February 24, 2010, 7:16 pm

Teens’ Best and Worst of 2009

It’s a no-brainer that teens are influenced by celebrities and respond to well-chosen spokespeople. The hard part is figuring out who. Stars see their stock go up or down almost daily.

So I was interested to read the results of Pangea Media’s survey, conducted on the teen quiz site Quibblo, of the pop culture bests and worsts of 2009. Pangea connects marketers and consumers using quiz-based advertising solutions and focused market research. In this case, Pangea tracked the attitudes of more than 1,200 teens.

In terms of music, Taylor Swift was the favorite artist of 41 [ ...continue reading ]

February 12, 2010, 2:46 pm

Who Influences Teenage Girls?

They do. Teens empowered with the distance-eliminating, cost-free tools of social media have transcended the once all-powerful magazine editor and are looking past divas who once monopolized style to finding their own way around today’s markets.

The case couldn’t have been made better than it was by Tavi Gevinson, a 13-year-old from the Chicago suburbs whose blog inspired a collection by top fashion designers and sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, owners of high-fashion line Rodarte. “Tavi makes you think about things differently, makes you see things differently,” Kate told The Wall Street Journal. The collection went on to influence [ ...continue reading ]