Industry Insiders Discuss 'The Future of Teen Magazines' at First Ypulse NYC Teen Media Mashup
The editors from CondéNet's new teen girl web site join editors from Seventeen, Twist and other teen magazine experts for a roundtable discussion November 8th.
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 2, 2006 -- With once popular teen magazines like YM, Elle Girl and Teen People going out of print, everyone is attempting to read the tea leaves to divine what the future of teen magazines will be. Have teens abandoned print magazines for MySpace and YouTube? What are teen magazines like Teen Vogue and Seventeen doing to reach teens online?
Ypulse.com, the award-winning blog that has been providing daily news & commentary on generation Y for media and marketing professionals since May of 2004, will host a roundtable discussion on "The Future of Teen Magazines" at the first Ypulse Teen Media Mashup on November 8, 2006 in New York City. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. and the roundtable discussion will kick off at 8 p.m. The event is being sponsored by Mr. Youth (www.MrYouth.com), a leading youth marketing services firm.
"We are thrilled about being associated with the first YPulse Teen Media Mashup," said Matt Britton, Chief of Brand Development of Mr. Youth. "At Mr. Youth we pride ourselves on having a pulse on the youth market, YPulse is the definition of this attribute."
The roundtable will be moderated by Anastasia Goodstein, publisher of Ypulse.com, and feature the following panelists:
Christopher Gonzalez, Executive Editor, CondéNet's new teen site
Joanna Saltz, Executive Style Editor, Seventeen
Anne Sachs, Executive Editor, ELLEGirl.com
Melissa Walker, former senior features editor at ELLEGirl
Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer, authors of the upcoming book How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time
Nick Palazzo, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, STACK (a high school sports magazine)
Betsy Fast, Editor In Chief, Twist
Matt Britton, Chief Of Brand Development, Mr. Youth
There will also be a short presentation from the amazing youth media organization Youth Communication about their youth written magazine Represent.
This is the first event in a series of Teen Media Mashups designed to bring the issues Goodstein writes about daily on her blog to life and to offer a real world forum for Ypulse readers to connect.
The event will be held at Mannahatta, a bar/restaurant located at 316 Bowery in downtown Manhattan. The event is free, but RSVPs are required with the name(s) of each individual attending and their company or organization. Space is limited. Members of the press are required to RSVP by emailing Anastasia(at)ypulse.com in order to attend. The roundtable discussion will also be podcast on Ypulse.com following the event.
About Youth Pulse:
Published by Anastasia Goodstein, Ypulse.com has been providing daily news & commentary on generation Y for media and marketing professionals since May of 2004 and has been featured in BusinessWeek, Forbes, USA Today, Fast Company and countless other publications. Anastasia Goodstein helped to launch the Viewer Created Content (or VC2) programming initiative online for Current TV, former Vice President Al Gore's new television network targeting 18-34 year olds. Before that she spent more than 10 years working in media developing editorial and community products for television and the Web at companies like Oxygen and AOL and with brands like Teen People, Entertainment Weekly and People. She recently joined the growing ranks of successful bloggers who have decided to pursue businesses based on their blogs.
For more information, visit www.ypulse.com or contact:
Anastasia Goodstein
415-652-4437
About Mr. Youth® LLC
Mr. Youth® leverages critical relationships and unparalleled experience to provide marketing, partnership, and promotional solutions to corporate marketers looking to reach the elusive 14-22 demographic. Mr. Youth serves as a powerful resource in the development and execution of promotional tactics built to build brand awareness, drive retail traffic, generate buzz, and generate PR coverage.
Mr. Youth®, a PROMO 100 company, is one of the nation's fastest growing promotional firms. In 2004, Mr. Youth was awarded with the prestigious International Globes Award for Best Use Of Event Marketing in the world. In 2005, Mr. Youth was ranked #6 in the nation by PROMO Magazine for "Quality Of Work" in Promotional Marketing and one of the top 5 fastest growing agencies in the nation.
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