Loyalty Marketing

Best-selling author, Gary Vaynerchuk is a self-described influencer, entrepreneur, investor, best-selling author, speaker and Jets fan. Recently, he weighed in on The White Houses March Madness-themed marketing campaign to uninsured 20-somethings. So, whats the verdict? Vaynerchuk is shocked by the number of brands that are still trying to reach Millennials through print, radio, and TV.

New York-based Initiative, the digital media agency of record for MillerCoors, helped to identify and execute these various partnerships.

Unilever has become the first company to activate Brandtones automated mobile marketing platform and engage directly with mobile phone users in the worlds fastest growing markets.

Frito-Lay and Activision are providing fans with the opportunity to choose and name a new hero that will appear in the next Skylanders game slated for release in 2014.

The collaboration focuses on Social and Mobile brand-building across the consumer journey.

Many brands are utilizing social media as a means to enhance consumer engagement and the overall brand experience, which adds tremendous value in terms of building trusted relationships. However, a new social media application has the potential to be much more powerful: consumer understanding. Julia Chen Davidson, global consumer products lead, IBM Institute for Business Value, explains how CG companies can take hold of this opportunity within their four walls.

A poll of more than 95,000 Canadians reveal that the most-trusted CPG brands for across 60 categories consist of household names like Kellogg, Dove, Colgate and more. Consumers reasons for citing a brand as their most trusted vary by category, for example, taste drives which food brands are most trusted, while kids brands need to guarantee gentleness. Find out which other brands made this list and why.

Morton Salt is refreshing its brand this year by updating its logo and introducing a new packaging design system, and is also marking this milestone year with the first of many new product innovations to come.