Trend Segment: ‘Children’ 
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Grapevine, Texas based GameStop debuts “store of the future”
“The key to GameStop’s continued leadership and success in the new media world order of video games is the synergistic management of the individual and community online game experience integrated with an interactive, instore community experience”…says Jacob R. Miles III, CEO of GrapevineStar Entertainment Inc., an intellectual property and new media integration company.
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Trend Alert – Back to Schools – Kids and Computers
Back to School for Kids—And Computers
As another summer winds to a close, you’re probably wondering where the time went—and why you let the kids spend so much of it on the computer. The start of school is a perfect time for a full-scale hard drive cleanup and the re-institution of responsible Internet habits.
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NexGen Toys Come to Life with Touch Electronics
“Traditional toys are in the fight of their life to stay relevant in the ever changing world of video and online games. Touch technology adds another dimension to tradional toys, increasing their play value”.. says Toy and Entertainment veteran, Jacob R Miles, CEO of GrapevineStar
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DQE Signs Co-Finance and Production Nick India
DQE has signed a co-finance and production agreement with Nick India to produce a local animated series for children.
The series will begin with 26 high definition half hour episodes. As a part of this deal, Nickelodeon has provided content for this upcoming series, while DQE is executing the production for global distribution and licensing. DQ [...] -
Youth Focused Interactive Marketing to be Location-Based
All Interactive Youth Marketing Will Soon Be Location-Based
With endless talk about check-ins and mayorships it is easy to get swept away by the mystique of location-based marketing and for good reason. That famous anecdote about reaching an unsuspecting consumer with the very right offer as they stroll by a storefront is hard to ignore. The [...] -
Butterfly Byte: Bar Hunger
Snickers donates a meal to the hungry every time you enter a code from the candy bar wrapper at their site at snickers.com or text it to 45495. Eat your chocolate and be a good samaritan, too!
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Trend Alert – China Bans Sex, Violence and Gambling in the Promotion of Videogames
Does the violence in video games have a negative impact on children’s ability to maintain the attention and focus to learn and does it cause more violence or insensitivity to violence among youth? What do you think?
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Barbie(R) Celebrates 125th Career with Global Initiative to Inspire Girls
Barbie(R) Celebrates 125th Career with Global Initiative to Inspire Girls
Barbie(R) “I Can Be(TM)…” Campaign Kicks-Off with Signature Partners The White House Project, Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation and theAnnouncement of Barbie’s(R) “10 Women to Watch in 2010″ List
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., (BUSINESS WIRE) — For more thanfive decades, Barbie(R) has inspired girls to [...] -
Trend Alert – Retailer GameStop buys Digital Game Distribution Site Kongregate
Video game retail giant GameStop is opening 400 stores a year, but it knows that the shift to digital game distribution is coming. That’s why it bought the indie game portal Kongregate today.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The site will remain under the management of founders Jim and Emily Greer following the closing [...] -
Trend Alert – Where was Twilight at Comic-Con?
Is Twilight, the popular film series coming to graphic novels. There is no question that the Twilight series is one of the most popular film series in the history of teen films. Is it a great or late opportunity?
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Cruise, Cameron, Mel Gibson, Eclipse, Inception & Salt – The Hollywood Summer Movie Season is Heating Up!
Not even the UFO’s in China, DroidX, IPhone problems or Mel Gibson could overshadow the arrival at the box office of the summer movie, “Incepton”, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio …and next up SALT, starring Angelina Jole
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Social Gaming, Virtual Goods….Are You in the Game?
To get in the game and fully understand virtual goods and social gaming, here are some must attend conferences and events to be held this year:
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Licensing Trends – Lady Gaga Embraces Licensing
Polaroid, Lady Gaga Team for Specialty Products
Source: License! Global Weekly E-news
PLR IP Holdings, owners of the Polaroid brand, have partnered with entertainer Lady Gaga for a specialty line of branded imaging products.
Lady Gaga will serve as creative director for the specialty Polaroid imaging products, which will hit retailers in late 2010. Further details of the [...] -
Trend Alert – Education Program adds up to Math Success
Program adds up to math success in schools
Reasoning Mind to go national.
Reasoning Mind is a highly acclaimed math program that makes learning math in second through sixth grades not only easy but downright fun.
“Reasoning Mind engaged our students from grade 2 to grade 4, and that has been expanded to grades 5 and 6,” said [...] -
Courage Cards: 2010 CALL FOR ENTRIES: ALL-OCCASION ART
Have artistic talent and want to simultaneously support those with disabilities?
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The Dallas County Lepidopterists’ Society
I learned to tell the difference between a male and female monarch butterfly in this organization.
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Cool Summer Camps In Lewisville, TX
Kids do everything from simulating life in 1869, to studying insects, to hiking in these courses.
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Iconix Acquires United Media Licensing, Peanuts
“Owning the Peanuts business moves Iconix well beyond fashion into a true global brand management entity with a wide variety of agreements that range from theme parks to media to financial institutions,” says Neil Cole, chairman and chief executive officer of Iconix Brand Group.
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Eco Trends – Earth Day, Take the Day to Learn the Issues
The most important thing we can do for Earth Day is to take the time to learn about the issues impacting our environment, our earth.
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Trend Force – Stan Lee, Entertainment Creative Force
Stan Lee is the trendsetter and godfather of comic books, the legend responsible for Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, and dozens of other Marvel Comics characters who lived on the colorful pages and in the hearts of young boys everywhere
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Nintendo 3DS First 3D handheld – Smart Phones as Competition?
The mobile video game industry and its players are changing. Smart phones will soon become the new entrants to the mobile game market — the iPhone and iPod Touch, both by Apple and others by Google, Microsoft and others will raise the pressure for Nintendo who is launching a new game system.
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How Moms & Retailers Interact with Social Media
In the U.S., there are 75 million mothers, who influence 85 percent of household purchases. That’s about $2.1 trillion per year in spending, according to the Marketing to Moms Coalition. So what is your social media strategy for interacting with Moms
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Education Trends – Condition of Education in U.S.
Enrollment in America’s elementary and secondary schools continues to rise to all-time highs, and our younger learners continue to show gains in educational achievement over time. The overall achievement levels of secondary school students have not risen over time
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Trend Alert: Study links violent video games to violent thought, action….
New research found that exposure to violent video games was associated with aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition and aggressive “affect.” It desensitizes users and is associated with lack of empathy and a lack of “prosocial” behavior.
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Is it Time to Re-examine Trends in Consumer Behavior & Marketing?
Consumers are part of every major countries economic strength, in fact consumers are a major part of life in today’s society. Living, succeeding, feelings of failure and dying are more related to acquiring, owning, and disposing of stuff than at any other time.
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GrapevineStar™ & Out of the Box® offer 10 Days in Beautiful Africa™
This new, family fun and educationally focused version of the Box’s award winning game 10 Days in Africa® is immediately available to ship.
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Family Demographics – They’re Changing.
Understanding the changing demographic characteristics of America’s children is critical for shaping marketing, media, social programs and policies. The number of children determines the demand for toys, games, children focused brands, media, schools, health care
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Teens Teens Teens – How They Communicate
Ongoing research, in collaboration with the Center for Media Design, compares how consumers communicate interpersonally versus how they want marketers to communicate with them. When it comes to teens, there is a marked difference in how they communicate…
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Hasbro Licensing revenue growth leads move into TV and Filmed entertainment
Entertainment and Licensing segment net revenues were $155.0 million, an increase of $47.1 million or 44 percent, compared to $107.9 million in 2008. Revenue in the Entertainment and Licensing segment reflects growth in lifestyle licensing and digital gaming.
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Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8 to 18 Yr-Olds
Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people’s media use.
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Haiti on our Minds! How to be Supportive.
GrapevineStar™, Beautiful Africa™, & GSEConnect joins with its partners and friends to bring an overflowing outpour of support for and in solidarity with the Haitian people and its leaders.
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The 10 Days in Beautiful Africa™ Board Game has just arrived!
Get Packing! Players have 10 Days in Beautiful Africa™ – touring by plane, by car, and on foot. This award-winning game makes learning African geography easy and fun! Buy it today!
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Media & Entertainment Overview
GSEConnect.com is the most comprehensive collection & network of niche online communities focused on the work that media and entertainment professionals around the world live with, have fun with and work on everyday.
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Global Overview
“Information, Content and Knowledge networks will revolutionize the global economy…”
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Family & Educational Overview
The Family & Educational segment of GSEConnect.com is where educators, professionals, marketers, creators, distributors, actors, financiers and everyday fans of positive family focused content.
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PR 06.05.08 – GrapevineStar to Represent Young! Studios
GrapevineStar and Young! Studios have signed an agreement to have certain video content, products and concepts represented by Grapevine Star Entertainment.
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PR 01.24.07 – GrapevineStar to Feature TV & Film Properties at Kidscreen
Grapevine Star Entertainment Inc. to feature TV and Film Properties at Kidscreen Summit
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PR 09.14.06 – NEST Learning to Distribute Chubby Cubies
NEST Learning to Distribute New Line of Resources that Teaches Positive Character Principles to Preschoolers
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PR 05.06.06 – GrapevineStar to Represent Chubby Cubbies for Licensing
FV Properties & Grapevine Star Entertainment’s Jacob R. Miles III to Represent Chubby Cubbies for Licensing and Distribution
