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Of A Kind: The Next Iteration Of Flash Sale Fashion

Posted by melanie | 01/25/12 | No Comments

I have to admit, I’ve been holding out on you. One of my favorite sites for the past few months has been Of A Kind. The site features limited editions of cool, fashion-forward apparel and accessories from up and …

Super-Logoffs & Whitewalling: Two New Strategies For Facebook Damage Control

Posted by emma | 11/11/10 | 1 Comment

As a window onto others’ lives, Facebook can be a remarkable tool for bringing people together — and, as we and countless media outlets have previously discussed, a quick way to get in serious trouble over an unfortunate photo …

Ypulse Essentials: Miracle Whip Goes Gaga, boyd @ SXSW, Super Size ‘Glee’

Posted by meredith | 03/15/10 | No Comments

Miracle Whip goes Gaga (along with a bevy of other brands lucky enough to be featured in the new Lady Gaga video “Telephone.” Not bad product placement if you can get it with the vid racking up 14 million views

Pew Research Center: Millennials, Media & Information [Part Two]

Posted by meredith | 02/25/10 | 2 Comments

Here is part two [Update: part one and three here] of our series from Ypulse Insights president Dan Coates dedicated to covering the Millennials Event that took place in Washington, DC yesterday at the Newseum to review and comment …

Win The First Ypulse GennY Award & Meet This Year’s Mashup Advisors

Posted by anastasia | 01/21/10 | No Comments

While Meredith has been keeping your Ypulse Daily Update fresh with everything you need to know about what’s happening in youth media and marketing as well as providing her always-insightful analysis, I have been diving into planning this year’s big

Ypulse Essentials: A Decade In Music, GirlTalk Radio, Microsoft Fights The Aging Process

Posted by meredith | 12/30/09 | No Comments

Editor’s Note: Ypulse will be taking the rest of the week off for the holiday, but we’ll be back on Monday. Happy New Year!

The decade in music (nice retrospective from USA Today on the rise of digital, the fall …

Let’s Create Non-Fear Based Online Safety Resources For Educators & Youth

Posted by anastasia | 09/04/09 | 11 Comments

We tweeted a link yesterday about an Ofcom study reporting that “young people want more information about online privacy.” Of course, if you look at the stats:

- Over a quarter (28 percent) also believe that information is needed on

Ypulse Essentials: Project Greensearch, New Teen Mobile Research, Online Learning Beats The Classroom

Posted by anastasia | 08/19/09 | No Comments

Timberland announces its 2009 ‘Earthkeeper’ Heroes (which is part of its ongoing Earthkeepers Movement launched back in 2008. Plus check out Project Greensearch – a “green” modeling competition.)

- New Pew Research report on teens and mobile phones (over the …

The Politics Of Social Networks And Keeping The Youth Vote Plugged In

Posted by meredith | 06/30/09 | 2 Comments

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the sixth annual Personal Democracy Forum here in New York. The overarching discussion addressed how technology has and will continue to affect politics in terms of participation and collaboration, but the thread I …

The ‘Ps’ On Facebook & Youth Social Networking Fatigue

Posted by anastasia | 04/02/09 | 11 Comments

danah boyd posted a provocative “tweet” the other day which also appeared on her Facebook status:

“I wish I knew how to measure passionate user engagement. No one believes me when I argue that FB passion among youth is fading.”…

Ypulse Essentials: YouTube EDU, Media Literacy Lands In High School, Management 2.0

Posted by meredith | 03/27/09 | 1 Comment

A spoonful of satire helps the newscast go down (recent polls show more Americans prefer to tune into Stewart and Colbert than traditional anchors. Motivating young people to stay well informed? I’d say that’s good news) (AdWeek)

- YouTube EDU