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Some form of Obama gear has been lodged among the 10 most popular items since Jan.1...Traffic to Zazzle has shot up during each primary, and the company saw a 10% spike in sales around Super Tuesday.

Disney has uploaded more than 3,500 of its designs to Zazzle, allowing the company to sell a wider range of products than just the blockbuster Mickey Mouse T-shirts favored by conventional retailers. The service also gives the Disney machine unprecedented agility.

Say you went to a concert and wanted to buy a shirt of the band but didn’t like the designs,” says Susan Kevorkian, an analyst at researcher IDC. “Come home, go to Zazzle, and go through many more designs, until you find one you like. The ability to customize your experience is a quality that really appeals to consumers today, especially younger ones.

Zazzle just blows my mind with what it’s able to do,” said Doug Fleener, a retail consultant in Lexington, Mass.“I don’t see anybody else doing anything to the same extent.

For bands that want to ensure each shirt is different, the new Web site Zazzle.com (http://www.zazzle.com) allows a group to upload any number of images (assuming it holds the copyrights to said images), and then provide fans with a link to its Zazzle page. Fans can visit the site, select from a wide variety of custom cuts and styles, and then manipulate the images to create their own, one-of-a-kind shirt.

According to AT&T, the site has sold "thousands" of shirts since it went live
a month ago.

Considering its emphasis on music, the company says its ability to quickly print up black T-shirts -- normally a more time-consuming process than printing on light-colored shirts -- is key. Most established bands have exclusive contracts in place with merchandise companies; Zazzle says it is in talks with many of those licensees to secure sublicenses for online sales. Still, Zazzle is entering a hot field

How promising is Zazzle? So promising that the company has reached an agreement with News Corp.'s MySpace giving musicians on the popular social-networking site an easy way to sell customized merchandise to fans, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The new musical association holds a lot of promise for music lovers across the world as it will enable over 6 million bands and musicians associated with MySpace to sell music products directly to MySpace users.

The rumors are true: MySpace and Zazzle have teamed up to offer users a way to sell custom t-shirts on their MySpace profiles. This will be offered with the Zazzle Merch widget, which can be promoted on your profile, right alongside your music. You’ll even be able to use Zazzle’s recently implemented 3D modeling options, which will display your branded t-shirts on real models. How fun.

Zazzle, which attracted Google backers John Doerr and Ram Shriram, uses printing processes that allow it to take an uploaded design and ship products imprinted with that design in 24 hours.

MySpace is now pushing a music merchandising initiative, and tapping Redwood City, CA-based Zazzle on the play. Zazzle specializes in creating on-demand, customized merchandise, and mailing end products rapidly. That model fits snugly into the MySpace structure, which features a collection of millions of bands.

Warner Music Group has signed on with Zazzle to make various artist-based products available on the new merch sales widget. The agreement allows WMG artists to create their own Zazzle sites.

Under the deal, musicians and bands on MySpace will have the immediate ability to create products and sell merchandise by putting the Zazzle Merch Booth widget on their MySpace profile. Zazzle’s ‘Model Realview’ technology allows artists to display their very own branded merchandise three dimensionally, on real models in their profile. The Zazzle Merch Booth widget will also enable placement of the artist’s merchandise in a Zazzle gallery, their own websites, fan sites and blogs