The phrase "audience merchants" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals or entities that sell or cater to an audience, often in the context of media, advertising, or entertainment.
Example: "In the digital age, audience merchants have found new ways to monetize their content by leveraging social media platforms."
Alternatives: "audience sellers" or "viewership providers".
The advertisements for the Cyclopaedia describe the expected audience as "merchants, captains, families, [and] new-married couples".
In the meantime, their films at last found an audience and Merchant Ivory became a brand, an adjective.
A tennis court at the Hotel de Bourgogne, where a different kind of sport is going on: the tennis court has been converted into a theatre, and, before the play itself begins, a number of audience members and merchants are making a show of themselves: a saucy girl selling cakes flirts with, then runs away from, some wolves dressed as men; a drunk spectator enters and puts his heart on display.
That's the best advice for an audience watching "The Merchant of Venice" at the Clurman Theater, a production that often fumbles the play's comedy yet expertly explores its furious side.
That may be a reason why people who spend time online can expect to pay for that opportunity, rather than rely on those so-called free Internet services that have not been able to make much money selling their audiences' "eyeballs" to merchants or advertisers.
Leveraging recent developments in social advertising and audience-targeting tools, merchants can drive high-value traffic to their own proprietary sites, making the product listing capabilities of central destination marketplaces secondary in driving value.
Given that one of the biggest pain points in mobile payments has been lack of interoperability between platforms, this is potentially a big step in helping such services grow: the idea is that with a bigger potential audience to serve, bigger merchants, banks, payment providers, developers and handset makers will be more likely to make the necessary investments in infrastructure themselves.
It's better today than it was a year ago," Egil Juliussen, chairman of Future Computing Inc., the widely respected Dallas-based research firm, told a skeptical audience of personal-computer merchants at the Comdex convention in Anaheim Thursday.
However, the editors quickly realised they were missing something of a trick: by gearing books toward a working class youth audience – something American pulp merchants had been doing for some time with great success – they would be all but guaranteed a higher circulation.
On Monday, Bishop Hill was addressing a private audience at the annual Merchant Venturers' Charter Day service at the cathedral.
