Marketing to the Connected Generation

Nickelodeon UK faces an increasingly competitive marketplace where ‘content is king’. To remain at the top Nickelodeon must effectively communicate with the ‘connected generation’ - that is, anyone who has been online since infancy, able to work the video, or rather DVD since they were thre years old and for whom convergent technology is a reality not a dream.

Marketing to the Connected Generation

Neil SamsonFamily Kids and Youth

John ConlonNickelodeon

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE 'CONNECTED GENERATION'

Meet the 'connected generation', that is anyone who has been online since infancy, able to work the video, or rather DVD since they were 3 years old and for whom convergent technology is a reality not a dream. A typical member of the 'connected generation' is a primary school aged boy or girl, whose bedroom is an Aladdin's cave of gadgetry including a CD player, computer and TV with DVD player [1].

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