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Graham Brown - author, public speaker on youth culture, media and technology
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Director, What Youth Think
Business author & speaker on the psychology of communication, media. Author of the annual “mobileYouth” (2001-9) report and upcoming book “Customers are the Brand“.
Since witnessing the growth of youth media and technology having lived in Japan in the early 90s, Graham along with business partner Josh Dhaliwal has helped grow mobileYouth to serve over 250 clients in 60 countries worldwide – names such as Vodafone, Nokia, Coke, McDonald’s, Telenor, Orange, O2, Verizon, Boost Mobile, the UK government and the European Commission.
Graham is a regular public speaker and has presented at the 3GSM World Congress, Barcelona and been interviewed on CNN, CNBC, BBC TV and Radio. His work has also featured in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and the Guardian. He hosts the youth marketing stream on Upstart Radio and mobileYouth’s own TV channel.
Graham is also a judge on the Mobile Marketing Association’s Award Panel and an advisor to the Global Youth Marketing Forum in India 2010.
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Recent video by Graham Brown on Paid vs Earned Media
(more videos on mobileYouth TV)
About What Youth Think
What Youth Think isn’t your average youth agency.
We’re a network of like minded youth specialists across the Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa managed centrally in London.
Back in 2001 when everyone was talking about enterprise and location based services we went against the grain and set up mobileYouth. We’ve been helping clients since then better understand their young (5-29 yr) customers.
What Youth Think is a team of youth insights and marketing agencies who operate without the overhead of a traditional agency. You can find out more about the partners in the network at Youth Research Partners. The Partners share ideas and best working practises to better service our clients.
What Youth Think currently service over 250 clients in 50 countries worldwide including: Disney, MTV, Vodafone, Nokia, Reliance, Singtel, Coke, McDonald’s, Boost Mobile and Telenor.
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