Understanding DMAs helps businesses effectively plan and target their advertising efforts, as they delineate the local media landscape and audience reach, ensuring that marketing campaigns reach the intended viewers and listeners. Read our blog to learn more about what DMAs are and their value for marketing research.
What is a DMA?
A DMA in market research stands for designated market area. A designated market area is used for media, marketing, and advertising buys.
Other common terms for a DMA include media market, broadcast market, and television market area.
Those who live in the same designated market area receive the same television channels, similar traditional radio stations, and may share other media outlets such as newspapers.
Why Are DMAs Important for Market Research?
DMAs in market research are important because they often comprise the target markets for both qualitative and quantitative research.
For instance, survey samples can be purchased and panel companies can filter pools of respondents so residents that solely live in specific DMAs are targeted for the study.
This ensures your results are relevant to your target market of residents. Demographic and Census websites also allow users to filter statistics by preset DMAs.
Also, market research firms like Drive Research can work closely with clients and advertising agencies to provide insight into media and usage habits of the residents in their respective DMAs.
Therefore media buys can be based on statistically significant data and help guide ROI for advertising.
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George Kuhn
George is the Owner & President of Drive Research. He has consulted for hundreds of regional, national, and global organizations over the past 15 years. He is a CX-certified VoC professional with a focus on innovation and new product management.
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