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About the Inside Source
As the world’s largest online marketplace comprised of 88 million active users, eBay is uniquely equipped to serve as a cultural barometer – its global community helps set and forecast global shopping trends daily through their searches, purchases and live sales.
The Inside Source (http://www.theinsidesource.com) is a digital media destination that harnesses the eBay shopping community’s real time buying and selling activity to curate proprietary insights that shape the retail industry and American consumer’s lifestyles. The Inside Source offers fresh, original perspective and editorial content, such as feature articles and opinion pieces written by journalists and shopping specialists, that provides an insider look at what’s hot and what’s next.
Visit The Inside Source daily to catch up on the latest mainstream and niche trends, peruse our multimedia gallery of videos and photos, post comments and share ideas with likeminded trendsetters from next door and abroad. You can also submit story ideas to our editors; like the global marketplace that inspires us, The Inside Source is listening and wants to hear from you.
We trendspot. You trendset.
Meredith Barnett, Editorial Director
Meredith Barnett is an avid shopper and trend watcher with a keen eye for what’s hot today and what’s shaping the way you spend your time and money. As the Editorial Director of The Inside Source, she’ll be taking a keen look at what eBay’s active community is currently shopping for (and obsessing over), and placing it in the context of the big picture—in pop culture, fashion, style, home and garden, technology and sustainable living .
Barnett previously served as Director, Digital Media at Lifetime Networks, where she oversaw non-programming-related lifestyle content. Barnett is also a Founder of StoreAdore.com, a web-based guide to the best in boutique shopping around the country and online. She worked as an editor at Lucky, a Condé Nast magazine with over 1m monthly readers about on shopping and style in fashion, beauty and home. She has contributed to publications including Capitol File, Parade and The Huffington Post, and has appeared as a shopping expert on “Today” and “Fox & Friends”. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
