Marketing Currents is a weekly current events news service that highlights unique and relevant business and marketing campaigns throughout the school year. The questions provided for student discussion will help to create a bridge between industry strategies/trends and the topics you are covering in class.
Heinz, which is known for the slow-pouring nature of its ketchup, now has a website to match – the new load time is 57 minutes. With barbecue season in the not-to-distant future, Heinz is inviting people to visit Heinz.com for a chance to win. Click here to read the story Read more…
After successfully cheering up candy lovers (or at least those who noticed the novelty packaging) last year, M&M’s is back at it printing inspiration on its candy wrappers once again. Loosely assigned to appropriate M&M “spokescandies,” 28 messages appear on milk chocolate, peanut, peanut butter, and caramel varieties. Click here to Read more…
After announcing a new partnership in early December, Kohl’s and Sephora unveiled the list of the first 200 locations Thursday, which are adding the “immersive beauty experience by Fall 2021.” Kohl’s also plans to start selling Sephora’s products online in the fall. Stores in 29 states will get the first locations Read more…
While there is an abundance of insight from the marketer’s point of view, a new report from IBM/Econsultancy reminded me that we don’t have much perspective regarding what consumers think of marketing. In a novel piece of research, 4 out of every 5 consumers say that brands don’t behave as if they really know them—the Read more…
Mark Cuban became a billionaire just before the dot-com bubble burst. In 1995, Cuban and a friend, Todd Wagner, started an internet radio platform called Broadcast.com. Four years later, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo for $5.7 billion in stock, making Cuban a very wealthy man. Click here to read the story Read more…
McDonald’s is giving customers early access to its new chicken sandwich set to make its national debut next week, but there’s a catch: You have to win something of a lottery. The company will start selling a limited-edition “capsule” starting at noon ET on Thursday on CHKNDrop.com. Click here to read Read more…
P&G’s plan to open a barbershop inspired by Old Spice is a way to directly engage consumers with the men’s grooming brand, while also marking a return of experiential marketing efforts that had been suspended during the pandemic’s earlier days. Many barbershops closed temporarily last year amid concerns about the transmission of Read more…
When Francis Davidson was wrapping up his first year of college at McGill University in 2012, the then 19-year-old philosophy and economics major wanted to make some extra cash, so he rented out his apartment for the summer. Click here to read the story at cnbc.com. Discussion Questions: What is Read more…
Krispy Kreme is commemorating the historic landing of NASA’s Perseverance Rover on Mars with a special doughnut. The Mars Doughnut looks like the red planet and will only be available Thursday, while supplies last. It’s filled with chocolate creme, dipped in caramel icing with a red swirl and has chocolate cookie crumbs Read more…
Bitcoin has suddenly rocketed higher, climbing almost 5% over the last 24 hours to highs of $53,750 on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange. The latest bitcoin price rise, coming just days after the cryptocurrency broke through the closely-watched $50,000 level, means the combined value of the 18.6 million bitcoin tokens in circulation Read more…