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Posted: Thursday, April 26th 2012

Ford Fiesta Gets Role in 'If I Can Dream'

The 2011 Ford Fiesta has been cast as a personality on 'If I Can Dream',  - new programming that will be distributed straight to the show's website and broadcast weekly on Hulu. The show will follow  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 22nd 2009

Middle-Aged Moms Swoon over New Moon

Adult women are responsible for a big portion of ticket sales for the recently released 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' film, which took in $140.7 million opening weekend and $42.5 million the following weekend. While "Twi-hard" teen girls were the expected and most obvious fan base, it is now clear that the vampire-meets-werewolf film has also drawn in their mothers, who are flocking to social media sites to discuss and promote the film as eagerly as their Millennial offspring. As an exampl  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009

High-Tech College Students to Spend $6.5M on Gadgets

College students in America are expected to lay out an all-time high $6.5 billion this year on technology items and currently spend an average of 12 hours each day engaged with some type of media, according to (pdf) findings released today from Alloy Media + Marketing's 9th annual College Explorer survey,   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 30th 2009

Half of Communicators Think Twitter's a Fad

More than half (54%) of professional communicators think Twitter is a fad and believe that the burgeoning number of users and tweets will eventually reach a plateau and likely decline, according to a poll by Rag  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 9th 2009

To Protect Economy, China Sets Limits on Virtual Currency

Online transactions with virtual currency in online gaming has become so widespread in China that the government fears it will affect the actual economy, The New York Times reports. The country is currently one of the world's largest markets for massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs) like World of Warcraft; tens of millions of youth are reportedly trading virtual goods for real money or  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, July 1st 2009

College Facebook Users Have Lower GPAs

College students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than students who have not signed up for the popular social networking site, according to a study by researchers at Ohio State University. While the study of 219 OSU graduate and undergraduate students did not uncover a direct cause-and-effect link between Facebook use and lowe  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 9th 2009

78% of Gen Y is 'Meh' About Twitter; They Also Retweet Less

Despite the fact that 99% of Generation Y consumers (ages 18-24) report having an active profile on at least one online social networking site, only 22% of this same age group say they currently use Twitter, according to a study from the Participatory Marketing Network (PMN).   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 3rd 2009

Today's Teens Buy 19% Less Music

Teens between ages 13 and 17 listened to more online music in 2008 than they did in 2007, but acquired 19% less, according to research from the The NPD Group, which reported that this decline includes a combined 26% decrease in CD purchases and a 13% dip in paid digital downloads. In the case of paid digital downloads, 32% of teens purchasing less digital music expressed discont  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th 2009

TV Dominates Americans' 8.7 Hours of Daily Video Time

The average American spends an average of 8.7 hours each day consuming video media, and younger Baby Boomers (ages 45-54) watch the largest amount, 9.5 hours, according to recent collaborative research on video-viewing habits in the US, writes MarketingCharts. The large-scale Video Consumer Mapping study, which was conducted on  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 30th 2009

Netflix Connects Users with Facebook

Online consumer entertainment retailer Netflix, which publicized intentions to focus more on its online content streaming service, is expanding its internet presence through a partnership with social networking site Facebook. Using the Facebook Connect extension of the social networking platform, Netflix customers who are Facebook members can seamlessly link both accounts, the company explains. This will allow Netflix customer  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 26th 2009

Stardoll, Piczo to Merge Operations

Virtual worlds Piczo and Stardoll have announced plans to merge their international operations, in hopes of better appealing to advertisers. Stardoll operates as a virtual paper doll site for tween girls. Piczo positions itself as a friendly environment for young pop culture fans. Combined, the social networks serve about 20 million unique users; both focus heavily on forming strategic partnership  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 9th 2009

Social Networking: Community Enabler or Detriment?

The debate on the effects of social networking is building steam, with supporters praising its ability to bring people together -- and critics warning against obsessive use, the Globe and Mail reports. In 2008, more than one in three adult i  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 9th 2009

Social Media Zeitgeist Takes Over Skittles.com

Late last week Skittles announced the relaunch of Skittles.com, which isn't so much a website as an app pointing visitors elsewhere online where Skittles material -- official or not -- is hosted. Visits to Skittles.com drive users to a search for "skittles" on Summize, a real-time search engine for Twitter.com. Floating above this material is a Skittles navigation bar: product links drive users to Wikipedia, and media links send them to either YouTube or  [...]
Posted: Monday, March 2nd 2009

BrightKit Rebrands, Monetizes Microblogging

BrightKit, a Twitter marketing account management system that went live in November, has changed its name to HootSuite. In addition to services that enable marketers to both manage and track multiple Twitter accounts, it now enables them to monetize that activity on a small scale. ow.ly, a properietary ser  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 23rd 2009

SocNets, Mobile Carriers Circle Each Other in Earnest

Social networking ruled the coop at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress this year. According to Reuters, most visits to social networks are still made by people sitting at computers; but the spontaneous nature of socnet discussions makes the medium a perfect partner to mobile -- a topic of especial interest to enterprising carriers. According to Ne  [...]
Posted: Monday, February 23rd 2009

1 in 10 Adults Has Microblogged -- on Twitter or Elsewhere

Over one in ten (11%) online adults in the US say they have used Twitter -- or a similar service –- to share updates about themselves or view updates about others. What's more, those who use Twitter have a greater affinity for mobile devices, according to new research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project (via MarketingCharts. The most recent Pew study on th  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 19th 2009

Facebook Returns to Old Terms of Use

Bowing to pressures from the Facebook community, the social network withdrew a recent revision of its Terms of Use. The Terms, updated February 4, gave Facebook perpetual licensing rights to all content uploaded to the site, even after a user closes his account. It also included a clause enabling it to sublicense material. Revisions were brought out into the open   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 18th 2009

Biz Stone: Twitter to Charge Brands for Use

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed the microblogging network will begin charging companies for certain components of its service. Rumors that Twitter may start charging for use began taking concrete form in November. "We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge fo  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, February 10th 2009

Teen Tracking firm Alloy Snaps Up Sports Source TAKKLE

Teen media/tracking firm Alloy Media+Marketing has acquired TAKKLE.com, a high school sports/college recruitment site. TAKKLE launched in 2006 and immediately drew the interest of Sports Illustrated, which used the site to expand its high school outreach efforts. It enables high school athletes to build personal and team-based profiles, share photos and videos  [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 5th 2009