Objective of Event: Generate PR impressions (on social and traditional media)

Reebok showed the true moxie of ex-cmo Micky Pant (we miss ya, Mick!) when it invaded the Boston Marathon—long sponsored by Adidas—with an ambush effort that scored solid media hits and mucho impressions. More than 300 college students sporting Reebok-branded tattoos on their foreheads were seeded into the crowd along the Marathon route. The students’ […]

Paradigm Shift’s wacky press-generating events keep on comin’, this time with an underwater movie premiere for the home-video release of Finding Nemo. Fans were invited to view the movie in Nemo’s natural habitat. A replica of the reef from the film was created at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. Consumers watched […]

Target Corp. went all out last fall to announce the grand reopening of its Chicago store when it staged a vertical fashion show featuring models repelling down a catwalk created on the side of the 11-story building. The effort began with an engineering study conducted by GMR and Munich, Germany-based alpine and bungee event expert […]

AOL has long relied on distribution of CD-ROMs as its main way to gain trial. But retail clutter being what it is today, the online ISP didn’t want to chance that its new 9.0 Optimized platform would get lost at retail. A new experiential retail approach was concocted, an in-store event push that communicated the features […]

After a successful run with Rellim in 2002, Miller was back at bat, this time with a home-grown property used to infect urban-minded consumers with MGD messages. There are those who enjoy a particular band, and then there are the diehards. The brewer reached for the fanatics with a proprietary concert series of five shows in […]