If brands want to follow them will have to give their fans what they want

According to eMarketer, it is estimated that there will be nearly 21 million Twitter users in the US later this year and that a significant portion of them will use this channel to follow brands.

Research on Twitter users Constant Contact and Chadwick Martin Bailey puts the share track in 21% of the total, closely in line with the study of Compete, held in April this year 2011, according to which 19% Twitter users are here brands to follow.

Why brands want to conquer the hipsters?

One of the best manuals to find out what being a modern, the Castilian word that could apply to talk about what hipster, is no manual sociology. It is a not very long (and with a test at the end to test our level of modernity) comic, which claims to be “more useful than the Tupperware your mother,” and that explains how the protagonist ended up becoming the figure that gives title history, Modern Pueblo. Graphic design, artists and gin and tonics with cucumber slices: And so, laughing, the outlines of what they like to modern is discovered. The comic was one of the bestsellers of 2011 (and yes, perhaps gin and tonics with cucumber slices and have become mainstream), but interest has not waned modern since.

Hipsters are the new wave crest and brands want to be with them. The cities have been invaded by local small they are ‘like them’, have flourished as if it had come spring points to buy organic things or unique things (or anything that departs from usual) and up fully mainstream firms have begun to incorporate themselves what they buy modern elements. The ads are, of course, full of hipsters, because modern have become an attractive market and conquer.

5 Myths that brands still believe about millennials

Brands are pretty close to despair understand the millennials. The so-called Generation Y or Millennials, which includes those born in the 80s and early 90s, is the object of desire of businesses are the next big group in the labor market (which will become in consumer decision-makers as they will be those who are more spending) and they are one of the most attractive consumer groups by their characteristics to which it has had to face the market in recent decades.

However, brands and businesses do not understand these consumers. Millennials have little to do with their parents or older siblings and are diametrically different from previous generations. Those responsible for human resources, this is causing them great problems because they do not understand what seek these young people when faced with the labor market (their value system is different and value intangibles like happiness over things like high) income. For marketers, the situation is not them easier.