3 Great Branded Online Communities – Why Connecting Beachheads is Invaluable

In this week’s webcast we take a look at three great examples of online communities that bring together passionate consumers with shared interests or beachheads. The Monster Army boasts of over 1 Million extreme sportsters, The VSPink Nation will soon be celebrating their one-year anniversary with nearly 1 million fashion loving females, and Threadless [...]

Which Tribe are you Leading?

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Cool Youth Brands List on Twitter

From Monster Energy Drinks to Jet Blue – here’s a list of the brands we love here at mobileYouth on Twitter so you can easily keep up with the trends
NEXT GEN BRAND LIST
To follow the list click here and the follow button (you’ll need a twitter account to do this). If you don’t you can [...]

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Brand Democracy

The problem is that authority doesn’t recognize disruption as a positive and disruption is a constant in the world of marketing and communication.
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Context: The 10 Brands that Lead

Following on from my earlier post “Content is Dead, Long Live Context” – here are the Top 10 Context Brands you requested:
1) Monster Energy Drinks
2) Pure Digital Flip
3) Jet Blue
4) Threadless
5) BeingGirl
6) Toyota Scion
7) Ford Fiesta (Movement)
8) Boost Mobile RockCorps
9) Nike 6.0
10) Red Bull
Now, the point is… if you’re still committing most of your budget [...]

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Because it’s theirs…

Do your customers think they own your brand? The days of control are behind us. The brands that will win in this new landscape are those whose base of operations lie not in control but in leadership. This is brand democracy at work.

We’ve got to get it into our heads that youth don’t wake up [...]

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Upstart Radio 5: Victor Nguyen Long – Red Bull & Coke: how do they connect youth?

Upstart Radio by Graham Brown
If you want to see both sides of the coin when it comes to connecting with customers, Victor Nguyen Long from acclaimed agency 72 and Sunny probably knows more than most having worked with both Red Bull and Coke in his previous lives. Brands & people featured in this episode [...]

Now I can drink me – Chapter 2 (draft)

via threadless.com
17 year old Jessica is out shopping with her friends. Fingering through the racks with her spare hand she holds an iced cold Mocha Frappucino in the other purchased from the local Starbucks. They exchange opinions about what’s cool and what’s not. A simple retro design in pink called “Helium Menageries” catches her eye. [...]

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Is your marketing telling a story about the brand or the customer?

Marketing is all about storytelling because storytelling has, since the era of the spoken word and the hunter gatherers huddled around the campfire, been the most effective way of communicating meaning and change to others. So often we reduce marketing to the features, the product.
How successful would parents be if they instructed their kids to [...]

Youth Crowdsourcing Trends – Threadless, Unilever and new research

Crowdsourcing and Worth of Mouth
Can customer created ads generate word of mouth marketing? Unilever is holding a contest where viewers can film their own TV Spot for Axe’s Hair Crisis product line, with rewards going as high as 60,000$. (Source Todd Wasserman @ BrandWeek)
When communities build multimillion dollar companies.
“Threadless” CSO, Jake Nickell talks about how [...]

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