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Download the March 2018 Developer Media Audience Profile by Evans Data

What is this and why should I read it? If you are marketing to developers, you need to understand your audience. We can help you by understanding ours. Get the skinny on who our audience is from the March 2018 Developer Media Audience Profile—gathered for you by Evans Data Corporation, one of the most trusted research organizations in our industry. In the profile, we serve up the latest data about our greatest assets—the developers who make up the developer-to-developer (D2D) communities we reach. Reliable Developer Intelligence Inside Not ready to commit and click yet? Where else will you learn: [...]

Download the March 2018 Developer Media Audience Profile by Evans Data2023-05-09T11:22:30-04:00

Four Considerations for Determining Advertising Frequency

Digital advertising presents the advertiser with a lot of options, particularly when developers are the target audience. In the work of creating developer-focused marketing campaigns, it can be easy to forget that the frequency tactics that are effective for a wider audience may not be as effective for developers. This brief article offers four advertising frequency considerations to keep in mind as you work to build your developer marketing campaigns. This article also includes a digital-focused version of the famous AIDA (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action) funnel. It illustrates the steps needed to compel developers to go from noticing your product [...]

Four Considerations for Determining Advertising Frequency2023-03-19T20:27:39-04:00

Mobile Developer Market Brief

Nearly every developer is a mobile developer, even if they don’t call themselves one. Over 75% of today’s professional developers belong to the mobile developer market. The latest Developer Media survey, based on a sample of over 20 million unique monthly developers who visit our sites, suggests developers are most likely to be “mobile developers” in their spare time (43%). They’re nearly as likely to be producing mobile apps and sites as part of their full-time job along with other development projects (36%). Dedicated mobile developers make up only 6% of the overall developer market. Mobile developers might not call [...]

Mobile Developer Market Brief2023-03-06T10:14:29-05:00

Developer Personalities: Audience Brief

Software developers are a unique, demanding demographic. Developer Media’s latest research analysis helps marketers better understand them in order to better market to and communicate with them. Developers don’t think like the average person. In fact, developers are somewhat of a breed apart. They’re likely to identify themselves as craftsmen and artisans, in an engineering, technical-problem-solving sense. While there are many ways to assess personality types, one of the most widely accepted is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), a way to illustrate personality differences. The MBTI describes personality types based on four pairs of opposing traits, and then describes [...]

Developer Personalities: Audience Brief2023-03-06T10:13:31-05:00

4 Reasons to Advertise in Developer-to-Developer Communities

On one hand, the explosion of digital technologies has offered marketers more innovative and powerful new ways to connect with audiences than ever before. But with so many different marketing channels to choose from, coupled with pressure to deliver results on constrained budgets, deciding exactly where and how to allocate your advertising budget can be enough to give anyone a headache. Get it right and you can reap the rewards of reaching new developers and growing your customer base. Get it wrong and you could waste a lot time and money only to have your message fall on deaf [...]

4 Reasons to Advertise in Developer-to-Developer Communities2023-03-06T10:11:43-05:00

2017 Audience Profile

In March of 2017, Developer Media commissioned Evans Data Corp to conduct a survey of their audience. The objective was to obtain a profile that would portray the various characteristics of the developers who frequent the Developer Media websites and so form a profile of their audience. Evans Data has conducted many developer surveys every year since 1998. We have 12 different syndicated surveys that we run each year, plus many many more bespoke surveys for private clients and they are all focused on developers. Thus we’ve become highly aware of the characteristics of various types of developers, their [...]

2017 Audience Profile2023-03-06T10:11:42-05:00

Marketing to Developers Field Guide

Knowing who you’re selling to is paramount to the success of any marketing program. Written by Developer Media’s Sara Faatz and Lisa Sidlow this guide is a quick reference to address how to strategically identify and reach developer audiences. Click here to download the Marketing to Developers Field Guide eBook

Marketing to Developers Field Guide2023-03-06T10:11:41-05:00

The Power of Developers: Why Developers Reject Tool Recommendations

We recently posed the question to the CodeProject.com audience: “How often do you shoot down product tool choices your manager / team lead presents to your team?". From this, we learned that 34.5% of the developers who responded very often, often, or occasionally reject the choices the purchaser has already made. In addition, approximately 30% never have to reject a product from on high because they choose their own tools! However, this first survey did not dig into the reasons why developers had rejected or disliked tool selections made by their manager, team lead, or other leaders in their organization. [...]

The Power of Developers: Why Developers Reject Tool Recommendations2023-03-06T10:10:32-05:00

Calling All DevOps Engineers

Calling Them What? And that is the question. If you are marketing to developers, you already know that there is no generic “developer.” Undoubtedly, your tool or service is meant to be wielded by a very specific developer persona. But thanks to DevOps, that persona may be employing multiple tools. So when your persona also identifies as DevOps, what does that mean? Why should you care? To understand this, Developer Media posed a very simple question on CodeProject.com: “Are you a DevOps engineer?” Yes, But... At least one developer responded, “Yes, but I don’t want to be one.” Harrr. [...]

Calling All DevOps Engineers2023-03-06T10:10:30-05:00

Check Out the 2019 Developer Media Audience Profile by Evans Data

Meet the Developer Media Audience If you are marketing to developers, you need to understand your audience. We can help you by understanding ours. Get the skinny on who our audience is from the March 2019 Developer Media Audience Profile — gathered for you by Evans Data Corporation, one of the most trusted research organizations in our industry. In the profile, we serve up the latest data about our greatest assets: the developers who make up the developer-to-developer (D2D) communities we reach. To learn who they are, what they do, and how they influence tool purchases, click here to [...]

Check Out the 2019 Developer Media Audience Profile by Evans Data2023-03-06T10:10:19-05:00