Topic

Promotion

  • NHL Sponsors Amp Up Activities for Winter Classic

    The NHL has a roster of sponsors pushing various activations around its outdoor Winter Classic contest, which kicks off a limited slate of regular season games to be broadcast on NBC.

  • Rhino Pop-Up Store Returns to Retail Roots

    In a business that recently has seen the disappearance of once-market leaders Tower Records and Sam Goody, reissue music label Rhino Entertainment opened a pop-up store in Los Angeles for the month of December.

  • IMA Fuels Goals, Team Effort with New Leader: Q&A

    The Incentive Marketing Association is kicking off 2008 with a new president at the helm. Rick Blabolil, president of Marketing Innovators International, Inc., a people performance management and measurement organization, takes over Jan. 1.

  • Best Western Drives Loyalty Via Winter Windfall Game

    In a seasonal whirl of snowmen and candy canes, Best Western is using an online instant-win game to boost brand loyalty and drive online reservations.

  • Hostess Pushes Holiday DVD Rebate on 2 Million Packages

    Hostess is once again out with a rebate offer to help drive sales of Classic Media’s holiday movies.

    The company is offering a $4 rebate off the purchase of animated holiday DVDs, including “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” “Frosty the Snowman” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

  • In Loyalty, Talk Now, Earn Now, Redeem Now

    (Chief Marketer)— The best loyalty programs thrive on dialogue. Members agree to provide information—through transactions, survey responses and declared preferences—and marketers respond with offers that not only reward customers for sharing, but also prove that the marketers are listening.

  • Hilton Hotels Builds Online Rewards Store

    Members of the Hilton HHonors’s loyalty club need no longer spend much time pondering their rewards options.

    Hilton Hotels has struck a partnership with Maritz to open an online Hilton HHonors Rewards Store with a swank selection of goods cutting a wide swath from golf clubs to high definition TVs.

  • Dairy Queen Tests Mobile Coupon Program

    Dairy Queen is testing mobile coupons in an effort to drive traffic to its restaurants.

  • Postscripts

    KLINKY INK.: is rolling out a new promotional product. The item, called Drinkeys, duals as a bottle opener and house key.

  • CBS Pumps Video at Gas Stations

    In a move to extend its out-of-home initiatives, CBS struck a deal with Gas Station TV to push programming streams to viewers at gas pumps.