When designing creative for older adults and seniors, it’s essential to understand what their motivators are and how they process information. For over 25 years, Coming of Age has been designing creative that connects and resonates with the over-50 age group, with outstanding results for our clients. Our creative approach is based on our deep understanding of aging audiences. To …
Time for a New Lens: Change Your Marketing Paradigm to Reach the 50+
By G. Richard Ambrosius – To say that it is time to change marketing paradigms to connect with an aging marketplace is what author Tom Peters would call “a blinding flash of the obvious.” Yesterday’s marketing rules worked in the youth-driven markets of the yesterday, but the return on investment in advertising began a downward slide as leading edge baby …
Coming of Age featured as a Leading Advertising Agency in Clutch 2017 Coverage
At Coming of Age, we offer a wide range of services that include direct marketing, branding, traditional advertising, public relations and more. Our expertise in all of these areas, coupled with our understanding of the 50+ markets, is what drives us to produce only amazing and high-quality results for our clients, gaining them the recognition they deserve in their markets. …
Four Million Gen Xers Disappear: Blame Madison Avenue’s Death Star
The Star Wars franchise turns forty this year; look for quotes and metaphors to crop up ad nauseam in marketing circles. Always ahead of the pack, we’ll get ours out early. In another 2017 milestone, for the third year in a row over four million members of Generation X – born 1965-1981 – will reach their 50th birthday and disappear from mainstream brand advertising. Thanks to Madison Avenue’s remorseless …
How The Boomers Took America Global
By Barry Robertson – When January rolls around, many Americans turn their thoughts to vacation planning. And, as in most other areas of the U.S. economy, Boomers are the driving force behind the travel industry. It’s not just about loading the family into the minivan for an interminable are we there yet road trip to see the world’s largest ball …
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Thanks To Those Spoiled Boomers
By Barry Robertson – The doting parents of the Boomer generation grew up in tough times. The economy crashed in 1929 triggering the Great Depression of the 1930s – during which unemployment never once fell below 14% – followed immediately by World War II. So when the U.S. entered a period of incredible post war prosperity and self-confidence that lasted from 1945 until the mid-60s, our …
How Boomers Revolutionized The Luxury Car Market
By Barry Robertson – The 2016 LA Auto Show opened on November 18 and will run through the Sunday after Thanksgiving. It gives Los Angelenos a chance to walk off all that turkey and holiday goodies. Who knows, maybe somewhere in the glittering array there are vehicles as transformative as in the 1990 show when the shiny new Lexus LS400 was on display. Thanks to …
Boomer Girls Still Just Want To Have Fun
by Barry Robertson – Who says Boomers aren’t adaptable? For sure, not the defunct music cassette industry… Back in 1980, when Donna Summer rocked our disco world, vinyl records were at the peak of their popularity – we just called them “records” in those days, the traditional term handed down from our parents and grandparents. However, cassette sales were already …
Memo To Smartphone Marketers: Don’t Put Boomers On Hold
by Barry Robertson – One ringy dingy, two ringy dingy … Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (1968-1973) was a TV favorite among leading edge Boomers. It debuted on NBC Television as the top-rated series of the 1968/69 season, with an average rating of 31.8 (TV Facts, Cobbett Steinberg). Eat your heart out, Big Bang Theory (3.4 rating, season finale May 12, 2016, Nielsen). Okay, it’s …
Advertising to Boomers: Early Adopters will be too late
By Barry Robertson – In the Golden Age of cheesy sci-fi movies, scaly mutants in low budget rubber costumes, claymation monsters and rear projection creepy-crawlies ruled. One of our favorites is the 1954 Toho Film Company classic, Godzilla, starring a prehistoric dinosaur with a seriously bad attitude due to being awakened by H-bomb testing. Sure, anyone would be irked but, …
