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Cease & Assist

... their value.ANA, 27, UKWhile brands have perpetuated the problem of choice overload, youth are now looking to them to provide solutions. Today, it’s expected that brands have accurate, detailed filter functionality on their websites and apps to streamline selection, yet youth feel many retailers could still improve this with additional filter levels to fulfill their basic needs when browsing. They also increasingly want curated guidance and recommendations, giving brands a significant opportunity to ...

UnWasted Time

... to be the social lubricant it provided to help drinkers feel more comfortable meeting and talking to new people, the rise of dating apps has given single people the buffer of a screen to help meet others so the liquid courage isn’t as necessary. There is also a movement away from extreme drinking, so even when youth are choosing to drink alcohol, they’re doing so in moderation—two in 10 of legal drinking age in the U.S. and UK, and a quarter of Trendsetters, are making an effort to ...

Sports Clubbing

... strive to be Soloists who are comfortable being out and about on their own, including going to bars, sports reduce intimidation because they make it easier to feel occupied, as well as to strike up a conversation with others. For this same reason, young adults embrace sports as their top type of nightlife because they consider it such a valuable way to meet potential people to date, more so than swiping endlessly through apps, which may never actually result in a real world encounter. Not only does ...

Well Intentioned

... . They like to sample from a smörgåsbord of classes, building a queue that amounts to a checklist of cool upcoming events. This only augments their ability to track each wellness activity, from meditation to dieting to exercise. They believe that more is better, pushing their bodies harder and harder to achieve the same wellness “high.” Their compulsions are spurred by the ability to compete with friends and strangers through associated apps, turning fitness into a game or challenge to be reveled in ...

Soloists

... feel more comfortable vacationing alone than ever before because they have tools to help them do so: there are apps to connect them with locals who can show them around, mobile translation products that help them when they don’t know the language, services that pair them with dinner partners, and chic hostels that let them share the cost of a room without suffering a style downgrade. In this way they’re able to explore and immerse themselves in new cultures without feeling like an outsider (see ...

The Monetization Generation

... don't think I need to budget FINANCIAL IDENTITYUnderstandably, teens have more autonomy over their finances than tweens, with significantly more teens having their own checking account, debit, and credit card. Trendsetters are more likely than the general population of Zs to have bank accounts and credit cards, as well as to leverage certain payment/budgeting apps/sites. Thus far, only 5% of Zs in the U.S. and 2% in the UK have their own retirement account.Which of the following, if any, do you have ...

Brand We

... systems, including mobile apps and in-store kiosks. Its gift registry software allows shoppers to send any item as a gift, even when they don’t know the recipient’s mailing address. ZOLA Wedding registry platform Zola recognizes the rise of curatorial culture by allowing users to register for items from around the web, rather than from just one retailer. It recently introduced a mobile app that adopts Tinder’s famous swipe model, presenting users with suggested items. A barcode scanner allows them to ...

Dollars And Sense

... , Chicago, and Philadelphia. - ALT PAYMENTS - VENMO Peer-to-peer payment app Venmo has become so popular among college students and young twenty-somethings that it is sometimes referred to as “the Snapchat of money.”SQUARE CASH Setting itself apart from other P2P payment apps, Square Cash enables users to send and receive money directly to and from their bank accounts instead of requiring them to take the extra step of transferring the money from their in-app accounts. Most payments also deposit ...

Social Studies

... #MarvelQuestionoftheDay and #MarvelPaneloftheDay. LET THEM PLAY VIA TWEETSIn Starbucks’ beta Tweet-a-Coffee program, people sync their Starbucks account, and tweet @tweetacoffee and the intended coffee recipient, to give a gift card.VINE The acquisition of Vine by Twitter in early 2013 catapulted social video into the mainstream. The concept of short-form, shareable video had been floating around in the tech realm for a couple of years, and apps such as Viddy and Socialcam did in fact get some traction in 2012. But ...

POP Trends

... unsolved murder.SPEED READ The overwhelming, anxiety-provoking quality of the ongoing, online content stream has had myriad influences on young individuals’ behavior and preferences; among the latest is a newfound interest in apps that promise speed-reading capabilities. Boston-based startup Spritz sparked the trend with an online demo that offered a glimpse into the company’s approach, which promises to raise reading rates up to 1,000 words per minute by flashing a single word of text at a time (a ...