• Ocean Spray Helps TikTok Star Who Posted Viral Video
    A TikTok video featuring a man swigging a bottle of Ocean Spray while wheeling down the road on his skateboard listening to Fleetwood Mac went crazy viral, and the brand decided to reward the user with a cranberry red pickup truck filled with juice. “While random — and strange — the video instantly struck a chord with TikTok’s young audience, garnering more than 24 million views,” according to The Boston Globe.
  • Instagram Campaign Shows Business Impact Of Influencer Marketing
    Instagram is launching a campaign in India called “Love Runs Deep” aimed at marketers to show them the business impact of influencer marketing. The effort includes a contest where brands are invited to submit their briefs. Five will be chosen to have access to 25 creators to work with them for free, in addition to $25,000 in ad credits to run their campaigns.
  • Slack Partners With Cole Haan
    Venerable shoemaker Cole Haan is collaborating with Slack, the workplace messaging service, on a pair of limited edition sneakers. Cole Haan is producing four different versions of the sneaker, which each use one of Slack’s primary colors for their soles, and they all have small Slack logos on the heel cap. According to Cole Haan’s landing page for the sneakers, they were designed “with the Slack crew, over Slack.”
  • Regal Cinemas To Close Temporarily
    Regal Cinemas, the second largest theater chain in the country, is temporarily closing its 663 theaters in the United States and Britain. The news comes in the wake of delays of expected blockbusters like the new James Bond film. “If the studios continue postponing all their releases, the movie theaters aren’t going to be there for those postponed releases,” John Fithian, chief executive of the National Association of Theatre Owners, told The New York Times.
  • Walmart Aims To Combat Prescription Drug Abuse
    Walmart is launching a website with an interactive learning program on prescription drug safety, with access to mental health resources. “Safe and Well" is free to anyone through Walmart’s relationship with social-impact education organization Everfi. October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month and National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month.
  • Kellogg's Debuts Board Game
    Kellogg’s is debuting its first-ever board game: Morning Craze, with a focus on cereal lovers. The game’s aim is to help consumers avoid awkward mishaps that could occur when “the most important meal of the day” is missed, the company said. Players gather pieces of cereal as the game progresses.The player who ends up with the most pieces “silences the growl and wins the game,” the company said.
  • Forbes Names Most Influential CMOs
    CMOs at tech companies dominate Forbes’ annual ranking of The World’s Most Influential CMOs. Developed with research partners Sprinklr and LinkedIn, the eighth-annual list includes leaders who are “challenging the status quo, creating a lasting impact within business and culture and disrupting their respective industries,” according to Forbes. At the top: Apple’s Phil Schiller, Adobe’s Ann Lewnes, Google’s Lorraine Twohill and Microsoft’s Chris Capossela.
  • MLB Launches Postseason Campaign Featuring DJ Khaled
    Major League Baseball’s postseason marketing campaign features entertainer DJ Khaled.“October: The Remix” also features animation from Emmy Award-winning artist Mike Perry. The marketing makes specific reference to the expansion of the playoffs this year from 10 teams to 16, saying at one point, “this year we invited a few extra friends.” The effort will run prominently across both traditional and social media over the next month.
  • Red Bull Appoints New CMO After Controversy
    Red Bull has named Ken Turner  its new CMO following the ouster of North America CEO Stefan Kozak and CMO Amy Taylor. The two were fired after "leaks of an employee letter urging more support for Black Lives Matter and a racially offensive slide from a company meeting," according to Business Insider. The company has also laid off about 50 marketing employees who oversaw projects tying the energy drink brand to hip-hop music and breakdancing culture.
  • Reebok Hires Black Activist As Creative Leader
    Reebok has hired Black activist and designer Kerby Jean-Raymond to be one of its top executives, reporting to president Matt O’Toole. In his role as vice president of creative direction, Jean-Raymond will “provide creative leadership across all design disciplines,” according to the company. “Jean-Raymond will also play a key role in Reebok’s antiracism efforts,” per the Boston Globe.
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