Advertising

Advertising An important element in advertising, of which Marlboro has taken full advantage. Marlboro has gained allies in the art and entertainment world by sponsoring sales promotions on its packs that donate money to local museums and by budgeting money toward cultural recipients from the American Crafts Museum to the Dance Theater of Harlem. (Business Week 8/8/88) New York's Lincoln Center for performing Arts, in 1987 allowed a huge banner advertising the Marlboro Country Music Festival featuring Dolly Parton, Alabama, and the Judds, to hang on the front of the public building flashing the red and white triangular logo of Marlboro cigarettes. The Country Music Festival banner follows the Marlboro Western image, but like the Marlboro Country ads the placement of the banner, hanging in New York, shows the appeal is not limited to a country Western audience. Before the ban of cigarette commercials in 1972, Philip Morris sponsored television events including the weekly coast to coast pro-football and championship playoffs, Perry Mason, Rawhide, a western series, and Troubleshooters, an adventure-thriller.(Esquire 1960). Mike Wallace's Night Beat, sponsored by Marlboro after it's first night on the air, embodied the qualities the company was looking to associate itself with, "Shock impact, originality, a talented reporter obviously in the ascendant...and an intimation of public service through fearless reporting"(Esquire 1960). After marlboro, promotion, philip, morris, man, team, sports, share, price, market, gear, red, one, image, country, company, cigarettes, adventure, about, years, western, sponsored, sales, recession, promotions, new, million, first, during, cowboy, consumers, cigarette, brands, banner, ban, age, advertising, young, york, women, white, while, visibility, twice, time, through, plan