Heinz is offering condiment consumers in Sao Paulo the chance to grow tomatoes from a plantable label. Click here to read the story at thedrum.com. Discussion Questions: What is sustainability? Why do you think brands create marketing campaigns focused on sustainability? How does this story provide an example of that? Read more…
The Nerds Candy brand is teaming up with the (objectively) nerdy game Dungeons & Dragons. Together, they will launch a campaign of limited-edition Nerds Gummy Clusters and Rainbow Nerds Theater Box packaging, which both feature a team of new, D&D-inspired Nerds characters. Click here to read the story at the Read more…
The hottest new artist of 2021 might not be Olivia Rodrigo after all. General Mills-owned cereal brand Lucky Charms has today announced that its chipper mascot Lucky the Leprechaun has dropped his debut album, Magically Delicious, is available across all major streaming platforms but promoted exclusively on Spotify. Click here Read more…
From tourism experiences and purposeful promotions to fashion events and shockingly successful cheesie gimmicks, promotional ice cream trucks have been big media headliners in the Big Apple this summer— but those who thought that all of the flavorful fun was about ice cream alone would have totally missed the pint. Click here to Read more…
Confession: I think Flamin’ Hot Cheetos are really hard to eat. Maybe it’s the unrelentingly red visual barrier, or the way they cake onto the fingertips. Perhaps Flamin’ Hot Mountain Dew will fix those issues for me. It’s in a can, no finger contact required. Click here to read the Read more…
The relationship between restaurants and delivery apps has long been complicated. On the one hand, restaurants routinely rely on delivery apps to get food out to customers when they can’t handle the volume themselves. And during the pandemic, when delivery orders surged, those apps came to many restaurants’ rescues. Click Read more…
There has been a steady drumbeat of news leading up to the release of US intelligence documents pertaining to unidentified flying objects. Unlike the past, the UFO headlines aren’t in the supermarket tabloids, instead they are in The New York Times and The New Yorker. Click here to read the story at thedrum.com. Read more…
Target is launching a major online promotion that starts one day earlier than Amazon Prime Day. Hours after Amazon publicly confirmed the 2021 edition of its annual Prime Day sales event will be held June 21-22, Target revealed its “Target Deal Days” digital sale takes place this year Sunday, June 20 – Read more…
McDonald’s newest celebrity collaboration is here for a limited time. Less than a week after BTS released their new English-language single “Butter,” the K-pop superstars’ BTS Meal arrives at McDonald’s restaurants in the U.S., the Bahamas, Canada and eight other countries Wednesday. Click here to read the story at usatoday.com. Discussion Questions: What is promotion? Read more…
Graduates, Thursday is your day. It may not be graduation day, but it’s a chance for graduating high school and college seniors to get a dozen doughnuts for free at Krispy Kreme, no purchase necessary and while supplies last. Click here to read the story at usatoday.com. Discussion Questions: What Read more…