How to tailor your Instagram for millennial audiences
Younger consumers won’t respond well to traditional advertising, so your social media strategy must get creative. Here are some tips for changing things up.
The data is clear: Most people simply don’t like ads.
This even applies to targeted ads, with 51% of adults saying that this marketing tactic is an inappropriate use of their personal data, instead of a convenient way to learn about products that might suit them. Only 27% of respondents consider it to be helpful.
The chance to advertise curated products and services to a nearly unlimited number of potential buyers is too good to pass up. Marketers who aim to please customers find that their hands are tied dishing out potentially unwanted ads.
Advertisers also must walk a tightrope when it comes to targeted ads and customer opinion. In another report, up to 63% of respondents say they would effectively boycott a brand for targeting them too insistently.
To make matters murkier, there is very little concrete data to help advertisers do the math and figure out if targeted ads are actually worth the extra cost compared with non-targeted ads. (A quick Google search will also show you that opinion is divided.)
What millennials want
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