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Book SynopsisOffering a critical approach to youth marketing, this comprehensive book provides a framework to better understand the mechanisms that shape youth consumption cultures and behaviours. The ideas investigated include how to advertise to digital natives, how to engage young customers, and why digital natives adopt or reject brands.
Youth Marketing to Digital Natives introduces a youth consumption culture perspective that captures the paradoxical and emotion-driven behaviours of young consumers while offering insight into the impact of social media, advertising and age segmentation. Wided Batat explores concepts such as fun culture, youth identity fragmentation, juxtaposition and virtual consumption, as well as examples of companies and brands that target the youth market.
Providing the reader with new market research tools to study digital natives, this book will be a welcome companion for students and researchers with an interest in marketing and consumer research. This will also be an interesting read for businesses and scholars looking to develop their knowledge of youth consumption culture and digital natives.
Trade Review‘Based on solid original research, Dr. Batat has crafted a must-read for anyone who must understand pre-teens and teenagers. Her results point to a new approach for marketing, whether promoting products or healthy choices, a new approach that takes into account the sometimes-rapid changes that young people go through. Practical and thorough, with clear recommendations and case studies.’ -- Jeff Tanner, Old Dominion University, US
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to Youth Marketing to Digital Natives 1. Why youth culture beats age segmentation when it comes to marketing to young consumers 2. From age segmentation to “segmenculture”: introducing a new segmentation method based on the youth culture criterion 3. How do youth become consumers? Exploring consumer socialization from childhood to youthhood 4. Are digital natives competent or vulnerable consumers? A challenge for brands targeting the youth market 5. Consumption, brands, co-creation, and empowerment in youth cultures: how can businesses capture the creative potential of digital natives? 6. Digital natives and social media use in youth cultures: what should brands know about blogging? 7. Advertising to digital natives: a hybrid and disruptive way to communicate 8. How are brands designing attractive customer experiences to connect with digital natives? 9. How to study youth consumption cultures: towards immersive market research tools 10. Are digital natives eco-friendly consumers? Conclusion
