Cause Marketing
Cause Marketing: When Kids Were Fined for Lemonade Stands, Country Time Stirred Up a Hyper-Local Campaign
Country Time Lemonade noticed a pain point among its consumers over the summer: Kids across the country were getting busted for setting up lemonade stands. Yup, you read that right. The time-honored tradition, often one of the first ways children learn about entrepreneurship and business, actually violates local laws in some municipalities that require a...
How Events are Ushering in the Next Era of Cause Marketing
Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden once said, “The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” But the truth is, the pervasiveness of social media means that in this day and age—everyone is watching.
‘Shark Week’ Experiential: Upcycled Shark Installations, Cleanups and Jaw-Chomping
Discovery’s “Shark Week” program celebrated its 30th anniversary as the must-watch TV event of the summer, July 22-29. Strategies for driving tune-in to the programming have run the experiential gamut over the years, from a Fin Fest shark-themed festival in L.A. to guerrilla-style stunts involving half-bitten surf boards dropped on Australian beaches. This year, Discovery...
MINI Creates ‘Mini Extensions’ on an Annual Fundraiser with a Tour, Sponsorship
In the experiential marketing world, summer is mobile tour season. And while many brands are hitting the open road on journeys across the country, MINI in June took a decidedly hyper-local approach to a mobile tour as part of a cause-marketing program benefiting New York City’s Sing For Hope and its annual fundraiser for arts...