Since when do Ben Stiller movies flop? Well, apparently since “Halo 3″ came around.
Earlier this month, the star of “Zoolander” and “Meet the Fockers” saw his latest film, “The Heartbreak Kid,” debut with sales well below even the industry’s lowest expectations. The Oct. 5th weekend actually proved disappointing for the entire industry: ticket sales were […]
Entries Tagged as 'Tweens'
Halo Sweeps the Box Office
October 17th, 2007 by David
Tags: Entertainment · Gaming · Marketing & Branding · Movies · Teens · Tweens · Twenty-Somethings · Youth Trends
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TWEENS TAKE GAMING ONLINE
October 4th, 2007 by Allison
The kids on the Tween Panel at the YPulse Mashup this past Friday were hard pressed to come up with their favorite Web sites that weren’t gaming sites. They rattled them off… Albinoblacksheep, Pokemon, Crazymonkeygames, Neopets, Webkinz, Maplestory…. and the others nodded their heads knowingly.
Tweens (ages 8 to 12) are just all about gaming […]
Tags: Gaming · Tweens · Youth Trends
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Summer Camps: Offline Social Networks
August 8th, 2007 by Allison
The Dangerous Book for Boys has sat atop bestseller lists all summer. It is essentially nostalgia among adults for their youthes spent scraping knees and throwing rocks at each other. Good times…
The book is flying off shelves for the same reason the Patriot Act passed: Fear. Parents today worry that their kids aren’t getting out […]
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Next Great Thing: Zac Efron
July 27th, 2007 by Marc
When the remake of the campy movie musical Hairspray opened last weekend, our interns Micaela, Ashley and Carrie were sure to be there. They went to see one person, really: Zac Efron. The girls even scored an autograph (right).
Zac is the biggest star you’ve never heard of. Though teens have; he’s already in the top […]
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Global Youth Tribe
February 14th, 2007 by rambam
Today’s youth have grown up with the world at their fingertips–literally. Internet and mobile are like oxygen for most. UGC is breaking down any barriers to communication. As a result, this generation has come together, forming what we call the Global Youth Tribe–a hyperconnected clique with common interests, habits and needs.
Digital media allows them […]
Tags: Asia · Teens · Tweens · Twenty-Somethings · Youth Trends
