Millennials Are Not Impressed With Your Content Marketing

Millennials Are Not Impressed With Your Content Marketing

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45% of millennials aren't impressed with native ads and content marketing, says Yahoo and Tumblr report.

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Millennials – also referred to as digital natives or Gen Y – created the art of consuming copious amounts of content across multiple devices at all times. Despite this ongoing consumption, 45 percent of Gen Y simply are not impressed with the content that marketers are serving up.

That according to a new study, “Content Marketing Best Practices Among Millennials,” by Yahoo and Tumblr, in partnership with Razorfish and Digitas.

While the oft-ridiculed generation may seem easy to dismiss, millennials have a lot of purchasing power and are expected to shell out $1.4 trillion by 2020. It would behoove marketers to win them over, hence the issue in this study. The good news is Gen Y is very open minded when it comes to native content, and will gladly share it with their social networks, as long as you don’t try to slip in a hard sell. The study, which surveyed 15,000 adults ages 18-34, found that this generation is very put off when they feel deceived by advertisers.

So what does this all mean for you, as a marketer? For starters, you’ll need to bring your A-game because millennials expect you to understand their needs, their preferences, and their passions. It’s all about them – they are a generation of selfie-takers, after all. Take a look at some best practices for winning over Gen Y according to the study, as well as some other content marketing thought leaders:

Make them laugh at or with you

“Comedy is the number one most watched genre online and speaks to their values of fun and positivity,” explains the Yahoo! study.

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