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Cool Youth Brands List on Twitter

by Graham Brown on October 30, 2009

Find out more about youth branding and youth marketing in our 2 new Books The Youth Marketing Handbook Influence: A Marketer’s Guide From Monster Energy Drinks to Jet Blue – here’s a list of the brands we love here at mobileYouth on Twitter so you can easily keep up with the trends. NEXT GEN BRAND [...]

BIG means nothing if YOU mean nothing

June 25, 2009

BING is certainly making a BIG splash. Microsoft’s new project (But It’s Not Google) may sound irreverent in its stance but is that combined with a huge marketing push enough to make it relevant? Pundits claim BING is bigger than Twitter. This is true if you refer to these statistics. However, here’s a fundamental mistake [...]

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Cause and Connect:10 inspiring case studies how Youth Brands use good causes to sell

November 21, 2008

Need youth marketing speakers for your event? A global business development and knowledge share network for youth marketing and youth research agencies Key youth marketing recommendations for mobile companies Need powerpoint presentations on Youth Marketing and Mobile Trends? If you want to see how youth marketing will look in 5 years time, look no further [...]

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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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Great Brands, Uncommon Sense and Communication with Youth (EA)

October 27, 2008

by Graham Brown Youth marketing is always redefining the parameters of what is acceptable. Bright individuals will always push the envelope however there will always be a marcomms department to keep them in check. That was one of the themes of my recent presentation to Vodafone on Youth, Loyalty and Trust and follows on from [...]

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The 10 Changes a CEO needs to make to win young consumers – #7 Go Organic

March 11, 2008

The fruit of youth marketing lies in organic soil. Excuse the poetic analogy for one moment whilst we take a look at how companies are forging long term dialogue and relationships with young consumers using innovative methods. The innovation lies not in technology. This is not about discovering a web2.0 widget but in using innovative [...]

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