ambush marketing

[am-boosh mahr-ki-ting]

noun

1. a marketing strategy for associating a brand with a major event without paying sponsorship fees, often by exploiting the publicity generated by an official sponsor and rival brand.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ambush marketing¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

“So it’s a nice form of ambush marketing. This is definitely a much stronger integration of the student-athlete in the company, and by default it requires those student-athletes to upskill on their business knowledge.”

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Gary Player doesn’t know if his son has been banned from Augusta National for what amounted to ambush marketing during an otherwise historic moment with the ceremonial tee shot at the Masters.

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Many German fans - even those who resent Bayern Munich’s seven straight domestic titles - see Leipzig as an unwanted corporate interloper, more ambush marketing stunt than community club.

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Many German fans — even those who resent Bayern Munich’s seven straight domestic titles — see Leipzig as an unwanted corporate interloper, more ambush marketing stunt than community club.

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But many national Olympic committees, including the one in the United States, had stuck by a strict reading in the face of ambush marketing campaigns and protests by its own athletes.

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