Take Genlink’s Gen Z review and find out exactly where your brand stands, plus the next steps to improve it. Designed by Genlink and Marko Stavrou, South Africa's leading Gen Z strategist, and built on research with 1,000+ South African Gen Z.
How Gen Z currently experiences your brand.
What Gen Z genuinely values as customers.
Where your brand can start practical changes tomorrow.
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Get an honest, research-backed brand score from Genlink's work with Gen Z across industries. Plus a clear action plan to start implementing.
How real, transparent, and values-driven does your brand feel to Gen Z?
Is your brand showing up where Gen Z actually spends their time, in the format they expect?
Does your product, pricing, and customer journey actually meet Gen Z expectations?
How well does your team actually understand the Gen Z consumer or employee?
Authenticity is a real asset. Document it, train your team on it, and protect it as you scale.
Push further on authenticity. Take a public stance on one issue your audience cares about. Show more of your team and your "why".
Audit your brand voice across every channel. Cut corporate-speak. Show real people, real stories, and a clear purpose beyond profit.
Your digital presence is working. Double down with a creator network and start measuring share of voice in Gen Z conversations.
Sharpen your social. Build a recognisable visual and tonal identity, and commit to platform-native content over polished ads.
Get native on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts immediately. Stop repurposing ads. Hire or partner with creators who understand the platforms.
Your experience is strong. Now focus on turning happy customers into vocal advocates with referrals and creator collabs.
Tighten the experience. Look at mobile flow, pricing transparency, and how easy it is to talk to a real human when something goes wrong.
Your product and journey are losing Gen Z customers. Fix mobile first, simplify checkout, add flexible payments, and audit support response times.
Your team gets it. Protect this advantage by formalising your Gen Z insights function and feeding it directly into strategy.
Build a tighter feedback loop. Run a Gen Z advisory or insights panel and measure Gen Z engagement as a separate metric.
You're flying blind. Get someone on your team (Gen Z or partner) actively tracking culture, testing campaigns with real Gen Zs, and feeding insight to leadership.
Marko Stavrou, known as the Gen Z Guy, is the founder of Genlink, an investor-backed consulting and insights firm helping South African organisations unlock the potential of their next-gen talent and customers. At 17, he became the youngest person accepted globally into Henley Business School. Today, at 22, he and the Genlink team have worked with and built brands for the likes of Standard Bank, Nedbank, Bioderma, Universal Music, and Walter Sisulu University.






