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Microsoft Entices Gamers with a Hands-on Mall Program
To increase awareness of the Xbox 360 and its capabilities, and push trials and sales of games and systems, Microsoft hit 12 markets in two phases during the holiday season last year with a series of hands-on consumer experiences. Guests who passed near the footprint were encouraged to have “More Fun Today” by getting their...
Samsung Promotes Swype Technology Via Texting Contest
To educate consumers about Samsung’s new Omnia II mobile phone featuring Swype texting technology, which is a new way to text by sliding a finger around the touchscreen keyboard instead of tapping letters, the brand hit eight malls from December 2009 to February 2010. The goal was to expose consumers to the new technology, get...
Fox Unleashes Live Penguins to Promote ‘Ice Age’ DVD
Even though Ice Age was already a major motion picture smash, you never know when the media will give a home-video release a luke-warm reception. Los Angeles-based Paradigm heated things up with an interesting p.r. campaign that scheduled live penguin appearances on national and local television stations to promote the new DVD. News outlets were...
Virgin Mobile Gives Times Square the Full Monty
New wireless carrier Virgin Mobile stopped at nothing to shut down New York’s famous intersection last summer to announce its U.S. launch. The huge “Nothing to Hide” billboard draped over the Virgin Megastore gave a hint that something was up, and the crowd started forming an hour before the 10:30 a.m event began. When the...