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Valassis, the UK’s largest coupon and voucher services provider, has launched Cashback & Rewards, a new multi-channel promotional solution that facilitates direct payment between the brand and the promotion’s beneficiary, removing reliance on third parties to fulfil the promotion.

Valassis launches Cashback & Rewards promotion mechanic for brands

Valassis, the UK’s largest coupon and voucher services provider, has launched Cashback & Rewards, a new multi-channel promotional solution that facilitates direct...

Mars Wrigley Confectionery UK is launching The Sweetstake, a new football-themed on-pack promotion offering consumers the chance to win millions of prizes including free products and cash.

Mars Wrigley launches football themed ‘Sweetstake’ promotion

Mars Wrigley Confectionery UK is launching The Sweetstake, a new football-themed on-pack promotion offering consumers the chance to win millions of prizes including...

The Institute of Promotional Marketing (IPM) has announced the shortlist for the IPM Awards 2018, the promotional marketing industry’s most prestigious recognition programme.

IPM Awards 2018 shortlist announced

The Institute of Promotional Marketing (IPM) has announced the shortlist for The IPM Awards 2018, the promotional marketing industry’s most prestigious recognition...

Leading savoury snack brand Golden Wonder is rewarding customers through a major on-pack promotion in partnership with Pizza Hut Restaurants.

Golden Wonder aims for bigger slice of the snacks market with Pizza Hut promotion

Leading savoury snack brand Golden Wonder is rewarding customers through a major on-pack promotion in partnership with Pizza Hut Restaurants. During the campaign,...

Eco-cleaning pioneers Ecover is opening London’s first Rubbish Café Thursday 3rd May in Covent Garden. The Ecover Rubbish Café is currency free, only accepting recyclable plastic as payment, and will serve a zero-waste menu from eco-chef Tom Hunt.

Ecover opens pop-up Rubbish Cafe to highlight plastic pollution

Eco-cleaning pioneers Ecover is opening London’s first Rubbish Café Thursday 3rd May in Covent Garden. The Ecover Rubbish Café is currency free, only accepting...

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has extended its use of Augmented Reality (AR) technology to cover its Lindeman’s Gentleman’s Collection brand. Scanning the bottle with a smartphone or tablet loads ‘Gentleman’s Guide to Augmented Reality’.

Treasury Wine Estates launches AR app for Gentleman’s Collection wines

Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has extended its use of Augmented Reality (AR) technology to cover its Lindeman’s Gentleman’s Collection brand. Following the success of...

pladis-owned snacks brand McVitie’s is running an interactive experience to back its ‘Sweeter Together’ Masterbrand advertising and marketing campaign. In keeping with the TV ad, featuring a crane driver, the Sweeter Together Challenge requires two consumers to work together to operate a model crane to grab a giant McVitie’s ‘prize’ Nibble, to instantly win prizes that are ‘sweeter when enjoyed together’.

McVitie’s Nibbles ‘Sweeter Together Challenge’ crane game experiential and sampling

pladis-owned snacks brand McVitie’s is running an interactive experience to back its ‘Sweeter Together’ Masterbrand advertising and marketing campaign. In...

Jim Conning of Royal Mail Data Services (RMDS) provides some practical tips for how to use customer data in promotions.

Customer data and promotional marketing – four areas to focus on

Jim Conning of Royal Mail Data Services (RMDS) provides some practical advice for how to use customer data in promotions, based on new research Accurate, comprehensive...

Benefit Cosmetics ran an activation at London’s Southbank Centre earlier this week featuring an Extreme Brow Bar – a cosmetics counter experience on a scissor lift truck which gave consumers the chance of a complementary brow wax, style and pamper brow 65 feet up in the air, with views over the River Thames and London skyline.

Benefit Cosmetics runs Extreme Brow Bar 65 feet above Thames

Benefit Cosmetics ran an activation at London’s Southbank Centre earlier this week featuring an Extreme Brow Bar – a cosmetics counter experience on a scissor lift...

Neil Davidson from agency HeyHuman reports back on what film, interactive media, and music festival and conference SXSW 2018 had for the experiential marketer

SXSW delivered masterclasses in the art of experiential storytelling

Neil Davidson  from agency HeyHuman reports back on what film, interactive media, and music festival and conference SXSW 2018 had for the experiential marketer In a...