Objective of Event: Drive consumer consideration

To promote Animal Planet and Discovery Communications brands, the Animal Planet Expo hit the road taking its very own mobile theme park to the people. Stretching for 100,000 square feet, the mobile park offered families and pets activities tied to shows on Animal Planet. The tour traveled on two tractor-trailers, two 24-foot box trucks, a tow […]

Creating one’s own proprietary event property for 20,000 consumers isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s a massive, risky undertaking. But Nike adhered to two key strategies that serve as best practices for any brand thinking about creating its own proprietary event.   First, Nike was ultra-picky about the partners it brought in. “The Expotique […]

Maxwell House had to come up with a way to cater to consumers’ evolving caffeine palettes while maintaining its simple cup o’ joe appeal. So it created a new blend of 100 percent Arabica beans. All it had to do now was get it in consumers’ hands. The answer: Maxwell House launched the Brew Some […]

When 20-something women think of Dockers, they probably aren’t visualizing a quintessential feminine clothing line, so the brand launched a nationwide series of style sessions to change its perception among young women. At the exclusive invitation-only gatherings, a select group of influencers were given the opportunity to experience Dockers’ Fall 2007 product line with the […]

McDonald’s needed a super-sized idea for reconnecting with young adults. (You know, those highly coveted yet squirrelly 18-to-24-year-olds with a finely tuned B.S.-meter that goes off at the first sign of old school-style marketing and advertising? Yeah, them.) So to show them that Mickey-D’s gets who they are and what they’re about, the brand tapped […]