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End of the Pepsi Generation

by Graham Brown on July 14, 2009

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Youth Marketing Suicide: What will Pepsi learn from Motrin, EA and JetBlue?

by Graham Brown on December 8, 2008

Last week we blogged on Pepsi‘s departure from the rather staid world of high viz TV and print advertising in dumping agency BBDO. The brand, however, couldn’t have had a quicker baptism in the modern twitterverse than the backlash from it’s rather ill-thought out suicide themed advertisements (death of a calorie). Okay, kids may love [...]

End of The Pepsi Generation – Now you must earn youth trust

December 2, 2008

In 1963, agency BBDO introduced a radically new concept to the field of youth marketing – lifestyle. Join the conversation on Twitter The slogan “Come alive! You’re in the Pepsi Generation” and Pepsi’s self-proclamation as “The choice of a new generation” not only struck a resonant chord with the increasingly socially mobile and affluent youth [...]

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Law 7 – Ignore common sense: mobileYouth.org’s 7 laws of youth marketing

November 1, 2008

by Graham Brown Part of the feature series: The 7 Laws of Youth Marketing by Graham Brown <Back to Law #6) If you want to change your results, change your measurements 7) Sustainable brands ignore common sense – the underpinning of many of the failings highlighted in the 6 previous rules. Common sense means doing [...]

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Law 6 – If you want to change the results, change the metrics: mobileYouth.org’s 7 laws of youth marketing

October 31, 2008

by Graham Brown Part of the feature series: The 7 Laws of Youth Marketing by Graham Brown <Back to Law #5) Challenge your internal language 6) If you want to change your results, change your measurements Ultimately it all comes down to Your choice of metric. I’ve been a long time proponent of integrating long [...]

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Law 5 – Challenge your internal language: mobileYouth.org’s 7 laws of youth marketing

October 30, 2008

by Graham Brown Part of the feature series: The 7 Laws of Youth Marketing by Graham Brown <Back to Law #4) Make the internal business case for youth 5) Challenge your internal language. Many CEOs create an introspective “ivory tower” culture that takes too much time in self-referencing and using industry specific languages. See this [...]

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Law 4 – Make the internal business case for youth: mobileYouth.org’s 7 laws of youth marketing

October 29, 2008

by Graham Brown Part of the feature series: The 7 Laws of Youth Marketing by Graham Brown <Back to Law #3) Build a dialogue using the right channels 4) Make the internal business case for youth “We’re not a youth brand!” is the classic statement of disconnect. As the BBC strives to find mid teen [...]

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