Bangalore Youth: More in Common with NYC than Rural India?

Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Andy and is filed under Branding, Emerging Entertainment Markets, Marketing with the following tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Bangalore Youth: More in Common with NYC than Rural India?

“My fundamental belief is that people across the globe are more alike than dis-similar. My belief is there’s a global youth culture, where a youth in India has more in common with youth in NY than with people from rural India.”

Joseph Tripodi, Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer, The Coca-Cola Company.

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Unlikely Allies: China + The Wu-Tang Clan

Posted on May 27th, 2010 by Andy and is filed under Branding, China, Marketing, Music with the following tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Wu-Tang Clan

C.Custer posted an interesting retrospective on the ChinaGeeks blog this week, discussing soft power, censorship and how the Wu-Tang Clan became unlikely ambassadors for China and its traditional culture. So what do 90s east-coast hip-hop, the Confucius Institute, a 1987 film by Steven Spielberg and an Australian electro-pop duo have in common?

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Article (link): The Breakdown of Tribal Borders

Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Andy and is filed under China, Marketing with the following tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Flickr Photo Download: The Breakdown of Tribal Borders (MEDIA Magazine)
(via @NeochaEDGE)

The article above discusses insights into the failures of marketing efforts targeting China’s Youth, and recommendations moving forward. Finally, hard numbers to prove that youth don’t have to belong to one tribe. In fact, the study cited in the article above suggests that Chinese youth dip in and out of a number of different sub-cultural tribes simultaneously.

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Touring NYC on two wheels (article published by FHM, July 2009)

Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Andy and is filed under Photography and Design, Published, Travel with the following tags: , , , , , ,

Words and pictures covering the New York Bicycle Film Festival published by FHM:
http://fhm.com.au/touring-nyc-on-two-wheels.htm (full article).

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