Loyalty Marketing

More than 25 food and beverage manufacturers are partnering with Engage3, a retail intelligence and digital marketing solution provider, to offer consumers a new shopping experience.

After conducting high-level research into the into the strategies employed by Fortune 500 companies across the United States, Mintel singles out the top five trends in online consumer marketplace behavior this quarter some of which you may never have seen coming. Find out how social media-savvy brands, like Wawa, Apple, Amazon and Lay's, are realizing results by tackling these timely trends.

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.