Mobile commerce and Asia’s millennials: a match made in retail heaven

Millennials in Asia are an important market for mobile commerce, with yet more potential for retailers to tap into.

The millennial generation, fast and furious as they scroll through shiny screens on their mobile devices, are somehow able to consume content at “lightning fast speed”.

Calling it “F1 in terms of how the brain works”, Twitter’s head of research in Asia Pacific and MENA Martyn U'ren, who spoke alongside Twitter’s Southeast Asia MD Arvinder Gujral recently at the Money 20/20 Asia conference in Singapore, suggested this consumption behaviour is less about mindless scrolling than active processing.

“What we see in campaigns is that we can actually see some brands able to communicate [to them] in the first 0.25 of...

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