Path A · general DSPs
Built for adults, filtered for kids
- Age filters bolted on after the fact, with no behavioral signal under 18, the audience is a late idea in the product.
- Age inferred from proxies that cannot distinguish a six-year-old from a sixteen-year-old.
- Buying U18 on YouTube by interest sends most of the spend into adult content, more of it when teen keywords are used.
7 of every 10 dollars never reach the intended audience.