New York City has been the scene of hundreds of Academy Award-winning films since the awards’ inception. To celebrate and recognize that fact, last weekend the city hosted its first official Oscar Night & The City viewing party at Avery Fisher Hall.

Riding the momentum of its Feb. 12 unveiling of Barbie’s new career-inspired “I Can Be” product line at New York’s Toy Fair, Mattel stirred up additional buzz by bringing the new line to life at its temporary Barbie Shop inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. On Feb. 21, more than 1,000 girls visited The Barbie Shop pop-up to check out the dolls and learn more about specific careers.

The EA Sports Active fitness game for Nintendo Wii is on the second leg of its Get Active Tour, visiting shopping centers and fitness trade shows in the UK. It kicked off last June and ran through October, then picked up again in January and will run through the spring. At each location, EA sets up its sleek footprint featuring the games’ signature colors of white, green and blue with a demo stage and two pods where consumers can get up-close-and-personal with the game. Two brand ambassadors demo the game on stage while additional staffers at the pods work with consumers one on one.

To promote its Motoblur social networking technology to football fans during the Super Bowl last month, Motorola teamed up with Chad Johnson (a.k.a. “Chad Ocho Cinco”), a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals, to create the online, athlete-run sports news network OCNN, the Ocho Cinco News Network. Ocho Cinco started engaging fans via Twitter when football season started last October. In February, OCNN came to life with its own news desk on the Super Bowl’s famed Radio Row where the mainstream sports media sets up to cover the tournament.