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Yahoo! has been taking New Yorkers by surprise this summer with a giant talking mailbox and a fleet of brand ambassadors dressed as mail carriers to promote its updated version of Yahoo! mail, a service meant to connect users in a more personal way through enhanced features like photo sharing and improved spam protection. The stunts started early last month when Yahoo! plopped a giant branded purple talking mailbox on 9th Street and 8th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, on June 2, and on Stuyvesant Street, in Manhattan on June 3.

The Air National Guard, a reserve unit of the U.S. Air Force, is hitting the road with its second Rise to the Challenge tour, a 23-week interactive campaign that through mid-November will travel to festivals, air shows and music and sports events. The tour this year features new gaming challenges and a free mobile app called Air Taptics.

Artist Eric Fischl wanted to create a dialogue about the American experience through art, poetry, music and performance and he wanted artists all across the country to be part of the discussion. So he’s created and launched the America: Now and Here (AN+H) mobile tour. It kicked off as a guerrilla-style installation in Kansas City, KS, where pop-up galleries sprung up all over the city for three weeks during the month of May to showcase local and nationally recognized artists.

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, the brand has added a special edition 30-foot-long food truck to its fleet of seven Wienermobiles. The brand unveiled the new truck in Times Square on May 25 and will be traveling this summer to 12 cities to feed families its newest offering of Oscar Mayer Selects franks.

When you think of The Salvation Army, Disney doesn’t necessarily spring to mind, but the entertainment giant helped bring to life the theme of the charitable organization’s five-day conference last month at Disney Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, which attracted 2,200 business leaders and volunteers. The goal of the event, which takes place every four years, was to inspire and motivate local and national Salvation Army board members and to help move beyond its image as the recipient of spare change and old clothing.