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Social Snacking

An interactive element is added to snack time with socially activated dispensers

Implications - Bringing elements of social media into more conventional experiences, brands are integrating platforms like Twitter into snack machines and kitchenware items. Requiring social engagement, these socially savvy devices transform ordinary eating experiences into more communal and interactive activities, reflecting the use of social media in areas other than online engagement.
Trend Themes
1. Social Media Integration - Integrating platforms like Twitter into snack machines and kitchenware items involves integrating interactive social media experiences into different markets and can be disruptive in food and kitchenware industries.
2. Tweet-activated Vending Machines - Creating vending machines and kitchen appliances that utilise Twitter and other social media platforms to activate machines increases social engagement in a sharing economy will disrupt vending machine and kitchen appliance industries.
3. Incentivized Healthy Vending Machines - Developing vending machines that encourage healthy eating habits through social media promotion of health consciousness can disrupt food and vending machine industries.
Industry Implications
1. Food and Beverage Industry - Integrating social media with food, snack, and vending machine industries can lead to innovative connections and can bring traditional experiences into the digital age.
2. Kitchen Appliance Industry - Social media integration creates opportunities for branding kitchen appliances in inventive ways.
3. Marketing Industry - Interactive and integrated marketing campaigns are necessary for progressive brands, which increases marketing industry demand for professionals who can execute these strategies.
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