You know why a person chose your brand. Now learn how you can leverage that information to better improve audience development and market your products or services more effectively. Adweek’s Audience Development category provides insight from brand leaders and industry professionals on successful audience development strategies and how they are utilized to build deep, long-lasting relationships with consumer segments. With a focus on gaining more customers and increasing customer loyalty, Audience Development showcases the stories that industry professionals will want to know and learn from.

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Living in a Sound-On World: Sonic Branding Is Key for Brand Identity

A sonic strategy must be baked into the creative process from the beginning.

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Progressive Marketers Are Tracking a New Metric: Share of Model

Measuring how large language models like ChatGPT perceive your brand will become essential.

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Thanks to Gen Z, Deeper Connections Will Become the Currency of the Future

The 5 levers that fuel organic brand love when it comes to this cohort.

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Security Cameras for Fish Owners and Headphones for Golfers: How Media Agencies Find New Customers for Clients

More media agencies are leaving behind routine activations to offer their clients market intelligence.

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Every Penny Counts: How Your Marketing Efforts Can Avoid Ad Fatigue

When an audience becomes apathetic to the brand and message, it can make even the best campaigns fall flat.

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The Rush to Measure Attention Calls for a Collaborative and Coordinated Approach

An overview of the challenges in the evolving attention economy.

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The Daily Beast’s Obsessed Nets 7-Figure First-Year Revenue

The publisher has yet to paywall the new entertainment vertical.

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Japa to Prime Video: A Masterclass Campaign in Driving Local Relevance

The campaign introduced the streaming service to the Nigerian community as part of EMEA expansion efforts.

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It’s Time to Dispel the Multicultural Media Scale Myth

Many media teams are known to inaccurately label minority-owned properties as 'small' or subscale.

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More Than Family and Soccer: Why HHM Campaigns Can Feel Hollow

Generational marketing is key to communicating with the Latinx consumer.

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Blavity, Revolt and Black Enterprise on Why More Dollars Need to go to Black-Owned Media

Blavity, Revolt and Black Enterprise presented its work at IAB NewFronts this year.

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Once the Ugly Duckling of Digital, Gaming Is the New Star

The key to targeting gamers is to stop calling them gamers.