There's more to Pinterest than its unique audience, however.
"We have to look at doing things a lot differently than what's been done in the past because this is a very unique audience, and we're marketing a product that's never been marketed before, " Mr. Marchand said.
In creating unique, audience-centric ventures, the bands are engaging fans and giving them control over the outcome of each experience.
The first key step in content marketing is to develop valuable unique content that your audience will enjoy and share with others.
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But it also uses other metrics, including total time spent, and last year began collecting data on video streams initiated by users at sites such as Google's YouTube, which it said provided a more accurate picture of the online video audience than unique visitors did.
And, as Kim explained, the company did not want to fill it with yet another powdered drink mix, especially given the unique character of the target audience, a generation accustomed to personalizing and transporting everything possible.
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Makeba made a new home in the U.S. and settled into telling and singing the story of South Africa, reaching an American audience with her unique brand of music, laced with a social message about the suffering of black people back home.
Getting to relevancy requires us to engage with the audience to understand their unique needs and motivations.
The sharing of such best practices helps put the benefits of these unique initiatives out to a larger audience for them to adopt and implement these in their individual environments.
As I said, the audience craves whatever tidbit and unique perspective the knowledgeable person can deliver.
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Publishers and platforms are in a unique position because they have a targeted audience.
The advice site now attracts 3 million unique visitors each month, hooking its audience with fact-checked health articles that then spread widely via social media.
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Post Co. chairman Don Graham, on the other hand, has been a paywall skeptic, arguing that the Post is unique and risked scaring off its web audience, which is primarily national rather than local.
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Our intelligence professionals provide a global audience of individuals and organizations with unique insights into political, economic, and military developments around the world.
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Along the way, our audience has grown to 25 million monthly unique users, 50% more than a year ago.
In its monthly report on web activity, the ratings firm Comscore revealed that Pinterest was the third fastest growing site in the United States, with its audience rising from 7.5 million unique visitors in December to 11.7 million in January.
The result: In just 11 months, with a smallish staff and not much original content, Upworthy has built a sizable audience (8.7 million monthly unique visitors as of last November) for its socially progressive message, plus a Facebook following of more than 1 million fans.
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But the report suggested WLM's US audience had fallen to 8.3 million unique users, representing a 48% drop year-on-year.
Own your content, respect your followers, and focus on creating unique and shareable pieces that are relevant to your niche audience.
The Nascar audience is still massive with nearly 70 million unique television viewers and 3.5 million fans at the track last year.
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Rival online audience-measurement firm comScore most frequently uses monthly unique visitors to compile its Web site traffic rankings.
This thinking becomes a little difficult for some to grasp, because, after all, your website is your online soapbox to shout out to your audience all the great things that make your business unique and better than the competition.
The Forbes.com audience has doubled in the last year, to 30 million monthly unique visitors (as measured by Omniture), as 1, 000 reporters and contributors have connected with business news enthusiasts.
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Casual titles like Buzz and Singstar skew towards a broad audience, Resistance 2 is more for seasoned players, and unique new titles like Littlebigplanet have the potential to appeal to both seasoned and casual players.
Dusk is gathering, and down a dimly lit alley near the Grand Canal, a 60-strong audience is assembled in the Barbarigo-Minotto Palace, ready for a unique performance.
The result: a new and unique FORBES model for content creation, with self-publishing mechanisms, new editing processes and audience development techniques rooted in data analysis.
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