Whether this kind of a niche workout studio can succeed in the current economy remains to be seen.
In the last few years, New York has seen a proliferation of niche gyms, with studios that offer only personal training sessions, or focus on jumping rope or using ballet barres.
It was also lucky timing: private trainers, specialized workout studios and niche gyms were just becoming status symbols among well-to-do urbanites.
"The Simpsons Movie" fills a niche in the major studios' release schedules that has lately become a void.Critics were shown the film just before it opened to keep the audience's enjoyment of the rococo plot twists from being spiked by internet killjoys, a policy deserving of support.
If none of them sound appealing to you, there are hundreds of small, independent game development studios who make niche games.
Whether The Holographic Studio will find its niche revolutionizing art auctions or as preambles to studio visits is unclear.
News Corp. might also gain leverage in negotiations with Hollywood studios, which provide movies and niche channels for pay-TV systems across Europe.
But French effects and animation shops have watched with frustration in recent years as their counterparts in Britain, including companies like Double Negative and Framestore, carved out a lucrative niche in doing contract work for Hollywood studios.
Anorexia is typically treated as a niche topic; Noxon told Vulture that male studio executives thought the subject was "too small".
Adding to the volume is digital media that makes it increasingly easy for studios to tailor marketing campaigns to niche audiences.
