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Marketers fail to cope with digital habits of world’s wealthiest generation

Marketers and media planners need to understand that Facebook remains the preferred platform for Baby Boomers, but social media is only a minor part of their digital media habits, which is actually dominated by CTV such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video - formats that are traded and measured differently.

Baby Boomers (people born between 1946 to 1964 – currently aged between 60 and 78) are now the world’s wealthiest generation, however, brands, marketers, and media planners are failing to keep up with their evolving digital media habits, according to the latest ‘Baby Boomers’ big digital shift’ Global Advertising Trends report released by WARC Media.

According to the report, Baby Boomers are not spending greater amounts of time on social platforms, as commonly assumed. Instead, older generations are switching from offline versions of content media to their online extensions – be it connected TV, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, or online press.

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