Type of Event: Buzz/word-of-mouth programs

NASCAR kicked off its annual year-end awards bash in high fashion, turning the streets of Manhattan into a track for its top 10 Nextel Cup drivers. For a week leading up to the awards, the drivers’ cars were parked at points across the city, with radio and newspaper ads hyping the event. Donald Trump waved […]

Reebok showed the true moxie of ex-cmo Micky Pant (we miss ya, Mick!) when it invaded the Boston Marathon—long sponsored by Adidas—with an ambush effort that scored solid media hits and mucho impressions. More than 300 college students sporting Reebok-branded tattoos on their foreheads were seeded into the crowd along the Marathon route. The students’ […]

Paradigm Shift’s wacky press-generating events keep on comin’, this time with an underwater movie premiere for the home-video release of Finding Nemo. Fans were invited to view the movie in Nemo’s natural habitat. A replica of the reef from the film was created at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. Consumers watched […]

Toyota stayed low and under the radar with a youth-targeted retail program for Scion. Eschewing traditional marketing for personal one-to-one connections, Toyota launched Behind the Wheel to foster a conversation with Gen Y consumers that was real but not rushed, welcomed but not forced, and a catalyst for ongoing communications. The campaign toured 21 markets with […]

After a successful run with Rellim in 2002, Miller was back at bat, this time with a home-grown property used to infect urban-minded consumers with MGD messages. There are those who enjoy a particular band, and then there are the diehards. The brewer reached for the fanatics with a proprietary concert series of five shows in […]