Food & Drink

Have you ever looked at your deodorant and thought, “Man, I wish I could just eat this instead of regular food?” If you have, and you’re big on jam bands, then buckle up. The Grateful Dead released a branded deodorant that is edible and vegan, so no dietary restrictions can keep you from the fun of eating your deodorant...

For this year’s “Brandcast Delivered” virtual event, the YouTube team leaned into the “delivered” theme by delivering promo boxes for viewers to enjoy the broadcast from home. The personalized packages consisted of three separate sub-boxes labeled "Take," "Make" and "Bake," with ingredients for DIY pizzas and various promotional gifts...

While the best course of action is still to stay home, some outdoor activities are OK as long as you plan accordingly and follow safety measures. Thanks to a clever bit of engineering from Dos Equis, you can put the “social” in “social distancing” with a 6-foot long branded cooler...

If you buy Busch Light's 520 piece puzzle, which culminates in a picture of the “Busch Guy” in a lovely outdoor locale, you could win a $5,000 vacation “to the Great Outdoors.” Even if you don’t win, $5 from every puzzle purchase goes to the National Forests foundation. But there's a (fun) catch!...

Happy almost-Father’s Day to all the dads out there! If your dads are anything like ours, they might be kind of hard to shop for. Strangely enough, we’ve given our dads promotional products as gifts. For example, one time Brendan gave his dad a mobile charging bank he got at PPAI, and he liked it…

An internal memo from Starbucks said that employees were not permitted to wear pins that read "Black Lives Matter," stating that it could be "divisive" or harmful to the brand's image. This morning, the company reversed its stance and not only allowed the pins, but made its own "Black Lives Matter" uniform shirts...

BIC Graphic North America, Clearwater, Fla., announced a new and exclusive partnership with Outdoor Recreation Company of America (ORCA). Founded in 2012, ORCA was created by outdoor enthusiasts for outdoor enthusiasts with the goal of creating an American-made, root-molded cooler that could beat out all the rest. This new partnership adds hard-sided coolers to BIC…

Orders of Starbucks merch on some reseller sites have increased by more than 100 since most states and cities went on lockdown in March. But with no online store of its own and a lot of customers still without the option of going into physical locations, Starbucks is missing out on a huge amount of potential revenue from merchandise sales...

Folks, sports are back (sort of!) and we want to talk about it. We also want to talk about some of our favorite promotional products we found from around the internet over the last week. Some of them are sports-related. Others are not. One of them is a branded hairdryer from 2008...

To show its appreciation for people who want to support local breweries but aren't yet ready to emerge from their homes, the Ohio Craft Brewers Association (OCBA) invited local beer drinkers to post their selections on Instagram with the hashtag #OhioBrewHaul for the potential to win T-shirts, hoodies, growlers and more...