Ypulse Essentials: Teens Prefer Texting To Talking, Apple Launches 'Concert Ticket +', Stewart/Colbert In 2012
Posted by meredith on 04-20-2010
Did young viewers take a 'spring break' from TV? (Nielsen reports a recent drop among 18-49 year-olds. Also MTV says accept no "Shore" substitutes disassociating from imitation "Jersey Shore" series in the works. And Bravo and "I Love the '80s" creator Michael Hirschorn are developing show around New York magazine feature the "Approval Matrix" [pictured here]) (New York Post)
- Teens heart texting (and lots of it… as if you didn't know. According to the latest Pew Report, 88% of teenagers with cell phones are texters, half send 50 or more text messages a day, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month. Also was the Microsoft "sexting" ad clueless or shameless?) (TechCrunch) (BNET)
- Kotex cracks the code (of tampon ads breaking more rules of menstrual marketing in its latest round of spots for the U by Kotex campaign) (AdWeek)
- Apple launches 'Concert Ticket +' (a service to buy tickets through iTunes. Hmm… does this spell trouble for Ticketmaster? AndFacebook revamps users' profiles to promote fan pages for bands, books and businesses ) (PSFK) (Yahoo! News)
- Stewart/Colbert in 2012 (Comedy Central signs the pseudo-pundits through the next presidential election. Also South Park creation, Kip Drordy, the world's loneliest Facebook user, gets 120,000 new friends and counting) (New York Times, reg. required) (urlesque)
-What Millennials want (on the job. Also a survey finds Gen Y opting for convenience over security with online behavior) (Vancouver Sun)
- Tanaholics (get the "addict" label in a new study that suggests regular bronzing can lead college students to exhibit behavior similar to alcohol abuse. Also dissolvable tobacco products that resemble candy pose a poison risk to kids) (Daily Mail) (Reuters)
- Sketchers step on screen (with branded content in direct-to-DVD cartoons. Also turns out "Kick-Ass" was number one at the box office last weekend.. by a very slim, still disappointing margin) (Variety, reg. required) (New York Times, reg. required)
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