With nearly 35,000 people expected at SXSW Interactive (and around 30,000 headed to the music festival), when it comes to
marketing stunts at this show, it's go big or go home.
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.
Not exact matches
In a cunning
marketing stunt the good people
at Carabao have encouraged die - hard supporters to quaff copious amounts of their sugar and caffeine laden beverage in order to stay awake for the 3rd round draw of this year's EFL Cup.
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.
Inexplicably, Carney is also able to squeeze some magic from a cast that seems staggeringly opposed to such a
stunt,
at least judging from a multitude of similar packaged deals in a squalid
market of workmanlike indie films featuring such flora and fauna.
Talk about throwing a curveball, it would completely wreck the
market and people wouldn't stop talking about the
stunt that Nintendo pulled
at E3.
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.
Playing out on the fringe, although
at the Armory Show - annointed Pier 94, Art New York pulled off the
stunt of showing both the best and worst of what the art
market will bear.
In truth, since the Beautiful Inside My Head Forever sale in 2008, Hirst has made several attempts to move on with new art work — there was the ill - fated attempt
at painting like Francis Bacon sponsored by Victor Pinchuk and shown
at London's Wallace collection — and revive his
market with
stunts like the global Gagosian show of spot paintings.
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.
In an elaborate launch event replete with motorcycle
stunts at the Pawan Hans Helicopter facility, Lenovo announced its foray into the tablet
market.