"target audience" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: target audiences [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} target audience (plural target audiences)
  1. (media, marketing) The primary group of people for whom a publication, advertisement or other type of media is designed to appeal. Wikipedia link: target audience Categories (topical): Marketing, Media Synonyms: target group Translations (group of people): públic destinatari [masculine] (Catalan), 目標受眾 (Chinese Mandarin), 目标受众 (mùbiāo shòuzhòng) (Chinese Mandarin), målgruppe [common-gender] (Danish), doelgroep [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), kohdeyleisö (Finnish), kohderyhmä (Finnish), audience cible [feminine] (French), Zielpublikum [neuter] (German), Zielgruppe [feminine] (German), célközönség (Hungarian), célcsoport [singular] (Hungarian), målgruppe [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), målgruppe [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), audiência-alvo [feminine] (Portuguese), audiência objetivada [feminine] (Portuguese), público-alvo [masculine] (Portuguese), целевая аудитория (celevaja auditorija) [feminine] (Russian), циљна група (ciljna grupa) [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), målgrupp [common-gender] (Swedish), công chúng mục tiêu (Vietnamese)

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