Thursday, March 29, 2012

GM turns to MTV to sell cars to younger generations

GM turns to MTV to sell cars to younger generations

Car companies worldwide have had a terrible track record creating cars that attract hip, young buyers. Despite all their best efforts to cater to the cool cats, the 18-24 demographic prefers to defy categorization. But now it seems car companies have a new, more vexing problem. The 18-24 crowd doesn't want cars at all.

General Motors knows all too well about its aging demographics and has turned to a creative new marketing firm to have a shot at bringing down the age of their average buyer. The firm is called Scratch and is part of MTV (owned by Viacom).

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