We are hard at work behind the scenes planning our third annual Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup in June and wanted to share some exciting content developments. People often ask what age range Ypulse covers, and I tell them it's 8-24 or tweens, teens and early twentysomethings. It's a big range, and a ...

Are you ready for the battle of blonds, the melee of mullets, the scrum of, well, whatever the hell is on George Jones' head? This year's all-star music lineup at the Florida Strawberry Festival is all about high-flying, highlighted, highly......

Replace the word "salary" with "allowance" and the results of a recent survey conducted by AK Tweens on how girls ages 8 to 15 have been affected by the economic downturn starts to sound a lot like the reports coming in from every other front. In a word: depressing. Hitting tweens where it hurts wit...

Yesterday I stopped by the Kidscreen Summit (a conference that skews slightly younger than Ypulse events — since we cover ages 8-24, but has a handful of tween-centric sessions) here in New York and came away with a serious case of the warm fuzzies. Not just because the sessions I attended ("D...

Today's Ypulse Guest Post comes Lazaro Fuentes, the founder of HipChicas.com and one of the many insightful commenters who contributed to a discussion sparked by Anastasia's post on the terms "muliticultural" and "urban." I asked Lazaro if he would delve into the topic of Latin youth media a little ...

Do you know a younger reader, in search of fresh fantasy?  Have you heard of the Vampire Island books?  The second book in the growing series, written for tweens, is called Knaveheart’s Curse.  The heroine of the book, Maddie Livingstone, a seventh grader, is a vegan fruit bat vampire. Here...

As Anthony Pellicano awaits his December 12 sentencing, the loved ones left behind are coping in the best way they know how: By shopping a Keeping Up with the Pellicanos reality show around town. Titled The Pellicano Girls, the show would revolve around Pellicano matriarch Kat and the couple's three...

'Softwear by Microsoft' (in the ongoing pursuit of cool, the computer co launches a new line of 80s-inspired graphic tees with help from the rapper Common) (Ad Age, reg. required) - Not your typical inaugural ball (Ludacris and Big Boi announce their plans to co-host an Urban Ball in D.C. to celebra...

Is teasing endangered? You might think so if you were one of the many who caught a look at this weekend's New York Times' magazine feature "In Defense of Teasing," (reg. required) an impassioned plea to preserve the ancient "art" of poking fun at others. If I sound sarcastic you'll have to forgive m...

So earlier this week we suggested tween queen of homemade kiddie porn Miley Cyrus just may have been inspired by a former teen queen of homemade, visually intoxicated porn. And, sordid as it may be,......