Inside Outside

Oscar Allain is Vice President of Cross-Cultural Strategy and Research at UM Worldwide. He focuses on reaching the rapidly changing multicultural audiences in the US. Oscar talks with Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation founder, about brands being part of the cultural conversation and doing it the right way.  Key Points - WAVE is UM’s annual study to gain a better understanding of the digital world. This year they decided to quantify the Remix cultures.  - Remix Culture studies the movements within cultures that are being influenced by ethic or minorities such as Hispanics, Asians and LGBT communities. They want to understand what the implications are for certain businesses.   - ReMix’s four cultural pillars - Resist, Retrograde, Re-globallize, Recreate - Latinos have changed over past 20 years from need to assimilate to amping up on sense of identity.  - Ethnic Cultures are part of movement/generations that speak up against things that don’t align with values, ability to retro-culturate, have a c