Promo Products

Kelsey Cunningham and Bill Petrie Launch Business Services Agency Brandivate
July 6, 2020 at 10:41 am

Leveraging their more than 35 years working with leading promotional products suppliers and distributors, Kelsey Cunningham and Bill Petrie today announced the launch of brandivate, a full-service business services agency that will drive marketing, sales and branding solutions. “When Bill and I started talking about forming a business, we both saw a void in the…

Storm Creek Donates to Feeding America's COVID-19 Response Fund
July 2, 2020 at 2:24 pm

Storm Creek, Eagan, Minn., announced that it has donated $7,500 to support the hungry through Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund. The funds will go to support overrun food banks and pantries struggling to keep up with demand during the coronavirus pandemic. According to Feeding America, more than 41 million Americans are currently unemployed. In fact,…

Pantone Partners With Apparel Brand for T-shirts and Masks Supporting Black Lives Matter, ACLU and More
July 2, 2020 at 2:04 pm

Pantone partnered with apparel brand Fuzzed Up Bear for a project called the Human Being Initiative, created to raise funds for the Black Lives Matter movement, the ACLU and Campaign Zero. The line includes a T-shirt, onesie and face mask, each with a design featuring the Pantone color square, but over a person’s arm with the shade’s name listed as “Human Being"...

YouTube Sent Extremely Cool Promo Boxes to Attendees for Virtual Event
July 1, 2020 at 1:57 pm

For this year’s “Brandcast Delivered” virtual event, the YouTube team leaned into the “delivered” theme by delivering promo boxes for viewers to enjoy the broadcast from home. The personalized packages consisted of three separate sub-boxes labeled "Take," "Make" and "Bake," with ingredients for DIY pizzas and various promotional gifts...

Music Site Stereogum is Using Old Event Swag to Raise Funds
June 30, 2020 at 11:41 am

Stereogum, a popular music site that started in the early 2000s, has been working hard to stay afloat by launching a crowdfunding campaign. Part of it is an album of covers of ‘00s music from artists like The National, Death Cab for Cutie and Mac DeMarco. But, aside from the album, Stereogum is relying on past promotional merchandise to sweeten the deal...

Social Media Users Wage (Possibly Ineffective) War on Trump Campaign Store
June 29, 2020 at 12:40 pm

Twitter and TikTok users are claiming they've tied up millions of dollars of Donald Trump campaign merchandise in shopping carts with no intent to purchase the items. Their hope is that it cripples the Trump Campaign store, but it might not have worked out as planned...