Gaby Barrios: Why gender-based marketing is bad for business
Gaby Barrios: Por qué la publicidad basada en el género es mala para las empresas
BCG's Gaby Barrios has dedicated her career to understanding consumers across the world in a wide range of industries. Full bio
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y yo estábamos obsesionados
my friends and I were obsessed
celebrada en Francia.
these incredible athletes,
estas increíbles atletas,
the games were clean and engaging,
el juego era limpio y atractivo,
de igualdad salarial,
any pay at all for their sport.
cualquier pago por sus deportes.
we wanted to watch the games live,
queríamos ver los juegos en vivo,
the Spanish-speaking networks in the US
de habla hispana en EE.UU.
into the tournament
unos pocos juegos en el torneo
talks to me and says,
like everything I'm seeing
household cleaning products and diets?"
productos de limpieza y dietas?".
we were sensitive about it
con hombres y niños en nuestras vidas
with men and boys in our lives,
el objetivo por ser mujeres.
necessarily wrong with that.
necesariamente malo en eso.
at the tournament and said,
sea visto más por mujeres,
to be seen by more women,
because they're watching in Spanish,
porque lo están viendo en español
colocar todos estos comerciales
for me to place all these commercials
y quizás no otras cosas".
and maybe not other things."
molestarme en absoluto,
should not be annoyed about it,
are tasked with doing.
tienen la tarea de hacer.
with very limited budget,
crear marcas con un presupuesto limitado,
su objetivo más rápido.
to get to their target consumer.
para llegar a su consumidor objetivo.
as that argument seems,
que parezca ese argumento,
is actually not great.
no es realmente bueno.
if you still blindly use a gender view
usan ciegamente una visión de género
on stereotypes in advertising,
negativa de estereotipos en anuncios,
that has to be addressed.
que debe ser abordado.
you're leaving money on the table
porque dejas dinero sobre la mesa
to find in the market
de encontrar en el mercado,
from the fun things
de las cosas divertidas
from your brands
separation around genders
alrededor de los géneros
this activity is bad for your business
es mala para su negocio
o sea, doble agravante.
like other demographics
como otras características demográficas
good marketing shortcuts.
buenos atajos de mercadotecnia.
we were targeting needs
enfocamos necesidades
and personal care and driving and sports
personal, conducción y deportes
y las mujeres son diferentes".
are different."
we never challenged it again,
nunca más lo desafiamos,
a little bit insane,
un poco insensato,
como un segmento
to this conclusion lightly.
esta conclusión a la ligera.
that gender is not the best place
que el género no es el mejor lugar
and target your brands.
y orientar sus marcas.
a very gender-specific product category,
una categoría de producto muy específica
about your consumer right now
su consumidor ahora mismo
this conclusion specifically.
esta conclusión específicamente.
is to go with our clients
es ir con nuestros clientes
for their brands to grow.
espacios donde sus marcas crezcan.
to find disruptive growth in the market,
un crecimiento disruptivo en el mercado,
of the consumer.
muy agnóstica del consumidor.
at them from scratch,
that you thought were important,
segmentos que creían importantes,
where the growth is.
dónde está el crecimiento.
an algorithm precisely for that.
precisamente para eso.
hace una elección
I can know their gender, of course,
conocer su género, por supuesto,
their income, other things.
dónde viven, sus ingresos, y otras cosas.
this person is making a decision,
está tomando una decisión,
other things in the mix.
otras cosas en la mezcla.
of big data about a person --
es esta gran bases de datos...
for statistical tournaments.
un algoritmo para torneos estadísticos.
is like asking this big thing of data,
preguntar a estos grandes datos:
you know about consumers at this point,
de los consumidores en este momento,
useful thing I need to know
lo que necesitan los consumidores?".
about what consumers need?"
to have winners and losers.
ganadores y perdedores.
esas dimensiones,
those dimensions,
mucho sobre su consumidor,
about your consumer,
you know what they need.
that are just not that practical,
que no son tan prácticas,
un mundo de recursos limitados,
in a world of limited resources,
that actually have the same needs.
que tienen las mismas necesidades.
suspense is not killing you,
this is covering 20 countries or more --
por el mundo cubriendo 20 países o más
a hundred thousand of these tournaments,
de 100 000 de estos torneos-
the most predictive thing
el género rara vez es lo más predictivo
del consumidor.
as the winning variable
como variable ganadora
los roles de género tradicionales
where traditional gender roles
exactamente las mismas.
gender, than five percent,
un poco más que el 5 %
at a consumer,
to be more interesting to you than gender.
cosa sea más interesante que el género.
you need to know about them,
que necesitan saber sobre ellos,
you're doing everything based on gender.
haciendo todo basado en el género.
money on the table.
dinero sobre la mesa.
advertising based on gender,
basados en género,
and on TV based on gender.
o en televisión en función del género.
the exciting growth will come from.
vendrá el crecimiento más importante.
it's actually much more interesting to you
es mucho más interesante para Uds.
who they are eating with,
con quién comen,
significantly more powerful and useful
significativamente más poderosas e útiles
is a man or a woman.
es un hombre o una mujer.
your limited budget into action,
práctica un presupuesto limitado,
solutions for different occasions
para ocasiones diferentes
o a los hombres.
versus young men.
of consumption in alcoholic beverages
de bebidas alcohólicas
actually happens with women,
that we typically hear.
for the most part, in the same location,
en su mayor parte, en un mismo lugar
they have at that moment
funcionales en ese momento
to connect with the man,
con el hombre,
a little bit of tension,
that's something where we've heard a lot
son algo donde hemos escuchado mucho
between men and women,
hombres y mujeres,
men and women as different
estas diferencias
from the thing that is underneath.
bajo la superficie.
as "women don't like to invest,"
"las mujeres no quieren invertir",
and risk-takers,"
agresivos y toman riesgos",
about men and women.
hombres y mujeres.
that are excited and energized
emocionada y motivada
sobre los hombres y las mujeres
to actually what's underneath
so condescending to women
tan condescendiente con las mujeres
about managing their finances.
al administrar sus finanzas.
that were playing sport at the beginning,
que hacían deporte al principio,
over different countries,
encontramos en diferentes países,
between a man and a woman.
entre hombres y mujeres.
it doesn't matter for old and young,
hombre o mujer, viejo o joven,
and extreme competition,
a lot in common with their counterparts.
tienen mucho en común con sus homólogos.
into fashion, into other things,
a la moda, estar en otras cosas,
las necesidades no son diferentes.
the needs are not different.
on categories where we found
de las categorías donde descubrimos
el mejor lugar adonde acudir,
es una presión feminista,
it's not even a feminist push,
to start finding ways
empezar a encontrar maneras
sobre los consumidores
going to be appetite
para usar el género,
una conversación.
for me to grow.
la mejor forma para que crecer?
a person that is in business,
una persona de negocios,
about what is my role
preocupados sobre su papel
and you hear things like,
a su negocio y escuchan cosas como:
my target are men,
las mujeres, son los hombres,
para chicos jóvenes",
gender-specific product category,
de género muy, muy específica,
having these conversations,
esas conversaciones,
stereotypes of people
los hombres y las mujeres son diferentes.
that men and women are different.
and we're running a business,
y manejamos un negocio,
instinto de usar el género,
your own instinct to use gender,
probably not choosing the best variable
no están escogiendo la mejor variable
that growth is going to come
perspectvia tan obsoleta como el género?
with such an outdated lens like gender?
and go for what's right.
y hagamos lo correcto.
for your business, it's for society.
nuestros negocios, es por la sociedad.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gaby Barrios - Marketing expertBCG's Gaby Barrios has dedicated her career to understanding consumers across the world in a wide range of industries.
Why you should listen
BCG's Gaby Barrios is a partner and associate director of the Center for Customer Insight, based in Paris. She has dedicated her career to understanding consumers across the world in a wide range of industries, from fast-moving consumer goods, travel and retail to financial services, healthcare and technology.
At BCG, Barrios is one of the leaders of the Demand Centric Growth topic, which aims to drive organic growth anchored on deep consumer understanding. She has developed proprietary algorithms that help isolate what drives consumer needs, reframing the market in a way that highlights new opportunities to grow.
Barrios holds a Master of Science degree in management sciences and industrial engineering from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar in her native Venezuela.
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