10 Ways WWE Can Appeal To The Teenage Demographic

10. Keep It Short And Snappy

It’s no secret kids have attention spans as long as the average WCW Goldberg match. As such, if WWE want to appeal to the channel hopping, net surfing, live tweeting generation, then they need to keep the pace of their TV snappy. Teenagers do not sit down and watch TV in the traditional way anymore and they certainly aren’t going to sit through the ponderous slog that is Monday Night Raw.

No more 20-minute talky segments to open the show. No more protracted TV matches that sag through the break. In fact, no TV match should go longer than 8 minutes. Go back and watch any episode of Raw from the Attitude Era (aka the last time wrestling was cool with teens). Matches rarely went longer than a handful of minutes and many main event matches wouldn't even get clean finishes.

Teens are not tuning in for the minute beauty of a thirty-minute time limit draw. They want high-octane brawling, action that can be watched in self contained little nuggets. This does not mean that storylines need to become simplistic and shallow. Teens have shown, through streaming hits such as Stranger Things and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, that they love to consume long form storytelling and are willing to invest: just make sure the delivery system is pithy and fast paced.