We’re seeing a whole new faction of people turning to Internet dating sites these days: married people in search of extramarital affairs. AshleyMadison.com, a service targeted to the already wed, reports that each year it sees its largest influx of married moms signing up for the service the day after Mother’s Day. (Evidently far too [...]
Jun 28, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, Marketing, Technology, Trends | Tags: "The Millionaire Matchmaker", Ashley Madison, Badoo, dating trends, divorce trends, Los Angeles, marital trends, marriage trends, Match.com, MissTravel, Mother's Day, New York, OKCupid, online dating, pheromone parties | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. This is the fourth in a series of four. See Euro RSCG Worldwide PR’s latest white paper, “Love (and Sex) in the Age of Social Media,” for more analysis about how Americans think about online romance. Whether or not, like Woody Allen, you’ve experienced sex as the most fun [...]
Feb 16, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media | Tags: AreYouInterested.com, Betty Confidential, Christopher Lee, Clay Shirky, consumers, Craigslist, e-dating, eroticism, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, Facebook, First Amendment, homophobia, Internet, love, Lovely Faces, Match.com, networking, online dating, online erogenous zone, privacy, Prosumers, romance, sex, sex ads, sleep, SNAP Interactive, Social Media, social network, social software, Time, trialogues, Woody Allen, Zoosk | Leave A Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. This is the third in a series of four. See Euro RSCG Worldwide PR’s latest white paper, “Love (and Sex) in the Age of Social Media,” for more analysis about how Americans think about online romance. Around Valentine’s Day 2011, our thoughts immediately turn to…social media. Well, why not? [...]
Feb 16, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Alvin Toffler, cheating, e-love, eHarmony, Euro RSCG Worldwide, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, face-to-face, GreenFriends.com, JDate, love, Match.com, millennials, online dating, online love, online romance, sex, Social Media, SoMe, Technology, Trek Passions, Valentine's Day, World of Warcraft | 1 Comment »
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. This is the first in a series of four. See Euro RSCG Worldwide PR’s latest white paper, “Love (and Sex) in the Age of Social Media,” for more analysis about how Americans think about online romance. It’s Valentine’s Day once again, when lonely hearts turn to thoughts of love, [...]
Feb 14, 2011 | Categories:Features, Insights, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: Classmates.com, connectivity, e-dating, eHarmony, eroticism, Euro RSCG Worldwide, face-to-face, Facebook, GreenFriends.com, JDate, love, mainstream, Match.com, matchmaking, mobile apps, Net Gain, online attraction, online dating, online relationships, online romance, Pew, preview dating, romantic desire, Serendipity, sex, Social Media, social networking, SoMe, soul mate, Trek Passions, Trends, Valentine's Day, Wired | 3 Comments »
This is the sixth 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. We hear the word “reinventing” applied to systems all the time: reinventing capitalism, reinventing credit options. Reinventing health care, politics, journalism, food, [...]
Dec 06, 2010 | Categories:Features, Health and Wellness, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: airport security, Arizona State University, Barack Obama, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, capitalism, change, Cindy Sherman, credit, Daily Beast, entrepreneurs, Europe, Flint, Health and Wellness, innovators, Ireland, Jewish Museum, journalismf, Madonna, Marc Andreessen, Martin Luther King Jr., Maslow's pyramid, Match.com, Michigan, midlife, mobile photo sharing, mycasting, Netscape, online dating sites, ood, Oprah, optimism, Peace Corps, PicPlz, Politics, recession, recommitment, reflection, refocus, reinvention, resiliency, retirement, Roger Ebert, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Social Media, SoMe, Spain, tech, TED, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, U.S., we can, Yes | 3 Comments »
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 »
