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Audience vs Viewer - What’s the difference?

Difference Between Spectators And Audience

Strictly speaking spectators usually come to see something. They come to see an event, a spectacle. The people who go to see a sporting event like a football game, a boxing bout or a cricket match are called spectators. Usually in such events the focus is on what you see rather than what you hear. If you are walking along the road and you see two of your favourite stars shooting for a film, then you would be spectator. But when you go to the cinema hall and watch the film which you saw while it was being made, then you become part of the audience.
The word audience is related to the word audio. You are at a specific event to listen to something. An audience is an assembly of hearers. People who are part of the audience listen to or watch a performance. When you go to a music concert, a play or a movie, you are part of an audience. It is interesting that when you go to the stadium to see a cricket match, you are a spectator, but when you watch the same match on television, you are part of the audience.