NIKE BASKETBALLGLOBAL YOUTH ETHNOGRAPHY2016
Ethnographic Research
Global Consumer Insights
Cultural Strategy
Documentary Production
For one of Nike's largest efforts to understand the global youth basketball player, we ran a two-month ethnographic study across six cities — Houston, San Francisco, Paris, London, Beijing, and Shanghai. Working with local community leaders, we sourced aspiring young players in each market and spent a full day inside their world: at home, with friends, on the apps and social platforms they actually used, and on the court to understand their rituals before and after play.

The result was a comprehensive ethnographic documentary and presentation that gave teams in Beaverton a real, ground-level understanding of exactly who they were building for — not just a market segment, but real youth with dreams and aspirations.