In the industry…

Posted By Youthography . March 9, 2010

“Because we work in the industry, we often get calls from friends of friends to attend  upcoming events, and help out with a variety of cool new projects. Last week we had one of these opportunities and thought it would be neat to tell (more)

We Heard That: The NFB

Posted By Youthography . January 29, 2010

Every Friday, we’ll be disseminating the information collected from our weekly pulse check to young Canadians active on our Youthography Community. This past week’s we asked them about the NFB and it’s relevance (more)

NFL Ratings Risk

Posted By Mike D'Abramo . January 26, 2010

There was is an interesting situation brewing for the NFL that might have a remarkable impact on marketing in 2011. NFL TV rating this year have been higher than ever before with winners in a variety of ways: NBC’s great Sunday night performance, ESPN drawing among the (more)

You Are Not A Gadget

Posted By pariahmike . January 18, 2010

You remember Jaron Lanier right? He’s the dread-locked cyber guru, artist and computer scientist from the dawn of Wired Magazine and the digital mediasphere as we know it who coined the term “virtual reality” and saw the internet as a language created for and by today (more)

The Year In Movies

Posted By Mike D'Abramo . January 13, 2010

It’s January so that means there are lots of predictions for 2010. Here at Youthography, we’re putting our money where our mouth is (mouth’s are?) in the form of predicting this year’s most popular movies through an office-wide Movie Pool.

The pool is (more)

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Athletes who tweet, blog,or appear on a reality show is old news. Athletes with their own channel? Leave it to Chad Ocho Cinco to offer a $4.99 iPhone app that allows you to access videos, tweets, and even ask him for advice.

What we love about this? Just about everything!

  • Firstly, Chad is hilarious. He legally changed his last name last year from “Johnson” to “Ocho Cinco” so that he could wear that name on his jersey. Why? He plays in number 85. Of course even a basic study of Spanish tells you that “8-5” is different than “85” but who cares. BTW, he changed it during “Spanish Heritage Month” in 2008.

 

  • He still dances, does stunts and gets fined by the league when he plays. He’s worn fake Hall of Fame jackets, danced with the mascot, proposed to a cheerleader, and once filled in for their starting kicker. He leaps into the stands when he scores…at the other team’s stadium.

 

  • The app was partially written by Cincinnati Bengals back-up quarterback Jordan Palmer.

 

  • When the Bengals were featured on HBO’s “Hard Knocks” this summer, sports blogs spent a lot of time talking about his personality: he’s an ass, but a really likeable one. He’s hilarious and hugely popular and a perfect example of a human brand: he represents an attitude and a style that the young people connect with. He’s “New School.”

 

For a sample of his antics, check out this YouTube tribute video.

Ocho Cinco: there’s an app for that!

Posted By Mike D'Abramo . October 21, 2009

Athletes who tweet, blog,or appear on a reality show is old news. Athletes with their own channel? Leave it to Chad Ocho Cinco to offer a $4.99 iPhone app that allows you to access videos, tweets, and even ask him for advice.

What we love about this? Just about (more)

Crowdsourcing comes to Journalism

Posted By Mike D'Abramo . September 16, 2009

We’ve been watching this on Facebook for a year or so  now but just found out something we didn’t know: it’s profitable! Here’s a nice (more)

Facebook Lite

Posted By Youthography . August 12, 2009

Facebook is set to launch a ’simpler’ site that will mimick, nay, be exactly the same as Twitter.

Connect to the full story here.

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Canada’s “Prince of Pot” Does Good by His Partners in “Crime”

Posted By pariahmike . July 21, 2009

Canada’s Marc Emery, known by many as the “Prince of Pot”, is just wrapping up a “farewell tour” prior to finally surrendering to US Justice authorities on drug and money-laundering charges linked to his Vancouver-based marijuana seed business.Emery, along with (more)