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From NM Incite: Social media discussion about Black Friday peaked in 2012, accounting for 2.6% of online buzz, up 15% from 2011. Cyber Monday buzz almost doubled relative to 2012, accounting for 1.4% of online buzz. The overwhelming majority of social media conversation about Black Friday and Cyber Monday was driven by consumers sharing deals and talking about deals. 10% of Black Friday conversation, specifically, was negative, driven largely by consumer complaints about crowds, violence and lackluster sales. The top shared link within Black Friday buzz was the Amazon Black Friday Deals page.

"Players of Call of Duty: Black Ops II will now be able to livestream their gameplay to YouTube directly from their Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game consoles. While casual players may be interested in posting their games, this is big news for the lucrative gaming-commentary industry on YouTube, and for the eSports scene as a whole."

infographic based on tweets on black friday

"On Smartphone-Optimized Sites, Black Friday Sales Up 187%, Thanksgiving Sales Up 258% Over Last Year"

Native ad for Orange is the New Black

Wow, it's really a great editorial sponsored or not. I'm hoping that this is the direction of most "native advertising."

Black Friday post mortem for e-commerce

Toys 'R' Us, taking a different path, has a prompt on its Facebook page encouraging consumers to sign up to receive a mobile text alert the instant the toy retailer's Black Friday deals post on the social networking site. 

Adrants and Y&R CIO John Gerzema discuss projections for Black Friday.

It sends pulses of light to the scanner's sensor and mimics the black-and-white sequencing of a standard barcode.

Mall of America QR contest on Black Friday. 300 people lined up to scan, 1000 others scanned it over the weekend. They showed a video explaining how to scan the code to raise awareness. 

each page is covered with a stark black and white geometric shape and a web address leading to the book's website. To read the book, consumers must visit that site and hold each page up in front of their webcam, one at a time. 

jcpenney donates $25 to salvation army for each check-in on their store on black friday

"Shopper Sciences, a market research agency, used Affectiva's technology to track the emotions of shoppers over Black Friday last year. They asked in-store shoppers to wear the Affectiva sensor wristband and online shoppers to allow a webcam to watch their faces, in an effort to understand how different emotions might affect spending. They found that people online and in-store experienced similar levels of excitement and stress while shopping, but those who browsed online before heading into stores were less stressed and more confident - and spent an average of $400 more."

Hmmm, my call is that all these "black" phones are part of a fad, not a trend. Also if only 1 or 2% of the population has them then the NSA knows who to focus on;-)

I'm probably over reaching here...but could this be the black swan for the connected living room? Movies, TV, web content, music & games.