Best Practices To Understand your Audience

Building a subscriber list is just half the battle won. To make sure the juice is worth the squeeze, you need to engage your audience and earn their trust. And that’s why understanding your audience becomes critical. Finer nuances such as – what is it that they like to read, where they are from, or as simple as what device they prefer to consume information on, can be incredibly helpful for editors to send targeted notifications.

Why is understanding your audience important?

Reduce unsubscriptions

No one likes to receive notifications on things that they are not interested in. And given that newsrooms publish a lot of stories every day, sending out a notification for each story to your entire audience is not a good idea. Irrelevant notifications sent to the audience pushes users to the edge, ultimately making them unsubscribe. Segmenting the audience helps publishers not bombard them with irrelevant content, thus leading to lesser unsubscriptions.

Data over assumptions

Herzindagi realized that a good chunk of their audience is more active during the late evenings and traffic shoots up. Instead of going with traditional practices like don’t push campaigns to all devices after sundown, they referred to their Google Analytics data and started to push more campaigns in the evenings for better engagement.

Important Segments that editors consider using from get go

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improvement in CTR observed by Sarkari Exam when they started targeting newly acquired audiences.

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Send contextual notifications to delight your audience

Push notification marketing kit

We asked 15,000 marketers, spoke to editors, marketers, audience managers, and analyzed over 20B+ push notifications, and put together this marketing kit for publishers.

How should publishers approach segmentation?

If you do not segment you can not target the right audience with the right notification. The repercussion of sending run-of-the-mill notifications are as drastic as being blocked by your audience forever. You can segment your audience on basis of –

Subscription date

Reaching out to your audience on the basis of the subscription date helps reach out to the most active audience base.

Interests and preferences

Understand where the interests of your audience lie. What do they usually prefer reading, the categories of the pages they visit, the videos they watch, and the language they prefer reading in, to strike the right chord.

Geo wise segmentation

Segment audience based on their location. You can even go hyper-local by sending information pertaining to a particular region. A carnival in Dubai would make more sense to people in Dubai rather than someone in New York.

Subscription date

Reaching out to your audience on the basis of the subscription date helps reach out to the most active audience base.

Interests and preferences

Understand where the interests of your audience lie. What do they usually prefer reading, the categories of the pages they visit, the videos they watch, and the language they prefer reading in, to strike the right chord.

Geo wise segmentation

Segment audience based on their location. You can even go hyper-local by sending information pertaining to a particular region. A carnival in Dubai would make more sense to people in Dubai rather than someone in New York.

Audience Segmentation Framework

A list of 45+ segments gathered over 3 years that have given our customers amazing results. Make use of this resource and get your segmentation game rolling.

GET THE SEGMENTS

Keep it relevant. Keep it to the point.

How should you measure the impact of targeted notifications?

Track the CTRs and the clicks of various campaigns that are pushed to a segmented audience
Track the page views, sessions, session duration, and conversions of those campaigns on Google Analytics
Compare targeted campaigns with any previous campaign sent to all and see the change in the CTRs

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