Marketing News
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Penguin campaign wins “Best of Show,” 2 Gold Addys and a Silver Addy.
The Chattanooga Advertising Club’s highest honors went to our fine-feathered playful penguin friends at the Tennessee Aquarium for their performances in two television commercials... Read more...
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Destination marketing campaign wins Silver Addy Advertising Award for Direct Marketing.
It’s not a zoo or aquarium, but the Greater Cincinnati Film Commission recognized our destination marketing expertise and... Read more...
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Texas State Aquarium begins working with Animal Instinct.
Texas State Aquarium picked Animal Instinct Advertising to develop its 2008 advertising campaign. Read more...
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Animal Instinct scores again at AZA 2007 Annual Conference with commercial for Tennessee Aquarium.
An Animal Instinct Advertising commercial was featured on the AZA Pizzazz reel for the third straight year during the 2007 Annual Conference. The Pizzazz reel is a compilation of about 12 zoo and aquarium commercials from around the country. Read more...
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Animal Instinct wins 3 more First Place advertising Awards from The Kentucky Tourism Council for 2007 Newport Aquarium campaign.
After conceiving The Newport Aquarium’s new Virtual Shark Cage Exhibit... Read more...
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Shark Ray birthday bash features teenage movie star Josh Hutcherson.
To celebrate the birthday of Sweet Pea, the Newport Aquarium’s rare and highly popular shark ray, we tracked down teenage star Josh Hutcherson and asked him to visit the Aquarium and lead everyone in singing happy birthday to her. Josh starred in Polar Express, Bridge to Tarabithia, RV and Firehouse Dog. Read more...
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Jeff Beck on lead guitar for Tennessee Aquarium’s Penguins’ Rock commercial.
When the Tennessee Aquarium created its Penguins’ Rock exhibit, they saw an opportunity to communicate the “rock” theme with rock and roll. Read more...
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Spaghetti Western commercial features Penguin Hombre.
After introducing the Penguins’ Rock exhibit for the Tennessee Aquarium, our objective was to continue to promote the new penguin exhibit - but reinforce that there were other exhibits to see at the Tennessee Aquarium. So we came up with the idea of a penguin being the “new guy” in town as depicted in Spaghetti Westerns. Read more...
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Animal Instinct Advertising develops and creates first “exhibit” – a virtual shark cage experience.
We launched our first “exhibit” in 2007 by conceiving and creating a virtual shark cage experience. Visitors entered a room where the walls were made up of shark cage bars. A ten-foot wide video screen faced them on the other side of the bars. The sidewalls were photomurals representing the underwater view from the each side of the shark cage. Read more...
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First documentary short film developed by Animal Instinct Advertising depicts historic conservation program.
Newport Aquarium made history with its first, extremely rare Shark Ray. She’s a crowd favorite named “Sweet Pea” and was one of the first Shark Rays on display in this hemisphere. Newport Aquarium brought in a second Shark Ray – a male – to mate with Sweet Pea and create the world’s first Shark Ray Breeding Program. Read more...
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Animal Instinct Advertising scores again.
Sammy the Shark is featured on AZAs Pizzazz compilation
reel of 2006 great advertising television commercials.
Animal Instinct Advertising was the only ad agency in the country attending the 2006 AZA Annual Conference in Tampa this year. Read more...
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Animal Instinct spots win Traverse awards.
Newport Aquarium has received eight awards
including Best of Show in the Kentucky Tourism Council 2006 Traverse Awards for
Excellence In Tourism Marketing competition. Read more (PDF) ...
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Animal Instinct Advertising to develop Tennessee Aquarium 2007 Campaign.
Animal Instinct Advertising will be working with the Tennessee Aquarium in 2007. Read more...