Teens have been using cell phones since they could press buttons. Now they can text with one hand faster than I can type with both. But on those long lines for iPhones, the only young people were buying them for bosses. When is the Smartphone market going to cater to this savvy demographic?
This was the […]
Entries from August 2007
Teens Are Smarter Than Their Phones
August 30th, 2007 by Allison
Tags: Wireless World
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YPulse Mixer: Mark your calendars
August 29th, 2007 by Allison
NGT is happy to announce our co-sponsorship of the YPulse Mixer during Advertising Week on September 28th. More from Anastasia at YPulse:
MyYearbook and Fleishman Hillard’s Next Great Thing (NGT) are sponsoring drinks and light “finger foods” after the Ypulse Tween Mashup on Friday, September 28th in NYC. Bongo is funky and intimate, so space […]
Tags: Marketing & Branding
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NGT News: MySpace Fashion, Nokia’s iPhone, American Eagle TV? and Wimax!
August 29th, 2007 by Allison
WiMax Coming to NYC [Wired]
Samsung and Sprint are bringing fourth-generation high speed internet to New York (score!) The network, which already powers much of Asia, will be launched next April under the brand name Xohm. WiMax is much better suited to mobile than than W-fi, providing better penetration, connection quality and video viewing.
MySpace Gets Fashionable […]
Tags: NGT News Round-up
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Behavioral Targeting: Facebook vs MySpace
August 28th, 2007 by Allison
Earlier this year we said that 2007 would be the year for behavioral targeting. Both Facebook and MySpace have fulfilled our prophecy in the past month. Facebook just announced that they would be using profile data from their sites to sell advertising. In late July, MySpace launched a similar program in beta.
Why did Facebook get […]
Tags: Marketing & Branding · Social Networking · Web
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Movies Become Social Events
August 23rd, 2007 by Jeremy
Around the dawn of the motion picture age, movies were a grand social spectacle. In the 1920’s many theater owners built lavishly decorated “movie palaces” replete with grand entrances and luxurious seating to attract customers. Watching the film was a unique experience too. Theaters frequently hired musicians or even whole orchestras to score the right […]
Tags: Entertainment · Movies · Teens · Twenty-Somethings · Youth Trends
