Sesame Street cereal and brands’ fun with the Utah monolith: Wednesday Wake-Up Call

Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. Brought to you by General Mills Cereal sales have risen sharply during the pandemic, despite the efforts of brands like Kraft Mac & Cheese to suggest themselves as alternative breakfast foods. Now General Mills is capitalizing on that with the creation of a Sesame Street cereal brand, reports Ad Age’s Jessica Wohl (who also asks, quite reasonably, “What took them so long?”) There are two varieties: “C is for Cinnamon” cereal includes letter-shaped pieces and has a box featuring Cookie Monster and Elmo, while the “1 2 3 Berry” number-shaped cereal showcases Elmo and Abby Cadabby on the box. (If you’re a '70s child you might be wondering where the Count is, but the newer characters, explains Wohl, are more likely to resonate with the target audience of young kids.) General Mills is promoting the debut of the line as being a low-cost option for families, and, in keeping with the Sesame Street brand’s educational values, the back of the box opens up like a book, with English and Spanish short stories that feature Elmo visiting a farm and going to school.A monolithic meme When a strange metal monolith was discovered in the Utah desert last week, it seemed 2020 couldn’t get any weirder. The sighting, which has become even more bizarre with its subsequent... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

[ Advertising Age | 2020-12-02 11:34:50 UTC ]
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Sesame Street cereal and brands’ fun with the Utah monolith: Wednesday Wake-Up Call

Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. Brought to you by General Mills Cereal sales have risen sharply during the... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2020-12-02 11:34:50 UTC ]
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[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-18 10:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-31 10:11:28 UTC ]
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[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-24 10:25:28 UTC ]
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[ Advertising Age | 2019-06-10 10:26:30 UTC ]
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[ Advertising Age | 2019-05-22 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Glamour's goodbye to print, DDB's big win and Facebook's ad issues: Wednesday Wake-Up Call

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[ Advertising Age | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Advertising Age | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Workman Kids' bestselling Indestructibles series has made its first foray into licensing, acquiring the rights to 'Sesame Street' from Sesame Workshop. Six books are set for publication this year and next. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Bob McGrath, an actor, musician and children's author widely known for his portrayal of one of the first regular characters on the children's show Sesame Street, has died at the age of 90. Continue reading at CBC

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[ Advertising Age | 2021-03-12 11:00:00 UTC ]
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