Ypulse Essentials: PopeTube, 'Hunger Games' News, 'Spore' Game To Target Kids
Posted by anastasia on 01-23-2009
MTV vamps it up (advertising a new online vampire series called "Valemont" within "The Hills." Plus check out NewTeeVee's review of "Anyone But Me," a coming of age story about young lesbians. The Pope now has his own YouTube channel. And more stats to back up the reality that this is how young people are consuming shows – online.) (AdAge.com, reg. required) (BizReport)
- Are fake viral videos bad? (asks ReadWriteWeb)
- 'Hunger Games' fans rejoice (the new cover for the sequel is online. Plus Melissa Walker has the "cover story" behind Teri Brown's YA book Read My Lips. And Alloy is now accepting YA manuscripts.) (Publisher's Weekly)
- New Spore game will target kids (and the Wii crowd. Plus another new kids virtual world: Freakatars. And the Philadelphia Inquirer did a story on the whole marketing self esteem to tweens issue.) (Wired)
- Tom & Jerry (to hit the big screen. And danah boyd sent me this link about a movement promoting unstructured play) (Variety)
- More teens and tech research (unearthed by MarketingVOX. Plus MediaPost, reg. required, got to peak at the research we mentioned the other day about Gen Y and food. And Media Life tells marketers how to reach kids at school – while I'm not a fan of this at all, I'm afraid as there are more funding cuts, it's going to become even more prevalent.)
- Can teens save newspapers? (in France?) (rfi)
- DoSomething relaunches Jeans for Teens (with help from "Gossip" guy Chace Crawford.)
P.S. Just in case you don't read Entertainment Weekly cover to cover like me, they gave the first season of the British teen series Skins (now out on DVD) an A and the teen high school election doc "Fruntrunners" a B+.
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