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December 18, 2008

Zazzle custom aprons not only protect you from sauce-splatters, they also style you like a celebrity chef. …The design process is a breeze—simply upload your desired image and text on zazzle.com, and adjust the size and colors until it's fit for your kitchen king.

— Weight Watchers.com - 2008 Men's Gift Guide

No more snorebore stamps! Upload your favorite image and make your own stocking-worthy design with Zazzle Stamps

— Alloy.com - Holiday Must List

December 17, 2008

I was looking for a place to do my t-shirt and Zazzle came to mind and man, these guys have really grown and expanded… it really is pretty cool.

— Mevio - Host Adam Curry

December 15, 2008

The online store that carries these shredder essentials claims some 90,000 items of Obama-bilia, zazzle.com.

— People Magazine - Obamarama!

December 11, 2008

Find an embarrassing picture of the fantasy player in your life, then head over to Zazzle, where you will have just as much fun playing with the fonts as you will giving the gift to the recipient. It takes no more than a half-hour to put together something personal, funny, and thoughtful.

— Wall Street Journal - Some Ideas That Further The Escape From Reality

December 5, 2008

There were SO many great choices! The hardest part about using Zazzle was picking which card I wanted to make.

— FamilyCorner.com - Zazzle Customizable Greeting Cards: Made to Order!

December, 2008

Zazzle.com Inc. keeps shoppers coming back to see what's new with ways to customize products, and not just by printing images on T-shirts, mugs and posters. The web-only retailer added custom shoe design in April, custom skateboards in August and embroidered design services in October.

— Internet Retailer - Hot 100 Best Retail Web Sites

November 25, 2008

Let the teen with her own sense of style customize a T-shirt, sneakers, skateboard or a host of other gear through this California-based Web site. Really enterprising designers can even sell their own merchandise here - maybe your gift will launch a career!

— Boston Herald - Dazzle your teen with a Zazzle.com gift certificate

November 24, 2008

You have plenty of frames filled with your family photos, but they just aren't creative enough. Do something different with your favorite snapshots by making them into shoes. Zazzle.com… has teamed up with comfy shoe company Keds so you can take the reins and design your own shoes.

— Chicago Parent - Fab Mama

November 23, 2008

Who wouldn't want something that's literally been tailor-made for them?

— TimeOut New York - Gift Guide 2008

November 20, 2008

Zazzle.com… has developed a following by letting kids customize all sorts of stuff.

— Associated Press - Gifts for Tough Customers: Teenagers

October 22, 2008

In the business of politics, you’re either in or you’re out... so the fashionable folks at Zazzle are here to help

— NBC Bay Area - Politics Meets Fashion on the Web

October 14, 2008

If you don’t have a particular photo project in mind, Zazzle will overwhelm you with options, from posters and T-shirts to mousepads and photo sculptures.

— PC Magazine - 8 Great Sites for Personalized Photo Gifts

September 12, 2008

Zazzle lets you custom design just about anything (they go way beyond the basic T-shirt) – I’m especially intrigued by the US postage stamps, neckties, and sculptures.

— Geek Sugar - Website of the Day

September 11, 2008

Do some good for yourself and others this weekend. Design Custom Keds online at www.zazzle.com

— Daily Candy - The Weekend Guide

August 27, 2008

You take your design, throw it into Zazzle’s customization system, and they’ll print it up and have it out the door within 24 hours.

— Crunch Gear - Zazzle Starts Printing Custom Skateboard Decks

August 26, 2008

It’s one thing to let consumers design their own shoes, but the next logical step in the customer-made trend is to help them sell their creations as well. Sure enough, users of Keds Studio can do just that through the Zazzle marketplace.

— Springwise.com - Design Your Own Keds and Sell Them on Zazzle

August 4, 2008

Keds has partnered with Zazzle.com to create the Keds Studio program. This cool program allows customers the ability to upload their own artwork, graphics and text to design their own custom footwear.

— She Knows.com - Customize Your Keds and More

Powered by Zazzle, the site doesn’t just let shoe designers choose colors or patterns, but also lets users upload their own images to be printed on the shoes. We can’t think of a better way to commemorate a summer vacation.

— Trend Central - Ultimate Sneaker Customization

July 30, 2008

Widgets used specifically to sell products, like Zazzle.com’s widget, are starting to take off.

— Internet Retailer - Selling Widgets

June 5, 2008

Zazzle’s cards are inexpensive, fast and available in smaller quantities. Such features are important to entrepreneurs and small-business owners, who don’t want to wait a week and pay hundreds of dollars for the industry-standard minimum of 250 cards, printers say.

— The Associated Press - Here’s my card: The networking aid gets a makeover

June 4, 2008

Personalized apparel and gifts e-retailer Zazzle.com Inc. is now allowing musicians to sell their custom goods not just on Zazzle.com but also in the social scene. It’s using a widget, a tiny application that lets bands creating and selling merchandise to launch a miniature version of the Zazzle.com store on their MySpace pages.

— Internet Retailer - Little widget lets musicians market memorabilia via MySpace

May 10, 2008

Zazzle’s business model is different from conventional models in this domain, where companies usually make bulk purchases of mugs or T-shirts from offshore locations to leverage scale economies and cost benefits. It is the emergence of a new business model that enables co-creation with customers and leverages resources globally.

— Information Week - The Meaning Of N = 1 And R = G

May 6, 2008

Zazzle (“infinite one-of-a-kind-ness”) [has] catapulted the old world of custom T’s into the digital arena.

— MSN Tech & Gadgets - Make It Personal

May 2, 2008

Zazzle has begun testing such ads targeted to MySpace and Facebook users based on their profiles, and click-through rates are more than 10 times higher than on conventional ads... “By moving beyond static ads, Zazzle is thinking about social networks in the right way,” says Donna Hoffman, co-director of the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing at the University of California-Riverside.

— Internet Retailer - Raising the Stakes: E–retailers must invest a lot more to keep customer loyalty

March 27, 2008

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.

— USA Today - Clothes race: Voter-designed campaign T-shirts in vogue

March 24, 2008

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.

— Wired - Manufacture and Sell Anything — in Minutes

March 4, 2008

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.

— USA Today - Zazzle aims to dazzle with on-demand merchandise

February 9, 2008

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.

— San Jose Mercury News - Customize your Valentine’s Day gifts

November 10, 2007

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.

— Billboard - Fashion sense turns into dollars for indie bands

November 9, 2007

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

— ADWEEK - Can AT&T’s TV Spots Sell T-Shirts?

October 30, 2007

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

— Wall Street Journal - Virtual Art Gets Body

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.

— Pollstar - Gigs & Bytes: Zazzle Dazzle

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.

— TMCnet - MySpace and Zazzle Bring Musicians and Customers Together

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.

— Mashable - Zazzle’s Shot at Tila Tequila T-Shirts

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.

— Red Herring - MySpace Turns to Zazzle for Music Souvenirs

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.

— Digital Music News - MySpace Jumps Into Merchandising Game, Taps Zazzle

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.

— Billboard - MySpace, Zazzle Partner On Merch

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 store, their own websites, fan sites and blogs

— TechCrunch - MySpace Gets Some Razzle Zazzle

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