Topic

Experiential

  • Extending the Event Online

    The best marketing events create an experience in which consumers become so engaged that they drive the event’s momentum and its success. The challenge

  • TRADE PROMOTION: Shelf Survival

    Rochester, NY-based Eastman Kodak Co. has been busy this fall with a national P-O-P replacement program dubbed Project Clean Slate. Looking to clear up

  • CONVENIENCE STORES: Marketing to Go

    Convenience store retailers have spent most of the last 20 years sitting and watching. They’ve sat around as CPG makers focused first on grocery stores,

  • Mall Hopping

    Limited Too, Inc. proved this summer that a little advertising as in nearly none can sometimes go a long way. The Columbus, OH-based apparel retailer

  • Warped Views

    Go backstage at The Vans Warped Tour and you come home with Yoo-Hoo on your lips. It’s funny how a guy can get to like Yoo-Hoo in one afternoon. The distinctive

  • WHAT A TRIP!

    As experiential marketing moves from buzzword to mainstream strategy, brand managers are intensifying their quests to connect with consumers in new ways

  • Clutter: Station to Station

    When Bruce Springsteen sang, There’s 57 channels and nothing’s on, he may have been speaking about the advertising. There certainly is plenty on. While

  • DEPARTMENT STORES: Fashion and Compassion

    Few retail sectors have it tougher than department stores these days. As mass merchandisers enhance soft goods and cosmetics offerings, niche specialty

  • Clutter: More Than Meets the Eye

    Don’t blink or you’ll miss them. Seriously. PROMO’S four-hour run through one of Stop & Shop’s Norwalk, CT, stores was a lesson in the clean store policies

  • TRADE PROMOTION: Going for Broke

    Tom Christal’s first job in retail was to throw away all the P-O-P that never got used: the stuff that came too late, or was the wrong size, or was never