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While older consumers do have more money to spend, most advertisers prefer to target younger consumers. The thinking is that boomers already have established brand preferences and spending patterns so it's much harder to convert them into new customers.


This is only really true for television advertising, since most of it is brand building, instead of "click here and buy now" online.




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