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5 Myths Marketers Got Wrong About Gen Z, According to Data & Our Gen Z Intern

Hubspot Marketing

To be honest, Gen Z can feel like foreign territory to all. Although I'm smack in the middle of the TikTok, middle-part wearing generation, I don't always fully understand the trends we start, stop, or totally cancel. 5 Gen Z Myths, Debunked. Gen Z is obsessed with fast fashion.".

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Everything Social Marketers Need to Know About Generation Z

Hootsuite

Your boss is about to ask you how to market to Generation Z. You know Generation Z is a huge group with spending power of over $143 billion in the United States alone. And the answers will help you do more than just market to Gen Z. Everything you need to know about Generation Z.

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Millennials vs. Gen Z: Why Marketers Need to Know the Difference

Hubspot Marketing

In recent years, there's been a common misconception that Gen Z and millennials are essentially the same. When companies discuss reaching younger audiences, many often lump Gen Z and millennials into the same group and create one campaign strategy that they believe fits both groups.

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10 Non-Obvious Social Media Trends You Need to Consider Right Now

Businesses Grow

According to information from Statista, Gen Z is now conducting almost as many product searches on social media as Google: This ties closely to the influencer marketing trend. The primary reason Gen Z visits social media is to catch up with their favorite influencers. But this isn’t just a GenZ trend.

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Nine ideas to market to young people who avoid marketing

Businesses Grow

Repurpose your content into short-form videos for social and get your expertise into places being scraped to build AI data models (sites like Reddit and Quora, featured snippets in Google, and guest blog/vlog appearances). Further, 32% of Gen Z rely on social media influencers to help them discover brands and products.

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Brands’ guide to effective mobile game advertising

Search Engine Land

This is the second article in our new series on why video games are a huge opportunity for advertisers in 2023. About 70% of Gen-Z age people who play games do so with the intention of just virtually “hanging out,” and not actually playing. But what should brands do if they want to start advertising in video games?

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Seven small observations on marketing right now

Businesses Grow

There are not many other places to advertise other than digital, and rates have been going up as inventory goes down. Agencies need more places to advertise, and Apple is giving it to them. GenZ media. I am obsessed with GenZ. They are so unlike any other generation and endlessly fascinating.

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