7-Eleven Zynga Promotion

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

In 2010, 7-Eleven needed to drive trial for 27 languishing private label products from fresh fruit to hot foods. Convenience stores were known for quick-sell items. Just 8% of consumers thought of c-stores for meals. In addition, the recession had pushed convenience store sales down 20%

Tide Loads of Hope for Haiti

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Tide’s disaster relief effort, Loads of Hope, brings free full-service laundry to devastated areas and gives residents and relief workers a simple, basic comfort: clean clothes

Buffalo Wild Wings Home Court Advantage

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Nationwide restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings (BWW) wanted to be known as the place to catch basketball games during the 2011 season. They were looking for a non-traditional approach that included mobile and social media and that would keep people coming back

7-Eleven Slurpee Unity Tour

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

During the contentious mid-term political campaign season, President Obama derided Republicans as “standing, watching us, sippin’ on a Slurpee” while Democrats pulled the car out of the ditch. The day after the elections, the President offered an olive branch to Congress, joking with reporters about hosting a Slurpee Summit at the White House with incoming…

The History Channel’s Swamp People

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

The History Channel debuted Swamp People in 2009, averaging 3.1 million weekly viewers. Swamp People follows residents, known as Cajuns, in and around the Atchafalaya Swamp in Louisiana, who can trace their roots back to the French Canadians that settled there in the late 1700s

Yahoo! Penalty Shootout

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Yahoo! wanted to run a global World Cup campaign targeting consumers 18-44 that would make Yahoo! the No. 1 World Cup site without having the legal rights to use the FIFA name, logo or trademarks

Thomson Reuters Launches Eikon

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In 2008, as the financial downturn was emerging, Thomson Reuters Markets made a $1 billion investment in Eikon, a next-generation desktop platform developed for global financial customers which displays real-time market data and historical information. In 2010, a global campaign was launched to promote it.