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The economy’s still shaky and consumers are still nervous about opening their wallets. But that doesn’t mean promotional marketing gets to take a breather. More than ever, the burden remains on marketers to conceive of, execute and measure innovative and convincing promotions that will ultimately help seal the deal. Promo talked with promotional experts about what 2012 may bring for marketers and their agencies.

Coca-Cola carries the vision of its marketing future on one piece of paper. It includes developing and executive creative marketing programs across the globe using a handle it calls, “liquid and linked.” The strategy centers on storytelling; taking great, fun, creative stories and spreading them to the furthest reaches of the world using, in part, the muscularity of mobile and social media, or, as Coca-Cola puts it, modern day word of mouth.

Marketers often overlook Flickr as a pivotal resource in the social media space, when in reality the photo-sharing platform is a valuable resource to access millions of consumer viewpoints from all across the globe. . Flickr currently has 40 million active users, hosts 6 billion images, and has increased user uploads 20% year-over-year for the past five years.
It can be a marketer’s dream as long as you know the five points of value that it can deliver.

Coupon platform Valpak has branched way out from the iconic blue envelope as a delivery channel, launching a Valpak.com Web site, rolling out its own branded mobile apps

The Lynx brand, known as Axe in the U.S., got a whole lot of attention from commuters last month at the London Victoria Train Station when an ad on the floor asked people to

If you’re having a hard time visualizing a relatively roomy, four-door, all-wheel-drive Mini automobile in the real world, BMW-owned automaker Mini USA understands your confusion

A&E is promoting its new series, “Breakout Kings,” with a sweepstakes where players hunt down augmented-reality fugitives on their iPhones. The “Catch a Con” sweepstakes, run by augmented reality platform GoldRun, pulls players into the plotline of the show to hunt down escaped prisoners hiding out in New York’s Union Square, Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Row and in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Bridging the online/offline gap, Esquire magazine has collaborated with book retailer Barnes & Noble and augmented reality platform GoldRun to launch two campaigns that bring its pages to life

Chevy is giving its old-style events some modern whizbang with a dose of augmented reality

View the current IMA Awards site here. Best In Show: Wisk-It AGENCY: TracyLocke CLIENT: Sun Products Corp. Wisk laundry detergent, which has been helping people clean piles of dirty laundry for years, debuted a Facebook application to help people scrub …