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Channel Audience

A Brand DNA field that overrides the Brand Audience for one channel (IG, TikTok, LinkedIn, and so on). Captures audience override plus tone shift and visual treatment notes. Optional but recommended.

Also called: per-channel audience, channel override

Channel Audience is the Brand DNA field that overrides the Brand Audience for a single channel. It’s optional, recommended for any channel the brand actively publishes on, and it captures three things: an audience override, a tone shift, and visual treatment notes specific to the channel.

Why per-channel

The same brand sells differently on IG, LinkedIn, and TikTok. The product is the same, the brand voice is the same, but the reader is different, the visual register is different, and the tolerance for length and seriousness is different. A Brand Audience that captures “senior buyer” is correct on LinkedIn and slightly off on IG, where the same buyer is also a parent and a hobbyist scrolling between meetings.

Shape of a Channel Audience

Three fields:

  1. Audience override. “On IG, the same buyer scrolls in three-second bursts between meetings, so the read is on a different mode than on LinkedIn.” Short prose, not a different audience entirely.
  2. Tone shift. “Shorter sentences. First-person plural. No corporate signoffs.” The delta from the brand voice, not a replacement for it.
  3. Visual treatment notes. “Hand-set captions, never lower-third bars. Vertical 9:16 default. Avoid stock-photo registers.” Channel-specific visual constraints that the Composer and the visual layer apply on top of the brand’s general typography and palette rules.

Resolution order at render

When a Variation renders, the system resolves audience and treatment in this order:

  1. If the campaign’s channel has a Channel Audience defined for this brand, use it.
  2. Otherwise, fall back to the Brand Audience for audience, and to the Brand DNA defaults for treatment.
  3. In both cases, the Brand DNA constraints (palette, typography, mandatories, things to avoid) apply as hard rules. Channel Audience can soften how those rules read, never override them.

When to skip it

A brand that publishes on a single channel (or treats every channel identically) doesn’t need Channel Audiences. The Brand Audience covers the ground. Channel Audiences are the right move when a brand is investing in a second or third channel and is treating it as a distinct surface, not a repost target.