青少年已經表態，這些品牌是2017年春季的最愛。

耐克仍然是服裝與鞋類頂尖品牌，阿迪達斯悄悄醞釀卷土重來。Snapchat在青少年心目中仍是頭號社交網絡，不過Facebook的衰退并沒有分析師預計中嚴重。Chick-fil-A已經上位，和星巴克同為青少年最青睞的餐廳。

在最新版青少年消費研究報告Taking Stock With Teens中，投資機構Piper Jaffray的分析師調查了5500名平均年齡16歲、平均家庭收入6.61萬美元的美國少年，發現了兩大消費趨勢。

一是自2014年秋季以來，美國青少年的消費逐步下降；二是青少年的消費越發在意體驗。

食物是青少年開支最多的單類商品，占消費總額的24%，其次是占比19%的服裝。十年前情況恰恰相反，當時青少年消費最多的是服裝。

連鎖餐廳星巴克顯然是贏家，至少過去七年都是青少年的用餐首選。Chick-fil-A則實現了質的飛躍，一舉超越了墨西哥風味快餐Chipotle、老牌快餐連鎖巨頭麥當勞和意大利餐廳Olive Garden等等，躋身青少年喜愛的餐飲公司。

Piper Jaffray的分析師注意到，和Olive Garden等全服務餐廳相比，青少年越來越偏愛提供有限服務的餐館，這種趨勢大概是從2009年春季開始的。

毫不奇怪，青少年逛購物中心持續減少，越來越多的時間用來網購，亞馬遜現在是青少年首選的線上零售商。耐克依然是青少年最中意的服裝品牌，緊隨其后的是American Eagle和Forever 21。分析師指出，雖然阿迪達斯在鞋類和服裝的排名都落后于耐克，但最近排名上升速度加快。

十年前形勢大不相同。當時青少年最喜歡的是美國奢侈品牌Abercrombie & Fitch副品牌Hollister。近年來Abercrombie & Fitch銷售額持續下滑，正竭力重新爭取青少年顧客的心。

在社交媒體方面，Snapchat仍舊稱霸，81%的受訪青少年表示上月使用了該公司的應用，79%的受訪者視之為排名前三的社交平臺。

有趣的是，Piper Jaffray的分析師發現，Facebook的問題沒有華爾街擔心的嚴重。雖然業內競爭激烈，但Facebook在青少年最愛社交媒體的排名榜上止住了下滑勢頭，Facebook旗下的Instagram依舊深受青少年喜愛，僅次于Snapchat。

“我們認為，這些數據對Facebook是利好，因為一直有人說Snapchat導致其用戶持續流失，讓Facebook很苦惱。”Piper Jaffray的分析師在報告中寫道。

和Snapchat、Twitter以及Facebook相比，青少年更愛通過Instagram和堪稱復古的傳統通訊方式電郵了解零售商的新產品和促銷信息。這一發現對社交媒體平臺商業化的能力有重要影響。

Piper Jaffray 的分析師山姆·坎普在報告中指出：“我們很看好Instagram，網頁廣告量，提升廣告點擊率和轉化率都還能提升。”

坎普給予Snapchat的開發商Snap中性評級，認為市場可能高估了該公司的變現能力，同時“Facebook、Messenger和Instagram具備強大的分流能力”也有可能施加“負面影響”。

最后，iPhone在青少年智能手機市場仍是王者，81%的受訪青少年預計下一部手機會選擇iPhone，創下Piper Jaffray歷來調查的最高比例。（財富中文網）

譯者：Pessy

審稿：夏林

Teenagers have spoken, and here’s what’s cool as of spring 2017:

Nike is still the top clothing and shoe brand, but Adidas is quietly staging a comeback. Snapchat remains the top social network for teens' attention, but Facebook’s decline may not be as dramatic as some analysts had predicted. And Chick-fil-A has joined Starbucks at the top of teens' preferred restaurants.

In the latest “Taking Stock With Teens” report, analysts at investment firm Piper Jaffray surveyed 5,500 teens with an average age of 16 and average household income of $66,100. They found two key trends.

First, teen spending has been falling gradually since fall 2014; second, teens are shifting their spending toward experiences.

Food is now the single largest category for teenagers’ wallets, accounting for 24% of their spending, followed by clothing, which accounts for 19%. Ten years ago, the exact opposite was the case, with teens spending the larger share on clothes.

The clear winners here are Starbucks, which has remained teens’ top restaurant choice for at the least the last seven years, and Chick-fil-A, which has recently leapfrogged Chipotle, McDonald's and Olive Garden among the favorite eateries.

Teens are increasingly showing a preference for limited-service restaurants, versus full-service eateries like Olive Garden—a trend that goes back to at least spring 2009, Piper Jaffray’s analysts noted.

Not surprisingly, time spent at the mall has been declining, whereas online shopping has been growing, with Amazon now ranking as teens' top online retailer. Nike remains the favorite clothing brand, with American Eagle and Forever 21 next in line. Analysts noted that although Adidas lags behind Nike on both footwear and clothing, it’s recently been climbing the rankings at a faster pace.

A decade ago, this picture looked a lot different, with teens preferring Hollister, a subsidiary of Abercrombie & Fitch, as their top clothing brand. The retailer has struggled to make a comeback amid declining sales in recent years.

Meanwhile, Snapchat remains the king when it comes to social media, with 81% of teens indicating they used the app in the last month, and 79% naming it as a top three social platform.

Interestingly, however, Piper Jaffray’s analysts note the story for Facebook isn’t as dire as many on Wall Street had feared. Despite heavy competition, declines in Facebook’s level of engagement among teens has stalled, and Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, continues to be a close number two to Snapchat.

“We believe that this data is most positive for Facebook as it conflicts with the belief that Snapchat is causing continual declines in usage,” Piper Jaffray’s analysts said in the report.

Instagram and even good old-fashioned email outranked Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook as teens’ preferred channel to hear about new products and promotions from retailers—a finding has important implications for the ability to monetize the social media platforms.

“We believe this is a bullish sign for the potential for higher ad load, click-through, and conversion rates on Instagram ads,” Piper Jaffray analyst Sam Kemp noted in the report.

He holds a neutral rating on Snap, saying that the market may have priced-in overly optimistic expectations for monetization, while there’s still significant potential “for headwinds from diversifying use cases at Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.”

Finally, the iPhone continues its reign as the top smartphone among teens, with 81% reporting they expect their next phone to be an iPhone—the highest level ever recorded in the survey.