Sonia Andresson-Nolasco

Has a mailbox ever talked to you before? This summer, a giant purple talking Yahoo! mailbox struck up conversations with passersby on 9th Street and 8th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on June 2, and on Stuyvesant Street, in Manhattan, on June 3. I was embedded during the latter, hidden in a surveillance van with […]

Irish whiskey brand Tullamore Dew is throwing a series of “A Night at the Irish True” events in select cities through December to coincide with its “Irish True” campaign. The first event was held Nov. 14 at New York City’s Chelsea’s Center. Upcoming events will be held in Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. The events tap into influential consumers through a partnership with the daily lifestyle newsletter Thrillest.com, as well as stakeholders, media and members of the trade.

To drive awareness for its all-new computer generated animated TV series “Transformers Prime,” The Hub network partnered with Hasbro, Blockbuster, Dish Network, Paramount and Universal Studios Hollywood to design The Hub of Transformers: Great American Tour to coincide with the three-part season finale of the show on Oct. 1. It also promoted the “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Blu-ray and DVD release on Sept. 30. 

The East and West Coast four-week, eight-city tour, which wrapped on Oct.

In our Then and Now series, EM revisits old event marketing trends to find out where they’ve gone since we first reported on them. Are they old hats and has-beens? Or is that past up-and-comer a future best practice that’s now an industry standard? In this eco-installment, we re-examine in-home events, which we began covering in 2007.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of “The Magic School Bus” series, Scholastic on Oct. 20 invited a class of second-graders from the United Nations International School to Pier 84 in Manhattan where the magical school bus rose from the Hudson River on a barge to serve as the backdrop for an oceanic themed lesson. The bus, which is part of an ongoing tour, traveled from Kingston, NY, to Manhattan on a barge pulled by a tugboat and docked at the branded bus stop at the Pier. From the barge emerged Ms.