12: Audience analysis

Wednesday, April 10
Friday, April 12

Crowd Of People Rushing Across Crosswalk

Guiding Questions

How do you learn about trends in relevant markets (like online news or media apps)? How do you identify your target consumer? How do you size your audience? What’s the difference between an audience member and a customer?

Class Topics

W, 4/10: Market/audience research, Guest speaker, Brian George, co-founder of Routora and Sheedy Family Program scholar of finance and history at ND

In-class: Slide deck on industry and market analysis

F, 4/12: Workshop: Audience analysis

 

Read This:

Readings with annotations are due before class on Wednesday of each week. All readings, videos, and webpages are available on Perusall, accessible through the course’s Canvas page. Please refer to the Readings on Perusall prompt for instructions. You must read on Perusall to get credit.

  1. Read: Selections from “Define the market” (Ingrid Sturgis, MIE). Start at the subheading “What to call your customer” (about halfway down the page) and stop at “User persona tools.”

  2. Read: IDEA Center profile: Routora

Do This:

For Wednesday: Market analysts- full draft of audience analysis section due to Canvas discussion board by 5 p.m. ET

Industry analysts- final draft of competitor analysis section due to Canvas discussion board by start of class

For Friday: Everyone- letters and line edits for audience analysis section due to Canvas discussion board by start of class