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IN THE NEWS

Toys R Us Pushes ‘Star Wars’ Flick with In-Store Event, Giveaways w/art

Jul 3, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Evinrude Observes Centenary with Moving Museum

Jul 2, 2008 6:02 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

7UP, Celebrity Chef Team up for a Winning Recipe

Jun 27, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra

7-Eleven Backs Slurpee with Largest Slate of Promos

Jun 25, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Capri Sun Looks for ‘Pouch Respect’ on Sampling Tour

Jun 24, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra

John Frieda Stylists Give $500 Makeover for Free

Jun 23, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Patricia Odell


CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT

Grease Takes To the Streets Via Buzz Campaign

PROMO XtraBy Amy Johannes

Brand ambassadors are hitting the streets of New York as part of a new campaign to hype up the talent competition show Grease: You’re the One that I Want....

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Issues, Research and Trends

The Morning After

Jan 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Kathleen M. Joyce

This year's Event Marketing Trends Report shows that one-offs just don't cut it any longer, as marketers extend brand relationships far beyond the event, looking for long-term returns...

Street Smart

Jan 1, 2006 12:00 PM

We asked a few event marketing agency execs to talk about their techie wish lists and their picks for the year's best work....

Buzz Gets Louder

Apr 1, 2005 12:00 PM, Betsy Spethmann

Marketers spent an estimated $166 billion on event marketing in 2004, up a healthy 9% for the year. Total 2004 spending wasn't the 15% to 20% jump that...

Live From PROMO Expo: Live Branded Entertainment Events Are Tops

Oct 19, 2005 6:08 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Are you experienced?

Jun 1, 2005 12:00 PM, By Erik Hauser

It is amazing how renaming something can lend epiphany-like clarity to a subject. This is certainly the case with experience marketing. The term experience...

Crowd Control

Jan 1, 2005 12:00 PM, BY PATRICIA ODELL

When Visa signs on as an event sponsor, it goes all out. It is currently in relationships with the Olympic Games, the National Football League, NASCAR,...


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TOP STORY

Amstel Light’s Freewheeling Campaign Takes Manhattan

May 20, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Brian Quinton

Depending on what reference you source, there are either more bikes in Holland than people (16 million) or exactly as many (13 million). In any case, the Dutch are definitely a two-wheeled culture. Even the Dutch royal family has taken to pedaling their offspring around by bike regularly.

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More from the Street: Event Marketing

Toys R Us Pushes ‘Star Wars’ Flick with In-Store Event, Giveaways w/art

Jul 3, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Toys R Us is teaming up with LucasFilm for an in-store promotion to hype up the upcoming release of the CG-animated movie “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”...

Evinrude Observes Centenary with Moving Museum

Jul 2, 2008 6:02 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Evinrude is cruising the country with a mobile museum promoting its history and running a fantasy fishing game to get marketing mileage from the centenary of the first commercial outboard motor....

Beautiful Bovines

Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Patricia Odell

The glorious cows of CowParade, those memorable herds of dozens of colorful and funky fiberglass bovines seen grazing along sidewalks and in plazas in...

A Helping Hand

Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Richard Tedesco

For most Americans, the spread of AIDS in Africa is a crisis that might as well be happening on another planet. World Vision, a non-profit Christian organization...

Burger King Readies Apple Fries Sampling, New Kids Meal Push

Jul 1, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Burger King is preparing a multi-city sampling effort to promote its new BK Fresh Apple Fries product....

7UP, Celebrity Chef Team up for a Winning Recipe

Jun 27, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra

Chef Carlos Fernandez of Hi-Life Café in Fort Lauderdale is touring supermarkets in Chicago, Houston and Dallas this month and July to offer live demonstrations of healthy cooking with 7UP soda....

7-Eleven Backs Slurpee with Largest Slate of Promos

Jun 25, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

7-Eleven is out in full force with a host of summertime promotions tied to its Slurpee brand, which include everything from coupons, giveaways and new flavors....

Capri Sun Looks for ‘Pouch Respect’ on Sampling Tour

Jun 24, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra

Kraft Foods’ Capri Sun is capitalizing on the popularity of its “Respect the Pouch” ad campaign with a summer sampling tour of a dozen cities in 10 states and a new Web site that lets kids build pouch avatars and send Burp-O-Gram messages...

John Frieda Stylists Give $500 Makeover for Free

Jun 23, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Patricia Odell

John Frieda, the coiffure guru of London, Paris and New York, has turned an 18-wheeler into a Salon on Wheels to offer women a hair makeover and to promote its products....

Tennis Stars Volley to Vault HSBC Wimbledon Role

Jun 20, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

It wasn’t quite Wimbledon, but Monica Seles and Jim Courier volleying on a mini-tennis court on Fifth Avenue inevitably jogs tennis fans’ memories. ...

Barrow AK Wakes Up to a Jolt Today

Jun 20, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Brian Quinton

Energy drink Jolt is coming to the rescue of the sleep-deprived citizens of Barrow AK, today, the longest day of the year, with an emergency airlift of caffeinated drinks timed to this year’s summer solstice...

Allstate Reunites Olympians for Hall of Fame Induction

Jun 20, 2008 6:02 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Travelers at Chicago’s Union State got a rare glimpse of several former American Olympics gymnasts in action yesterday, as Allstate unveiled plans to build a park for children on the city’s southeast side. ...

MLB Pinch Hits for Ortiz in ‘Call Your Shot’ Contest

Jun 18, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Major League Baseball has settled a brouhaha about Red Sox slugger David Ortiz doing a Babe Ruth impersonation in a home run contest preceding this year’s All-Star game at Yankee Stadium....

Meow Mix Returns to Prime Time with Game Show

Jun 18, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Meow Mix is making a comeback to TV, this time with its very own game show. And it’s searching for some cats and their owners to sit in as contestants....

Vaseline Documentary Highlights People’s “Skin” Stories

Jun 13, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Patricia Odell

Unilever has been traveling the globe asking people about the importance of their skin to highlight the benefits of its Vaseline Coca Butter hydrating lotion....

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