Objective of Event: Drive consumer consideration

To turn Walmart’s Supercenter stores into a destination for health and wellness products and information, the retailer executed weekly promotions in 1,000 Supercenters. The in-store, three-day events focused on seven common conditions: Diabetes, Heart Health, Healthy Breathing, Pain and Mobility, Women’s Health, Cold and Flu, and Gastrointestinal, and presented unique drug and nutritional product pairings […]

For EA’s Xmas Experience Tour, the name of the game was sales. The strategy: a killer combination of multiple data collection points, instant purchase incentives, clever trial-to-conversion tactics and hands-on gaming experiences. In its sixth year, the tour sought to entice serious gamers (16- to 30-year-old males), as well as families and casual gamers. The […]

To promote the second-season premiere of “River Monsters,” Animal Planet unleashed five tricked out smart cars made to look like a swimming school of piranhas on the streets of New York City. For four days, street teams—five drivers and five “monster anglers”—wearing branded fishing vests intercepted consumers to hand out branded hats, koozies and tune-in […]

Even in the best of economic times, marketers struggle with whether or not to bear the full cost and responsibilities of a proprietary property. So when Nerf decided to launch its Nerf Dart Tag competition in 2009, the thought was, “Have these guys been hit too many times in the head with their spongy balls?” […]

Music is a natural for wireless service provider Virgin Mobile, one of the hundreds of companies formed and eventually sold by flamboyant entrepreneur Richard Branson. And what better place to hold a two-day fest filled with rock music, circus acts and other outrageous performance artists than the 25-acre Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, MD, the […]