Category Archives: Gen Z

7 Ways to Market on Campuses According to Students

Marketing to college students can be daunting, especially on university campuses. Young millennials and G-Zens are not typically swayed by traditional advertisements, so companies have to think outside the box. That being said, it is worth the effort. Students who attend universities in the United States have an estimated buying power of $44 billion. Here […]

Digital-Since-Birth Students Embrace Virtual Internships

Credit: Jessica Gavrilovski Internships can be a blessing and a curse for college students. While they give students hands-on experience, they can also be difficult to balance along with other responsibilities. With technology growing at a faster rate than ever before, it’s no wonder that the digital-since-birth Gen Z embraces virtual internships. Virtual internships are […]

Rethinking Retail with Gen Z

Today, so much of our life exists online: we post photos of our meals, share videos of animals becoming unlikely friends, and we even ‘meme.’ However, despite expectations that the first “digitally native” generation would want to shop online, a new study released by IBM and the National Retail Federation found that almost all members […]

Students Earn More Green Per Buck with Eco-Friendly Shopping

Students everywhere are becoming more and more conscious when shopping. They’re choosing brands and products that share the same value of sustainability and opt-in for eco-friendly alternatives to their favorite products when they can. This year, students will earn more green per buck with eco-friendly shopping that will make them fashionable and give them the […]

A Message From Young Consumers: Share More, Own Less

The aftermath of a global financial crisis sparked a revolutionary idea: share more, own less. It’s an idea that promotes sustainability, affordability and accessibility and younger generations are hooked. Although the concept of sharing started with Facebook, a social network that promoted sharing life experiences and special moments with friends and family on a digital […]

‘Snip, snip’ Goes the Traditional Media Budget

During the 90s, television was everything. Many of us could be found glued to our ‘sets’ in the evening, catching up the news, watching our favorite sitcoms or crime dramas. But a lot has changed since then: the Internet became ‘a thing’, we got smart with our phones, and we even got savvy with reality itself. […]

School’s Out for the Summer: How to Keep your Reps Engaged

  Colleges are letting out for the summer, and that usually means campus marketing shuts down across the nation. In the past, it was much more difficult to use student brand ambassadors for summer marketing because a majority leave campus. But with Go Commando you can, because students are always attached to their phones. Go Commando […]

This is ‘Us’: Addressing the diverse landscape of college campuses

Collecting survey data from Millennials and Gen Z can provide valuable insight into their thought processes, how they spend their time and money, and what is most important to them. However, with a social landscape filled with diversity, it’s essential to know what terms are appropriate (and which are NOT). We’ve broken down some of […]

Get Green with Sustainability

Lately, there’s been quite a lot of debate about Millennials (ages 18-34) as that enormous swath of consumers makes its way across the economic landscape. But perhaps marketers looking ahead should focus more on Gen Y’s younger counterparts, Generation Z, those currently age 17 and under. Gen Z is smaller in numbers, but there is evidence […]

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