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Another (drinks) brand enters the comedy market, with Grolsch sponsoring the E4 Udderbelly venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Read the article here (courtesy of Brand Republic)

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So further to my last post, the Pimm’s SummerFest comedy event is looking rather spiffing (that’s some old school English right there!)
With what must be one of the best comedy line-ups, the whole experience is going to be enhanced by the venue.  If you haven’t been there already, it’s an incredible open sided venue in […]

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Hot on the heels of Gaymers cider comes Swedish brand Kopparberg, another cider brand hoping to exploit the still buoyant UK cider market with targeted festival activity within a wider music marketing strategy.
The “One Big Tree” experiential concept will be present at both Camp Bestival and Connect, and centres around the Kopparberg Tree.  During the day […]

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Here’s an interesting read on the BBC site looking at Gaymers Cider, Tuborg lager and Brothers Cider using festivals to establish brand awareness and all that jazz.

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The onslaught of beer and music continues with no let up, despite the fact that I’m even less likely to be able to afford to buy a house this year thanks to the bleeding credit crunch - actually, hold that - what better way to drown my sorrows than with a pint of San Miguel…..
So, […]

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Tuborg lager has teamed up with Vice Magazine to run a summer comp to send a Vice reader out on assignment to some UK festivals, with the winner keeping a diary of the experience to go on a blog.
This isn’t a particularly original comp unfortunately; it feels incredibly similar to the Carling Postcard series of […]

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Following recent brand interest in comedy, London is set to have a new comedy event this year courtesy of Pimm’s, that most-English of drinks!
Pimm’s Summerfest will be taking place over five evenings at the end of August in Holland Park, London - a venue that usually hosts opera events, and is therefore pretty impressive. 
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It used to be that any thoughts of cider during the summer instantly invoked memories of the Strongbow Rooms (in all its guises throughout its long history) at most of the festivals that mattered.
Well, it looks like that reign has well and truly come to an end.
Gaymers Cider, part of the Constellation portfolio, has been […]

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Congratulations to everyone at brand entertainment agency, Cake.  They’ve been acquired by Havas, and will become part of the Havas Media division (which, if I’m not mistaken, includes KLP Entertainment), so expect to see some great examples of brand entertainment popping up in countries I’ve never heard of!

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Whilst a lot of hip hop artists are already heavily involved in brand extensions in alcohol, it seems the majority of these are in ‘bling’ luxury goods; those with an immediate obvious appeal and blatant expense, such as vodka.  Which is easy to understand.  But one of the more street artists, Lil Jon, has launched […]

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