No matter where you go, it feels like advertisements are always present. Companies continue to approach consumers using out of date methods such as through billboards, magazines, newspaper, and etc. The millennial, which were born linked to the world of social media, have different mind sets compared to older generations; therefore ignore the advertisements that are constantly around them. In “Marketing to the Millennial”, Suzy Menkes states that finding a way to reach this generation is the focus of every smart luxury and fashion brand. So how do you market the Millennial? After research and interviews, she suggests that marketing through social networks is the approach that needs to be taken in order to catch the millennial attention. I agree
Marketers can successfully reach Gen Z on their devices and will likely be remembered more than a traditional ad they may see in passing. Also, Gen Z needs some motivation to view your ad so give them a reason to look off the screen by appealing to their digital lifestyle but don’t overdo it and sound cheesy. Ad copy such as “The most Instagram-worthy brunch in town” may cause them to watch a restaurants television ad or “Snapchat in your radio song requests” may get them to interact with traditional
In “What We Are to Advertisers” and “Men’s Men and Women’s Women” both Twitchell and Craig reveal how advertisers utilize stereotypes to manipulate and persuade consumers into purchasing their products. Companies label their audience and advertise to them accordingly. Using reliable sources such as Stanford Research Institute, companies are able to use the data to their advantage to help market their products to a specific demographic. Craig and Twitchell give examples of this ploy in action by revealing how companies use “positioning” to advertise the same product to two demographics to earn more profit. Craig delves more into the advertisers ' plan by exposing the science behind commercials.
Advertisements are most always directed to a certain age group, gender, or ethnicity. Advertising I catch most often is that directed towards children. The most noticeable commercials directed towards children are Tyson chicken nugget commercials and foods that are shaped like animals or children's favorite animated characters. The embedded advertising to children has seemed to become quite the issue. Ninety percent of commercials about Tyson chicken nuggets show children explaining how they love them.
Since this isn’t people who more than likely don’t know the industry as well as she does. So throughout parts of the article it is difficult to follow easily as one would through a normal article. Her beliefs about the millennials are pretty simple and basic “they are grown up wired-linked as soon as they start to socialize via cellphones, computers and video games”. The many examples that she provides throughout the article helps readers understand and stay on track following the difficulties that companies have when it comes to marketing to this “wired-linked” generation. The way that she uses these example are a big help to amplify the message that she’s trying to get across.
In Suzy Menkes’ article, “Marketing to the Millennials,” she discusses the benefits of marketing techniques that are being used by elite fashion brands. However, she addresses the improvements that fashion brands should make to accommodate the targeted generations. Menkes believes that fashion brands are focusing too much on Millennials, forgetting about the much more important well-paid consumers, Generation X. Even though, I agree with Menkes in using technology as a marketing strategy to attract Millennials, I believe that fashion brands should consider expanding on their targeting group for those who are actually purchasing their brands. Suzy Menkes starts her article by giving the reader an imagery of watching a Hairspray advertisement,
This demonstrates the primary way to reach the iGeneration, which is through self- actualization. Her personal experiences create an informal tone that the readers can connect with on a personal level and this effectively promotes her argument. These real-life experiences allow the reader to relate to the issue personally and deepen their understanding of the argument. Through Wilson’s experiences, she gains a better understanding of the generation and can appreciate the beauty behind technology. Her change in attitude towards the generation demonstrates that a deeper understanding of the generation is necessary to appreciate the greatness of this generation.
Barack Obama made history on November 4, 2008 by becoming the first African American President of the United States of America. His social media campaign played a key role in his victory as hee gained a total of 5 million supporters on 15 different social networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace. The distinguishing feature of Obama’s social media campaign was that it focused on involving the people and used it to organize, fundraise more effectively and used it to support their bottoms-up grassroot campaign strategy which helped them connect with the people. .
Sharon Kaufman in The Ageless Self argues that older people create a continuity of self in describing the meaning of their lives which is revealed in the life review process. They maintain a sense of self and of continuous identity across the life span and thus can "be themselves" in old age. In order to achieve ego integrity they integrate and accept diverse experiences of a lifetime into what Kaufman calls themes. These themes are created by people as a means by which they interpret and evaluate their life experience. Themes are organizational and explanatory markers which connect and integrate diverse experiences and create and maintain continuity.
Smartphone ownership by young adults has risen dramatically since 2012. These younger smartphone users are more likely to use location-based information services than older users. Over 80% of young adults also use social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Microsoft advertising has premium content that attracts young adults and effective targeting to get the message across efficiently when they are online.
To start my research, I am going to go through a book named (Beyond the Marketing Power Mind of psychographics Games) by Rebecca Piirto. I used this book as a resource to start my research, this book includes a history of psychographics, and it included a two main topic that I would use in the research, which is “Attitudes and feelings that cause consumers to bond to brands”, and “The marketing implications of psychographics for manufacturers, retailers, advertisers, local, national, and international market.”, and there are more of them, but specifically these are the ones which are going to be used in my research. However, in this research iam going to use a survey to see other persons point of view from this research or topic. This research
Hence, from Ahlers’ research (2006), print media cannot attract young readers because print media get young people losing interest and also the print media unwatched of young people’s needs. Besides, the publishers under this trend agreed the research (Graybeal, 2008 and Kohl, 2008). In addition, the people who less than 40 years old are paying more attention to the online social network services (e.g. Ahlers, 2006 and Nguyen and Western, 2007). According to Zhou et al (2011), the motivations of using social media have three main factors: functional, such as shopping, learning things, making money, creating things, and study; experiential means entertainment, escaping from actual world, exploration new things, playing games; social motives for example socializing with others.
If you know your target demographics, you would understand their interests and what can captivate them. Use the knowledge to design your display ads to entice and grab their attention. For instance, younger targets would normally be interested in the social media and celebrity icons while young professionals would be interested in niches like health, family, and
The article “The Me Me Me Generation” by Joel Stein mentions how Millennials are a self-centred generation who have been raised with many participation awards and parents who mistakenly believed that strengthening their self-esteem was they key to success rather than focusing more on strengthening up their character and skills. Stein mentions that the younger generation lives mostly through screens, whether those on phones, iPad’s, or computers, and believes someway that it is entitled to success without experiencing the rough situations in lifetime. Stein also presented studies showing that the incidence of narcissistic personality disorder among Millennials is massive. Stein concludes the article by mentioning that this has not taken him by surprise, because this began with their parents’ generation, the Baby Boomers, or known as the “Me Generation.” Millennials seek to make their own mark on the world.
“We are too young to work at now”. This is the main stance of the millennial generation, as they are not yet ready to work. The aging population is the global issues, faced by almost every country, especially the European countries and in the North America. Whereas, in most of Asia and the South American regions the aging population is not an issue as they are enjoying high birth rates and high death rates. Canada is one of the countries who are faced with demographic change of aging population, which is an issue for these countries as the future economic well-being is dependent upon the future population (generation).
Marketers day in and out are having to find new ways to market to them and influence their decisions, whether it’s about a brand or a lifestyle choice or a social issue. However, this is no easy feat. Generation Y is mistrustful of mass media and cautious of its invasion into their privacy and personal lives. (JONES, 2012)research found that one of the greatest problem as to how to reach the generation on public service advertising was not just to target one information source but public service advertising must place ads in multiple media outlets in the hopes of reaching their target audience. Age-old tactics that once worked on their parents are no longer effective for Generation Y public service advertisements must be more creative.