captive audiences
Inescapable listener groups
A captive audience is a group that cannot easily leave or avoid what's being presented to them.
Airline passengers watching safety demonstrations, students in mandatory assemblies, and commuters stuck in traffic hearing radio ads are all captive audiences.
The term often carries a note of complaint: I had to sit through his speech—we were a captive audience.
- listenersThose who attend aurally
- spectatorsThose who observe events
- attendeesPeople at an event
- waiting roomsSpaces for those expecting appointments
- marketingPromoting goods to consumers
exploitation · held hostage · consumers · elevators · coercion · manipulation · interruption · viewers · movie theaters · public transportation · onlookers · airports · subway riders · bystanders · informed consent · patrons · observers · commercials
captive audienceswilling participants
ticket buyers · subscribers · seekers · free agents · browsers
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