Fresh research and analysis released today, September 16, 2103, from Label Networks’ 13th Annual Fall Youth Culture Study 2013 reveals where shifts in the youth marketplace have created new opportunities and trends across fashion, technology and communication, effective advertising and sponsorship, music, digital entertainment, social networking, mobile phone culture, plus automotive, fast food, and beverages based […]
Despite only being in its second year, Filter’s upcoming Culture Collide is already looking like a who’s-who in creativity and music industry heavyweights. As we often say at Label Networks, knowing what’s happening with the music industry changes, in particular, the business of music, leads to where trends are headed in many other industries. From […]
Photos by Tom Wallace More highlights from the 11th and final X Games in Los Angeles August 1-4, 2013 launched with all eyes on Japanese motocross phenom, Taka Higashino in Moto X Freestyle. For a record 3rd time, Higashino’s unique approach included a Kiss of Death backflip and a Rock Solid backflip in a pair […]
On July 24, 2013, a day before the Agenda fashion trade show in Long Beach, CA, a core group of industry leaders, marketers, brand strategists, and presenters gathered for the 4th annual ASC Action Sports + Culture 2013 conference at the convention center’s conference theater, host to the legendary TED conference. Launched by Group Y, […]
San Diego, CA, turns into a full-on Cosplay geek-fest with some 130,000 fans and comic, movie, entertainment industry types converging on the largest comic trade show in the country from July 18-21. Comic-Con, which can charge basically whatever it wants, has become so popular, that it can take a year in advance to get a […]
GROUP Y, the original collective of youth marketing, action sports and entertainment professionals will launch 4th Annual ASC Action Sports + Culture in conjunction with the AGENDA trade show. The event takes place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 24, 2013 at the Center Theater at Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center (same location […]
The rise of mobile gaming via fashion styling of virtual avatars has flipped the script for the fashion industry and provided a growing cross-over platform for tech, video gaming, mobile phone culture, and fashion. The latest in this space is Rachel Zoe’s social gaming company called Crowdstar which is launching a mobile fashion game called […]
E3 Expo brings the kingpins of the video gaming industry along with thousands of gaming fanatics and an assortment of media together each year to downtown Los Angeles revealing what’s about to reshape the gaming industry globally. The show also always starts off with a series of high-end press presentations from the gaming industries heavyweights […]
For those hoping that skateboarding or even inline, for that matter, would soon be an Olympic sport, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has punted it in favor the recent short-listed sports, wrestling, baseball/softball, and squash. Last week, in a statement that declares who’s going to make the cut for the IOC Session vote in Buenos […]
After a decade of the Summer X Games being hosted in Los Angeles, CA, the so-called alternative Olympics of action sports is in a bidding process to relocate after LA’s final event this summer. On the radar include the 4 city finalists Austin, Texas; Chicago; Detroit; MI; and Charlotte, N.C. One of these cities will […]