Audience Analysis Quotes

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

I guess working in the legitimate industry, the best thing you can take away from it is acceptance of the incompetence that often surrounds you. No, that sounds horrible. The most important thing, I guess, is the fact that working in the legitimate industry, what I see all too often is people trying to interpret the wishes of the audience, which with today's technology, is all too easy to measure empirically.

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

Targeted marketing has existed for as long as there's been marketing.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

If you don't pick your audience, you're lost because you're not really talking to anybody.

When I'm in front of a crowd, I don't think 'Oh, there's some hard-core metalheads and some alternative fringe types, so we should be okay.'

Every audience is different, even within the same venue. You have to just make every audience your audience; you can't pre-judge an audience based on the size of the room or the type of room.

I'm not even sure who my audience is.

The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

London audiences are tricky, too. They don't laugh as much as the Northern audiences because, and I hate to say this, they are a bit cleverer normally, and they are picking up on all the little details and listening more carefully.

When someone says "that resonates with me" what they are saying is "I agree with you" or "I align with you." Once your ideas resonate with an audience, they will change. But, the only way to have true resonance is to understand the ones with whom you are trying to resonate. You need to spend time thinking about your audience. What unites them, what incites them? Think about your audience and what's on their mind before you begin building your presentation. It will help you identify beliefs and behavior in your audience that you can connect with. Resonate with.

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

I always take the audience into account.

I do think that, yes, one should always be receptive to the fact that there are many different types of audiences, and they are not necessarily in a clean, reductive demographic like they once were.

The job at broadcast is to figure out what the dumbest person in the room is going to think. That's not the case at FX.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.