Gen Z Marketing with Chris Platt on The Six Sells Podcast

In this episode of The Six Sells Podcast, Mike Nicholson spoke to Chris Platt who is the Founder and CEO of Dig In. Chris has spent a decade analysing youth behaviour and has built the UK's largest first-party youth database. He helps brands navigate the chaos of digital marketing with attention solutions that deliver global campaigns to 500,000 university students each year.

Here are some of the topics we discussed in this episode.

Delivering samples to students and studying their behaviours

Gen Z and the independent shopping opportunity

Lifestage marketing and brands

Selling before brand allegiance is fixed

How a brand conversation can be an ice-breaker

Authenticity and how the mood changes with the Gen Z market

How Gen Z’s filter and discriminate effectively with advertising choices

The digital hangover

Gen Z’s and multi screening

How social media excavates our time and attention

The reactive algorithm and trust

Physical world marketing and how it sticks

The definitive shared need and reaching them at this point

The ABC1 household and spheres of influence

Driving ongoing purchase behaviour

User generated content and creating an online buzz

The first move advantage

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