The target market is the essence of all advertising, whether it's traditional or digital. The target market is the audience that an advertiser needs to find and convince to buy into their product or service because they are the ones who will want the product or be able to utilize it depending on their domestic or personal situations. Advertisements must be modified in a way that they will reach and resonate with that target group.
But, despite goals being more or less the same, there are some significant differences between how social media and traditional advertising operates. Social media, in many ways, can single out and be utilized by the target market more efficiently than many forms of traditional advertisements are able to do. While traditional advertising sends the message, they may not always allow fans and consumers to interact with the advertising or communicate with other consumers like social media advertising can often do.
The advertisers working with social media work in a way that they find their target markets through Facebook or other social media platforms and then work to inform and engage them through interactive advertisements while allowing all of those interested consumers to come together to talk about and engage with the advertisers and fellow consumers.
Social media advertising has been on the rise these past few years because of what they can do. Traditional advertising in a sense is not necessarily lacking, however, there are certainly some qualities with Facebook and social media ads that traditional advertising may not be able to do. Many people, both advertisers and consumers, appreciate Facebook ads because of how engaging they are and because of the sense of community that is formed from it.
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