Mr. Youth Archives - Event Marketer

Reebok Tattoos Foreheads in Marathon Ambush on adidas

Reebok showed the true moxie of ex-cmo Micky Pant (we miss ya, Mick!) when it invaded the Boston Marathon—long sponsored by Adidas—with an ambush effort that scored solid media hits and mucho impressions. More than 300 college students sporting Reebok-branded tattoos on their foreheads were seeded into the crowd along the Marathon route. The students’...

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Victoria’s Secret Builds Buzz with Colossal Gift Box

A three-story high pink gift box smack in the middle of Miami Beach during spring break created quite the buzz for the launch of the Victoria’s Secret’s Pink line. For a few days prior to the event, the box stood without brand identification—only a countdown clock and a sign reading, “When the Countdown Ends, the...

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Adidas Enlists Athletes for Stumps, Jumps and Tricks

The phrase “walking on air” is so simple and so elegant. But athletic shoe marketers face such stiff competition that the category spends un-told millions of dollars every year developing and marketing products that bring the metaphor to life. So it was for adidas, which needed to create a spectacle to engage young consumers in...

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