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Vampire Marketing

Sucking from pop culture phenomena until fans have had enough

Implications - The advent of new pop culture hits brings opportunity to create themed products and services. A hit movie can lead into related TV shows, apparel, books, and limitless other innovations. Catering to public fascination with innovations that further fuel these phenomena helps the trend accelerate at an unprecedented rate, often leading to heightened consumerism.
Trend Themes
1. Pop Culture Phenomena - Capitalizing on public fascination with innovations that further fuel pop culture phenomena, companies can create themed products and services like hit movies-related TV shows, apparel, books, and limitless other innovations.
2. Goth Aesthetic - Companies can manufacture products that cater to consumers' interest in goth-themed, kitschy, or moody and macabre fashion cues that express their desire for products that promote self-expression.
3. Vampire Craze - With the demand for pop culture-themed costumes on the rise, businesses can create products that cater to consumers' vampire craze, releasing creative works with vampire fangs, bloody visuals and spiked accessories.
Industry Implications
1. Fashion Industry - Fashionistas can embrace the goth aesthetic by designing collections that display remarkable longevity in popular culture to promote self-expression among consumers around the world.
2. Entertainment Industry - The entertainment industry can capitalize on public fascination with innovations that further fuel pop culture phenomena, creating themed products and services like hit movies-related TV shows, apparel, books, and limitless other innovations.
3. Food and Beverage Industry - The emerging trend of synthetic blood beverages, novelty style energy drinks such as Blood Energy Potion beverage, has created opportunities for companies in the food and beverage industry to introduce unconventional products to add a goth twist to traditional products.
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Popularity
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Freshness
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Megatrends
9 Featured, 65 Examples:
3,628,812 Total Clicks
Date Range:
Jan 09 — Sep 09
Trending:
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Featured Examples

Gothic Wedding Bouquets
Gothic Wedding Bouquets
Black Roses and Calla Lilies for Tradition-Defying Brides
These Gothic wedding bouquets fit perfectly with the darker themes we've been seeing recently, like the vampire designs inspired by Twilight. Black rose bouquets are also very Tim Burton, which is timely… MORE
Fashionista Vampires
Fashionista Vampires
Fangs Dominate The Wildfox Couture Lookbook
Twilight mania hits fashion again. Wildfox seems to be driving girl fashion bloggers ill today, because a lot of people are calling the latest lookbook “sick.” Wildfox Couture is a vintage style that is… MORE
Retro Goth Fashion
Retro Goth Fashion
School Girl Megan Fox Channels 50s Brooding Glam in Chic Dress
Channeling a retro goth school girl, Megan Fox keeps on doing what she does best, looking really hot. With her trademark black hair and red pout, she looked like quite the vixen sporting a vintage-inspired… MORE
Models as Gothic Dolls
Models as Gothic Dolls
P. Gage Burke's Crawling, Spike-Ridden Shoot
P. Gage Burke's 'Doll' photo shoot blends two themes we've seen a lot of recently--models as dolls and a return to Gothic, dark themes. This particular black-and-white shoot features a model wearing a… MORE
Vampiretography
Vampiretography
‘Eternal' by Olivier Shows Vampires Like Hairstyling Too
The Robert Pattinson and ‘Twilight’ effect remains strong in pop culture with even more photography works being inspired by the alluring yet deadly vampires. The latest is a photography series entitled… MORE
Studded Loafers
Studded Loafers
Christian Louboutin Rollerball Loafers Add a Goth Edge to Casual Attire
Goth and macabre fashion cues have taken Fall/Winter 2009-2010 runways by storm, so these Christian Louboutin Rollerball Loafers are sure to please. These androgynous Christian Louboutin Rollerball Loafers… MORE
Spiked Couture
Spiked Couture
Pamela Love and Zac Posen Embrace Victorian Goth Attire
Pamela Love teamed up with Zac Posen to create this fantasy-ridden Victorian goth collection. The collection featured a raw toughness through chokers, cuffs, earrings, brooches, headpieces, belts, and… MORE
Synthetic Blood Beverages
Synthetic Blood Beverages
Vampire Energy Drinks Have Juice in Transfusion Bags
One of the latest novelty style energy drinks to hit the market (it isn’t saturated yet folks) is the fruit punch flavored Blood Energy Potion beverage. So was it the vampire market guys who discovered… MORE
play_circle_filledViral Vampire Tears
Viral Vampire Tears
Calvino Inman Cries Real Blood, Has Doctors Baffled & Blogosphere Mystified
A freaky-but-real condition we’re calling ‘vampire tears’ is affecting 15-year-old Calvino Inman. When he gets emotional, he cries. And when he cries, out come tears of blood. With all the hype around… MORE

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