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The Planet Type problem
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Louis Pollard
Millennials now bigger than Baby Boomers, ...
Millennials now bigger than Baby Boomers, recent study suggests

Fashion Folk Turn to Tumblr

Got a brand? Get on Tumblr. That’s the news coming through loud and clear from Folk as Tumblr is supposedly on the cusp of doing something quite incredible. Analysts claim those greedy for web hits should get themselves on the blogging platform sharp as Google searches mentioning the service are poised to surpass those for ‘blog’ by the end of the year, proving that the New York-based company has well and truly established itself as the Web’s next big cheese.

According to The Next Web ( who have reported on this colossal invasion and provided this handy little graph) “Google search numbers are not an exact statistic, but the content of searches does indicate the popularity and interest in services, people and topics online. While it’s true to say that a great many blog readers go straight to sites via Twitter, RSS feeds, emails and other links, Tumblr’s continued rise is massively significant.

If you are a business or individual with a blog that you want to be found online, then running it, or another, on Tumblr is likely to bring you more traffic.

The business world has been largely unsure of how to cater for Tumblr — which is shareable and fast-paced as Twitter but populated with more inspiring text and rich images — and this is likely to be a wake-up call for them.”

Folk – who continue to launch, design and manage the websites and social strategies of numerous luxury brands within the industry – has noticed that the world of fashion developing a major crush on Tumblr over the past few years.

Bloggers, designers and brands are all flocking to the micro-blogging site to showcase their identities in creative, colourful and personal ways.

In turn the industry is a serious business for the site – highlighted by it’s recent appointment of seasoned fashion journalist Valentine Uhovski, who has just been named “Fashion Evangelist” at Tumblr (seriously, that’s his official title).

Of course, some brands are much better at it than others. After claiming four of the eight awards at last year’s Fashion 2.0 Awards, DKNY was once again showing other brands how it should be done by winning the Best Twitter and Best Blog by a Fashion Brand at this years ceremony.

DKNY’s Twitter account and Tumblr blog (dknyprgirl) are entertaining, informative and exceptionally on-brand. The Twitter account features, among other things, live blogs and frequently engages in conversations with followers of all stripes. Meanwhile, the brand’s Tumblr has become a go-to resource for humor-laced PR advice and inspiring imagery.

Brands such as this understand and demonstrate that the goal of social media marketing is to offer content in a variety of ways so a broad audience can pick and choose how they want to consume your content and interact with your brand.

Not everyone likes Tumblr, and not everyone likes Facebook, brand websites, Instagram or Pinterest.

Your goal is to create content targeted to the audiences that frequent each destinations or focus on the site frequented by your target audience in order to achieve maximum brand awareness, word-of-mouth marketing, and prospective business growth.

If you haven’t familiarised yourself – and more importantly your brand – with this new social super power, just don’t say we didn’t warn you.

The Future of Digital Fashion Today

Fashion is finally falling head-over-heels for digital if the latest event from Westfield’s is anything to go by. The London shopping centre launched the first ever all-digital fashion event of its kind this week, with the intention of demonstrating what future shopping will be like and to showcase forward thinking fashion technology.

The Future Fashion event is running until April 1, allowing shoppers to use digital touch screens, QR codes and NFC to browse more than 500 spring 2012 products from retailers including Reiss, Dune, House of Fraser, Vero Moda, Accessorize and Calvin Klein Jeans.

Along with a cinema-style 3D catwalk, social photo-booths allowing shoppers to send their snaps straight to Facebook and Tweetable mirror images to show off their style, customers can also shop till their cards ignite on the stores huge digital shopping screens.

With the event being held at both Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City over the coming weeks, some retailers have already hailed the launch “ahead of its time” and “the perfect example of how bricks and mortar stores can embrace innovative technology”.