Niche Blog Research
Part 1:
My blog is all about the most relatable, funny, and romantic movies that (mostly) every college girl will enjoy. For some maybe even becoming their guilty pleasure! This blog is all about the movies that can be found on Netflix and why I personally enjoy them/want to share them with all of my fellow gals that will enjoy them just as much as me.
This blog is different from others as it focuses on just movies that are on Netflix rather than all 90's movies in general (even though I love most). It is also different as I will be putting much of my own opinion and life events into my reasoning/support to why these movies are relatable for college girls. This blog can be considered a forum for people to complain, confess, or just relate to the trials and tribulations of learning (or attempting) to become an adult while still wanting to just be a kid.
The concept of Netflix 90's was originally open to any one who had an interest in classic movies from the 90's and also shared a common interest in binge watching movies on Netflix. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized that the reason I loved so many of these movies was because of how relatable they were to my day to day life. This is when I developed the concept of my audience being college girls. Or, really anyone that can relate to the daily struggles that many teens/young adults face throughout the growing and transitioning period of college. No specific interests in mind as many of the movies incorporate all different walks of life.
Part 2:
In order to become an ~expert~ of sorts, I made sure to do my research. Below I have included some of my favorite and most inspirational blogs that led me to the concept for my own. Feel free to check them out!
My blog is all about the most relatable, funny, and romantic movies that (mostly) every college girl will enjoy. For some maybe even becoming their guilty pleasure! This blog is all about the movies that can be found on Netflix and why I personally enjoy them/want to share them with all of my fellow gals that will enjoy them just as much as me.
This blog is different from others as it focuses on just movies that are on Netflix rather than all 90's movies in general (even though I love most). It is also different as I will be putting much of my own opinion and life events into my reasoning/support to why these movies are relatable for college girls. This blog can be considered a forum for people to complain, confess, or just relate to the trials and tribulations of learning (or attempting) to become an adult while still wanting to just be a kid.
The concept of Netflix 90's was originally open to any one who had an interest in classic movies from the 90's and also shared a common interest in binge watching movies on Netflix. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized that the reason I loved so many of these movies was because of how relatable they were to my day to day life. This is when I developed the concept of my audience being college girls. Or, really anyone that can relate to the daily struggles that many teens/young adults face throughout the growing and transitioning period of college. No specific interests in mind as many of the movies incorporate all different walks of life.
Part 2:
In order to become an ~expert~ of sorts, I made sure to do my research. Below I have included some of my favorite and most inspirational blogs that led me to the concept for my own. Feel free to check them out!
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3. As many people I'm sure are familiar with the next website that I have used as research is MTV. There is obviously a large following of the network but the post that I found was from 2012. I have to say that I was not particularly pleased with the layout of the blog post or the content. The post included pictures from each movie and a good selection of 90's movies but poor justification for why they were essential. The site itself has a great layout and views in the thousands.
4. My fourth website is from an online magazine called paste. This is post dating back to 2012 but there is no indication of how many times the site is viewed or what the precise following is as it relates to their blogs. The site layout shows a wide range of topics for the reader to choose from providing variety. They also have included multiple ways for the reader to easily share a post with facebook, twitter, email, or pinterest. This is something I will definitely consider adding to my own blog.
5. Much different than the other websites I have explored this page is a tumblr which is designed differently than a normal website. I personally really enjoy tumblr, it is one of my favorite blogs and I have one of my own. The set up is pictures, gifs, short clips, that have small bios under them for the reader to understand where the content is from and the purpose of the image. This so far has been my favorite site and something I will consider while developing my own as it makes the site more interactive.
6. Here is another tumblr with a similar feel as the page above but the site design is very different. Instead of the site being set up as a timeline of pictures that the reader must scroll through this page is set up as a board. There is a bunch of pictures and selections of pages relevant to the topic "90's movies" that the reader is able to click on and will be redirected to immediately. I am a huge fan of this design as it is encouraging the reader to do further research and creates interest to explore the other pages provided by the author.
7. This post is from a very popular site called buzzfeed. Posted in 2014 and receiving interaction from readers the website appears to be successful with their following. The layout is not overwhelming for the reader and provides pictures to the description of each movie. However, this post does something different, listing the worst movies to the best rather than just a compilation of the best. I enjoyed this because it provides a look at the other side, something that I may consider in my own posts.
8. This website is another popular outlet, popsugar. The post was posted in 2016 with a total of 8,200 shares, not too bad. The post outlines iconic movies available now on Netflix. The post goes onto show images of the movies with a sentence or two at the bottom of each slide. This post showed me what not to do with my site, my facebook, and my own posts because I want them to be interesting and filled with information rather than just a slide show.
9. This site has a sole focus of all things Disney, However, I found a post outlining all of the best Disney 90's movies that you must watch. I really enjoyed this sites set up and design as it did not require a lot of time to maneuver through everything. This post taught me fun ways to incorporate color and gave me more consideration for movies to add to the Netflix 90's that are Disney.
10. This site called ranker goes in depth analyzing 90's movies while separating them into categories for the reader. However, this site has far to many advertisements for a reader to be able to maintain their focus. I believe that this blog is doing themselves a disservice by including so many advertisements. However, there were 98,000 views on this one post so they must not be doing so bad.
Part 3:
After conducting research I have settled on the domain name netflix90s and the title of my blog being Netflix 90's For College Girls. I did this in order to draw more than just college girls into my website with a broader domain but then introducing a more specialized topic. I also want my site to have the design similar to a tumblr with pictures and gifs that create a modernized/college feel to the site. Specific blog posts that I have already considered for future blogs would be writing posts that pertain to different emotions or experiences that everyone in college can relate to. For example, the movie to watch after you go through a break up, a movie to watch to remind you chivalry is not dead, and the movie to watch to boost your mood after a long day or week. The voice that I would look to adopt would be a very informal and personal voice. I want the reader to feel as though I am a friend or colleague.
After conducting research I have settled on the domain name netflix90s and the title of my blog being Netflix 90's For College Girls. I did this in order to draw more than just college girls into my website with a broader domain but then introducing a more specialized topic. I also want my site to have the design similar to a tumblr with pictures and gifs that create a modernized/college feel to the site. Specific blog posts that I have already considered for future blogs would be writing posts that pertain to different emotions or experiences that everyone in college can relate to. For example, the movie to watch after you go through a break up, a movie to watch to remind you chivalry is not dead, and the movie to watch to boost your mood after a long day or week. The voice that I would look to adopt would be a very informal and personal voice. I want the reader to feel as though I am a friend or colleague.