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Millennial generation

CNN and Facebook Inauguration Coverage: A Mashup Made in Social Media Heaven

Kudos to CNN and Facebook for a tight integration and revolutionary live-media experience. They had the Y Generation / Millennials eating from their hand yesterday, and to anyone who knows how hard it is to tap into that market, this was a huge success on so many levels. Here’s a quick recap by the numbers and a dose of my subjective user-experience…

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Video: Perfect Example of How to Interrupt the Elusive Millennial Generation

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Marketers: I am immune to your tactics. I am smack in between the elusive X and Y Generations and I fast forward through TV commercials (I love DVR), I never listen to radio, I rarely read magazines and when I do I never notice the ads, and I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on an online banner ad in my life (well, maybe once in 1992.) I make my purchasing decisions based almost solely on brand loyalty, word-of-mouth reviews, and whim…

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Marketing to Millennials: A Lesson Learned from the Obama Campaign

In the spirit of Barack Obama’s Inauguration, I want to focus on the one group that helped push him into the White House, the Millennial generation. Millennials don’t pay much attention, if any, to marketing despite the fact (or perhaps because) theirs is the generation most marketed to in history, so how are you going to penetrate this hot group of “know-it-alls?”

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