Technology

As part of a multi-faceted national launch of a new bottled water brand called resource, Nestlé Waters North America in June held an event in New York City that caught the attention of national media and put the brand on consumer radar screens. 

Resource is a premium water brand made from 100-percent sustainably sourced spring water and natural electrolytes that give it a distinctive, crisp taste. It comes in bottles made from 50 percent recycled plastic.

Macy’s on June 8 activated a Sizzle Showdown at its Lenox Square store in Atlanta where six finalists in a national search competed to become the “Greatest Grilling Guru.”

CDW’s Technoliner tour is on a mission to bring its technology story to customers. The experience is housed in what CDW calls “the ultimate technology vehicle,” a 48-foot, red Technoliner bus loaded with technology configured by the company’s architects and engineers to be used as an interactive demonstration of CDW’s technical solutions and capabilities.

Nabisco as title sponsor of One Direction’s North American tour is bringing teen consumers closer than they “ever imagined” to the British pop boy band with live and digital experiences tied to its portfolio of cracker, cookie and gum brands. The 35-market tour kicked off June 13 in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and is heading to cities across the United States and in Canada.

In a TED talk entitled “The technology of storytelling,” celebrated multimedia storyteller Joe Sabia said, “The art of storytelling has remained unchanged… but the way in which humans tell the stories has always evolved, with pure consistent novelty.” Storytelling, and especially the way brands use stories to create a compelling narrative around their products, is making just such an evolution.