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Running head: AMBUSH MARKETING 1 Ambush Marketing John E Bailey Columbia Southern University

AMBUSH MARKETING 2 Ambush Marketing How would one describe ambush marketing and include two examples? Ambush marketing is the practice of hijacking or co-opting the strategy of another advertiser to raise awareness about another business or brand, particularly in the form of event sponsorships. Ambush is an opportunistic marketing strategy. Its purpose is to take advantage of circumstances that allow brands/products to gain additional visibility at a minimal cost. Often this means going straight into the pit of lions and competing for head-on with a rival, which dominates the channels of transmission of the main message. Often it requires stealth and tactics of a more guerrilla nature. Some basic examples of ambush marketing are the selling of melodic products directly outside the setting of a melodic show with no consent from the advertisers of the occasion or relying upon a relationship with the show to advance deals. Coca-Cola is by convention one of the official backers of the soccer world cup anyway, then again, Pepsi produces million dollars' contracts with universal soccer's stars and uses the dates to do escalated media battles ( Nufer, 2013) . The advantages and disadvantages of ambush marketing. Ambush marketing offers benefits and drawbacks. The hazard and results of trap advertising can be serious and expensive. The benefit of ambush marketing is the opportunity to get free promoting and publicizing for one's item or whatever one is selling. The benefit of ambush marketing is that it may potentially allow brands to evolve and show new brand characteristics and values that might not already be associated with the advertiser by consumers. Although this could work, the dangers are incredible. The outcomes of ambush marketing are too

AMBUSH MARKETING 3 extraordinary to even consider risking the advantages. If one is trucks and purchased to hold up under the outcomes of trap promoting one would endure the humiliation as well as their organization or brand with dinner that shame also which would clear out any conceivable game one could have sought after utilizing this strategy. What Bavaria Beer was hoping to achieve through Ambush marketing tactics. Bavaria lager ambushed the 2010 world cup in South Africa by buying tickets for a region of the seats in the arena. The youngsters were wearing an amazing orange dress that was identified with the brand. The purpose of this was for the youngsters to sing so that to draw the thought of others to themselves amid a live redirection. Is Bavaria's Beer ambush marketing an unethical practice or a competitive strategy? In 2010, the South African World Cup where the Dutch brand Bavaria misused Denmark's game against the Netherlands to wear thirty-six ladies who roared the field to pitch the ale and mock Budweiser, the official supporters of the event appeared to be to a greater extent a serious technique than being exploitative. The 36 women wore the shades of the brew organization to leave a permanent brand picture in the psyches of the benefactors at the occasion. Furthermore, Bavaria had the women to do as such without the utilization of their image name, which made the activity less about ethics and increasingly about the rivalry. If the women had Bavaria Beer in large striking letters on their outfits, and Bavaria Beer had not paid for sponsorship, at that point, it would have been progressively about ethics (Downey, 2016). Bavaria Beer's promoting framework is only a forceful system. It is under various associations that can't manage the expense of sponsorship charges will take the activities

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