adidas has launched a marketing campaign to promote Derrick Rose‘s new signature basketball shoe, the adiZero Rose 2. The campaign features a 60-second spot, ‘The Bull’ that celebrates the basketball star and his sporty skills on the unusual background of a bullfighting arena.
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Any huge event, be it a concert tour, royal wedding or sport activity, offers brilliant opportunities to marketers. Next year, London will host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, which makes companies busy these days, getting ready for new clients and partners from abroad. A range of brands including Cadbury, BMW, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have already started the promotional activity, and now the governments also steps in with a new campaign dedicated to the event. On September 21, the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced the GREAT promotion, which is led by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and aimed at showcasing the best in the country to attract new investors and tourists.
Nike is auctioning off 150 pairs of character Marty McFly’s Nike on eBay for the next ten days. The America’s favorite sportswear brand has recreated the self-fastening glowing trainers worn by Michael J Fox in the 1989 film ‘Back to the Future II’ with an illuminating logo glowing for five hours per charge.