GoSNOW is the newest addition to our GoGREEN campaign options.  Our team had fun in the snow after the last snowstorm in New York City and we came up with environmentally friendly ideas to decorate the white landscape.  GoSNOWSTAMPS are logos pressed into the snow.  They can be placed on the ground, on cars, on mailboxes and many other surfaces.  For GoSNOWSTENCILS we use biodegradable chalk spray to place ads into the snow.  GoSNOWMAN are snow sculptures placed in high traffic locations.  A GoCLEAN Street Team in branded uniforms is everybody’s best friend when it sets out to shovel snow and clear city sidewalks for a safe commute.  These street teams create buzz and a positive brand image while helping the community.  Once the snow is gone, GoCLEAN Street Teams can do good by recycling, picking up litter, or power-washing sidewalks.  A Snow-, Chalk- or Waterstencil™  can be placed to let residents know who cleaned up their neighborhood.

GoGORILLA is now offering advertisers to create and include Microsoft Tags in their artwork free of charge. Tags can be added to any campaign featuring printed media such as postcards, coffee sleeves, placemats, etc.  By scanning the Tag on their smartphones, consumers are directed to the advertiser’s website, shop, or videos on YouTube right on the spot!  Tags are a great way to include online content in your campaign and work with any ad.  Take consumers straight to your shop, sign-up page, sweepstakes, trailers, or any other landing page.  Tags drive traffic to your website and let you measure the success of your campaign, while increasing sales or subscriptions.  By leading consumers to sweepstakes, data collection on the spot can add thousands of new email addresses to your mailing list.  It’s easy! Just download the free app on your smartphone at http://gettag.mobi and try scanning our Tag.

Flash mobs are becoming a more and more popular as a way to get consumer’s attention.  Advertisers constantly think of new funky ideas to integrate flash mobs into their campaigns. Whether it’s dancers moon-walking like Michael Jackson or ballroom dancers sweeping ladies off their feet in train stations, advertisers love to wow the public with huge interactive events that then spread over the Internet like wildfire.  GoGORILLA helped organize a huge Zumba event in Chicago in which women of all ages could learn how to dance Zumba, a fusion of Latin and International dancing and music.  The event attracted vast crowds and participants had a blast moving to the dynamic rhythms.

To create buzz for the novel “Dust,” GoGORILLA Media dropped 1,750 copies of the novel on seven beaches in the Great Lakes area for beach-goers to discover.  To conserve the books, they were inserted into zip lock bags and then placed discreetly all over the beaches.  Sunbathers were surprised to find a book in the sand and immediately turned its pages to see what “Dust” is all about.  The promotion worked so well because of its surprise effect, which is what guerrilla advertising is all about. The mysterious book drop also goes well with the occult zombie-theme of the novel.  In addition, the placement of books on beaches, where people actually have time, made sure that the books would be read immediately.

Always ahead of game, GoGORILLA added iPads as a digital component to their street team campaigns.  Now advertisers can showcase their website, trailers, apps, and products on today’s hottest gadget.  IPads are a great way to collect data such as email addresses.  They are also an ideal medium to conduct surveys or to engage consumers in trivia to educate them about your product.  When adding iPads to street team campaigns, advertisers benefit from the popularity of the new gadget, which attracts young and old consumers alike.  Passersby will stop in their tracks for a chance to hold and play with an iPad while engaging in conversations with street team members about the product or cause. For more information on using iPads to promote your product, click here or call 212-925-2420.

Twilight fans were met with a crunchy surprise when they went to see the latest part of the popular trilogy. GoGORILLA Media utilized GoMODELS handing out popcorn to promote AOL’s Moviefone at premiers across the nation for the Twilight Saga’s “Eclipse.” GoGORILLA set up popcorn stations with branded popcorn bags and pins in 9 US markets.  Both adults and kids were thrilled with the free giveaways and many continued to come back for more popcorn. The Twilight pins were a huge hit and most visitors attached them to their shirts right away. Movie fans were also encouraged to visit Moviefone.com to enter the sweepstakes to win free giveaways including an Eclipse script signed by cast members.

GoGORILLA loves to try new stuff, so when a client comes to us and asks us “Can you do this?” we’re thrilled. If it’s never been done before, we’ll figure out how to do it. To promote the release of Ke$ha’s new album “Animal,” GoSTENCILS were spraychalked onto sidewalks in Los Angeles and New York City. For the first time ever golden glitter was applied to the stencils to go with the singer’s signature glamour look. The sparkly stencils got a lot of attention in high-traffic locations as well as outside clothing stores and clubs. The edgy creative spread the word of Ke$ha’s website.

Sport Shake created a huge splash in Minnesota this past year. GoGORILLA organized 28 events over a period of six months that took place at various Minnesota high school football games, hockey games and tailgating events. The Sport Shake events featured a branded vehicle, signage, basketball hoops, frisbee games and plenty of Sport Shakes samples to go around. The drink was a huge hit. Kids and parents alike raved about the drink and eagerly performed jumping jacks and push-ups to receive free samples. Our fun GoMODELs worked the events together with the Original Sport Shake Coach in a 70s style tracksuit. The outgoing team got everyone excited about the flavourful sports drink.

GoGORILLA Set Out to Find the Hottest Beach Bodies of the
Nation

GoGORILLA’s team sure had a fun Summer when they traveled across the country with the Mobile Beach Bash, a Summer beach tour sponsored by the good people at Twinlab as part of the RateYourAbs.com competition. We traveled to the hottest beaches of the US all Summer long bringing you Twinlab product samples, T-shirts, tattoos and hot models to take pictures of your hot abs and to enter you into our online competition.  Contestants got a chance to earn the title of Hottest Abs on the beach this Summer and to become the proud owner of a 2009 Jeep Wrangler!

Breaking Through the Clutter

Advertising today is a lot different than it was a few years ago. With the rise of social media sites, like Twitter and Facebook, and more people online, marketers have had to find new ways to meet their target audience. GoGORILLA Media is the one-stop-shop for all kinds of alternative advertising. We use all sorts of techniques including sidewalk advertising, live interactive street teams and brand ambassadors, and reverse and clean graffiti. We use non-traditional media and promotion to help you reach your target market.

Going Viral is Key!

Some of our most successful campaigns use a combination of viral marketing and guerilla marketing, placed in the heart of major cities. These stunts reach the initial consumers on the street and then spread across the Internet through social media. Many of these out of home advertising stunts even make it into traditional media outlets.

Flash Mobs and Fake Protests Make Lasting Impressions

One example of guerilla and viral marketing is the flash mob or mock protest. Street teams converge on a specific street or shopping area and do a coordinated stunt such as a dance or chant. They may also use other media such as reverse graffiti or clean graffiti to lead to the event, or incorporate costumes or props to tie into the message. These are always fun and entertaining, and catch the audience off guard. One popular technique is the Tease and Reveal campaign, where the message comes out in brief words or messages over several days, capturing the interests of people and inspiring online discussions. Everyone is paying attention when the full message is finally revealed.

Reaching Millions on YouTube 

Each GoGORILLA planned guerrilla marketing event is filmed so that it can be downloaded to sites like YouTube, which leads to the next part of the promotion. The next step in the viral marketing campaign is putting the word out about this funny video, which can be done through social media, like twitter, or email. More consumers are enticed to go online to view the original video. They pass it along to their friends, as sharing videos has become one of the most popular methods of out of home advertising. They are often added to blogs or linked to different web sites, so the message is spread to more and more people and the alternative advertising goes viral.
Often these guerilla marketing videos become so big that they are picked up by traditional media outlets like print, radio, and television. A radio DJ may talk abut a viral marketing stunt, or a television news station may show the actual video of the street teams in action. This brings the original advertising message to a whole new group of consumers, making it an extremely potent form of guerrilla marketing.

Creating a Fanbase Via Social Media

GoGORILLA’s guerilla marketing and viral marketing techniques are perfect for all kinds of businesses. Small companies with limited budgets can get big time exposure with great guerrilla marketing campaigns using entertaining stunts and clean graffiti. Larger and established businesses can use these alternative advertising methods as part of their larger media campaigns. For Ripped Fuel, GoGORILLA posted videos and photos on the Ripped Fuel Facebook page to entice beachgoers all over the country to take part in the “Rate your Abs” competition.