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Bud Light’s ‘Selfie City’ Boosts Content Capture
It was a once-in-a-lifetime event that needed to be captured: Bud Light’s Whatever, USA campaign, which awarded 1,000 unsuspecting consumers with a weekend of experiences where they continuously proved they were “#UpForWhatever.” Bud Light had created the fictional town of Whatever in a takeover of Crested Butte, CO, turning it into a full-scale theatrical production...
Ford Test Drives a Targeted Facebook Strategy
Ford’s coast-to-coast EcoBoost Challenge campaign was designed to encourage test drives among “fence-sitters,” or consumers that liked Ford, but hadn’t really made up their minds about the brand. Through it, Ford offered an incentive: $50 in exchange for a test-drive through an online promotion. This led to some challenges, including the problem of these offers...
Activision Breaks Records with Call of Duty: XP Event
It will go down as the event that showed the industry how to combine dozens of best practices and the hottest event marketing trends into a single blockbuster campaign. And it proved that experiential marketing had the power to drive $1 billion in sales. The event, Call of Duty: XP, immersed fans in “Modern Warfare 3,”...
Consumers Drive Ben & Jerry’s Summer Tour via Twitter
Ice cream brands have a decided edge when it comes to attracting consumers to their mobile tours—namely, ice cream. But when Ben & Jerry’s hit the streets of Los Angeles, Miami, New York City and San Francisco, the brand drew extra attention by letting consumers help direct the tour. Instead of plotting out every event...