Cause Marketing

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 […]

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 […]

State Farm has targeted music- and cause-loving millennials with its “Here to Help” lounges at festivals for the last several years. At Governors Ball in New York City, June 1-3, State Farm activated its newest cause-marketing platform, Neighborhood of Good, with a “neighborhood” of tiny houses that allowed festivalgoers to engage in different acts of […]

State Farm and The Marketing Arm score the Grand Ex with a cause marketing campaign that showed us all that customers care about their communities—and corporate values   Smart marketers know that millennials are finicky about the brands they give their loyalty to. More than any other generation before them, they care about what their […]

Citi for the fourth year of its Taste of the Nation co-sponsorship capitalized on consumers’ passion for photographing food they eat. The event series, which benefits the No Kid Hungry campaign by the nonprofit Share Our Strength, visited New York City on April 18 at the Brooklyn Expo Center and involved about 70 local food, […]