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Direct-to-fan & superfans · Lesson 1 of 6

The audience you own vs the audience you rent

18 minPractitionerFree

Every listener you have reaches you through a channel, and those channels fall into two groups: ones you control and ones that control you. Platform followers are rented — the platform decides who sees you, and it can change that overnight. Email addresses and members are owned.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Tell owned and rented audience apart across your channels
  • See why follower counts are a weak measure
  • Pick the one metric worth improving first
  • Start moving attention to a channel you control

Inside this lesson

  1. 1Sorting your channels
  2. 2What to measure
  3. 3Starting the shift

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  • Narrated — put it on while you work
  • A badge for the track when you finish it
Start this lessonFree with your LUCY account · opens the app if you have it

In this lesson you will learn: Tell owned and rented audience apart across your channels. See why follower counts are a weak measure. Pick the one metric worth improving first. Start moving attention to a channel you control.

About this lesson

Every listener you have reaches you through a channel, and those channels fall into two groups: ones you control and ones that control you. Platform followers are rented — the platform decides who sees you, and it can change that overnight. Email addresses and members are owned.

What this lesson covers

Tell owned and rented audience apart across your channels

See why follower counts are a weak measure

Pick the one metric worth improving first

Start moving attention to a channel you control

Inside this lesson

Sorting your channels

What to measure

Starting the shift

Take this lesson in the LUCY app

Open this lesson in LUCY and it rewrites itself around the music you make, reads itself aloud while you work, and answers questions about your own releases. Finish the track and the badge is yours. Free with a LUCY account.