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Netflix Popcorn Bowl Winners Set World Record

Oct 9, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Fox News Launches YouTube Election Channel

Oct 8, 2008 6:06 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Alltel Targets Latinos with Dia de Los Muertos Concert

Oct 7, 2008 6:40 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Lifetime, Max Factor Seek Outstanding Make-Up Artist

Oct 6, 2008 6:02 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Hostess to Visit Sweeps Contestants Homes on Halloween Night

Sep 30, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Papa John’s Pushes ‘Indy’ DVD with Coupons, Pizza

Sep 30, 2008 6:03 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes


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Yahoo Launches Intern Contest Tied to Apprentice Premiere

Yahoo is rolling out a new contest linked to the newest season of The Apprentice, giving viewers a chance to predict answers to upcoming shows for a chance to win prizes...

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Box Office Buzz

Whether it was talking cars, sword-wielding pirates or a red-caped flying superhero, consumers' love affair with the movies reignited this year, ending...

TV Placements Overtake Film

Doritos sales spiked in 2000, thanks to a prominent role in the premiere season of Survivor. NBC's The Apprentice showcases a brand in nearly every episode....

Burger King Cooks Up A Winner

"Have It Your Way." The Burger King Corp.'s motto says it all and kept its promise this winter, driving fans of NBC's hit reality show The Apprentice from the boardroom directly into its restaurants and beyond....

Starring Role

Thanks to TiVo, some boffo box-office hits and iPod, the stars aligned in 2004 to boost marketer investment in entertainment properties to new heights....

Top Story

Netflix Popcorn Bowl Winners Set World Record

Oct 9, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

At the end of a grueling six-day competition, two winners emerged from the Netflix Popcorn Bowl in New York City’s Times Square with a world record on Tuesday after viewing 57 movies in 123 hours and 10 minutes.

Suresh Joachim and Claudia Wavra outlasted six other contestants to claim a Guinness World Record after sitting in a Plexiglas house decorated as a large living room in midtown Manhattan in the Netflix endurance challenge. The competition started, appropriately, with a screening of “Iron Man,” and concluded with “Thelma & Louise,” personally delivered to the location by the movie’s co-star, Susan Sarandon.

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7-Eleven, Pepsi Team for “Madden NFL 09” Rollout

Aug 18, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Brian Quinton

In a set of integrated promotions around the release of EA Sports’ “Madden NFL 09” computer game, convenience chain 7-Eleven and beverage maker Pepsi have coordinated campaigns that include Madden Meals, a new Pepsi flavor and in-store pre-order and pick-up of the game, which dropped at midnight on Aug. 12....

Levi’s ‘Unbuttons’ Digital Campaign with Celebrities

Aug 18, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

The Levi’s brand is using a little celebrity power and the offer of free music downloads to appeal to consumers under its latest new digital campaign....

NBC’s Multiplatform Olympics Play Draws Millions

Aug 18, 2008 6:02 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

NBC’s strategy to stream live Olympics video online to pump up primetime numbers and boost fans’ round-the-clock interest in the Games appears to be paying off....

Papa John's Designs Pizza in Mid-West Wheat Field

Aug 8, 2008 6:03 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Papa John’s is using a fresh idea to promote its whole- wheat pizza crust with an out-of-home campaign in Denver. It took over a wheat field one mile from Denver International Airport to create a six-acre display that resembles a whole wheat pizza. ...

The Summer of Slurpee

Aug 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Patricia Odell

For more than 40 years, kids have been going to 7-Eleven to mix up frozen slushy Slurpee drinks to ease the summertime heat. This season, senior director...

Nick Jr. Hits Theater Screens in National Campaign

Jul 31, 2008 6:03 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Nickelodeon is launching a national campaign to showcase Nick Jr. programming in movie theaters starting today....

Kmart Gets Kids to Create Ads

Jul 24, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Amy Johannes

Kmart is giving teens a shot at 15 minutes of fame as part of a back-to-school effort with a contest that asks them to create a commercial showing off their style....

National Geographic Launches Game Site

Jul 24, 2008 6:02 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

National Geographic Channel is giving its documentaries and other series a digital dimension with a branded game site it launched with RealNetworks....

USA Revs Up Product Integrations for Top Performers

Jul 23, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

USA Network is pushing multi-platform product integrations in the second seasons of two of its top-performing series, “Burn Notice” and “Starter Wife.”...

Geico Caveman Hits the Bars

Jul 23, 2008 6:03 AM, PROMO Xtra

Even cavemen need to get out on the town now and then. So insurance provider Geico is taking its trademark Neanderthals out dancing, via an interactive promo campaign running on the Ecast in-bar jukebox network...

Converse Runs Full Court Press Campaign

Jul 18, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Converse staged a homepage takeover on YouTube.com yesterday as part of a multi-faceted fast break campaign that covers virtually all media....

AT&T Nets Marketing Deal with USA Basketball

Jul 16, 2008 6:04 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Olympics sponsor AT&T has a new marketing deal with the USA Basketball Men’s National Team that promises to push video content to multiple platforms....

Kodak Helps Revive ‘Mummy’ in NASCAR Race

Jul 14, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra, By Richard Tedesco

Eastman Kodak sought to spark interest in Universal Pictures’ latest “Mummy” release by putting that moniker and a special paint scheme on its sponsored stock car in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway last Saturday...

Westin Hotels Hires Davie Brown Entertainment

Jul 14, 2008 6:01 AM, PROMO Xtra

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has retained marketing consultancy Davie Brown Entertainment to lead all entertainment initiatives for its Westin Hotels & Resorts brand....

Truth.com Offers Smoke-free Music Downloads, CDs

Jul 11, 2008 6:05 AM, PROMO Xtra

The American Legacy Foundation’s truth.com group will fight youth smoking with online remixes from the music used in its current “Sunny Side of Truth” campaign, created by nine well-known bands and DJs....

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