College football players typically adorn the backs of their helmets with stickers as signifiers of especially good games. Usually, the stickers are miniature versions of the school’s logo, or maybe a symbol relating to the mascot or the team. When players can cover their helmets, they serve as badges of honor during game time. But,…
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Today is the spookiest day of the year. No, it’s not Halloween. It’s the release date of the second season of the critically acclaimed Netflix Series “Stranger Things,” and to commemorate, the Oxford Circus underground station has been transformed into the paranormal space known as the “upside down” on the show. https://twitter.com/TfL/status/922828249234923521 https://twitter.com/OxfordStreetW1/status/922895877039116294 For the…
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Barker Specialty Co., Cheshire, Conn., announced that Gloria Barker passed away on Oct. 22. Gloria was born Charlotte Gloria Pick on March 14, 1929. Gloria lived a long and fulfilling life as a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Also, Gloria was the mom to hundreds of people whom she employed. Working for more than 60…
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Certain cities have acquired hit-and-miss identities due to the combination of enthralling and appalling events that have come to comprise their histories. Philadelphia—Promo Marketing’s metropolitan base—definitely finds itself among those municipalities with mixed records…
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“The Walking Dead” has been really killing it with their promotions lately. (Get it? Killing? Please clap.) For the show’s season 8 premier, it’s debuting “Negan’s Sh*ttin’ Pants,” i.e. actual adult diapers. Here’s a little backstory (which I needed, too, because I stopped watching at the third season): The character Negan, who you might remember…
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People looking at a banner for a what appears to be a new miracle drug called Revival might be disappointed that the advertised drug won’t, in fact, help them to “Seize the moment,” unless the moment they want to seize is listening to a new Eminem album. Eagle-eyed hip hop fans might notice that the…
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We tend not to hear too much about New Hampshire, with the U.S. presidential election cycle’s tabbing of its primary as the first one in the race for the White House arguably being its chief claim to fame. Though the Granite State will not grab its next share of the limelight in that context until…
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Facilisgroup, St. Louis, welcomed Knock-Out Specialties to its community of promotional products distributor partners. A family-owned business, Knock-Out Specialties has been providing promotional products and marketing services in Plano, Texas, since 1994. “We’re looking forward to receiving growth and efficiency improvements from Facilisgroup’s software and best practices,” John Bottone, owner of Knock-Out Specialties. “The more…
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted 3 to 2 last week to prohibit children’s toys and various child care items from containing more than 0.1 percent of specific phthalate chemicals…
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There was once a time not too long ago that Samsung Galaxy Note smartphones weren’t welcome on airplanes, and now the company is trying to make that a distant memory by surprising airline passengers flying from Madrid to A Coruña with a Galaxy Note 8 giveaway while on an airplane. This week, Samsung gave out…
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