NBA Partner Jack Daniel’s Asks League For A New Franchise In Its Home Town Of Lynchburg

To leverage heightened interest around the NBA Playoffs, mid May sees new NBA sponsor Jack Daniels lobby the league for a new franchise in its home town of Lynchburg, Tennessee.   The campaign, by agency Arnold Worldwide, is the first activation in the new partnership between the NBA and the Brown-Forman owned brand: one which… Continue reading NBA Partner Jack Daniel’s Asks League For A New Franchise In Its Home Town Of Lynchburg

All-Star Activations: Sponsors Bring NBA’s Big Easy Basketball Celebration To Life

Sponsors who invested in striking 2017 All-Star activations – bringing the NBA’s basketball celebration in New Orleans to life – look to have made a sensible strategic decision.   Not least because the 66th All-Star Game was the most viewed All-Star broadcast since 2013: with an average audience on TNT of 7.8 million (peaking at 8.5… Continue reading All-Star Activations: Sponsors Bring NBA’s Big Easy Basketball Celebration To Life

‘Jack Rocks’ Music Venue Partnership (+ NME/Spotify)

Jack Daniel’s is launching a new UK music campaign, based around a series of ‘partner venues’ called ‘Jack Rocks’ which opens with the whiskey brand taking over the famous Hoxton drinking and music venue The Macbeth.   The four-month initiative, based around celebrating ‘music that is hand crafted’, starts in September when the Macbeth will… Continue reading ‘Jack Rocks’ Music Venue Partnership (+ NME/Spotify)

Jack Daniel’s Crowd-Funded Brazilian Birthday Concerts

To celebrate the brand’s 162 anniversary, Jack Daniel’s is rolling out a series of crowd-funded gigs in Brazil.   This crowd-funded initiative, in which Mr Jack himself was purportedly the first fan to sign up and bank roll 50% of the cost of the concerts ($72,000), sees the brand launch a joint initiative with crowd-funding music… Continue reading Jack Daniel’s Crowd-Funded Brazilian Birthday Concerts

Jack Daniel’s ‘Ride Home For Christmas’ CSR Scheme

From Washington politicians to Hollywood script writers, bringing the troops home for the holidays was a major theme in December 2011. Sponsors are getting in on the act too.   One example of this saw Jack Daniel’s pumps thousands of dollars into patriotic military focused home state CSR scheme. The Tennessee-based whiskey brand teamed up… Continue reading Jack Daniel’s ‘Ride Home For Christmas’ CSR Scheme