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Still, there is a career track for former cool hunters.

In fact, some insist they aren't cool hunters at all but rather "urban anthropologists."

Which is why the cool hunters' first stop was the basketball courts of America's poorest neighbourhoods.

Like many design blogs, Apartment Therapy acts as cool hunter and arbiter.

With the haughtiest air at her disposal, she dropped the trout into the small cooler Hunter brought along on fishing trips.

A young man named Hunter works as a cool hunter, finding and selling new trends to his corporate sponsors.

He is also a very good handball player, once using his skills to acquire evidence (episode 216, "Cool Hunter").

A lot of the so-called cool hunters, self-styled experts at spotting trends among younger consumers, seem to be fading away.

No one knows how many cool hunters are prowling America's malls and streets, but cool hunting is one of the latest trends in trend analysis.

"Cool hunters" do.

Though being a cool hunter sounds, well, cool, trend analysis companies consider the term derisive, applying it only to hired hands like Ms. Ramsey.

Ms. Clark recalled that last year Lee's in-house cool hunter raised eyebrows when she urged the company to produce clam diggers for men.

Cutting through the myriad of press release replicating 'cool hunter' blogs, its crammed with originally written articles, unique features and exceptional imagery.

(Before that, Ms. Gordon won attention as a "cool hunter," stalking and helping market youth-culture trends before they appeared on the national radar.)

In episode 2.16 ("Cool Hunter"), Lindsay seeks Danny's help in re-creating a crime scene by having him carry her through a garden.

Mr. Welch: A lot of "cool hunters" were just buying stuff new and interesting and bringing it back to companies and saying, "This is a trend."

There, collectors and young cool hunters find Japanese imports, classic Vans, even Nikes adorned with Swarovski crystals.

After the multimillion-dollar sponsorships have been signed, and the cool hunters and marketing mavens have received their checks, there may not be all that much money left over.

But now, although some cool hunters continue to prowl, the consensus is that their trade has become uncool, because it resulted in no more than a handful of successful products.

And so, armed with their change agents and their cool hunters, the superbrands became the perennial teenage followers, trailing the scent of cool wherever it led.

Products and brands with Social Power encompass the notion that "Corporate cool hunters are searching for teens that have the respect, trust, and admiration of their friends."

After all, if there is one thing the cool hunters have taught us, it's that groups of kids aren't just lowly consumers: they are also card-carrying representatives of their age demographic.

CSI: NY Season 2 Episode 16 ("Cool Hunter") features a man found dead in a playground in Washington Heights.

Mrs. Osmond was excited at first when she spotted one of the new American Greetings "sophisticated dad" cards in a cool hunter green with a golf bag on the front.

Even the cool hunters are going highbrow; by the late nineties, the rage in the industry was to recast oneself less as a trendy club-hopper than as a bookish grad student.