Christmas PR Stunts Sketch Love
Ti’s the season for opportunist Christmas PR stunts! Christmas is the perfect time for brands to organize a good PR stunt to promote themselves. This year, some brands have started as early as September to get raise their Christmas profile which is pretty eager. There have been some fun campaigns out there so here are a […]
Banksy: King of the PR Stunt
We love nothing more than a good PR stunt here at Sketch HQ!
Last week when Banksy, the maverick street artist, shredded his famous piece “Girl with a Balloon” seconds after it was sold at auction we were in awe of his genius.
8 of our favourite eco-aware stunts
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Connecting with people through eye-catching and headline-grabbing PR stunts is a tried and tested method of raising awareness of social and political issues – here’s a handful of our favourite eco-friendly examples: Epson: Swimming in Ink Epson teamed up with Walt & Company to launch their innovative EcoTank printers in Times Square. The ‘Swimming in Ink’ […]
Ho ho ho! Inspirational Christmas Tree installations
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For some professions, Christmas is a time for long-lunches, office parties, winding down and shunning any form of work until January. But for us PR’s and event managers, Christmas can be really busy with more events and activations in December than the rest of the year! With this in mind, here are some of our […]
Stunt of the week: Great British Apples Day pop-up event
Autumn is upon us and that means harvest time – and apples and pears in particular. So our favourite stunt of the week comes from English Apples & Pears in a seasonal pop-up event celebrating this most quintessential of English produce. Orchard pop-up On 20th October, visitors to London’s Covent Garden will be able to […]
Stunt of the week: sand hostel activation
Hostelworld and Gold Coast Tourism have created a hostel entirely made of sand in an activation in Broadbeach on Australia’s Gold Coast. In what’s been billed as a world-first activation, a whopping 24 tonnes of sand have been used to create the hostel, which is over four metres tall and took three weeks to build. […]
Stunt of the week: Trivago woman pranks Londoners
In the latest stunt of the week, Trivago takes aim at its own ad campaign with a humorous piece of experiential marketing. Gabrielle Miller, the ubiquitous face of Trivago’s latest ad campaign, took to the streets of London to deface the ads that made her famous (or infamous) and took social media by storm. The ad […]
Stunt of the week: the ultimate holiday inflatable!
It’s high summer and we love a good holiday themed event and this fun summer stunt from TravelSupermarket ticks all the boxes for us – the ultimate holiday inflatable! Forget swans, lilos and rubber rings, TravelSupermarket has produced a new holiday inflatable, designed in response to customer research which reveal British holidaymakers’ inflatable woes. The research […]
When the heat is on: 5 summer activations for a heatwave
As much of Europe swelters in temperatures over 40C, here’s a selection of 2017’s cleverest experiential activations and promotions that tap into the heat of summer… 7Up social thermometer It’s not just the British who like to complain about the heat. Every summer, heat takes over the conversation in Latin America: people talk on the […]
12 PR stunts that won summer
Just like the British summer, a PR stunt can be unpredictable, but done right it’ll stop people in their tracks and deliver a ton of coverage. PR stunts can be a risk for any brand, but the powerful marketing potential that’s up for grabs is hard to resist. And they don’t need to be big and […]
