Converse in partnership with Thrasher Magazine, opened a new, specially created skate ramp to host the Texas Style Death Match on March 16–March 20 at The Scoot Inn. The four-day event is a free, interactive experience and engages the global Team Converse skate ambassadors, emerging alternative bands and the local skate community in Texas. Incorporating two music stages, best trick competitions and open skating, the Texas Style Death Match will once again be the only integrated music and skate event open and accessible to all during one of the largest music festivals in Austin, such as SXSW.
youth marketing
Clinique and Teen Vogue named Maggie Schoonmaker the winner of the 2011 Clinique Fresh Faces Summer Internship. A senior news-editorial major from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Ms. Schoonmaker has been awarded a 10-week rotational internship at Clinique as well as a one-week, behind-the-scenes experiential opportunity at Teen Vogue in New York City. Runner-up Julie Merin, a senior from Boston University, will receive a one-week experience with Clinique and Teen Vogue.
Marketers are finding an increasingly attractive consumer segment in Generation Z, those born between the years 1991 and 2002. In its new strategy briefing, ‘Make Way for Generation Z: Marketing to Today’s Teens and Tweens’ Euromonitor International examines the marketing potential for this group of brand-conscious, tech-savvy, old before their years and highly individualistic wave of consumers. Aimed at strategists and planners, the briefing draws on Euromonitor International’s vast information resources to give a complete picture of the world’s largest demographic grouping, accounting for about to 21% of the global population in 2009.
Nissan Juke continues to reach its audience, technically savvy young people living in urban areas, using all forms of the modern art. Last week we announced the musical campaign sponsored by the car model on European TV, and today we’ve got a news on another art project. This time Nissan Juke employs contemporary up-and-coming artists to create their visions of the car’s potential.
This spring, Polo Ralph Lauren expands its shoppable children’s online storybook collection with the introduction of ‘The RL Gang: A Magically Magnificent School Adventure.’ Showcasing Ralph Lauren Childrenswear Spring 2011 collection, the new RL Gang video, narrated by award-winning actress and mother Uma Thurman, was launched globally on March 3.
Art has no boundaries. Materials, theme, sizes, colours—this is up to the creators to choose. Mentos US invited seven sculptures to come up with their creations made of chewing gum instead of conventional materials such as gesso and clay. The results of this unique collaboration are unveiled on the brand’s Facebook page, with two of them even appearing in magazine print ads (a lady wearing a summer hat/fruit gum and a picture of a giant octopus seizing a ship in the sea/mint gum).