On Oct. 21, Trident Layers gum stormed New York City’s Times Square to celebrate the launch of its newest flavor, Cool Mint + Melon Fresco, by offering consumers the chance to pay for a ride in a cab, to any destination in Manhattan, with a pack of Layers gum. The stunt is designed to help reinforce the brand’s national ad campaign theme, “It’s so good you’ll want to get paid in it.”

From Oct. 19 to 21, ION Television reinforced its position as the fastest growing network on television by visiting its top eight New York City advertising agencies in a Greenhouse on Wheels. The mobile vehicle was part of the network’s ongoing Positively Entertaining campaign, which kicked off in 2008 when it re-launched the ION brand as ION Television.

Yahoo! News this fall traveled 6,000 miles across the country with the Ask America News van, an interactive experience designed to engage Americans in the issues surrounding the November elections. From its launch on Sept. 28 in Tampa, FL, until its final stop at the Oct. 30 rallies in Washington, D.C., the van stopped at key campaign events, polling people on issues, getting them to speak out and posting content on askamerica.yahoo.com. Attendees received apple pie, bumper stickers and pins as giveaways.

In a new partnership with the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and Complex Media, Bombay Sapphire this year is sponsoring a search for the next great urban multimedia artist and photographer through the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series. The program kicked off in June and will conclude next year with a showing by the two grand prizewinners at the Rush Arts Gallery in New York City during the month of February.

On Oct. 31, workwear brand Dickies wrapped up a mobile experience called The Yard at the Voodoo Festival in New Orleans in which consumers tried to destroy its work pants with sanders, razors and weed-eaters. The effort was part of an integrated campaign that includes TV ads and social networking sites that reinforce Dickies’ workwear heritage and its original 874 work pants.