In this case it means to convey.

Student or Learner
There can be no doubt that how we speak and how we appear when we speak can have a significant impact on our ability to land messages and engage listeners.
What does land mean?
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I think it goes a little further than that. I think it means to ensure that the message reaches the specific demographic for which it is intended.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
This ageing speaker of BrE did not know what that meant.
When you land a message, the message is metaphorically airborne. It lands on and transmits itself to the target.
I am not a teacher.
I've never heard this collocation of 'landing a message' before reading this thread.
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The number of ignoramuses (ignorami?) has doubled in the last eighteen hours.
Tripled.![]()
Quadrupled.
I recognize it only as an analogy to "landing a punch." Understood the meaning, never seen that expression before.
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