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Audience Language

The languages a creator's engaged audience speaks, as top languages with shares.

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top audience languages
English54%
Spanish21%
Portuguese9%

Every campaign speaks a language, and it should be one the audience understands. Audience Language shows the top languages of a creator's engaged audience with the share for each. It answers a question the creator's own content can't: a creator posting in English can easily have a third of their audience speaking something else. Like every audience data point, it only ships for creators where the sample behind it is large enough to be trustworthy.

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Start From the Engaged Audience

For each creator, we analyze a sample of their engaged audience. These are the people a brand actually reaches, which makes them a better base for demographics than raw follower counts. Audience estimates are extrapolated from public engagement signals, and every audience statistic is an aggregate.

The Audience We Analyze

followers
→
engaged audience
Why the engaged audience, not just followers

Every audience data point we publish is built on the people who actively interact with a creator's content, because they're the ones who see and respond to campaigns. The full reasoning behind this approach is on the Audience Analytics page.

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Language Detection on Public Signals

The engaged audience goes through the same language detection that runs across the rest of our data, documented in full on the Language page. It works from public signals only, and where the signal isn't clear enough, that part of the audience is excluded rather than guessed.

Clear Signal Counts, Weak Signal Doesn't

Part of the audience Public signals support a clear estimate English
Part of the audience Public signals support a clear estimate Spanish
Part of the audience Not enough public signal for an estimate Not counted
Unknowns are excluded, never guessed

Not all of an audience carries enough public signal for a language estimate. That part is simply left out of the calculation. The ranking is always computed over the share of the audience where the signal was clear, never padded with guesses.

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Aggregate With Quality Gates

Languages are counted and ranked, and the top of the ranking ships with a share for each. The result is only published when the sample is large enough to be trustworthy; below that, the field stays empty rather than showing a shaky number.

From Many Voices to a Ranking

English 54%
Spanish 21%
Portuguese 9%
All others 16%
Sample analyzed: 1,240 people Published only above the minimum sample floor
The minimum sample rule

A ranking computed from a handful of people is noise, not data. We require the sample behind the field to cover at least 1,000 engagers with a clear language signal before publishing, and up to 10,000 for creators with larger audiences. Below that floor, Audience Language stays empty for that creator. An empty field is a quality signal, not a gap.

Illustrative Example

Two creators who both post in English, with audiences that don't overlap at all in what they speak.

Two Creators, Side by Side

NikolaTravelsTravel · Lisbon · 3 platforms
Top audience languages
English54%
Spanish21%
Portuguese9%
Read

An English-first audience with a real Spanish-speaking segment. English campaign copy reaches over half, and a Spanish variant could unlock another fifth.

1,240 people analyzed
BorisLifeLogLifestyle · 2 platforms
Top audience languages
English38%
Hindi16%
Portuguese12%
Read

No majority language. English copy reaches just over a third, so a single-language campaign leaves most of this audience out.

1,050 people analyzed
Language is not location

A Spanish-speaking audience isn't necessarily in Spain: it can span the US, Mexico, and half of Latin America. That's why language and location ship as separate audience data points, and the strongest targeting combines both.

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Output Format

The exact fields this data point ships with, shown with example values, and how to use them in search.

The Actual Fields

NikolaTravelsTravel · Lisbon
language 6 FIELDS
language_1English
language_1_percent54%
language_2Spanish
language_2_percent21%
language_3Portuguese
language_3_percent9%

The top 3 languages of the analyzed sample. Shares don't sum to 100% because the audience speaks more languages than three.

How to use in search

Filter creators by the share of their audience speaking a language, for example "audience English above 50%" for an English-only campaign, or find creators with a strong Spanish-speaking segment for a bilingual push. Combine it with audience location to separate Spain from Latin America.

Validation

Audience Language is validated at both levels: the underlying language detection, and the aggregated rankings built from it. Both go through the same two-track process used for every data point.

The Two Validation Tracks

Multi-AI Cross-Validation
  • At least 2 independent AI sources label the same data
  • Tens of thousands of records per validation cycle
  • Outputs are compared against each other to surface disagreements
  • Two AI sources agreeing is a much stronger signal than one
Stratified Manual Review
  • At least 1,000 records reviewed per subset
  • Subsets defined across country, language, follower bucket, account type, niche
  • Catches edge cases random sampling would miss
  • Reviewers blind to the pipeline's prediction
Validated end to end, not just per estimate

Getting the underlying language detection right is not enough. We also validate the final rankings, comparing published audience languages against independently built reference data for the same creators. This catches errors that only show up in aggregate, and it is why the field ships with a sample floor instead of shipping every creator with any data at all.

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