Sponsorships

To engage consumers and gain awareness and trial Lever 2000 is serving up a US Open sponsorship activation that includes free group tennis lessons a sweepstakes to win five days in New York City and tickets to this year’s finals match as the grand prize. In addition an online component offers site visitors a reality tennis challenge. Activations center on the theme Raise Your Game.

Allstate Tailgates To Boost Local Ties

Allstate’s Field Goal Net program (think good hands logo catching field goals at college games) has doubled since 2005 to include 60 schools and 16 bowl games. This year the program grows again with the addition of the Allstate Good Hands Net Mobile Tour which kicked off September 8 and will make 12 stops at college football games across the country.

Alltel’s My Circle First And Ten sweepstakes gives one fan from each of 16 collegiate and professional football teams a shot at winning $100 000. One randomly chosen competitor gets to take the field along with his or her “ten” (the people they call for free based on Alltel’s signature cellular plan) to complete a pass ten yards at a time. Spiral the final pass into a giant Motorola RAZR and not only does the winner and pals get $100 000 but 20 000 more attendees get six months of free service plus a new phone for 99 cents.

Pepsi will expand its title sponsorship of the Dew Tour action sports property to include a Winter Dew Tour starting with the 2008-2009 season. The new series in partnership with NBC and the AST (Action Sports Tour) will feature events such as snowboarding and freeskiing at three winter tour stops increasing the total number of Dew Tour locations to eight in total. The move is part of a strategy to help the company reach more action sports fans support more local bottlers by reaching more markets increase media coverage of the event and tap into more of its action sports athletes.

In an effort to connect with black consumers and communities AT&T has announced a sponsorship of a multi-city college tour featuring music and folklore presented by the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective a group of more than 50 women who live in the rural communities of Rehoboth and Boykin AL.

The free tour stops will be open to the public and will include performances by the Gee's Bend Quilters Collective. At each event a group will entertain audiences with songs spoken-word poetry and storytelling.