Event Marketer

Dr Pepper and partner MTV are locking pop band Cartel into a transparent bubble on New York City’s Pier 54 and giving consumers all-angle access while the band records its next album. Beginning on May 24 all five band members will live in the 2 000-square-foot see-through bachelor pad and recording studio for six weeks. In true reality show style their every move will be web-cammed in real-time and recorded for a series of four reality TV shows to be aired on MTV. Consumers can interact with the band on-site via two-way microphones.
 

Procter & Gamble Canada recently took a collection of its beauty products off drugstore shelves and featured them in a temporary storefront called the Look Fab Studio. The space which resembled an upscale salon was open in the heart of Toronto’s shopping district from April 13 to May 13 and featured free on-site hair coloring and styling beauty consultations and zones filled with product samples.
 

If PUMAPalooza doesn’t sound like your dad’s golf tournament then the marketing message is spot-on. Puma the German tennis shoe and athletic apparel company is launching a series of proprietary golf scramble events to shake up the game’s staid persona and get the word out about its recent entree into the golf category.
 

To promote the last installment in the Harry Potter book series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Scholastic is sending a purple double-decker (painted like a triple-decker) bus to libraries across the country. The Harry Potter Knight Bus tour based on the fictional Knight Bus from the third book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban will stop at 37 libraries in 12 states over seven weeks. Fans will be invited inside where they can record their thoughts about the books in a short video diary entry.

The WE network’s cake-covered brides are back baby. And this time they’re madder—and hungrier—than ever. To recap the network generated buzz for reality show “Bridezillas” in 2005 with a find-the-cash-in-the-cake stunt (brides fought tooth and manicured nail through a 15-foot three-tiered cake for a shot at $25 000) and in 2006 by challenging women with an obstacle course and climbing wall covered in eight inches of frosting.