Trade Off

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Masterfoods is wielding its checkbook more strategically these days. The candy and food giant has been shifting funds from trade to consumer marketing

Buffing brand appeal

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Requests for brown sugar and honey massages, eucalyptus soaks and grain and spice facials are in high demand, with spas throwing open their doors in record

the Beat goes on

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

It took weeks of scouring garage sales and thrift shops to collect what Grand Central Marketing needed for client Napster's showcase at the Digital Life

Bullet Proofs

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

There's a small, but extremely active knife-collecting subculture in America. Most of these folks are tougher than a $2 steak. For all that toughness,

Illusionary Wonder

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

A&E had consumers rubbing their eyes in amazement when it staged a live event around its new real-life series Criss Angel: Mindfreak. And rightly so.

PROMO Xtra

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Excerpts from our e-newsletter 4/24 Visa International's newly signed $200 million sponsorship of Fedration Internationale de Football Association World

Pizza with Everything

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

7-Eleven is serving up Pizza and a Movie this summer to tout its fresh foods, especially the just-launched P'EatZZa Sandwich. The chain's two May-June

Crunch Time

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

ConAgra boosted Orville Redenbacher's popcorn sales 23% when it leveraged the popularity of ABC's Lost drama series with a Lost in Hawaii sweepstakes

Burger King & the NFL

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

An NFL partnership last football season was just what Burger King (BK) cooked up to promote a limited time only burger and fries offering. The fast food