Buzz Marketing Group

The Real Dirty Secret of 'Gossip Girl'
August 9, 2008 –THE commercial manipulation of sex is everywhere. Reporter Matt Spec tor of ABCNews.com recently underlined how the hypersexualization of teens in advertising is intensifying. …read more

Frugal Teens: What They Can Teach Us About Recession Style
August 5, 2008 –Retailers who are marketing to teens and counting on their spending habits being recession proof had better think twice. What was true in the last recession …read more

Virgin Mobile Pulls Back Racy Campaign
July 21, 2008 – Virgin Mobile USA Inc. likes to run risqué marketing campaigns to generate attention for its cellphones, including poking fun at religion in its holiday advertising …read more

Brands + Celebrities = The New Power Couple
July 18, 2008 –If you have a pulse and you're not hiding out in a cave somewhere, chances are you've noticed an inordinate number of celebs schilling products lately. They're everywhere …read more

Mean Girls And Lolitas Are Bad For Business
July 7, 2008 – Tina Wells - Every time I read something about the latest Lolita scandal in Hollywood I wonder: "What the heck are they thinking?" …read more

Tina featured in Essence Magazine
April 200 8– In 1996 when Wells was 16 years old, she started writing product reviews for a New York news paper called The New Girl Times as she began building Buzz Marketing Group®.…read more

Crains New York article
February 19, 2008 – HarperCollins Children’s Books on Tuesday announced a six-figure deal for a tween fiction series titled Mackenzie Blue by youth marketing expert Tina Wells.…read more

CNNMoney.com
February 19, 200 8– HarperCollins Children's Books announced today that it has acquired world rights to "Mackenzie Blue" by Tina Wells, CEO of Buzz Marketing Group.…read more

[Video] Tina Wells Story
January 17, 2008 – The Tina Wells business profile from visiontube.tv
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[Video] Interview with Tina Wells
October 23, 2007 – Interview with Tina Wells, CEO Buzz Marketing by Gilbert Hammer
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Tina Wells in Cosmopolitan
August 2007 – Although she's just 27, Tina Wells already has had more than a decade of entrepreneurial experience--she started building her own company at the age of 16. While in high school, the budding businesswoman began reviewing products for..…read more

Family Circle: The Upside of Online
May 2007 – The digital divide is growing. Teens are spending more time in cyberspace, and parents just don't get it. "Websites like MySpace have become the new mall or bowling alley--the centerpiece of the community where kids hang out..…read more

Outspending baby boomers
April 2007 – marketers love Gen X- and Y-ers with money. Tina Wells, chief executive of Buzz Marketing Group®, a tweenteen research firm, is their idea of a dream customer. The 26-year-old spends her selfmade millions indulging her passion for fashion and her fascination with pop culture. Fortunately..…read more

Tina Wells Appointed to By Kids For Kids Advisory Board
March 27, 2007 – STAMFORD, CT - By Kids For Kids is proud to announce the appointment of Buzz Marketing Group CEO, Tina Wells, to their board of advisors. Ms. Wells joins some of the most influential business people in the marketing ...…read more

Tween group Girl Authority ready for big time
March 18, 2007 – NEW YORK (Billboard) - Nine girls make up teen act Girl Authority. And they are ready for their close-up. ADVERTISEMENT Like the Slumber Party Girls -- another act looking to connect with tweens -- Girl Authority debuted last year.)... …read more

Recognized as youth culture’s ‘It’ social anthropologist, O Magazine features Tina Wells, CEO of Buzz Marketing Group, as a young business leader on the rise. (PDF)
August 16, 2005 – Wells's company, which keeps clients such as Sony and MGA Entertainment updated on the latest trends among young buyers, is worth more than $5 million. …read more

Fight For Children and Buzz Marketing Group are joining forces to improve the lives of urban youth, one child at a time
August 9, 2005 – Fight For Children’s dedication to empowering urban youth with the tools needed to succeed is gaining national acclaim, bolstered by their partnership with Buzz Marketing Group, the premiere by-youth-for-youth marketing and communications agency. …read more