Signed, Bewildered Parent of a Digital Native Dear Bewildered Parent of a Digital Native, Parenting involves a lot of difficult decisions.
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The fact is, it needs to be digital-native from the beginning.
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They ultimately shuttered their home-grown web team and acquired digital native Jet.com.
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They give us the DNA to create these digital native brands in-house.
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The digital-native publications fielded mixed results by the end of the decade.
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Hughes is a millennial, a digital native who made his fortune in Facebook stock.
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Like any digital native, I also take notes on my computer (Evernote for me).
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In a newer trend, so did about a quarter of digital-native news sites.
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Strycker is a digital native, and his is a decidedly digitally enabled Big Year.
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And yet these questions can't wait for some future, digital-native generation of lawmakers.
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The founders of Framebridge and Away share the latest from the digital-native commerce world.
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We'll talk digital-native brands, bootstrapping to huge success and the future of social commerce.
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But young millennials' addiction to all things web doesn't necessarily mean they're a digital native.
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Digital technology augments authoritarian movements, and the digital native segues seamlessly into the digital nativist.
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It also has connections with those in the digital-native talent and influencer space of value.
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In vertical after vertical, small, digital-native upstarts are changing the game and overtaking major brands.
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Snap's constantly engaged, digital native teen user base is the perfect market for location sharing features.
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They'll be talking digital-native brands, bootstrapping to huge success and the future of social commerce.
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"As a digital native company where this is possible, we can't resist improving every chance we get."
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"This is the first real digital native sport," said Chad Gutstein, CEO of multi-channel network Machinima.
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Facebook Watch is expanding, even as it's failing to gain much traction amongst younger, digital-native audiences.
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This is a legacy media concept that has only been recently adopted by digital native media companies.
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Digital native menswear brand Bonobos has had layoffs and Walmart sold ModCloth, another brand it had acquired.
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In December 2015 Quartz, the digital-native publication from the Atlantic, published the inaugural Casties or podcast awards.
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YU HUI, a boisterous four-year-old living in Shanghai, is what marketing people call a digital native.
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In the last year, writers, editors, producers and other content creators at "digital native" companies Gawker, VICE, Salon.
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Free and fast delivery appeals to the instant gratification associated closely with the digital native teens of today
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Is it actually possible to separate a digital native from a device for an extended period of time?
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The arrival of Generation Z into the workplace is showing Millennials what a true digital native looks like.
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Our Facebook Live trial will allow our digital native audience to trial our TV product for the first time.
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So well over $1 billion came from digital native companies that literally didn't advertise four or five years ago.
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The rise of the VSCO girl highlights Gen Z's relationship with technologyGen Z is the first digital-native generation.
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In Eilish's digital-native universe, it's impossible to pretend that anything is unobserved or unmediated; everything is self-conscious.
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According to Campbell, who is also an advisor to Mystro, the app isn't just helping digital native millennial drivers.
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"They are the first digital-native demographic, and they can evaluate what's a true story versus what's just a story."
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There was a 79% increase in digital-native newsroom employment from 2008-2017, growing from 7,503 workers to around 13,000.
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But his stewardship of Breitbart has shown real savvy and effectiveness in building up a digital-native conservative media brand.
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From mattresses to pet treats, digital-native vertical brands are seeing peak attention and funding from both founders and VCs.
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Multiple other companies have done similar deals in an attempt to gain scale and combat challenges from digital-native rivals.
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NBC Universal's investments in Buzzfeed and Vox are notable examples of digital native websites that are buoyed by external investments.
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Some digital-native DJs post full recordings of their shows on SoundCloud, Spotify or Bandcamp, or edit them down into podcasts.
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Given Verizon's recent prolific acquisition of short-form content, they certainly seem to be putting their money behind digital-native material.
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And that's coming from Andy Dunn, the founder of one of the biggest, most successful digital native brands out there: Bonobos.
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DRL CEO Nicholas Horbaczewski told The Verge that the switch was being made to better reach the sport's "young, digital native" fanbase.
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Some of them, because they're the first generation of digital-native athletes, have hundreds of thousands of followers — more than professional athletes.
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Maybe. But it's also a way to let your digital native kids explore technology without worrying that they'll ruin your expensive devices.
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To fully consider someone a digital native points to the fact that "these people are deeply immersed into this world," Rainie explains.
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The media industry on the whole has suffered as digital-native competitors like Facebook and Google consume increasing shares of advertising revenue.
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The media industry on the whole has suffered, as digital-native competitors such as Facebook and Google consume increasing shares of advertising revenue.
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But this is the first such wave in the era of internet ubiquity and is largely made up of young, digital-native men.
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"LVMH knows that there is a young luxury consumer who is keen to explore the world and a digital native," Mr. Burke said.
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The banks could gain an edge over their digital native competitors by using Facebook's architecture to communicate with customers, facilitate money transfers, and more.
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That's a significant change in skillset, which will probably require Reuters buying digital-native news organizations in most of the countries it's operating in.
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Not only is he a digital native, he is also native to fashion, having been raised surrounded by it in Paris and New York.
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Digital native publications like BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post each have small Australian newsrooms without the sizable costs of legacy papers like The Herald.
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JP Morgan recently announced that they're sort of, not exactly the same thing, but a digital native app, Finn, they were closing that down.
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And whether you're a digital native or immigrant, please post a few pictures of what you've made to social media, above the hashtag #NYTCooking.
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A digital-native Nancy Drew bristling with wit, snark and vocal fry, Tig is the creation of comics writers Alex Segura and Monica Gallagher.
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Bigger questions for YouTube and the web video world in general: How long, exactly, can a digital native video star remain relevant/popular/lucrative?
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Harry Potter was born on July 31, 1980, too soon to be a digital native and therefore more plausibly, as a beleaguered tween, offline.
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Walmart sold off one of its other digital-native brands, Modcloth, in a fire sale earlier this year and had considered offers for Bonobos.
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Digital-native retailers like Revolve and Reformation are also participating, marking the first time they have sold goods through another company's app, a spokesperson said.
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He took to the internet with the ease of a digital native, even though he was more than three decades too old to be one.
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Why it matters: Under Lerer and CEO Jonah Peretti's leadership, BuzzFeed has grown to become one of the largest digital-native publications in the world.
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This is the year that several digital-native consumer brands hit a scale that forces incumbents looking to attract younger customers to make a move.
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NBCU parent Comcast has pumped heavily into digital-native companies such as BuzzFeed and Vox Media, partly in an effort to better service existing advertisers.
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It is definitely easier to have cable, but I'm not sure, especially to a younger, digital native generation, that it is still an absolute necessity.
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From his vantage point, Shopify Chief Operating Officer Harley Finkelstein says he is not surprised by the rise of fast-growing, self-funded, digital-native brands.
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Justin Pang is an instructor at General Assembly The playing field is starting to level between the most-savvy traditional publishers and top digital native publishers.
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At the same time, podcasts were facing fierce competition for audiences' attention from a plethora of other new digital-native products including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
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The retailer has struggled in recent years as more shopping has shifted online and younger shoppers have opted for fast-fashion retailers and digital-native brands.
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After all, for a digital native like Addison (the nonbinary performer Maybe Burke), people, ideas and events coexist freely in a melding of life and internet.
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But Ms. Ocasio-Cortez embodies and morphs the concept like the digital native she is, meaning simply that she speaks the language of the internet fluently.
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One answer: Incubating and acquiring digital-native brands that have direct relationships with customers and appeal to younger generations of shoppers — and won't be sold on Amazon.
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There's no reason a blind 8-year-old can't also be a digital native like her peers, and that presents an opportunity for teachers and parents both.
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Advertisers, especially digital-native companies that are starting to spend on TV, want to better understand how their ads drove sales as people cut the cable cord.
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He has worked with Sprite and Target on major campaigns, and helped the clothing company Nautica revamp its image to cater to a young, digital-native audience.
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And as a result, they would be forced to spend big money to acquire digital-native brands that are resonating with the next generation of consumers online.
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He's also a true digital native, where the older kids have graduated from Stanford and I ask them, 'Aren't you glad you didn't have phones earlier on?
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YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are the most discussed social apps in terms of news consumption, but Instagram could become a meaningful channel for reaching digital-native audiences.
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These sites are some of the earliest artifacts of digital-native media, old-school blogs that turned pro and became a vital part of the local news scene.
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For Kirsten Green, the past year has been something of a coming-out party for the venture capitalist, who is focused on investments in digital-native consumer brands.
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But another possibility is that some of her statements simply read as false to "us," by which I mean digital-native writers who have made their careers online.
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As younger, digital-native generations mature, these viewership figures are likely to begin balancing out, but until then linear sports viewership will remain top of mind for advertisers.
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Consciously or not, this next generation may be effortlessly absorbing the computational thinking skills so many covet, and in the process refining what we mean by digital native.
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According to a 2019 report by Coresight Research, digital native brands are rising to compete in this space, with startups like Rihanna's Savage x Fenty, ThirdLove, and Aerie.
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Cottrill recently performed at Madison Square Garden, opening for Khalid, another late-nineties baby who mines the digital-native teen-age experience in his music, albeit with less nuance.
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The term "digital native" is thrown around in dialogue to imply that today's youth is predisposed to be adept at using technology, having been born closer to its inception.
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Digital native publishers, for example, aspire to have the credibility that traditional publishers carry and they have continued to hire well-respected journalists to earn more of that street cred.
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Like most legacy U.S. media companies, NBCUniversal parent company Comcast has invested heavily in digital-native companies like BuzzFeed and Vox, partly in an effort to better service existing advertisers.
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Why it matters: It's the latest example of a digital-native news outlet getting into streaming news to capture more audience attention on mobile and to compete for television dollars.
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Ms. Coyne, who identifies as a digital native and first joined Twitter when she was 13, is the one with deeper meme knowledge who keeps abreast of current online trends.
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"Being a pre-digital native gives me a perspective that I think is good, even if it's obviously at risk of becoming 'old man shaking fist at the world,'" he says.
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"We're seeing explosive growth with digital native brands because the consumers profoundly shifted where most of the new demand creation is via the mobile phone and social media," Chen tells me.
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It's looking to buy businesses in the technology, retail and digital native brands categories, said Marc Lore, CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S., onstage at WSJ D.Live in Laguna Beach on Tuesday.
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The comment that inspired the thread came from a dad whose son found a way to get around Screen Time app restrictions that could have only come from a digital native.
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Today's parents are savvier with mobile technology than those a generation ago, but even so-called "digital native" parents struggle to keep up with thousands of new apps aimed at kids.
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Pew also looked at the distribution strategies of 40 digital-native news media publishers, finding that all have an a presence on the more established social networking sites: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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I'm glad these startups exist but for the longest time I thought, "Wow, Slate is the only completely legit, enduring, digital native, journalistic startup" and now there are more, and that's good.
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"The online-only format should help mitigate schedule disruptions and overall viewership growth should remain robust given the primarily digital native audience," said Suthan Sukumar, the principal technology researcher at Eight Capital.
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Here are the soft skills Gen Z members need to succeed:Be an effective strategic communicatorSome employers fear that digital native workers might be too much like the robots they are competing with.
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"Well over $1 billion this year came from digital-native companies that literally didn't advertise 4 or 5 years ago," NBC Universal CEO Steve Burke noted on Comcast's second quarter earnings call.
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I'm very intrigued by what's happening in the recent times where I've seen Hudson's Bay partnering with more digital-native brands like Casper, and I'm seeing them more and more in the store.
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Entertainment execs can't ignore that these digital-native creators capture highly sought-after Millennial audiences, that they drive viewing on mobile devices and that they have all the data to back it up.
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One big issue: The new digital-native financial system is certain to draw scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators who have been criticizing Facebook over its handling of data privacy and potential antitrust issues.
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He appears to have used stolen high-speed internet and frequented pirating sites for games, a history that suggests O'Rourke was well-versed in the early digital native culture that preceded social media.
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We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web, we were creating a digital native product and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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As the first millennials approach their forties and Gen Z comes of age, marketers across industries are scrambling to figure out how to reach these digital-native consumers in a dispersed media world.
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They had the aura of ordinary nonpoliticians, but they were also digital-native media savants, organizing hashtag campaigns, planning protests, delivering speeches that went spectacularly viral and nimbly engaging detractors on social media.
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Either way, Walmart has decided to stop purchasing digital-native brands for at least the next year, according to three sources, barring an incredible acquisition opportunity that is just too good to pass up.
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Under the circumstances, it's not particularly surprising that NPR would be one of the more cautious outlets while a digital-native site like Vox felt comfortable plunging ahead without a lot of hand-wringing.
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Since then, Apple has gradually opened up to more digital-native publications, including Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, The Verge and BuzzFeed, often providing review units under the same embargo timing as their old-media counterparts.
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But Walmart has scaled back some plans of its e-commerce chief Marc Lore, who, at one point earlier in his tenure, suggested that he might purchase a new digital-native brand every month.
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So far, Brat has also done custom campaigns with Universal Pictures, and its pool of clients is likely to grow fast, given its promising initial results and brand desire to reach digital-native Gen Zers.
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"I think responses to [Ocasio-Cortez] have a lot to do with the fact that she's young, charismatic, the digital native, a woman of color, and gives the appearance of following her own rules," says Chemaly.
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And you've got a generation that is becoming politically awakened, including a generation of people I think in the kind of technological, digital native world who believed early on that politics was not relevant to them.
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But Lore has been trying to buy digital-native companies with strong brands that appeal to a different demographic than Walmart does, and ones that have the potential to be healthy standalone businesses with Walmart's backing.
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But Brockhampton is part of a digital-native, Gen Z cohort for whom genre signposts are often avoided, and the band began incorporating other styles, experimenting with psychedelic R. & B., breezy guitar, and muted electro-pop.
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And frankly, some people think that they can do better by scanning or faxing stuff in and having an electronic version of that, and the fact is that it needs to be digital native from the beginning.
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Still, traditional TV companies desperately need to figure out how to connect with younger audiences, and their affiliations with digital native publishers were enacted with the promise of borrowing some of these companies' "we get millennials" magic.
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Established print publishers Forbes, Hearst Digital Media, Conde Nast Digital, and the Washington Post posted impressive double digit audience growth while once hyper-growth digital native publishers like Buzzfeed and Gawker saw flat or declining traffic growth.
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Glossier, the digital-native beauty brand whose products have become a hit among teen girls as well as women in their 20s and 30s, has raised a new $52 million round of financing from its existing investors.
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The proposed deal marked one of the biggest acquisitions of a so-called digital-native consumer brand and was seen as proof in startup circles that disruptive retail brands could have successful financial outcomes without going public.
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Like the content-creators in digital-native companies, all of our members are dedicated to their work and share a passion for crafting compelling stories, whether for information or entertainment (or both), whether serious or satirical (or both).
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And banks have realized that digital-native millennials have the same core banking needs — a safe place to stash cash and easy ways to retrieve it — as the generations that favored marble-floored lobbies lined with teller windows.
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The funding discussions come at a time when investors have shown renewed interest in digital-native consumer brands that have the potential for mass appeal, and especially those that can grow fast without losing massive amounts of money.
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It's almost impossible to speculate what this would mean for anyone's sense of self, not to mention that of a high-profile prisoner, in and out of solitary confinement, a digital native barred from full participation in that world.
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And second, because Bonobos, one of the more promising of this current wave of digital-native apparel brands, was selling out for maybe less than it eventually could have, and not trying to make it huge as a standalone, public company.
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While Lore suggested earlier in his Walmart tenure that he might purchase a new digital-native brand every month, Walmart leadership has largely nixed those plans as the company's US e-commerce losses are projected to surpass $1 billion this year.
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That heavy emphasis on digital across its brands is manifesting itself in other ways: A bet on an augmented reality app for its Pottery Barn brand and experimenting with showcasing digital-native brands like Casper in its West Elm stores.
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The former has nearly 3 million subscribers and 1.7 billion lifetime views on YouTube, added more than half a million subscribers, doubled its minutes watched year-over-year and has grown to more than 2,500 episodes of digital native content.
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While few in their 2000s and older may know of Ms. Goddard, her digital-native followers are enthralled by her jet-setting party lifestyle, which often places her alongside celebrities at events like the N.B.A. All-Star Game and the Grammys.
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For most of the album, he uses the legacy of chunky, melodic, fuzztone-loving rock — the Cars by way of the Pixies and Weezer — to reveal the insecurities and torturously layered self-consciousness of growing up as a digital native.
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Ocasio-Cortez is also relatable on social media because she's a digital native, unlike, say, Elizabeth Warren, who brought followers into her kitchen for a Michelob Ultra on New Year's Eve when she announced she was exploring a presidential run.
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On the other end of the spectrum, digital-native sites like BuzzFeed, founded in 2006, and Vox, founded in 2011 were some of the biggest names to embark on the unclear path of designing a profitable model for online journalism.
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Code/Commerce is a series of intimate, one-night events where you'll hear from digital-native retailers and payments companies upending existing business models, and brick-and-mortar giants like Target adapting their playbook for an increasingly mobile-first shopping world.
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But a decade later, Dunn was able to turn to e-commerce software company Shopify as the platform for Allswell, a mattress brand that Dunn helped incubate in his new role at Walmart where he oversees the company's digital-native consumer brands.
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The age of the digital native - children born into technology, resulting in a natural fluency - is without a doubt, a beneficial point of technological advance, however, the rate at which these advances emerge, vastly outpaces the senior citizen's ability to grasp it.
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The deal talks come as Target — like many large brick-and-mortar retailers — is struggling to stanch declining store traffic and decreasing sales as young shoppers opt for new, digital-native brands and Amazon continues to eat up market share across the board.
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And when Glamour's longtime editor Cindi Leive resigned last year and was later replaced by Samantha Barry, a "digital native" from CNN, it seemed pretty clear the groundwork was being laid for the magazine to go into that good digital night. Whoops!
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But then again, they could be a great cheap option for the younger digital-native set and kids who don't care about image quality, have no affinity for analog tech, and just want to print stickers for their friends or add memes to their shots.
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At the same time, a digital-native business, Vox Media, the owner of The Verge and Eater, turned a profit last year, its first as a large company, according to two people with knowledge of the matter who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.
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Those deals served as a "wake-up call" to traditional retailers and packaged goods incumbents that they may have to make acquisitions or risk being disrupted by digital-native retail startups, said Kirsten Green, a venture capitalist whose firm was the only one to back both companies.
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As Netflix pours more money into creating quality content to be taken seriously as a movie producer, digital native publishers will invest more in quality journalism to establish their legitimacy as news outlets (vindicated when a digital publisher like Vice wins a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism).
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Unilever has also put its 5,500 marketers through digital training to make sure everyone is up to speed with trends, to make sure a "lost generation" of marketers in their 30s and 40s can keep up with "digital native," consumers who are communicating via WhatsApp and Snapchat.
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Smalley appears to be very much a part of this community, but somehow manages to escape these emerging clichés about his generation's art trends and produces work that is very clearly born out of the digital world but whose genuine artistic interest goes beyond a digital native 'wink' to his peers.
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Brunson is a fresh face in Hollywood, part of a crop of digital-native creators—like Emmy award-winning Insecure creator Issa Rae, Brown Girls' director Samantha Bailey, and Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham—who have all made the leap into television and film through the help of digital media.
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That's essentially the premise of OneMarket, a spinoff of the Westfield mall company, that aims to bring together retailers, malls and technology companies to do things like share data and purchase new technology products from a shared resource in an effort to better compete with digital-native companies like Amazon.
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"When innovations are introduced on the farm, it's often the younger generation of operator who gets handed the new technology," Mr. Currie said, noting that when a sales representative arrives with a device like a field monitoring drone, he's often directed to the family's next generation of farmer, a digital native.
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It is important to realize that while life-saving technologies like Life Alert and digital blood monitors are wildly effective, they only focus on critical alert mechanisms (ie: near death, life altering moments.) The ability to use technology as they develop allows for learning provisions akin to those that exist for the digital native.
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The major characters — preponderantly heroines, rather than heroes — are played by less well known performers like Phoebe Fox, as a level-headed paramedic who enters her ambulance in the race at the last minute, and Ike Bennett as a digital-native teenager trying to navigate the course using handwritten notebooks compiled by his father.
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While some may question the uniqueness of the offering or the barriers to entry in the market, we argue that when Fortune 50 CIOs become ardent fans of a technology vendor and a Digital Native firm like Uber makes the claim that Zoom is the highest rated enterprise application of any kind in their environment, we pay attention.
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Dunn was most recently overseeing what was, at one point, supposed to be a key component of Walmart's digital reinvention: a collection of digital-native brands like Bonobos and Eloquii that were meant to connect with a different demographic of shoppers and provide Walmart with more merchandise that customers couldn't find on competing sites like Amazon.
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