Event Marketer

To drive consumers to its two pop-up shops in New York City this holiday season LittleMissMatched the lifestyle brand that started out with its signature miss-matched three-pack of socks hit the pavement with branded ice cream carts to get the word out. The pink-and-orange branded carts with umbrellas made up of hanging socks and flip-flops pay homage to the city’s smorgasbord of street food vendors that push carts with everything from hot dogs to tamales daily.

For four days in December New Yorkers were invited to pair up and grab a smooch for the cameras under a mistletoe sculpture in Madison Square Park. The Unbreakable Kiss Mistletoe Installation sponsored by A Diamond Is Forever was open from Dec. 1 through Dec. 4. Couples who kissed had their amorous moment recorded by 60 still cameras that created a video image. Couples could retrieve their video and send it to friends and family at adiamondisforever.com and also enter to win a diamond sweepstakes.

Sugar Bowl title sponsor Allstate kicked off the New Year with the 2009 Allstate Sugar Bowl Fan Fest held in New Orleans Dec. 31-Jan. 1. The Fan Fest offered interactive football-themed games and exhibits live broadcasts of games Allstate Sugar Bowl official pep rallies with cheerleaders and bands from the University of Alabama and the University of Utah and a New Year’s Day concert with headliner Blues Traveler.

Turner Classic Movies is letting consumers step inside a vintage DC-3 airplane as part of the network’s activation at four air shows this summer. The cable channel has set up shop at shows in Seattle Indianapolis and St. Louis and it heads to Virginia Beach VA this weekend. (It also exhibited at the Chicago Air & Water Show but without the aircraft.)
 

Starbucks Coffee is inviting consumers to check out a traditional coffeehouse atmosphere with a New York City pop-up store. Open from last Thursday through next Monday—to coincide with Fashion Week—the Starbucks Salon is hosting readings and musical performances including a show by Darryl McDaniels better known as DMC from the group Run DMC.