Portrait of Jessica Hawthorne-Castro

Jessica Hawthorne-Castro

Performance Marketing contributor Jessica Hawthorne-Castro is the CEO of Hawthorne Advertising, an award winning technology-based advertising agency specializing in analytics and accountable brand campaigns. Jessica’s role principally involves fostering long-standing client relationships with the company’s expansive base of Fortune 500 brands to develop highly strategic and measurable advertising campaigns, designed to ignite immediate consumer response.

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Don’t Blur the Lines When Marketing to Millennials and Gen Z

Generational Marketing

Gen Z places less value on high price tags and material goods, whereas millennials buy pricey bottles, designer goods and trips.

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Are You Using Social Media to Inspire Younger Buyers?

Performance Marketing

Social networks are the new search engines. How performance marketers can leverage this trend.

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Want to Attract Younger Consumers? Just Be Yourself

Performance Marketing

We all know personalization and micro targeting has become more and more prevalent, but it is a 'must have' instead of a 'nice to have' at this point for marketers.

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Despite the Bear Market, Younger Generations Should Embrace ‘Buy and Hold’ Strategies Crypto, Neobanks, NFTs

FinTech

Some of the shifts can be traced to the rise of “neobanks,” or those fin tech firms offering up apps, software and other technologies that help streamline mobile and online [...]

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Harnessing Gen Z’s Summer Travel Wanderlust

Travel Advertising News

Younger travelers like choices, spontaneity and loyalty rewards when they travel. Here’s how marketers can harness these and other trends when selling summer travel.

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Luxury Goods Are Becoming as Attainable as Fast Fashion

Performance Marketing

How marketers are bridging the gap between millennials' and Gen Z's love of upscale goods and desire for economy.

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 5 Ways to Meet Gen Z Consumers Where They Are

Augmented Reality Advertising News

Performance marketers can dial in their generational marketing strategies in 2022.

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5 Performance Marketing Trends to Watch in 2022

Performance Marketing

[Consumers] also looking for a seamless experience enabled by QR codes, which cut down on the number of clicks it takes to look at.

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Hold On, We’ve Entered a Digital Marketing Time Warp

Performance Marketing

How performance marketers can leverage accelerated industry trends.

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How to Start Preparing for the 2021 Holiday Season Now

Performance Marketing

What performance marketers need to know about driving sales growth across multiple generations of shoppers.