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How To Find Your Perfect Audience Online

If you are hoping to have a presence in the entertainment industry, you know how important social media is. Facebook alone has nearly 3 billion users that interact with content daily. In the US there are over 250 million users of social media across multiple different platforms. Many of these users are young people between 18 and 29 and are usually well educated and relatively wealthy. These facts are important when deciding how best to deliver content.

Social media is so important to users that it has changed multiple ways that we interact online. We can now discover what is happening around the world in real time, we have access to endless amounts of information, and we can connect through common interests. When people find content they enjoy on social media, they often repost or share it so their followers can also enjoy it. This means the creator of that content is not only reaching their target audience, but are being spread to a much wider network. This is how online audiences grow and can bring more success to content creators.

With the way that content is spread across these wide networks, it is one of the most valuable opportunities to take advantage of when looking to find your own audience. It is important to know the different strategies to find your audience, because it can be easy to make mistakes that can damage your content.

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One of the ways content creators often misuse social media when trying to find their audience is by resorting to clickbait. This can be off putting for most social media users who know what clickbait is and can lead to poor view rates and a low amount of likes. If you are creating unique content to fit a certain audience, you shouldn’t need to resort to over the top thumbnails or titles to receive engagement. It is also important to keep your content to only a few platforms. Using multiple platforms can be overwhelming and many people will use the same content across all of their channels. This can be counterproductive since all platforms have different audiences, it is more important to create unique content across only a few platforms. This way you can reach the right audience with great content that they can continue to spread.

The best way to make sure you are creating the best content for your audience, is first deciding what kind of audience you want in the first place. Is the content you are creating relatable, is it educational, or is it entertaining? All of these different genres have different audiences so it helps to know who is watching your videos to better fit the content to them. Looking at your social media data can help to do this because it will show your demographics.

Demographics are the information that tells you who is watching your videos, who is liking them, and who is sharing them the most. This information is integral in tweaking your content to ensure the most people are seeing your content, and also sharing it to people with common interests which will help to grow your audience even more.

Finding a perfect audience is all about the process. If you can get your content process to be cost effective and efficient, along with anticipating tendencies of your audience, you can learn how social media functions overall. This can help with your tone, your timing, and the overall feel of your content. This is the best way to reach your target audience as well as have your content broadcasted across a wider network.

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