Taking a lesson from the established popularity of fashionable food trucks, the retail industry is going mobile as well—with quirky clothing and accessories stores in vehicles as varied as rehabbed double-decker buses, school buses, Airstreams and Winnebagos. See Wanderlust, which sells vintage and handmade goods in Portland, Ore., from a 1969 converted travel trailer or [...]
May 23, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Fashion, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: boutiques on wheels, e-commerce, Fashion, fashion trends, fashion trucks, L'Oréal, mobile commerce, shopping trends, social, Social Media, taxi shops | Leave A Comment »
How does a stand-up comic make $200,000 in four days? For American wisecracker Louis C.K., it was all about cutting out the middlemen. The popular performer took distribution of his fourth television special, “Live at the Beacon Theatre,” into his own hands, offering it from his website as an unencrypted, high-definition download for the low, [...]
Jan 17, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Media | Tags: Beacon Theatre, CBS, CNN, comedian, comedy, distribution, e-commerce, entertainment trends, Louis C.K., Media, New York City, NPR, pricing, Radiohead, self-distribution, Web purchase | Leave A Comment »
Pinterest.com didn’t even exist 19 months ago, and earlier this fall it was still being run out of a co-founder’s living room. Now the site, beloved by DIYers and design enthusiasts, is valued at a reported $200 million. Although this kind of runaway success isn’t necessarily uncommon online—flash sale site Fab.com reports having reached 1 [...]
Nov 30, 2011 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Social Media | Tags: brand loyalty, Clipboard, Curisma, design, DIY, e-commerce, Etsy, Fab.com, Facebook, Pinterest, snip it, social marketing, Social Media, Svpply | Leave A Comment »
This is the third in a series of 12 posts expounding on the 2011 forecasts in the annual trends report from Salzman, president of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR and an internationally respected trendspotter. There’s a loss-of-faith crisis, and it’s as movement-ready as the one that led Jerry Rubin to pen the Yippie manifesto in 1968. [...]
Dec 01, 2010 | Categories:Advertising, Features, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Amazon, Barbra Streisand, Brands, Chemistry.com, China, communication, connectivity, consumption, convenience, Copains d'avant, CPM, Diet Coke, divorce, Duck Sauce, e-commerce, eBay, eHarmony, Facebook, faith, Foursquare, France, FreshDirect, Google, Gowalla, India, ineractivity, institutions, Internet, iPhone, Japan, Jerry Rubin, LinkedIn, Match.com, Mentos, Microsoft, mobile, niche, Orkut, personal CPMs, QQ, Richard Nixon, self-reliance, smart phone, Social Media, Technology, Thumbman, Trends, trendspotting, Twitter, U.K., values, Yahoo, Yippie, YouTube | 8 Comments »
