Burt's Bees give away 1000 lip balm a day to mark 25 years

Burt's Bees is giving away 1000 lip balms everyday until June 20th to mark 25 years of buisness in the natural care products business. "However it seems that the start of this campaign is a little bit slower than...

Free Oscar Meyer wieners Wednesday

Today is Free Oscar Meyer wieners Wednesday, where the company is offering everyone the chance to get a free pack of their hot dogs before 11pm tonight (one per household though). In a time of recession it appears...

Get In On Google's Holiday Giveaway

"Get In On Google's Holiday Giveaway""The holidays are almost here, and Google's got some freebies for you -- if you sign up soon. The Gmail team is giving away sets of Gmail-themed stickers right now. Some are...

The Guns N Roses Aren't Satisfied With Dr. Pepper

"The soft-drink maker said in March it would give a free pop to everyone in the country if the band's "Chinese Democracy" album were released this year. Notorious for being delayed since recording began in 1994,...

Nov 4th Voting Day Freebies: Coffee, Ice Cream, Doughnuts Free if you Vote

Who doesn't like free stuff for voting?  Like major spectator sports, Election Day Freebies are popular marketing tactics for companies. At the baseball World Series it was Taco Bell and it's "Steal A Base,...

Update: Free Fuel Hysteria at London Petrol Station: 'eerie foretaste ' of UK...

Update: Call it fate, but the Monday after the free fuel give-away stunt, London's stock markets go down on a technical glitch. EA's Free Gas Stunt Angers Politician, Police, Local ResidentsSeptember 5,...

Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's

I scream, you scream, we all scream…for FREE ice cream!  It’s Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s.  They’ve been doing this for the past 30 years as a way to say thank you to the community for...

Trent Reznor makes $750k by giving music away

Is this a viable new model for selling music? Post a few freebies, circulate some cheap digital tunes, and then offer an ultra-mega-super-uber-deluxe package for a few hundred a piece. Where it failed for Niggy...

Pongy pits pose frock shock

"SO you've drunk too much, partied too hard and spent way too much money. A headache tablet will get rid of a lot of the pain from last night, but how do you undo your overspend? Alarmingly, many women these days try to take back their purchases after they've worn them out on...

Big Giveaway, Real Prize: RuffBook Water Resistant Laptop!

"Here's an offer to win a free LapTop without filling out endless surveys. All you have to do is blog about it. Like this example provided: Big Giveaway, Real Prize: RuffBook Water Resistant Laptop! ~ The...

D.C. Condom Giveaway: Defective from China

 The D.C community has been put at risk by a defective condom giveaway."Tens of thousands of condoms provided free by the District to curb HIV-AIDS have been returned to the health department because of...

Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD

Another "first" from the folks over at the Daily Mail, the newspaper group that invented the banner headline, pioneered the "exclusive", and many of the "features" in todays newspapers... free music with your sunday paper, the latest cd from the artis fka prince:  ...

The Line, Sufjan Stevens and the Kennedy Center

"When I hit 30 I promised myself that I would never again sleep out for tickets. Being a HUGE music fan this has been hard when big shows have been announced because it has required me to look near and far for...

Free IPod Anyone?

When I went to school you were lucky to be given a pencil, but nowadays they are handing out IPods as a sweetener.  Pupils studying French and Spanish at a secondary school in Northumberland, England, is...

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