In a leak that seems not wholly unintentional, the entire first episode of Season 6 of Dexter has made its way online on bit torrent and steaming sites nearly a week before broadcast.
If you’ve been wanting to try Google+ (and you’re not a brand or business), good news: Google’s social project is now available without an invitation. there’s a joke about +1s and guest lists somewhere in there, but we’ll let you come up with your own.
Fashion’s Night Out, the 3-year-old event that generates big buzz for one night prior to fashion week, but not so much in terms of big sales numbers, may be coming to an end.
New York Fashion Week is officially over, and while several designers got great reviews for their collections, Marc Jacobs was the one who set the online world on fire for the Spring/Summer 2012 season.
After months of speculation, and a canceled menswear line, it looks like Kanye West is finally ready to pull the trigger on a clothing line. Harper’s Bazaar Australia, whose Fashion Editor Christine Centenera has been consulting with West since March, is reporting that the unnamed line will have a 9:30pm show time on October 1st.
The 400-piece Missoni for Target collection has been eagerly anticipated since images from the lookbook of the collection first debuted on Target’s Facebook page in August, and the launch was to be the first big test of Target’s post-Amazon website. While the marketing campaign was a definite win, it looks like Target’s new site had a momentary fail.
Tumblr celebrated their billionth post today, a report from Nielsen’s today shows that US internet users spend more time on the blog network than Twitter, and the company is said to be valued somewhere around $800 million. In spite of those remarkable statistics, it looks like Tumblr still has some work to do when it comes to solving their fashion brand problem.
Everyone remembers Google’s loss on Groupon, but before that they couldn’t seal the deal with Yelp either. Fast forward a few years, and Google has a Groupon competitor under way, but no product to pose a significant challenge to Yelp. Since it seems like most of the product team power has been dedicated to Google+ (and they even missed a few things there), rather than trying to catch up solely through their own branded local ratings Google acquired the 32-year-old, consumer-led restaurant review company Zagat.
Fashion’s biggest party is back for a 3rd year, and while we and Cathy Horyn are still struggling to find the business upside to the celebrity and champagne bills, there’s no denying the buzz boost Fashion’s Night Out provides. We also have to tip our hats to Anna Wintour’s promotional power: there is now a Fashion’s Night Out event in all 50 states (thanks to tie-ins with national chains), 17 countries, and for those who don’t want to fight the crowds of fashion fans in the streets, online.
So, to demonstrate just how big of a thing FNO has become, let’s take a look at Fashion Month’s unofficial kickoff by the numbers.