http://groupynetwork.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:07:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1893" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="Action Sports Conference at the X Games sold out the Stadium Club at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California"][/caption] By ANDREW HORAN - Shop-Eat-Surf.com The first Action Sports Conference at the X Games was a sold-out session that focused about 250 marketing people on considering how endemic ... http://groupynetwork.com/video-photos/photos/asc2009/ Saw this in Entertainment Weekly not too long ago and thought it was pretty funny. Does anyone else think that there’s a glut of press releases out there?  Even though some see PR (wrongly) as “free advertising,” a bad or unwarranted press release is going to turn off journalists (supposedly the ... http://groupynetwork.com/tools/pr/are-there-too-many-press-releases/ Registration is now open for Shop-Eat-Surf's Executive Roundtable on March 30, when Tiffany Montgomery interviews Skullcandy CEO Rick Alden and President Jeremy Andrus in front of a live audience. General registration opens to all on March 1. Skullcandy started in 2003 and reached $125 million in revenue in 2009, with projections for ... http://groupynetwork.com/events/upcomingevents/033010-shopeatsurf-executive-roundtable/ By Brian Socolow The growth of action sports has largely been fueled by fans under 18, and on-line marketing companies targeting that audience have followed. Whether it’s Quiksilver, Monster Energy Drinks or ESPN X Games, the look and feel of the typical action sports-related website is young, edgy, authentic. Action sports ... http://groupynetwork.com/tools/legal/marketing-to-kids/ Label Networks, the leaders in providing global youth culture marketing intelligence, research, and news, released their new iPhone application, LabelNetworks, on iTunes today. Label Networks’ iPhone app allows subscribers and readers of Label Networks the capability to access information, including data reports, quickly from their mobile device, keeping them up to ... http://groupynetwork.com/tools/social-media/label-networks-iphone-app/ group Y Panel Discussion & Gathering “Inside the La Jolla Group” presented by FUEL TV Thursday, December 10, 2009 La Jolla Group headquarters - Irvine, CA SPEAKER: Michael Tomson, Design Consultant & Gotcha founder http://groupynetwork.com/video-photos/video/michael-tomson/ group Y Panel Discussion & Gathering “Inside the La Jolla Group” presented by FUEL TV Thursday, December 10, 2009 La Jolla Group headquarters - Irvine, CA SPEAKER: Bill Bussiere - President & CFO, La Jolla Group http://groupynetwork.com/video-photos/video/bill-bussiere/ Board-Trac is now offering 35+-page Mini Research Reports on specific Surf and Skate categories: Skateboarding · Decks (includes longboards) · Trucks · Wheels · ... http://groupynetwork.com/experiment/research/board-trac-mini-reports/ http://groupynetwork.com/experiment/poll/trade-shows/ By Brian R. Socolow With the Vancouver Winter Olympics just ahead, the action on the slopes, links and half-pipes won’t be the only competition. For every Olympics, and other high-profile sporting events, ambush marketing often provides a sideshow. Ambush marketing refers to when an advertiser that is not an official sponsor ... http://groupynetwork.com/tools/legal/ambush-marketing/