Mobile Youth Consumers

• Published:September 8th, 2008
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• Category:mobile life youth, mobile youth consumers

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‘High School Musical 3′ on MySpace (since most of the viewers are over 14, right?)

- Club Penguin’s newspaper (doing better than its real world counterparts - kinda funny) (Wired)

- Smart girls rock! (new Vanilla Star Jeans ad featuring Olympic gold medal gymnast Nastia Liukin) (Media Post, reg. required)

- Teens wary of mobile ads (limited by price and chatty as ever. Lots of mobile research from ComScore) (Media Post, reg. required)

- Energy drinks (making teens sick.) (L.A. Times, reg. required)

- Teens react to Palin pregnancy (once again teen pregnancy dominates the headlines….thanks Andrea! Also, for all you educators reading — the story about the Wikipedia edits made to Palin’s entry is a great teachable moment)

- McCainSpace (John McCain relaunches his social media effort)

- Battlefront (new effort from Bebo and Channel 4 aimed at inspiring teenagers to use the web “as a canvas for social change.” Check it out here)

- Fly Virgin ‘Entourage’ (Virgin names a plane after the popular HBO series. Plus USA Today examines young men’s changing perceptions of masculinity) (Variety)

- Open source textbooks (industry vets making textbooks free online) (Wired)