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<item><title><![CDATA[Promo round-up: Lynx, Vimto, Shloer, Die Hard, more]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Promo round-up: Lynx links with Vevo, Vimto links with Vevo, Shloer runs summer-related competition, Cholula Die Hard on-pack, more]]></description>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Welcome to your weekly round-up of the news from promomarketing.info, the website for the promotional marketing industry.

Entertainment-related promotions seem to be in at the moment, and our latest news stories include no less than two items about brands linking up with Sony’s online music and entertainment platform Vevo and another about a film partnership.

The other big theme of the moment is, of course, experiential – which is frequently being linked in with entertainment, as much of the experiential that’s launching at the moment is festival-related.
Anyway, if you have a news story about promotional marketing, send me a press release and I'll consider it for publication. The email is Martin.c@promomarketing.info.

Have you been forwarded our alert by a colleague? Don't be second with the news – make sure you get your own personal regular update on the latest news from the promotional marketing industry by registering on our website.

Best wishes for the Bank Holiday weekend – and we’ll be back with our next news alert on Wednesday May 29th.

Martin Croft Editor Promotional Marketing]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Lynx, Vevo in summer festival link]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lynx is partnering with Vevo, the Sony-owned music video and entertainment platform, for the second year running, in a six-figure marketing deal. ]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 May 2013 15:04:55 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lynx is partnering with Vevo, the Sony-owned music video and entertainment platform, for the second year running, in a six-figure marketing deal. 

Over the next six months, the Vevo Summer>Six programme will bring live acts, interviews, acoustic performances and news from the UK and Europe’s leading summer festivals to the Vevo platform.

The activity kicked off with a three-day show at the recent Great Escape festival in Brighton. A Lynx ‘lad on the ground’, chosen by vote by other fans of the brand, reported on the action for Vevo. 

David Titman, Lynx senior brand manager, says: “We are thrilled to be working with Vevo once again. The partnership is a great opportunity for Lynx to reach its target audience in a relevant environment and also provides an excellent new platform to drive consumer engagement.”

The Summer>Six programming will be released throughout the summer to bring themed pop, dance & best of British festival highlights to the platforms wide range of music viewers.

A branded destination experience will be created by Lynx on the Xbox Live platform, where ticket giveaways and fan votes on hiring and firing the Lynx ‘lad on the ground’ will take place.

 The six-month series will finish in September with a Vevo virtual festival, catching up on all the best unseen footage.
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<item><title><![CDATA[Cholula sauce Die Hard on-pack]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mexican sauce brand Cholula Hot Sauce is linking up with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for a promotion to mark the DVD launch of ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’]]></description>
<link>http://www.promomarketing.info/shopper/cholula-sauce-die-hard-on-pack/18378</link>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 May 2013 14:20:24 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Imported Mexican sauce brand Cholula Hot Sauce is linking up with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for a promotion to mark the launch of ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ on Blu-ray, DVD and digital HD.

Available on all Cholula Hot Sauce bottles, the promotion invites brand fans to join the new Cholula UK Facebook page and post a fun picture involving Cholula. Prizes include a three-day trip to Russia to see where ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ was filmed, plus t-shirts and DVDs.

The film, starring Bruce Willis, will be released to all major retailers on June 10th 2013.

The Cholula Hot Sauce bottleneck promotion will guarantee strong presence on the shelf as well as engaging with consumers and encouraging sales. Limited edition bottles are in store now.]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Vimto links with Vevo for Facebook promotion]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Vimto is running a major summer marketing campaign, including a link-up with Sony’s music video website, vevo, and a Facebook competition]]></description>
<link>http://www.promomarketing.info/digital/vimto-links-with-vevo-for-facebook-promotion/18377</link>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 May 2013 13:50:00 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Vimto is running a major summer marketing campaign, including a link-up with Sony’s music video website, vevo, and a Facebook competition to win music and entertainment related prizes, to back its Seriously Mixed Up Fruit marketing message.

The three month summer campaign includes TV advertising and digital platforms, plus partnership marketing and an on-pack promotion. Advertising has been designed to appeal to the teen market and promote new branded entertainment and competitions developed exclusively for Vimto’s Facebook page.

The brand’s award-winning ‘Lowrider’ TV ad has been revamped to reveal the brand’s Raspberry character using a laptop, as a call to action to visit the Vimto Facebook page. 

To complement the TV ad, which goes live from June 3 2013, Vimto will be advertising across the mobile phone network and on music sharing sites such as We7 and Spotify and teen pop websites including MTV and lifestyle magazine Heat.com.

Vimto has also created a partnership with Vevo. This includes advertising on exclusive music video premieres, sponsorship of a ‘Feel Good Summer Tunes’ theme week and a three day takeover of the ‘What’s Hot’ chart of the most talked about videos on social media.

The brand will promote its 500ml still and carbonated RTD range to teens and young adults, encouraging them to go to the Vimto Facebook to play an online game for the chance to win weekly ‘must have’ prizes for this target market such as iPads, iPods, smartphones, digital cameras and Ticketmaster vouchers.

Social media will continue to play a major part throughout the entire year, with a programme of engaging daily posts, free prize draws and competitions designed to drive user generated content.

Clare Pritchard, Vimto brand manage, says: “Our summer marketing campaign links up all the different types of media we’re investing in to ensure we reach 90% of teens in the UK , who will see the activity 12 times. It will enable us to build on our Facebook following of over 365,000 fans and continue to engage with them to create year round demand.”

Mums will also be targeted in Vimto’s summer campaign, which includes both consumer and trade support across the convenience and multiple channels with advertising, sampling, millions of money off coupons, promotions, and in-store Point of Sale to encourage trial of the range, including the No Added Sugar squash and 2L carbonates lines.

The Seriously Mixed Up Fruit campaign is boosting year on year sales for Vimto, which now has a value of £61m. Vimto is growing by +2.9% YOY and outperforming the soft drinks market as a whole, which has seen a +2.7% YOY growth.]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Shloer ‘Summer Sundays’ promotion]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Shloer is running an on-pack promotion offering consumers a one in 10 chance of winning one of 200,000 summer-themed prizes]]></description>
<link>http://www.promomarketing.info/shopper/shloer-summer-sundays-promotion/18376</link>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 24 May 2013 13:21:52 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Shloer, Britain’s biggest selling adult soft drinks brand, is running an on-pack promotion offering consumers a one in 10 chance of winning one of 200,000 summer-themed prizes.

Shloer’s ‘Summer Sundays’ promotion is featured on individually-coded neck labels on two million bottles of the Shloer Red Grape, White Grape and Rosé variants.

The promotion forms part of a £16m marketing investment in the brand this year. It will run across the summer months, with a range of Summer Sunday prizes ranging from BBQs and picnic hampers to cupcakes.

Amanda Grabham, head of brand marketing – Shloer, says: “Shloer’s first ever on-pack promotion – the ‘Love Your Shloer Sunday’ activity – last summer proved to be extremely popular with consumers and generated such a good response along with high redemption levels, that we are introducing a new on-pack offer to drive sales across this summer season.

Grabham added that sales in summer 2012 were 6% ahead of July/August sales in 2011, and against a backdrop of 12.5% and 12% respective sales increases in summer 2011 vs. 2010 and 2010 vs. 2009.

The Shloer brand is owned by Merrydown plc, which claims it accounts for one out of every three adult soft drinks bottle sales.
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<item><title><![CDATA[Promo news: COGS Awards 2013, Kenco Millicano, Sage by Heston Blumenthal, Ginger Grouse, Desperados, more]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Promo news: COGS Awards 2013 voting live, Kenco Millicano couponing, Sage by Heston Blumenthal, Ginger Grouse foodie fair push, Desperados festival activity, more]]></description>
<link>http://www.promomarketing.info/newsletter/alerts/promo-news-cogs-awards-2013-kenco-millicano-sage-b/18360</link>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 10:45:58 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Welcome to your Wednesday mid-week news alert from promomarketing.info, the website for the promotional marketing industry.

We're very excited at promomarketing Towers, as voting for our COGS Awards 2013 has just gone live at www.cogs-awards.co.uk. 

We set up The COGS in 2010 to reward the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes that makes great promotional campaigns really work. So if you've worked with a supplier who really impressed you, go to The COGS site and vote for them!

In other news, we're continuing to see increasing experiential activity as the summer approaches, plus some classic in-store demonstrating and digital couponing. 

It all helps to underscore just how many different channels and mechanics there are for communicating a promotional message!

Anyway, if you have a news story about promotional marketing, send me a press release and I'll consider it for publication. The email is Martin.c@promomarketing.info.

Have you been forwarded our alert by a colleague? Don't be second with the news – make sure you get your own personal regular update on the latest news from the promotional marketing industry by registering on our website.

Best wishes,

Martin Croft Editor Promotional Marketing ]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title><![CDATA[The COGS Awards 2013 voting now live]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Voting for The Cogs Awards 2013, the awards programme for marketing services providers, is now live]]></description>
<link>http://www.promomarketing.info/industry/the-cogs-awards-2013-voting-now-live/18359</link>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 10:37:47 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Voting for The Cogs Awards 2013, the awards programme for marketing services providers ruin by promomarketing.info and the Institute of Promotional Marketing, is now live.

The annual awards scheme was set up in 2010 to recognise the impact of a whole range of different kinds of service providers whose hard work, experience and creativity are behind the scenes of so many hugely-successful marketing campaigns.

This year, there are 19 different marketing services industry categories and the Company of the Year and Individual of the Year special awards.

Marketers who have worked with services providers who they think have delivered above and beyond the call of duty can nominate them at www.cogs-awards.co.uk.  Shortlists for each category (and the specials) will be drawn up from these nominations and a panel of expert judges will then select the eventual winners.

The results will be announced at a gala lunch held in London in September.
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<item><title><![CDATA[iD In-store supports Sage by Heston Blumenthal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sage Appliances is launching its new home appliances range, Sage by Heston Blumenthal, with support from iD In-store]]></description>
<link>http://www.promomarketing.info/experiential/id-in-store-supports-sage-by-heston-blumenthal/18358</link>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 10:25:05 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sage Appliances is launching its new home appliances range, Sage by Heston Blumenthal, with support from product demonstrators from iD In-store.

The range launched in leading department stores, including John Lewis, Harrods, Selfridges, Lakeland and House of Fraser, this week, and iD is providing expertly trained in-store ambassadors to provide live product demonstrations.

The range, trialled and tested by Heston himself, offers 16 premium appliances designed to demonstrate that ‘perfection is possible’ when it comes to cooking at home. 

The in-store range features a Tea Maker with the functionality to program the right temperature and steeping time to make a perfect cup of tea and an ice-cream maker which can provides variable levels of hardness, along with a nostalgic ice-cream van theme tune. 

David Gubbin, sales and marketing director UK at Sage Appliances, says: “We really want to focus on how much our products can provide the simple moment of brilliance in the kitchen and need in-store ambassadors who are passionate about food.”]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Kenco Millicano couponing drive]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Kenco is running a digital couponing campaign offering consumers 75p off Kenco Millicano at major supermarkets]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 22 May 2013 10:14:28 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Kenco is running a digital couponing campaign offering consumers 75p off Kenco Millicano at major supermarkets.

Digital couponing supplier Coupons.com is providing support for the print-at-home element of the campaign, which will see up to 25,000 coupons distributed.

Emad Nadim, brand manager for Kenco, says: “Kenco Millicano is a relatively new innovation to the coffee market, a clever combination of freshly ground and instant coffee to deliver our closest thing to proper coffee in an instance. The coupon campaign is crucial in helping consumers try the product at a great offer”.

The registration reward campaign aims to not only encourage product trial and drive customer acquisition but also to encourage consumers to share more about their personal preferences. This data will enable Kenco to continue to communicate to these consumers through an email programme that ensures that consumers get regular updates, prizes as well as future coupons. 

Emad adds: “We believe in a constant dialogue that adds value to our most loyal consumers.”

Kenco is a major user of coupon campaigns to generate new customers and reward customer loyalty, and has worked closely with Coupons.com for over five years.]]></content:encoded>
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<item><title><![CDATA[Ginger Grouse ‘Taste Adventure’ samples foodie festivals]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ginger Grouse, the new alcoholic ginger beer from the makers of The Famous Grouse, is touring UK food festivals to engage with younger, more adventurous consumers]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 May 2013 14:22:20 +0100]]></pubDate>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ginger Grouse, the new alcoholic ginger beer from the makers of The Famous Grouse, is going to be touring UK food festivals to engage with younger, more adventurous consumers.

A custom built Taste Adventure Bar, created by experiential agency BE cause, will be unveiled at the annual Foodies Festival at Hampton Court Palace over the late May Bank Holiday weekend (25th to 27th May 2013). 

The tented environment, staffed by knowledgeable brand ambassadors, will provide consumers with a place to sit and relax while experiencing the brand first hand. Ginger Grouse will be sampled in a lively bar atmosphere where consumers also have the chance to buy bottles to take home. There will also be branded give-aways at events later in the year.

The experiential sampling area will then travel to two more Foodie Festivals at Clapham Common (7th to 9th June) and Bristol Harbourside (12th to 14th July), with further events planned throughout the summer. Ginger Grouse will also join the Edinburgh Festival again in 2013 at Arthurs Bar, Pleasance, after a successful run at the festival in 2012.

With bold combinations of citrus zing, fiery ginger beer, fizzy bubbles and a splash of The Famous Grouse whisky (making it 4% ABV), Ginger Grouse is designed to appeal to a younger audience with a thirst for contemporary culture and adventure.
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