Ypulse Essentials
Posted by anastasia on 11-28-2005
Kate Moss to be the face of Virgin Mobile UK (Sir Richard Branson says: "Kate is one of the most recognisable faces in the world, especially after her drug problem"….um ok) (Virgin Brand Blog)
- Coming soon (LATEENA Girls magazine - online in '06)
- Teen People spikes 'Prussian Blue' story (after promising to not include words like "Nazi" in the article…) (Huffington Post)
- Underwood tops country charts (and outsells other female Idols…) (Zap2it.com)
- Misguided adults make lame billboard (promoting abstinence b/c when adults say "bling" it's really cool) (AdRants)
- 80s teen movie songs (redone by other people…kinda like Cyndi Lauper's new album) (via Pop Candy - aka my favorite blog)
- Amp'd trying to be very edgy (in their new ad campaign featuring both sex and death) (Adage.com, reg. required)
- Solving the anorexia blame game (new research suggests it could be genetic) (Newsweek)
- Everyone's doing it (Sony is the latest video game console to add parental controls) (AP via Yahoo! News)
- MTV continues Web buying spree (acquires GameTrailers.com) (press release)
- Hip hop hurray (L.A. Times, reg. required, Sunday Current section is all about hip hop. Plus check out USA Today's feature on hip-hop churches)
- The new faces of teen pop (are not white…) (New York Daily News)
- Young men stay up late (overnight is prime time for marketers) (New York Times, reg. required)
- Sweden's Myspace (is called LunarStorm and boasts over 90 percent of the country's high schoolers) (via Paid Content)
- Tween tech consultants (telling mom and dad what to buy) (L.A. Times, reg. required)