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Social Media Campaigns, Technology Lab
Common traps include ballooning fees and unchecked influencer misbehavior.
Influencer marketing campaigns exploded for brands and companies during COVID, with their powerful ability to reinforce customer loyalty, give inspiration for increased product usage, attract new demographics of customers, and drive e-commerce[...]
Social Media Campaigns, Technology Lab, Viral Advertising
Service firm uses its expertise and a dedicated marketing platform to sustain foodie habits.
In the heat of the action and at the head of a fast-moving brigade is where chefs feel most at home. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, is threatening to throw a growing number of them out of the kitchen. A team of logistics experts believes that [...]
Facebook, Style Lounge, Viral Advertising
Pacific Place taps into local fashion talent to motivate shoppers to tackle their wardrobes.
The change in season hasn't been quite enough to get hordes of fashionistas testing their local mall's COVID-19 protocols. Pacific Place's virtual series just might. With so many consumers going around in circles at home, looking for projects t[...]
Apps, Social Media Campaigns, Technology Lab
Heading back to the future is what Uniqlo had in mind for its latest destination store.
It will be some time before retail analysts can determine whether Uniqlo's latest visual merchandising and sales promotion concept is a major leap into the industry's phygital future or merely the case of a brand giving in to a shoppertainment [...]
At The Base, retail reopening, even partially, calls for a celebration.
Don't sweat the small stuff but be grateful for little miracles, like the retail industry inching its way back to regular trading. At The Base, it's reason enough to rally shoppers and take a moment to acknowledge and reward resilience through [...]
Charity Partnerships, Community Room, Social Media Campaigns
Following successful initiatives in Calgary and Ottawa, it’s Mississauga’s turn to help its local food bank fund emergency operations during COVID-19.
It's easy to see a company's COVID-19 tweet as a PR tactic, but the message that the CEO of Paramount Fine Foods posted online a couple of weeks ago means a lot more than that. Every retweet of his pledge is providing meals to eight hungry peop[...]
PR expert, Heather DeSantis says you should also keep pitching stories to the media.
With the current recession, coronavirus, and uncertainty, businesses are trimming down on expenses and even choosing not to stay active or be present on social media. I believe this is the biggest mistake any business or brand can make right no[...]
Sales Promotions & More, Social Media Campaigns
The search for the property’s next brand advocates has begun.
If you say you're looking for the new face of a shopping center, then expect a couple of automatic yawns and sighs. But intu Derby might succeed in avoiding those with its latest search, which will require new "real people" talent to do more th[...]
Cherry Lane has a new installation that will fit its seasonal promotional needs all year long.
Interactive, current, and attractive to all demographics were the marks that Andrea Davison focused on hitting when she was brainstorming ideas (with herself) for a new promotional strategy at the wee hours of the morning. The marketing directo[...]
Facebook, Technology Lab
Place du Saguenay found a way to triple its Facebook organic reach, despite a tough post-holiday quarter.
Last winter was particularly harsh in Canada’s province of Québec, leaving shoppers even wearier than usual after the busy holiday season and making the task of engaging them tougher for malls like Place du Saguenay in Chicoutimi. Even using[...]