B-to-C Events

American Express a sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival since the
event's inception in 2002 has added a few new wrinkles to its
sponsorship: a new online film competition for budding filmmakers and
new activities at the festival's family-themed street fair.

 

The 15 Second Clips Competition invited participants to submit video
shorts at Amex's mylifemycard.com site; the competition challenges
entrants to answer the questions featured in the "My Life. My Card." TV

GlaxoSmithKline opened a pop-up shop in New York City for four days in
April to promote a new flavor of its Nicorette smoking-cessation
chewing gum.

 

The Nicorette Stop Shop now on its way to Atlanta Chicago Houston
and Phoenix offers consumers one-on-one counseling sessions with
certified smoking cessation counselors; a multimedia learning center
(videos on nicotine replacement therapy podcasts with tools and tips
a computerized health assessment tool); and a retail area where smokers

Dodge this month sent three teams of college students on road trips
each in their own Caliber hatchback wagon to generate attention for
the new vehicle and raise funds for Doctors Without Borders.

 

Teams from Boston College Northwestern University and Texas
Christian University each hit three different markets en route to Miami
where they met for a finale event. Along the way their mission was
to set up events that introduced Gen-Y consumers to the Caliber. Each

To help introduce its new do-everything handheld device the Q
Motorola has taken over a high-traffic storefront on Chicago’s
Magnificent Mile for its first foray into pop-up retail dubbed
Destination Q. Opened earlier this month the shop features a handful
of podiums that show off the device’s different
capabilities—communications media playing Internet and so on. Reps
give demos take photos that guests can print out using a Bluetooth
connection and guests can use the gadgets to make free calls.

 

A three-city sampling effort for Ben & Jerry’s new pre-packed ice
cream cones got consumers to help spread the brand buzz. Sampling teams
in New York City and Chicago (both earlier this month) and San
Francisco (this week) distributed 50 000 full-size cones per market.

 

The Ben & Jerry’s twist? In addition to standard sampling on the
streets consumers could request that B&J reps deliver samples to
friends’ homes or offices later in the week—friends had to live or work