Watch the Sarah Palin Special on the Newly Launched TrendHunter.TV; Also, Trend Hunter Announces New Contest With Creator of Big Brother

Watch the Sarah Palin Special on the Newly Launched TrendHunter.TV; Also, Trend Hunter Announces New Contest With Creator of Big Brother

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- TrendHunter.com, the world's largest community dedicated to trend spotting and cool hunting, will premier a hilarious Sarah Palin Special on the newly launched TrendHunter.TV, an online show showcasing the best viral topics in pop culture, technology, fashion, advertising, and design. TrendHunter.TV premiered live on October 19 with this report: http://www.trendhunter.com/tv/viralvideos.

TrendHunter.com is also teaming up with legendary producer John de Mol, the man behind such TV sensations as Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, and Fear Factor, for a new contest to discover the next big reality TV idea.

"Community generated video, on TrendHunter.TV, was the next logical step for TrendHunter.com," said Jeremy Gutsche, who founded the site in 2005 as a community to anticipate and identify the next big thing. "With over 8 million views per month, we've already become the place to discover what's cool before it's cool. So we're taking that breakthrough concept of the TrendHunter.com online magazine and turning it into TV. This new show gives our community of contributing Trend Hunters a chance to see their trends presented to a wider, viral audience. You hunt the trends, and we put them on TV!"

Each episode of TrendHunter.TV will feature high-end production values rarely seen in the online sphere, but more importantly, the 5-minute shows will be community-driven, drawing on the collective wisdom and ideas of the site's 20,000 contributors. Never before has an online community had such leverage over the content of a real TV series. The episodes will explore cutting-edge topics from a marketing perspective, covering luxury, pop culture, fashion, eco and advertising.

TrendHunter.TV's Episode 1: "Viral Videos" showcases the types of videos that become viral. For Halloween week, Episode 2: "Shockvertising - From Fake Murder to Sexy Sumo ... " illuminates the extremes to which advertising is going to grab the attention of the public as well as the role of the blogosphere in pushing for more shocking, viral advertising. New shows will follow on a weekly basis. Upcoming topics include "Fashionista Exotica" (November 2) and "Faking Awesome" (November 9).

Today, TrendHunter.com will team up with TalpaCreative.com, John de Mol's TV development community, to launch a competition of ideas (TrendHunter.com/talpa). Trend Hunters can submit their forward-thinking concepts for TV shows. The Trend Hunter with the best idea will take home $4000. If selected for use by Talpa, the creator will also receive a percentage ownership in the format.

"This is a big crowd-sourced idea experiment, and I trust our thousands of Trend Hunters are up to the challenge," said Gutsche. "Today, anyone can have the next million-dollar idea, and we're lending all our members the ear of one of the most prescient and intelligent men in show-biz. We've assembled some of the smartest minds on the net, and we can't wait to see what our community will come up with."

Described as "a new breed of trend spotter" by The Guardian, "an eagle eye" by Global TV, an "Oracle" by the Globe and Mail and "on the forefront of cool" by MTV, Canadian-born Gutsche founded TrendHunter.com in 2005 as a source of inspiration for industry professionals, aspiring entrepreneurs and the insatiably curious. An innovation expert and cutting edge speaker, Gutsche is routinely sought out by the media as the forefront speaker on understanding cool.

TrendHunter.com is the world's most updated, largest collection of cutting edge ideas, dedicated to trend spotting and cool hunting. Breakthrough ideas and strategic advantage hinge on the ability to anticipate trends and identify the next big thing. By tracking the evolution of cool, Trend Hunters generate ideas, stimulate creativity, and ultimately unlock cool. TrendHunter.com's community of thousands of Trend Hunters has submitted over 25,000 trends, contributing to the site's 8 million monthly views. Top Trend Hunters make $1000+ monthly by submitting the latest ideas and trends. http://www.trendhunter.com/.

Please visit TrendHunter.TV for more information. To view video of Jeremy Gutsche, visit JeremyGutsche.com. Call Alpha Dog PR at (818) 998-6299 to book an interview and share the hottest trends!

Source: TrendHunter.com

CONTACT: Susan Hartzler of Alpha Dog Public Relations, +1-818-998-6299,
susan@alphadogpr.com, for TrendHunter.com

Web site: http://www.trendhunter.com/

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