Badges, Buttons & Lanyards

With the Democratic National Convention going virtual, organizers had an opportunity to expand the merchandise offering a bit. There are still plenty of Milwaukee-centric items, touching on local culture like dairy farming and using the outline of Wisconsin, but there are things that play into the nationwide viewership...

While many sales other than PPE have grinded to a near stop, we’re still processing quite a few orders daily and wanted to share with everyone what it is that we still see selling. As a manufacturer of badges and nameplates and small signage, we process orders for a multitude of different markets across the…

Claire Jerry, Ph.D., is a political history curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. She joined the show to talk about some of the best (and weirdest) items in the collection and discuss 2020 campaign merch trends she's seen. Sean and Brendan talk "Sexy Joe Biden" merch and other 2020 items...

To anyone who thinks promo items are nothing but "trinkets and trash," may we refer you to the curators at the Smithsonian? They're tracking down promotional items from the 2020 Presidential Election to document them as part of a long-running collection of American election merchandise...

Owing to the enduring popularity of the Harry Potter books and movies, related promotional products and merchandise related have proven mainstays for some time. That regard led Adam Hill, an employee of the Harry Potter studio tour, to lift more than $48,000 in branded merch from the tour shop between Dec. 2017 and March 2018, reselling the items on eBay...

Gather round, dear readers. It's time for another edition of Promo Marketing's "Great Moments in Promo History," which is totally going to be a thing now. The topic of this second edition of our historical exploration is buttons. Not just any buttons, mind you. It's the story of how Elvis' manager and incredible-name-haver Colonel Tom…

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We've seen fast food brands going all-in on promotional products the last few years, but few have gone quite as big as McDonald's did for McDelivery Day. The event, held yesterday, saw the burger giant dispatch tons of branded merchandise via UberEats delivery—a high-profile, promo-centric campaign that, at least going by social media reactions, was…

These allegations and investigations point to a problematic culture at Vice, in which female employees feel silenced and mistreated. Though the company is claiming to be taking steps toward changing its culture and image, its use of branded products at Women’s March events is being seen by many as tone-deaf and highly ironic...

After the Chicago Cubs' come-from-behind victory over the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, we looked at the (unfortunate) fate of the merchandise that falsely crowned the Indians champions. Following this year's election (which…