MAD PUBLICITY STUNTS

PRESIDENTIAL SHADES (2006)

ProShade, a company that makes sunglasses offered the

National Park Service a total of $4 in exchange for being able to

paste their logo on each of the president’s heads at Mt Rushmore.

There was no deal but ProShade got a lot of publicity.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE BOMB SCARE (2006)

To promote the 3rd movie, red wired boxes that played the

Mission Impossible theme song were hidden all over Los Angeles.

People got scared though and police even ended up exploding

some of them!

AREA KFC (2007)

KFC drew their new logo in the desert near Area 51 so that it would be

visible in Google Earth. They got a lot of curious viewers.

NO WHOPPERS (2007)

When Burger King took their Whopper of the menu for a day

people freaked out. Of course the restaurant got everything on

tape and restored order the following day.

MASSIVE DICE (2007)

The gambling website gnuf.com held the world’s largest dice roll

by dropping two huge dice weighing half a ton from the air onto a

mountainside in Greenland. People could watch the roll and

bet on the outcome.

THE NATIVITY STORY (2008)

Travelodge gave any married couple who could legally prove their

names were Mary and Joseph one free night in their hotel

between Christmas Eve and January 5th.

FLYING PENGUINS (2008)

The BBC released footage of flying penguins that were allegedly

going to be a part of their new series. They soon admitted,

however, that the images were only a hoax.

SPACE DIVE (2012)

Red Bull had Austrian Felix Baumgartner dive from a helium balloon

nearly 25 miles above the Earth. He became the second person

in history to break the sound barrier without any engine power and

Red Bull became the first sports drink with a space program.