Topic

Promotion

  • 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

  • Craving Entertainment

    Would you pay $26.75 to let your kids roam around inside a cereal commercial for an hour? I did. Once. It was a family trip to Mall of America and finally,

  • 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

  • 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: Mall Bawl

    The Mall of America home to three Victoria’s Secrets and five Gap stores just got better: General Mills’ Cereal Adventure is open, blaring out its contribution

  • Star Makers

    Everybody loves Hollywood: the glitz, the glamour, the movie stars. Brands are well aware of America’s obsession with Tinseltown, judging by the steady

  • Special Report: Entertainment Overdrive

    It’s summer and consumers are exploring the great outdoors. So what’s a cable network to do when many of its viewers hit the beaches and parks? Join them,

  • Clutter: Extras, Extras!

    Don’t stop the presses. Rebates, celebrity endorsements, games, sweepstakes, and contests, cross-promotions, and coupons galore make in-print promotional

  • Special Report: Cable Casting

    Twenty years ago, an upstart New York City-based network called MTV burst onto the scene with a sweepstakes giveaway that awarded not just a trip to an

  • 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