While millennials aren’t buying tickets to sports games anymore, they are buying tickets to musical performances in droves. Popular stars such as Beyonce are experiencing some of their biggest concerts ever, with as many as 50 concerts being sold out just days after their tour is launched. The main reason for these comes from two important factors, the first being today’s much larger reach for influencers, and the second being the ease of purchasing tickets online.
Back in the day, you were not always aware of your favorite music star and their upcoming tour. You were also reminded a lot less often about them, since social media didn’t exist back then. Nowadays, people follow their favorite musical stars on their YouTube channel, and watch their Instagram as they share their life with fans all across the world. It’s also a lot easier today to purchase tickets. You no longer need to call a broker, all you have to do is go to the artist’s site and order them, which also accounts for today’s lower ticket prices.
Mayonnaise Is Almost Extinct At This Point
Mayonnaise has never been a popular dietary option and was always known as the thing that you eat when you’ve run out of ketchup. Over the last few decades, mayonnaise has quickly gone out of style, especially among conservative millennials. Sales of mayo have been seriously dropping over the last few years. With today’s health-conscious and mostly vegan population, it’s not a surprise.
Part of the reason why millennials are giving up on mayonnaise is that it’s simply not that healthy. Mayo is mostly made of egg yolks, oil, lemon juice, and vinegar. Besides contributing to clogged arteries and chest pains, there are not many health benefits to be found in the food. Many of today’s young people would much prefer to eat their food with an avocado, or a soy-based mayo alternative.
Gyms Are Almost Completely Devoid of Millennials
While millennials today are much more aware of health and environmental issues, they almost never go to the gym. This generation is very different than previous ones, in the sense that it’s by far the most sedentary, but also doesn’t work out at all. Traditional gym memberships are on a serious decline. It’s not that millennials aren’t working out, in fact, on average, they exercise more than their parents. However, they choose to do this outside of a gym.
Young people today are much more into newer forms of exercise. They focus a lot more on fun activities such as yoga, pilates, CrossFit, kickboxing and others. There are countless apps nowadays that help promote healthy living, making it easier than ever to stay in shape. Today’s generation is also a lot more obsessed about health, and is largely much more inclined to drink healthy shakes, eat vegan foods and avoid processed meats.
Millennials Spend Much More Money on Coffee
The most incredible irony about millennials is that while they spend their last dollar on student loans and rent, they’ll still find a way to pay for an overpriced latte. Companies like Starbucks are making a killing among younger people, mostly “hipsters”, and are able to tap directly into their values, making them set all sensibilities aside and purchase coffee from there rather than making one at home, practically for free.
Various reports have found that millennials are highly likely to pay more than $4 for an average cup of coffee, which just goes to show that they tend to have some very contradictory decision-making processes. If you happen to visit a Starbucks in your area, you’ll likely find that it’s full of millennials who are studying, writing blog posts, or hanging out with their friends and uploading filtered pictures of their new frappuccinos.
They Love Personalized Ads and Valuable Content
One massive difference in purchasing habits between millennials and previous generations is that millennials love personalized ads. When talking to older people, you’ll often hear them complain about ads and people intruding on their privacy. Today’s generation is a lot less concerned about privacy, this is in spite of the fact that no generation has ever faced such clear violations of basic decency and privacy.
Millennials don’t mind seeing ads at all, as long as they are personalized. This generation loves to be pitched with products and solutions, but it does matter to them a great deal that the marketing is directly aimed at them and their needs, rather than just generally aimed at a large audience.