Thursday, 27 October 2016

Audience Profiling


Audience profiling

Audience profiling allows producers within the media industry to select and narrow down their audience/ consumers to find their target audience. It is best for businesses within the media to find their target audience before they market a new product so that they can make profit as well as getting the best results.

A target audience is an audience that media producers aim their product at. Their product need to meet the target audience’s needs and the target audience need to be the people who are most suitable for the product. Media business and producers, before making their product may consider various factors within their target audience. For example, age, gender, religion, race, sexuality, education, occupation, annual income, and their current and desired lifestyle. Age and gender are the most key and important considerations to make when deciding on a target audience. Before you can select a target audience, you have to think of their age and gender first, otherwise you can’t get the rest of the information.

When deciding on a target audience, a common method with audience profiling is to use a demographics chart to narrow down the search for the best target audience. The reason for having / using a demographics chart is to outline the adult population largely by the work that they do.

Psychographics can also be used. These are similar to Demographics, however they concentrate more on the audience’s behaviour, personality, hobbies and interests rather than their jobs and economic income. Demographics describe who the audiences are whereas the Psychographics explain why they do what they do.
 
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