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Oath and our partners need your consent to access your device and use your data (including location) to understand your interests, and provide and measure personalised ads. Oath will also provide you with personalised ads on partner products. Learn more. About the Stack magazines subscription service. Built on passion Stack launched in 2008 as a side project – our founder Steven Watson was an independent magazine fan who wanted to help more people discover great new publishing.

About the Stack magazines subscription service

Today we deliver thousands of magazines every month to customers all around the world, and our annual Stack Awards celebrates the best work done by independent editors, designers and publishers. The best magazines, delivered to your door. Darling Magazine - Darling, you are a work of art. Teen Breathe Home - Teen Breathe magazine - for a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life. Home - Gurls Talk. Gurls Talk: Adwoa Aboah on creating a 'safe space' for women - BBC Newsbeat. British Isles outline map – royalty free editable vector map - Maproom. Magazines - UK - December 2018 - Market Research Report. Birmingham City University - Sign In. Millennials are tech savvy. Gen Z’s are tech native. Introducing: Generation Z - who they are, what they do and where they shop.

5 Expert Tips For Creating A Robust Online Community. Young people turn to tech for support #NoNormal - The Mix. What Influences Generation Z – Trends Ideas Opinions. Six ways social media negatively affects your mental health. Mental health statistics: stress. Results of the Mental Health Foundation's 2018 study The study was an online poll undertaken by YouGov, and had a sample size of 4,619 respondents.

Mental health statistics: stress

This is the largest known study of stress levels in the UK. In the past year, 74% of people have felt so stressed they have been overwhelmed or unable to cope. Age differences 30% of older people reported never feeling overwhelmed or unable to cope in the past year, compared to 7% of young adults. Behavioural effects 46% reported that they ate too much or ate unhealthily due to stress. 29% reported that they started drinking or increased their drinking, and 16% reported that they started smoking or increased their smoking. Psychological effects Causes of stress. Generation Z reported the most mental health problems, and gun violence is the biggest stressor. As gun violence, sexual assault claims and immigration dominate the 2018 news cycle, the American Psychological Association's annual Stress in America survey says that such issues are the main cause of stress among young adults.

Generation Z reported the most mental health problems, and gun violence is the biggest stressor

The survey, released Tuesday, was conducted among 3,459 people 18 and older, and it included interviews with 300 teenagers ages 15 to 17. It measures attitudes and perception of stress to identify the leading sources of stress among the general public. Gun violence is the top source of stress across all generations, the survey said. Time. After years of headlines about the so-called Millennials, a new group of young people is poised to make their mark on the world.

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This post-Millennial generation still has several moniker, but has been most commonly called Generation Z or the iGeneration. They are widely considered to be young people born in the mid-1990s, and by 2020 they will account for one-third of the U.S. population. Technology Habits of Generation Z. WGSN - Express Yourself - Tween Girls Back to School 2018. Who is Gen Z? How teens are consuming content. Defined loosely as the generation born approximately between 1996-2011, Generation Z is 25% of the world's population and is poised to surpass other generations in terms of buying power in the near future.

Who is Gen Z? How teens are consuming content

Awesomeness, a multi-platform media company, has analyzed the habits of millennials' younger siblings, Generation Z, in a partnership with research firm Trendera. According to Awesomeness, who is creating content slates and branded content for these young people, the generation can be explained using words such as stressed, global, guarded, fluid identity, rule breakers, niche and tech-natives, among others. All of that makes sense, as Gen Z is the world's first generation of truly digital natives. They were born and have grown up with high-speed internet, smartphones, social media and access to news. Magazines - UK - December 2018: Methods of buying a magazine. Facetune App Makes Your Face Better for Instagram - Web Design, Online Advertising and Mobile Marketing Agency in Columbus, Ga. Well, it does more than that.

Facetune App Makes Your Face Better for Instagram - Web Design, Online Advertising and Mobile Marketing Agency in Columbus, Ga

While most of us are comfortable with our faces the way they are, some people are notorious for taking 35 pictures before the light hits just right and the angle is perfect. And with the reduction of filters on Instagram, we are finding it harder and harder to tweak these delicate moments of our lives. What if I told you that you only had to take one shot and make it your best Instagram selfie ever? Today, I ran across a cool app and I just thought I would share. It is called Facetune. News Consumption - TV, Print, Online and Social (Mintel, November 2018) Subscribe to read. ‎Facetune on the App Store. Enlight and Facetune creator Lightricks raises $60 million. The mobile app market is on the upswing, according to research firms like App Annie.

Enlight and Facetune creator Lightricks raises $60 million

Global downloads grew an estimated 15 percent and consumer spend 20 percent year-over-year in Q2 2018. And smartphone users spent more money on apps — $18.5 billion — than in any quarter in history. One of the most popular categories was video players and editors, which helped drive installs on Android to 20 billion in Q2.

And five-year-old Jerusalem startup Lightricks — the folks behind Facetune and Enlight — benefited firsthand. Lightricks today announced that it has secured $60 million in a funding round led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from Claltech, bringing its total raise to date to $70 million. As part of deal, Insight Venture Partners principal Harley Miller will join the company’s board of directors. Lightricks cofounder and CEO Dr. Why Aerie Decided to Go Retouching-Free - Darling Magazine. Changing culture means engaging with culture and no brand is doing that better right now than Aerie and their #AerieREAL campaign.

Why Aerie Decided to Go Retouching-Free - Darling Magazine

Darling Magazine's CEO on Why They Don't Retouch Their Photos. We’re all guilty of trying to showcase our best life on social media — whether that means traveling an hour out of our way to capture our OOTD in front of a trendy mural or forcing our bestie to take a million selfies before finally capturing the perfect one to post.

Darling Magazine's CEO on Why They Don't Retouch Their Photos

But for CEO of Darling Sarah Dubbeldam, there’s a difference between curating an aesthetically pleasing Instagram theme and retouching every aspect of your face and body. As advocates for natural beauty, the executives at Darling made the amazing decision to no longer retouch the bodies or skin of any of the models in their magazine. Now, Darling has partnered with American Eagle’s Aerie to create a YouTube series and forthcoming documentary about the hidden dangers of retouching — and the battle for self-esteem that happens every day on our smartphones.

We recently got the chance to catch up with Dubbeldam and chat about all things social media, photo retouching, and self-confidence. Enjoy the full interview below! Retouching photos: Is it right or wrong? - CBBC Newsround. Getty Images We see them everyday - in magazines, on billboards, the sides of buses and on social media. Retouched photos - they're everywhere.

How do photo retouching apps affect impressionable teens on social media? A wildly popular retouching app that boasts celebrity users has raised alarms for some parents who worry that having their teen's social media pages inundated with altered images could backfire. Facetune and Facetune 2, which can instantly zap away perceived imperfections on any photo, have together been downloaded a whopping 50 million times since the first one was launched in 2013. Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian even called Facetune "life changing" in a recent interview. The original iteration of the app, Facetune, cost $3.99, and was the most popular paid app of 2017, Lightricks said. While the latest version, called Facetune 2, is now free to download, for a monthly fee of $5.99 users can unlock additional features. The new version of the app currently has half a million subscribers, and approximately 70 percent of them are women, according to Lightricks.

Facetune app. FaceTune is conquering Instagram – but does it take airbrushing too far? The Oxford English Dictionary chose “selfie” as its word of the year at the end of 2013. At around the same time, four Israeli computer science PhD students and a supreme court clerk had an idea for an app that that would allow regular people to do Photoshop-style retouching of their smartphones photos. That app was FaceTune. The team behind it hoped they’d be able to sell enough copies of the app to raise a few hundred thousand dollars. Why a new generation won't stand for retouching. We all know that celebrities are generally hyper-retouched in magazine spreads, but a new generation of public figures and fans is not going to stand for the practice.

In the pages of independent fashion magazines and in galleries, an emerging wave of young photographers like Petra Collins is forgoing airbrushing in favor of the realistic and raw.