gathered from millions of websites and content platforms — capturing research that happens before a buyer ever lands on your website.

Scored and ranked

85 INTENT 0 50 100

Each person gets a 0–100 score based on how abnormal their research behavior is compared to their own baseline — not the general population.

Timed to the buying moment

BUYING WINDOW · 5–10% Not buying In-market Already bought

Only 5–10% of your market is actively buying at any given time. Intent Audiences identify that window so you reach people when they're ready.

Real people, not just companies

Some Co. M Maria C. Owner · GenCo Score 91 ↑

Instead of knowing "some company is researching your product," you know which specific person is doing the research — their name, title, and what topics they're exploring.

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Output → One Intent Audience

A live bucket of in-market buyers

The four inputs above flow into a single audience — scored, identified, and continuously refreshed for outreach.

How It Works

From signal to sales conversation

In five straightforward steps, raw web activity becomes a prioritized list of real buyers ready for your team to act on.

1

Define your audience

Set your ideal customer profile, target titles, and topics that signal buying intent for your product.

2

Signal collection

AI analyzes 35B daily intent signals across 26K+ topics — content reads, searches, comparison pages — across the open web.

3

Person identification

Each signal is matched to a verified individual. You get a real name, role, and company — not an anonymous IP address.

4

Score & trend

Each person gets a 0–100 precision score plus a trend direction: ↑ rising · ↓ fading · → steady.

5

Activate audience

Push the live audience into outreach. Two paths from here ↓

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Option A · Done-for-you

Activate via Omnichannel Ads

Push the audience straight into a paid-media activation. Reach scored buyers across the channels they're already on — display, CTV, mobile, native, and more.

Display CTV Mobile Native Programmatic Email
Open omnichannelads.net →
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Option B · Bring your own

Use your existing stack

Already have email automation, a CRM, or a sales team? Hand the scored audience to the channels you're already running — your tools, your workflow.

Email CRM Sales sequences Direct mail SMS
Plug into your tools →
The Score

What does a score of 85 actually mean?

The intent score measures how unusual this person's behavior is compared to their own normal. A score of 85 means they're doing something they almost never do.

85
Intent Score
0255075100
↑ Trending Up
↓ Fading→ Steady

Score + trend together tell you who to contact and when.

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Score 70–100: Active buyer

This person is doing something highly abnormal for them. Prioritize for immediate outreach — these are your hottest leads.

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Score 40–69: Warming up

Research is above their normal baseline — good for nurture campaigns and educational content rather than hard sales.

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Score 0–39: Not in market yet

Their behavior is at or below normal. Save your budget. Focus on brand awareness so you're top-of-mind when their score rises.

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Cold Topic Activation

An alert fires the moment someone researches a topic they've never engaged with before — giving you first-mover advantage.

ROAS visibility improvement
17%
Avg. spend reallocation in month 1
3.2×
Lead-to-meeting rate lift
225%
More deals vs. account-level intent
Live Samples

What an Intent Audience looks like

Four real-world samples — different industries, same underlying mechanic: scored people actively researching what you sell.

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Priya Shah
VP Engineering · CloudScale
🔥 Surging
Intent Score
Alternatives to Datadog
93
APM Tool Comparison
81
Observability Pricing
72
↑ Evaluating this quarter
B
Linda Brooks
First-time buyer · Austin TX
Active
Intent Score
Mortgage Pre-approval
72
Austin Neighborhoods
64
Buyer Programs
56
↑ Saving listings daily
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Marcus Patel
Event Director · TechCon
Warming
Intent Score
Conference Venues
54
Group Booking Rates
47
Downtown Hotels
38
→ Browsing options
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Ben Carter
IT Manager · NorthSide Health
Watching
Intent Score
Cybersecurity Tools
32
Compliance Software
24
Backup Solutions
18
↓ Activity declining
Real-World Applications

How SMBs put intent to work

Intent Audiences aren't just for enterprise sales teams. Here's how businesses like yours are using them today.

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Marketing Agency

Agency finds clients ready to spend

Watch for businesses researching digital advertising, SEO, or website redesigns. A rising intent score on "marketing agency" is worth a targeted outreach campaign.

ResultSpend sales energy only on prospects who've already mentally started the buying process.
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Residential Real Estate

Broker identifies motivated buyers

Track intent signals around home searches, mortgage rates, and neighborhood research. Reach buyers and sellers showing early signals before they contact another agent.

ResultWin listings and buyer relationships by being the first agent to reach motivated prospects.
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Hospitality / Hotel

Hotel targets high-intent travelers

Monitor intent around travel destinations, hotel comparisons, and event venue searches. Reach corporate travel planners and event organizers actively researching your market.

ResultFill rooms and event spaces by reaching planners before they book with a competitor.
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Mortgage Broker

Broker finds buyers before they apply

Track intent around mortgage rates, home affordability, and refinancing topics. Identify people actively researching loans weeks before they submit an application anywhere.

ResultBe the first lender in the conversation — before the borrower has compared anyone else.
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B2B Services

Accountant or consultant finds new clients

Set up Intent Audiences around "small business bookkeeping" or "tax planning for LLCs." Get notified when local decision-makers start researching those topics.

ResultReach business owners already thinking about hiring a firm — before they start interviewing competitors.
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SaaS / Tech

Software company targets switchers

Build an audience of people researching competitor names. When someone's score spikes on "alternatives to [competitor]," your team has a perfect outreach moment.

ResultWin deals before they're lost by engaging at the exact moment of evaluation.
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Industrial / Wholesale

Distributor finds buyers before RFQ

Track intent around product categories you supply. Know when a purchasing manager is researching your equipment — weeks before a formal request for quote.

ResultGet on the shortlist early, before competitors are even aware the opportunity exists.
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Recruiting / Staffing

Staffing agency targets hiring companies

Monitor intent around talent acquisition software and HR topics. Companies researching these are likely about to start hiring.

ResultPitch your services to companies actively in hiring mode rather than cold prospecting the entire market.
The Problem

Two paths. One obvious choice.

Same audience. Same budget. Wildly different results. Which one are you running?

✕ The old way

Spray-and-pray targeting

  • Target everyone with the job title "Operations Manager"
  • Most of them aren't buying anything right now
  • High cost-per-click, low conversion rates
  • No idea which company is in a buying cycle
  • Sales team cold-calls with zero context
~95% of your spend hits people who aren't buying
✓ The smart way ← Pick this one

Person-level Intent Audiences

  • Target only people actively researching your category
  • Know who at a company is driving the decision
  • Reach buyers before they visit a competitor's site
  • 0–100 score + trend direction showing rising or falling interest
  • Give sales teams real conversation starters
3.2× lift in lead-to-meeting rate

Done watching your budget evaporate?Stop spraying and praying…

Let's Begin!

Do you know how big your ideal Intent Audiences are?

Pricing scales with the size of your in-market audience. Knowing it gets you straight to the right plan. If you don't, we'll help you scope it in 15 minutes.

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Simple, transparent pricing

Pay only for the buyers actively researching your category — not the entire database. Unused signals roll over to the next month — usable for up to 60 days from the month of purchase.

Need help defining your ideal Intent Audience?
Build it with us.

Walk through our 4-section audience builder — topic & keywords, personal filters, work filters, and your scale. We'll spec your custom audience and send a quote within 2–3 business days. Or skip the wait and book a 15-minute call.

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Audience identified. What's next?

The natural next step after building your Intent Audience is activating it across every channel your buyers actually use — display, CTV, mobile, native, programmatic email. That's where Omnichannel Ads picks up.

OmnichannelAds.net
Power Partner

Now activate everywhere your buyers are.

Building the audience is the easy half. The hard half is getting that audience in front of the right people across the channels they actually use — without fragmenting your spend, your message, or your measurement.

OmnichannelAds.net takes your scored Intent Audience and activates it as one coordinated buy across display, CTV, mobile, native, and programmatic email — one audience, one frequency budget, one measurement framework.

  • Push your scored Intent Audience straight into a paid-media activation
  • Display, CTV, mobile, native, programmatic email — coordinated, not fragmented
  • One audience, one frequency cap, one measurement view — no platform sprawl
Activate on OmnichannelAds.net →
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Got questions?

Is this different from LinkedIn or Google targeting?
Yes — significantly. LinkedIn and Google targeting is based on static attributes like job title or platform keywords. Intent Audiences are based on real-time research behavior across the open web. You're identifying people who are demonstrably researching your category right now.
How is this different from knowing a company is "surging"?
Account-level intent tells you "Acme Corp is researching identity resolution." Person-level intent tells you exactly which individual is driving the research, what they've compared, and whether their interest is accelerating — a conversation you can actually have.
Do I need a big sales team to use this?
Not at all. Even a solo founder or 2-person sales team benefits enormously from focusing on the right people at the right time. Intent Audiences help you prioritize so you're not wasting time on people who aren't in a buying cycle.
What does "personal baseline" mean?
Every person has a normal level of online research activity. The intent score compares each person's current behavior to their own normal — not the average population. A quiet researcher with a score of 75 is actually a stronger signal than a heavy researcher with the same score.
Is Intent Audience data privacy-compliant?
Reputable intent data providers operate under GDPR, CCPA, and IAB TCF standards. Data is sourced from publisher networks where users have opted into data collection. Always verify the compliance posture of any vendor before activating campaigns.
What's the minimum budget to get started?
Intent Audiences are no longer just for enterprise budgets. Many platforms offer SMB-friendly tiers starting with a free proof-of-value trial — letting you see who in your target market is actively researching before committing to a paid plan.

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