Sentences with phrase «as marketing stunts»

In a hilarious blog entry today, the billionaire describes his best dress - up moments over the years — many of which have served as marketing stunts for burgeoning business ventures.

Expect to see more of these one - off junk - food drone deliveries next year as big fast - food companies like Chipotle (cmg) and Domino's Pizza use them as marketing stunts.

Publicity - hungry Paddy Power, who provoked outrage when claiming to have deforested part of the Amazonian rainforest as a marketing stunt at the World Cup, have paid out # 400,000 to those lucky punters who backed the Blues.

Word has it that, as a marketing stunt, a purveyor of luxury goods joined with prankster artists to sneak into the press preview an image of Kate Moss doing coke.

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It's easy to dismiss announcements about «cage - free» eggs as mere marketing stunts, but it will change supply chains for the better

TORONTO — While WestJet insists its holiday gift - giving stunt that spawned a viral video wasn't intended to be a commercial in disguise, marketing experts say the Canadian airline's brand is getting an invaluable boost as the YouTube hit count continues to surge.

Even if it winds up being little more than a marketing stunt, the move may prove to be a boon for PepsiCo, as soda sales in the U.S. have been flagging recently — carbonated soft drinks have seen their sales plummet 14 % in the past nine years.

It was a transparent political stunt, but most media outlets lapped it up as a sidebar to their coverage of the day's market gyrations. [A few reporters wondered aloud about its real significance, and about what it meant for the independence of the central bank — more on this below.]

I'm not surprised at all that McDonald's is pulling a stunt like this, I am surprised it's legal for them to market it to kids and parents as healthy.

A competitor, Hinge, recently rebranded, calling itself «The Relationship App» — which Carbino describes as a «clever marketing stunt» — something that perhaps indicates an unmet need in the market.

Not to discredit the movie, but as the secondary motivation of Berstein going to India was also a huge marketing stunt to boost merchandise sales in the country, I couldn't help but to think in the back of my mind that the only reason this movie was made was so Disney could sell a movie to India.

As their marketing director for the past four years, Chip Mosher has come up with some memorable stunts, including the «Mark Waid is Evil» viral marketing campaign for Waid's «Irredeemable» and the first - ever simultaneous print and digital release — «North Wind,» which was published on MySpace for free the same day it went on sale in comics shops.

As such, many thought Samsung was behind a recent guerrilla marketing stunt that saw a bus - load of men and women stage a protest outside an Apple Store in Australia.

The precede also flags the «ebook - as - digital - service» problem in which some places tax ebooks at a higher rate than print books as software - like services, «thus stunting the growth of the ebook market,» IPA writes, «especially in smaller language markets.

Stunts sell, as long as the publishers don't over-extend the market for variant covers (and they sure seem aggressive in emphasizing those instead of the content in between the covers).

I was actually looking forward to Motorbike, as I have always been a fan of other stunt bike games on the mobile market and PC, but just could not see any real reason to like this game.

The meek sheeplike willingness this art world / market to be co-opted into bona fide, 100 percent genuine, pre-sliced, easy to handle, low calorie «performance art» such as the recent Jay Z stunt at Pace Gallery.

I smile as I read Tracy's protests that she wasn't trying to pull an SEO marketing stunt with her article and it's title — reminds me of a similar post by Larry Bodine a year or so ago about «Twitter is worse than a toy — it's a waste of time.»

The marketing stunt whose final result and behind - the - scenes footage can be seen below involved an array of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2XL units, as well as stabilization -LSB-...]

Google pulled off one of the best marketing stunts in history on Monday, by taking advantage of the solar eclipse to announce a cool name for Android O. Android 8.0 is now officially known as Oreo, but as awesome as that may be, the sad fact is that most devices will not get it anytime soon.

Yet he warned that misunderstood blockchain industry buzz, such as the iced tea company stunt, could continue to have a destabilizing effect on market prices as the cryptocurrency boom spreads.