These days, reality TV’s ridiculousness is rivaled only by its ubiquity. And the role of the youth audience has evolved from tangential spectator (The Bachelor) to active participant (My Super Sweet 16). But Range Rovers and rapper cameos are hardly “reality” for most young people. In fact, it would seem the very antidote to this […]
Entries Tagged as 'TV & Video'
Twitterview: @jillokawa on Virgin Mobile’s Homeless Youth TV
November 18th, 2008 by Laura W
Tags: Campaigns · Culture & Entertainment · Interview · TV & Video · Teens · Twitterview · Youth Trends
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Top Mobile Trends: Interactive Media
October 13th, 2008 by Allison
The digital age has brought with it an expectation of personalization. Our computers let us create unique content and experiences with all forms of data–audio, pictures, video, location. Digital cameras and digital cable allow us to freeze a moment in time, record it and review it. Phones are essentially tiny computers we carry around […]
Tags: Emerging Technology · TV & Video · Top Mobile Trends · Virtual Worlds & Avatars
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Top Mobile Trends: Multimedia Microblogging
September 15th, 2008 by Allison
Having a name like “Next Great Thing” we are often asked, “So… What is it?” Over the next few months, we’ll be blogging our “Top Mobile Trends” every Monday to help answer that question.
Now, we aren’t claiming we’ve discovered these (”Twitter! Eureka!!”). Rather, we’ll be presenting the prevailing themes we’ve seen emerging over the […]
Tags: Apps & Widgets · Mobile · TV & Video · Top Mobile Trends · Youth Trends
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The Week in Mobile: Handsets, Auto, Culture, Music, Video
September 12th, 2008 by NGT
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Touchscreens getting big for Asian market [IntoMobile]
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Japan is really getting into touchscreens. This is backed up ina new report from ABI: “Because it’s difficult to represent even a fraction of the common Asian characters on a QWERTY-style keyboard, touch screen devices on which characters can be written with a stylus […]
Tags: Auto · Culture & Entertainment · Emerging Technology · Handsets · Mobile · Music · TV & Video
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Mobile Video: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
August 18th, 2008 by NGT
A couple months ago we asked: What are youth watching on their phones? Avot Media, a video streaming service, recently sent us the youth results from of a Mobile Video Study that sheds some more light on content and delivery preferences, as well as current barriers to adoption.
The study was intended to “uncover the interests […]
Tags: Culture & Entertainment · Emerging Technology · Mobile · TV & Video · Teens · Twenty-Somethings · Youth Trends
