To celebrate London 2012, sponsors Gillette introduced the ProGlide Golden Edition by placing a winner’s podium in the middle of a store, leading up to the product.
In a similar (albeit much smaller) way to the incredibly popular ‘push to add drama’ stunt we covered in April, once members of the public performed an action – in this case, by picking one of the razors up – there was an unexpected consequence.
Rich Leigh is an account director at 10 Yetis PR Agency. He started PRexamples.com in January 2012, after writing about Good and Bad PR for a number of years. He also founded light-hearted PR/journalist award scheme The CRAPPs in 2010 on behalf of 10 Yetis. In March 2013, Rich launched blogger outreach tool bloggabase.com with Andy Barr. Rich lives in Gloucester with his wife and two children.
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