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Experiential

  • P&G Takes Tide To Go to Martha Stewart

    Procter & Gamble wraps up an online sampling blitz for Tide To Go just as the brand appears tonight on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.

  • McDonald’s Bids McRib Farewell Via ‘Tour’

    McDonald’s Corp. is taking its McRib Sandwich on the road, giving consumers one last chance to taste the product before the company removes it from the menu. The McRib Sandwich, which debuted in 1982 as a promotional menu item, has outlived its original …

  • Campbell Brings Batman In-Store

    Campbell Soup Co. will bring Batman into 7,000 supermarkets in first-quarter 2006. Campbell will install floor graphics in January and run FSIs touting the latest character tie-in for its kids’ soups. Campbell licensed Batman in its first-ever deal with …

  • Brave New Storefront

    Ninety percent of all applications on the Internet have yet to be invented, according to the man who invented it in the first place. Now in his sixties,

  • Goodbye, Marshall Field’s

    I said goodbye to Mr. Field while I was in Chicago last month. I walked through Marshall Field’s Michigan Avenue store for old time’s sake, before it

  • Bridging Off and Online

    More and more customers are buying products over the Web and picking them up at a store. Although in-store operations have improved considerably in the

  • Citigroup Hangs Mirrors Across Manhattan

    Citigroup’s Women & Co. division is bringing a little glam to guerilla marketing by posting mirrors in public places. The four-city effort puts hundreds of gilt-framed mirrors on city streets in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Captions …

  • Hasbro’s Tonka Hits Road For Toy Drive

    Hasbro is taking its larger-than-life Tonka truck on tour as part of a cause marketing initiative to collect toys and games to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina and local charities. The Tonka Toughest Mighty Dump Truck kicked off a 14-city tour last …

  • The Brand-Building Race: How ING Grew Awareness with NYC Marathon

    Though global financial services group ING started purchasing properties in the United States in 1994, it spent its first nine years here as a relatively unknown company. But since becoming the first-ever title sponsor of the New York City Marathon in 2003, ING says, its brand awareness has grown from a virtual zero to about 80%

  • TLC Boosts Series Via Guerilla Marketing Campaign

    TLC took to the streets to generate buzz around its new fall show, The Adam Carolla Project, seeding thousands of premiums to consumers via a guerilla marketing campaign to drive tune-in to the series. During the two-week promotion, which …