Millennials: The Challenger Generation

This white paper examines the age group known as millennials, also known as digital natives, gen Y, gen why and echo boomers - the generation born between the mid 1980s and early 2000s.

Millennials: The Challenger Generation

INTRODUCTION

Since the century's start, we've heard a profusion of terms used to describe the generation born between the mid-1980s and early 2000s: digital natives, coined by Mark Prensky to emphasize their break from the analogue generations that had gone before; millennials, to designate them as children of the new millennium; gen Y, to indicate they followed gen X, or gen why, in a nod to their questioning natures; echo boomers,to underscore their large numbers; and so on. Our inability to settle on a single moniker...

Not a subscriber?

Schedule your live demo with our team today

WARC helps you to plan, create and deliver more effective marketing

  • Prove your case and back-up your idea

  • Get expert guidance on strategic challenges

  • Tackle current and emerging marketing themes

We’re long-term subscribers to WARC and it’s a tool we use extensively. We use it to source case studies and best practice for the purposes of internal training, as well as for putting persuasive cases to clients. In compiling a recent case for long-term, sustained investment in brand, we were able to support key marketing principles with numerous case studies sourced from WARC. It helped bring what could have been a relatively dry deck to life with recognisable brand successes from across a broad number of categories. It’s incredibly efficient to have such a wealth of insight in one place.

Insights Team
Bray Leino

You’re in good company

We work with 80% of Forbes' most valuable brands* and 80% of the world's top top-of-the-class agencies.

* Top 10 brands