Awards: Best activation of a sports sponsorship

Other sponsors have attempted the New York City Marathon over the years, but none have come close to activating the largest one-day sporting event on Earth—attended by 2.5 million people and broadcast to 275 million viewers in 116 territories—like ING did last fall. The financial-services company, together with GMR Marketing, activated its first ING New York […]

The always irreverent Red Bull made yet another branded mark, this time at Supermoto events in Las Vegas and Dallas. Red Bull gave PGI the mission of finding non-traditional venues to create its motocross tracks on, and the agency delivered when it chose the (1) parking lot of the Rio Hotel in Sin City and […]

SoBe activated its sponsorship of the Gravity Games with an interesting mix of pre-event hype and at-event experiences that used a clear delineation of three distinct brands under one sponsorship umbrella. Before the event, SoBe got the program humming with a sponsorship of a related amateur skate park tour, tagged regional radio spots focusing on […]

Proving events can indeed push volume—“It taught us an amazing amount,” says NB head of marketing and promotions Karin Piscitelli—New Balance used its sponsorship of the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon to ring cash registers at retail. Customers who spent $100 on New Balance product at any of 25 participating retailers received a New Balance Marathon […]

Coca-Cola brought its sponsorship of the Olympic Torch Relay to life by creating the first-ever global mobile marketing tour. The relay hit 34 cities in 27 countries over a 35-day span, with Coca-Cola street teams in each location. Local Coke marketing teams helped create a relevant activation in each city: The Mexico City leg, for […]