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Category Archives: Trends

Jun 7

Google Glass: Game-Changer or Flavor of the Month?

  “Fashionable technology” is not an oxymoron! Wearable tech will be a significant market in the near future because it satisfies two very real needs: information and convenience. And yet, when we heard about Google’s upcoming web-enabled Glass eyewear last year, … Continue reading

May 31

Readers Really Do Prefer “Native” Advertising. Now What?

  If you see advertorials (aka “native advertising,” aka “sponsored content,” aka “content marketing”) as curios best relegated to the back pages of trade publications and the landfills they occupy, then you might be surprised by recent trends. Turns out … Continue reading

May 28

How Will Tumblr Change the Social Marketing Landscape?

Recent reports about the Millennial demographic growing less interested in Facebook add up to a lot of smoke with no fire in sight. Two facts are clear, however: first, microblogging platform Tumblr‘s Millennial membership is growing quickly. Second, Tumblr’s recent billion-dollar acquisition by … Continue reading

May 24

“There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand”: Netflix Markets Arrested Development

Need a topical example of the power of social/digital marketing? Even if you’re one of the few sentient beings on the planet who doesn’t subscribe to Netflix, read pop culture blogs, or maintain a Facebook profile, chances are still quite … Continue reading

May 22

Yahoo! Goes All In On Tumblr Deal

Here’s the story: Yahoo! buys an Internet startup driven by user-generated content while insisting that its team will turn the site profitable without diluting its spirit or alienating its passionate core users. A great move in principle, but the property … Continue reading

May 14

Garment Industry Opts for Makeover After Bangladesh Disaster

The factory collapse that killed more than 1,100 people in Bangladesh this April is by no means the first tragedy to strike the garment industry in recent years—but it does look like the culmination of an ongoing PR challenge that could reshape … Continue reading

Apr 18

Tenthwave Top 5 – April 2013

The Top 5 We scan the blogs, online news sources and digital magazines (so you don’t have to) and gather our five must-read picks. 1 The Secrets of What Makes a Product Go Viral http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226114  Ten years ago, had you … Continue reading

Nov 29

Tenthwave Holiday Wish List

The employees of Tenthwave are an ambitious crew. They set world records for running thousand-mile relays. They compete to see who can identify (and spell correctly) the names of the world’s 196 capital cities. They distill homemade whiskey in their … Continue reading