Longitudinal Ethnography on GenZ for a Beauty Brand 2025
To truly understand Gen Z, a beauty brand ran a two-week digital ethnography across cities, towns, and villages. Through journals, memes, videos, and screen shadowing, we captured how they live and engage with beauty. The result: clear, actionable portraits shaped by emotional codes and cultural cues.
The Challenge
Understanding truths and trends – at a life, lifestyle, attitudes, behavior and media consumption level for Gen Z audience across India 1 (metros and big towns ) and India 2 (Small towns and villages)
Our Approach
2 -week deep digital ethnography
• Combined daily journaling, social/memetic content sharing, and digital shadowing of their public social handles.
• Included AV recordings of their home environments and ‘plain -speak’ video tasks reflecting on key themes.
• Participants shared access to their media libraries, shopping carts, and wish lists —offering a lens into real - time aspiration and consumption cues.
The Impact
CONSUMER PROFILING: Delivered a multi -dimensional portrait of the audience —capturing how they live, express, aspire, and consume in a digital -first world.
CX DECODING FOR COHORT: Revealed underlying emotional codes, social postures, and cultural references driving everyday choices and category engagement.


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