Millennials

Move over millennials! The next generation has arrived, and these socially and politically conscious citizens born after 1996 are changing everything.

This report, the latest in our Ipsos Thinks series, pulls together existing and new analysis, as well as brand new research on this latest generation in Britain, to provide a better understanding of the initial signals on how they will be different to, or the same as, previous generations.

Europ Assistance releases its 18th annual Barometer on Summer holidays, focusing on Europe's, America's, and the first time Asia's holidays plans. In 2018, summer holiday plans are consolidating in all countries with a stable budget in Europe and the United States while increasing in Brazil. Millennials are disrupting traditional practices giving new strength to alternative lodging and online reviews. Social media are becoming a holidays must-have for Asia, the United States and Brazil while Europeans disconnect more easily.

This special study sheds new light on Pakistan’s millennials - one of the country’s most important and disruptive consumer segments.

With the significant improvement in infrastructure and mobile technology proliferation, digital entertainment is increasingly popular in Asia Pacific. And as the average cost of data plans comes down while the respect for the need to pay for music content gradually heightens, demand for digital music entertainment in the region grows.

It could be time to start thinking of your next vacation. In our latest Thought Starter, we look at how Americans plan to vacation this year.

In a word or two, it can be said that Millennials are ‘image curators’. So what can brands do to better engage with them?

Having a strong employer brand is crucial to corporate reputation, giving companies not only a recruitment edge in the growing talent war but also the highest-quality long-term ambassadors to deliver on their brand promises. Employees are more demanding than ever when it comes to what they expect from their employer but this is not purely down to Millennials; employees at all life stages want a career with a deeper purpose. Getting it wrong and failing to deliver on the employee brand expectation can have consequences that extend well beyond employees; consumers too are demanding more from corporates.

Millennials can be challenging to communicate with, but corporate comunicators often do not think in terms of age, but rather attitudes and behaviours. The most worrying phenomenon concerns ‘echo-chambers’. Millennials trust companies and engage with those that are transparent, responsible and have something to say. however, true loyalty is hard to achieve.