Noun
captive audience (plural captive audiences)
A person or people who are unable to leave a place or situation and are thus forced to listen to or watch something.
Passengers on the plane are a captive audience.
Register racks at checkout stands offer manufacturers a captive audience for their products in the retailer's store.
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. Howard Rheingold
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that. Jim Dale
Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience. Noah Wyle
There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience. Rohinton Mistry
Not only is life under quarantine surprisingly evocative of their setting, the fictitious town of Mercer, Ohio, but they have just what every creator of sparse, slow sci-fi craves: a captive audience. Source: Internet
However, online retailers such as Lazada now find themselves in a unique position, with a captive audience of locked-down consumers. Source: Internet