Did you know April is Limb Loss Awareness Month? Grassroots Advertising is happy to help Ottobock Canada spread the word! Chalkmaster Dave and Chalk Chick begin their masterpiece. On April 4th, our friend Chalkmaster Dave spent hours on his masterpiece, chatting up passersby and helping to spread awareness. Each prosthetic limb took an hour to draw, but the end result was well worth it! The finished product. To learn more about Ottobock’s products and Limb Loss Awareness Month, visit: www.ottobock.ca Yonge and Dundas Square.

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Project Winter Survival
29 Jan 2014
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Project Winter Survival

Grassroots and Ogilvy help raise awareness for Project Winter Survival (www.projectwintersurvival.org) by posting branded blankets on the cold streets of Toronto. For the past 14 years, Project Winter Survival and our team of volunteers & donors have assembled and distributed over 18,000 winter Survival Kits. These kits provide warmth and essential supplies needed for the homeless and less fortunate to survive on the streets. These kits often make the difference…

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16 Dec 2013
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Grassroots Helps Doug & Serge Conduct Campaign for Daily Bread Food Bank

Doug & Serge of Toronto has begun a pro bono holiday season campaign in support of theDaily Bread Food Bank, also based in Toronto. The campaign, called “#Share2Feed,” makes use of street posters, washroom posters and other materials around the city. The creative encourages consumers to take photographs of the posters or of a meal and post them online via social media sites Instagram or Twitter. For each photograph posted…

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6 Feb 2013
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Mirvish turns to QR codes to promote latest production

Originally Posted by Marketing Mag Mirvish Productions has determined there’s no place like phones to promote its latest production. The Toronto theatre company has partnered with street-level advertising firm Grassroots Advertising on a local campaign for The Wizard of Oz that uses out-of-home posters equipped with near field communication (NFC) and QR code capabilities. The 24-inch by 36-inch “Smartposters” are a new addition to Grassroots’ one-year-old Street Frames line, which…

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6 Feb 2013
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Mirvish conjures up smartposter campaign for Wizard of Oz

Originally posted by Media in Canada With Dorothy, Toto and the gang back on stage at Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre for the latest production of The Wizard of Oz, Mirvish Productions is supporting the musical with a broad campaign that includes Grassroots Advertising’s network of NFC and QR code-enabled smartposters. When tapped or scanned with a smartphone, the posters bring consumers to a mobile website, which features a YouTube clip, showtime information and the ability to buy tickets. Targeting women aged 35 to 55 as well as families with kids ages eight and older, the smartposters, which are located at convenience stores across the GTA, are part of a larger campaign that includes TV spots on CTV, CBC and City, radio ads on CHFI and Boom 97.3, and traditional billboards. The media buy was handled in-house by the Mirvish Productions team, which also designed the creative in tandem with Toronto-based Cosmic Design. John Karastamatis, director of communications, Mirvish Productions, tells…

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