Author archive for Sandra O’Loughlin
Walgreens Leverages Clown Noses and In-Store Selfies
Walgreens has launched a five-week campaign that has consumers buying and wearing red rubber clown noses then snapping silly selfies for a chance to attend a televised Red Nose Day fundraising event in New York City. NBC will air the three-hour special, which will take place on May 21 and feature comedians, musicians and Hollywood...
Sperry Embarks on a User-Generated Content Adventure
Sperry is on a mission—to refashion itself from a yuppie boat shoe associated with the yachting set into a lifestyle brand more relevant to millennial adventure-seekers, and it is calling on these consumers to help them do it. In March, in conjunction with its 80th anniversary, Sperry launched a year-long, global experiential campaign called the...
Kipling Launches Surprise And Delight Campaign
What started last year as an experiment in “making happy” on a block in San Francisco has become a movement for Kipling, a maker of handbags and accessories whose brand logo includes a long-tailed monkey and the words Make Happy. On April 8, it kicked off the initiative in New York City, where Kipling brand...
Inside Bud Light’s Partnership With Tinder: Q&A
In an effort to reach even more millennials with its #UpForWhatever campaign, Bud Light earlier this month launched a partnership with Tinder, the social dating app. As part of the alliance, the beer brand custom created the app’s first native video profile card, which gives users of legal drinking age the chance to win a...