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Smarter targeting starts with Personas

Opensend

September 3, 2025

Paid ads are only as good as the audience behind them.And yet, most ecommerce brands are still building their campaigns on lookalikes, interests, and assumptions, potentially wasting spend on low-fit traffic that was never going to convert.

It’s time for a better way.

Meet Opensend Personas: a new way to turn your existing customer data into high-performing, ad-ready cohorts. Built for scale, optimized in real time, and ready to sync across Meta, Google, and Klaviyo.

What are Personas?

Personas are AI-generated customer cohorts based on real purchase behavior, not vague interests or outdated segments. By analyzing demographic, behavioral, and lifestyle data, Opensend automatically groups your customers into distinct personas with clear intent signals.

No guesswork. No heavy lifting. No dev required.

Example persona cohorts include:

  • Luxury Linda Lifestyle: High AOV, frequent buyer, urban millennial
  • Savvy Discount Seeker: Price-conscious, promo-engaged, cart abandoner
  • Midwest Modern Mom: Mobile shopper, high repeat rate, kids apparel focus

These aren’t just fun labels. They’re performance-backed segments designed to scale your best customers into your best campaigns.

Example Persona cohorts

How it works

1. Connect your data

Start with your Klaviyo account to enrich your existing customer records with Opensend’s proprietary identity graph.

2. Get your Personas

Our engine groups your list into 4–13 high-LTV cohorts, each with shared traits and ready-to-deploy targeting.

3. Sync everywhere

Send your cohorts directly to Meta, Google, or Klaviyo in just a click, no extra tools or data mapping needed.

4. Launch smarter campaigns

Every cohort is built to convert, automatically updated, and optimized for ad performance over time.

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Why it works

Traditional lookalikes are built on flimsy interest data and algorithmic guesses. Personas flip the script by using real behavioral signals from real purchases, giving you:

Smarter targeting

Spend less on low-fit traffic

Faster time to action

Cohorts are instantly ad-ready

Seamless setup

Get started in under 5 minutes, no code, no dev

What marketers are saying

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Built with trust and scale in mind

Opensend’s identity graph is backed by:

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Your data is protected, and your customers are respected.

Get started in 5 Minutes

You don’t need an engineering team or six tools stitched together. Just:

  1. Connect your Klaviyo account
  2. Activate your free analysis
  3. Get your AI-generated persona dashboard
  4. Sync to your ad platforms

It’s that simple.

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"Opensend has helped us grow our sales month over month ever since we started using their platform. The best part is that it's very easy to integrate with your Shopify and Klavyio account!"
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Opensend

September 3, 2025

Before iOS 14: The rollout of ITP

Apple’s attempts to protect privacy and limit 3rd-party tracking scripts started way before iOS 14 was released in September 2020. 
In 2017, Apple began tightening cross-site tracking via the debut of Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP)—blocking 3rd-party cookies, shortening lifetimes for some 1st-party cookies, and generally sanding down “free” identifiers marketers had taken for granted.
If you felt your cookie windows shrinking in 2019, that was ITP 2.1 capping many JavaScript-set cookies to 7 days.

iOS 14: The mobile ID reset

With the release of iOS 14 in September 2020, App Tracking Transparency (ATT) made device-level ad identifiers opt-in, and Apple shipped privacy-preserving attribution options (e.g., Private Click Measurement on web/app-to-web).
In response, Google added WBRAID/GBRAID tracking parameters to keep some campaign measurement working in iOS flows where gclid was no longer viable.
Much more notably, seeing the writing on the wall for 3rd-party tracking pixels, Facebook released its Conversions API (CAPI) in 2020 to help advertisers track campaign engagement without complete dependence on Facebook Pixels.
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iOS 17: The link parameter squeeze & further limiting of cookie lifespans

With the release of iOS 17 in September 2023, Link Tracking Protection (LTP) started stripping known tracking parameters (think gclid, fbclid, msclkid) in Mail, Messages, and Safari Private Browsing.
UTM parameters typically continued to pass for aggregate reporting, but click-ID-only pipelines got shakier in these contexts.
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Perhaps more importantly, with the release of iOS 17, all Safari WebKit browsers (including desktop browsers) started deleting all tracking cookies set with 3rd-party JavaScript after 7 days of inactivity on a website.
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iOS 26/Safari 26: “Default-on” tightening

Now, in the fall of 2025, we are of course confronted by further tightening of 3rd-party tracking pixels with these default changes to click IDs.

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