The Odd Couple: Unlikely Marketing Collaborations

The Odd Couple: Unlikely Marketing Collaborations

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From the Digital Box Set: In this episode, we look at what happens when seemingly unrelated companies decide to partner up. By pooling their resources and, more importantly, by leveraging each other’s strengths, unlikely brands collaborate to achieve much more than they could have achieved alone. We’ll look at a hotel that partnered with an animal rescue organization by bringing dogs into the hotel, a budget-priced car that redefined the term “luxury vehicle” by teaming up with Prada and how NASA got the public to support the space industry using…a toy. Sometimes, odd couples click. And what they create together is highly unusual and unique. This is an archived episode that aired originally on March 9, 2017.