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L’Oreal Paris is traveling the country with a mobile luxury hair salon to raise awareness for its new Advanced Haircare line of products. Attendees receive hair washes with L’Oreal products, samples and personalized consultations with stylists trained in hair analysis.

adidas’s new Boost running shoe boasts special foam cushioning that is designed to better absorb and return energy to the wearer, resulting in more efficient strides. To illustrate this concept, the brand at the International Santiago Marathon in Chile on April 7 “harvested footsteps” (with kinetic energy-absorbing tiles) and used the stored energy to give runners a “boost” toward the end of the 42K race—in the form of motivational messages projected on a big screen.

At the close of the business portion of Toyota Motor Sales’ annual national dealer meeting in Las Vegas last fall, one dealer, or “partner” as the brand calls them, walked up to Bob Carter, svp-automotive operations for the car manufacturer’s U.S. unit, to offer a little feedback.

Think large-scale mass marketing and small-scale targeted tastemaker strategies don’t mix? Grab a cold one and think again, Sparky. Anheuser-Busch Inbev this February proved that you can simultaneously go big and execute small to generate just the right blend of mass awareness and influencer appeal.