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Ypulse Essentials: Twilight Prom Dresses, Teens’ Internet Activity, Walmart Wants Cord Cutters

Posted by emily | 12/06/11 | No Comments

Although there’s only one movie left in ‘The Twilight Saga’ (hysteria for the franchise isn’t going away anytime soon. Need proof? Just take a look at the line of prom dresses created by Alfred Angelo, the designer of Bella’s wedding dress …

Ypulse Essentials: Warren Buffett’s Animated Finance Show, Decline In Music Piracy, Coca-Cola ‘Moves To The Beat’

Posted by emily | 09/30/11 | No Comments

What does financial guru Warren Buffet have to do with Millennials? (A lot since he’ll appear on The Hub in a four part TV segment next month called “Secret Millionaire’s Club” where he — in animated form — will give teens financial …

Tweens And Teens On The Back-To-School Shopping Scene

Posted by emily | 09/07/11 | No Comments

Today we have an exclusive ethnographic study on the back-to-school shopping scene, highlighting how retailers and marketers are reaching Millennials as they get ready for another school year. I, a Millennial myself, braved department stores, mass merchandisers, national chain stores, …

MTV’s ‘If You Really Knew Me’: Can The ‘Breakfast Club’ Model Reduce Bullying?

Posted by emma | 08/18/10 | 4 Comments

Lately MTV’s reality programming seems to fall into one of two very distinct categories: heavily edited, love triangle- and catch phrase-fueled guilty pleasures (ahem, Snooki and company), and more serious endeavors to mix entertainment with education—or at least start conversations—about …

Week in Review – Premature or Prescient?

Posted by dan | 08/03/10 | 4 Comments

While Staples declared July 14th the ‘first bell’ of the Back to School Shopping season, the reality is that BTS doesn’t typically kick in until the start of August and, this year, might come a little later. With many consumers …

How To Warn Teens Against The Danger Of Tanning

Posted by meredith | 07/31/09 | 3 Comments

The ongoing fight against young people who visit tanning salons just got a little more serious. Earlier this week the International Agency for Research on Cancer moved tanning beds to the highest cancer risk category raising the previous warning level …

Ypulse Youth Website Profile: NYC Teen Mindspace

Posted by meredith | 07/29/09 | 2 Comments

Today we bring an end to the hiatus of our Ypulse Youth Website Profile series with the NYC Health Department’s online health and wellness campaign NYC Teen Mindspace. Initially launched last year, the campaign recently entered its second phase so …

What Facebook’s New Privacy Settings Mean For Teen Users

Posted by anastasia | 07/02/09 | 3 Comments

After yesterday’s post about efforts to educate teens and tweens on managing their online reputations, Facebook may have made this easier to do. Reiterating the survey I cited yesterday, the reality is that most users of social networking sites are …

If Too Much Texting Endangers Teens’ Health, Aren’t We All In Trouble?

Posted by meredith | 05/27/09 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, The New York Times ran a piece on texting in its Health section with physicians and psychologists expressing their concerns that excessive text messaging may lead to “anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation” …

Ypulse Sponsored Post: How iTunes Apps Are Revolutionizing The Way Brands Reach Teens

Posted by meredith | 05/26/09 | No Comments

Today’s Ypulse Sponsored post is from Lauren Zaner (pictured below) of Fuse, anchor sponsor for this year’s Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup. This post is part of that sponsorship.

To learn more about Fuse Marketing and their unique approach to effectively …