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Fox Unleashes Live Penguins to Promote ‘Ice Age’ DVD
Even though Ice Age was already a major motion picture smash, you never know when the media will give a home-video release a luke-warm reception. Los Angeles-based Paradigm heated things up with an interesting p.r. campaign that scheduled live penguin appearances on national and local television stations to promote the new DVD. News outlets were...
Virgin Mobile Gives Times Square the Full Monty
New wireless carrier Virgin Mobile stopped at nothing to shut down New York’s famous intersection last summer to announce its U.S. launch. The huge “Nothing to Hide” billboard draped over the Virgin Megastore gave a hint that something was up, and the crowd started forming an hour before the 10:30 a.m event began. When the...
Microsoft Touts Windows XP Pro with Human Kiosks
Microsoft reached out to GMR for a retail program heralding Windows XP Professional and the hardware that wears the software oh so well. The effort hit 42 markets and 211 retail stories (Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry’s, Nebraska Furniture Mart and J&R’s) nationwide last fall. Three “human kiosks”—field staffers with laptops and demo trays strapped to...
IBM Drives B-to-B Strategy with Global Event Council
The Ex judges gasped when IBM’s massive global event program was entered into this category, but after a closer review of the submission … it made sense. Why? Because Big Blue doesn’t think of its string of global events as separate projects—it considers them all part of one event campaign used to build both the...