The percentage of your target audience exposed at least once to your campaign.
Reach measures a campaign's width: 60% reach means 60% of your target saw your message at least once. Combined with frequency (average number of exposures), it composes the GRP: GRP = reach × frequency.
It's the fundamental trade-off of any media plan: reach more people, or make a stronger impression on fewer? The answer depends on your starting awareness and message complexity.
"For a launch, we prioritize reach on the useful target; to install a buying reflex, frequency. And we deduplicate reach across linear TV, replay and CTV to avoid paying twice for the same households."
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