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Summary: The Cw's Niche

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The CW’s Niche The CW has aired Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, and Supergirl which are loved and widely known by a dominant audience of women. The channel has gained a strong name within the TV network throughout the years and still upholds a large audience. A niche appeals to a specialized group of people, such as a targeted specific audience. The CW is an ad-supported niche content provider, that has upheld the reputation of being watched by mainly women ranging from ages 18 to 34. The network lures in advertisers targeting women because of its shows that portray female protagonists in different scenarios. Advertisement companies that mainly target younger women use The CW for promoting new products. These companies strategically place their …show more content…

According to Potter, a media platform targets and produces messages by looking at the audiences “appeal to existing needs and interests” (Potter 69). The CW took their niche into account when partnering up with different beauty companies to promote empowerment through women. Covergirl partnered up with The CW’s new show riverdale, which gave each female character a different product that matched their variety of personalities. The CW and Covergirl want to reach out to the audience to “be encouraged to try different techniques to play up their personalities, moods, features” (Steinberg “CW Taps Cover Girl”). According to the network’s senior vice president of integrated marketing, Barbra Robin, they are hopeful that through this advertisement, they can attract more advertisers that target a female audience, in order to create “more stories.” Gina Rodriguez, who stars in Jane the Virgin, says "art tears down misconceptions and opens eyes to the beauty of our differences. We can't all be the same, but we can learn a lot about what we are not through art" (Crupi “CW UPFRONTS DIARY”). The CW was able to promote this message by partnering with Dove in order to create “The Campaign for Real Beauty,” that uses all women of different shapes and sizes, rather than a typical TV model. The Dove brand had their commercials during Gossip Girl because they wanted to promote beauty in all ways by using The CW to target a younger audience, since it’s demographic is usually women over 35 (Steinberg CW's 'Cwinger' ). These ads were presented to promote women to be who they feel they want to be, rather than what a typical women feels they need to be. The advertisements were strategically placed in the different shows in order to be able to speak to The CW’s niche that they have so strongly

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