Future Consumer
The population and demographic characteristics of consumers are constantly shifting. Marketers realize the necessity of understanding segments they are trying to reach and the behaviors and preferences of the members of those segments. Gen Z is the segment of the population born after 2001, or 2004, depending on whose definition you subscribe to. It is growing in size and importance, representing the future consumer for brands around the world.
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Marketing to Gen Z
ASK Answers September 12, 2024Who is gen Z? How are brands marketing to this generation?
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Embracing Gender Fluidity in Advertising Internally & Externally
Pulse August 9, 2024While many brands are embracing LGBTQ+ inclusivity in their marketing, tackling gender nonconformity authentically can still present a challenge or missed opportunity for some. However, this is a necessity for brands existing in the now and moving into the future gracefully.
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Personalization Strategies
ASK Answers April 3, 2024How are marketers optimizing their personalization strategies, and how do consumers feel about them?
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Marketing to Gen Z
ASK Answers December 6, 2023Who is gen Z? How are brands marketing to this generation?
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4 Crucial Business Trends According to Gen Z
Leading Edge February 22, 2023As business leaders begin to set course for 2023, they face more uncertainty than ever – a perhaps preposterous statement considering the last three years. Economic downturn is crunching budgets, a distrusted media landscape is clouding judgment, and cultural pressures to “get it right” have never been higher.
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A Three-Step Plan for Getting Started with Influencer Marketing on TikTok
Soundbites February 6, 2023Reach Agency CEO Gabe Gordon shares his thoughts on how small- and medium-sized brands can approach “dipping their toes” into working with TikTok influencers, sharing a three-step process for getting started, growing, and eventually owning the channel.
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Is BeReal a Lucrative Platform for Brands?
Pulse December 15, 2022Besides the fact that the app is more ideologically similar to gen Z's wants, the app has reached "3.3 million downloads globally in Q1 of this year, a 390 percent jump from Q4 of 2021, according to data.ai. It sits in the No. 1 spot for free apps in Apple's App Store," as reported by Marketing Brew. These numbers are telling an important story: Gen Z is tired of promoting stilted selves.
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Gamers Say They Don’t Mind Ads as Long As They Don’t Suck
Podcast Clips December 12, 2022Devra Prywes, global head of marketing and insights at SuperAwesome, cites data that says young gamers actually don't mind when brands come into the gaming space, just as long as the brand is creating an experience that is additive to the game.
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How the NFL Is Engaging the Next Generation of Fans
Conference Session Videos November 2, 2022The NFL is on a mission to be the most youth-focused, community-driven sports league across the globe. In this video, learn how the NFL is strategically meeting gen Z fans on their terms through storytelling, partnerships with talent and creators, and development of innovative experiences within the metaverse.
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Tinder’s New Way to Win Over Generation Z with Data and Deeper Connections: Diamond Echo Award Winning Meteor-Induced Apocalypses
Event Recaps October 4, 2022Tinder’s Kyle Miller and 72andSunny L.A.’s Kelly Schoeffel reviewed the development and execution of Tinder’s award-winning “Swipe Night” activation, providing key takeaways and insights they learned along the way.
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Foursquare Insights: The Gen Z Report
Knowledge Partners September 15, 2022Research analysis that takes a closer look at foot traffic patterns of the elder Gen Z population (18-24) based on various life stages, lifestyles and geographies, aimed at helping brands and marketers identify and distinguish these unique and digitally savvy consumers.
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This Is How Square Is Creating Valuable Content for Gen Z on YouTube
Podcast Clips September 9, 2022Mallory Russell discusses the types of educational and informational content her brand is producing on YouTube to help create better connections with the prized gen Z audience.
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Marketing to Gen Z
ASK Answers July 19, 2022Who is gen Z? How are brands marketing to this generation?
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Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Campaign
B2 Awards July 16, 2022Vanguard Financial Advisor Services created an integrated, multichannel campaign that provided financial advisors with an ecosystem of relevant content highlighting challenges, opportunities, and potential solutions behind the $68 trillion wealth transfer from baby boomers to their children and grandchildren.
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Inclusion’s Next Wave
Knowledge Partners July 12, 2022Wunderman Thompson Intelligence released a new report exploring emerging trends in inclusion, revealing a powerful role for brands.
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Personalization Strategies
ASK Answers July 12, 2022How are marketers optimizing their personalization strategies, and how do consumers feel about them?
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VP of Brand Engagement at Denny’s on TikTok-Inspired Menu
Leading Edge July 1, 2022COVID-19 caused a significant category-wide decline in in-store traffic, with consumers spending more time engaging with a brand’s digital presence, ordering delivery, and spending more time on social in general - with TikTok playing a starring role. We needed to generate #FOMO for the brand to drive traffic back in-store once COVID-19 receded. To do so, we worked with 24 up-and-coming TikTok stars to act as hype machines to welcome the world back to Denny’s, co-collaborating on unique menu items and social/digital content to drive urgency among their social communities and re-ignite crave for our food.
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Connecting to Gen Z Purposefully
Social Impact June 20, 2022An environmental activist, social entrepreneur, and artist, 22-year-old Maya Penn has already launched a sustainable fashion brand and a related nonprofit organization, among other noteworthy accomplishments. She shares her perspective on how brands can best weave purpose into their business and speak to the concerns of gen Z.
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Engaging Gen Z Through Authentic Messaging
Knowledge Partners May 26, 2022Gen Z drives much of the cultural conversation on social media. This audience grew up in a different world as digital native internet users. Gen Z is the most diverse, culturally fluid generation, and they question everything.
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Meet the Future Majority
Webinar Rewinds May 19, 2022In this webinar, learn about the rising expectations younger multicultural consumers have when it comes to brands and a brand’s role in social justice movements, what is driving brand authenticity, and how can brands can be seen as credible accomplices.
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