16th Oct, 2008

60 Guerrilla Publicity Stunts and Purple Cow Ideas

Posted by: Matt Wilson
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This blog is all about being remarkable–literally doing something that people make remarks about; being the best; standing out in order to get to the top!  Now, I’m not saying these publicity stunts worked but they certainly gave it a valiant effort.

  1. Sarah Marshall sucks! But the real ones were even more mad.
  2. ProShade asks to buy advertising on Mt. Rushmore
  3. Oprah gives 276 audience members a car!
  4. Meth Coffee Brand
  5. DrinkCocaine.com
  6. Freaking people out on the street for a show called Afterlife
  7. Latest Marketing Stunt Lands GoldenPalace.com in Prison
  8. Golden Palace goes streaking with tattoos
  9. Vodafone pays streakers too
  10. William Shatner sell his Kindey Stone to who else… GoldenPalace.com
  11. CTV paid for 400 tanks of gas to celebrate the opening of their show Corner Gas
  12. EA sports also likes to give away gas
  13. Expedia.com dances in Union Square
  14. The 2007 Boston Bomb Scare…oops
  15. The Beatles did their Rooftop Gig in 1969
  16. Snapple makes a really really really big popsicle
  17. When the Russian space station Mir was hurtling toward Earth, Taco Bell placed a giant target in the Pacific Ocean offering a free taco to every American if Mir hit the bull’s-eye.
  18. Fake football players get people to sign up for text messages for their favorite team
  19. Fake children jumping out in front of cars to slow down speeders
  20. Half.com pays Halfway, OR $500k to adopt their name
  21. Fake Gucci Ad sent in by some random guy accidentally got published
  22. Bad Turkey Drop
  23. Fake public urinators to help the NYC bathroom crisis
  24. Chaining kids to buildings to protest child labor
  25. Howard Stern gives away 500 Sirius radios
  26. Fake prostitutes solves everything
  27. A very big soccer ball for Nike
  28. Taco Bell buys the Liberty Bell
  29. The left handed Whopper
  30. WhopperFreakout.com
  31. TheGreatBritishDuckRace.co/uk
  32. Giant Eva Longoria can be seen on Google Earth
  33. Giant iPod can be seen from Space
  34. Print Marketing can be used nicely still “for every kind of load” VW
  35. Reality TV for Cats by MeowMix
  36. Radiohead let’s you name your price for their CD
  37. 16,000 quarters used as stickers
  38. Fake Volcanos make people angry
  39. Fat kids tricycle for childhood obesity
  40. Nude Lush invade Manhattan
  41. 111 topless men go shopping at A&F
  42. Guerrilla graffiti
  43. Kobe jumps over an Aston Martin
  44. Facelesspeople.com
  45. Papa John’s Guy sticker looks at you through the peep hole
  46. Jeep scales a NYC skyscraper
  47. Ruby Tuesdays blows up a restaraunt…NOT
  48. Richard Branson has a nice romp promoting their Virgin finance arm
  49. Molson promted teen drinking and made people MADD
  50. Pizza Hut names Joey Chestnut eating champ “VP of Pizza”
  51. Mini Cooper flys around as Zig. Zag. Zug. (ZaggedEdge.com is cool too)
  52. A Good ole’ fashion Gun fight
  53. Ladanian Tomlinson gets a street team for PRO Bowl Votes
  54. Chis Bosh asks for your vote on Youtube as a car salesman
  55. Why not get married on a Vespa?
  56. Really colorful balconies for Ikea
  57. 800,000 people jump into their pants for Levis
  58. BMW’s RampenFest fooled everyone
  59. DKNY paints 75 bikes orange
  60. Airtran puts 10,000 pink flamingos in Downtown Chicago

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