The Phrase That Pays: Marketing Contests
Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly
Apostrophe Podcast Network
4.8 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Marketing contests can be tricky business.
On one hand, contests can be designed to help companies achieve certain business goals.
On the other hand, companies can lose control over them pretty quickly.
This week, we look at some of the most interesting – and hilarious – marketing contests.
Including one about a city that held a contest to name a new building – and the public voted overwhelmingly to name it after a past mayor named Harry Baals.
True story.
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| 0:46.6 | You're so king in it. |
| 0:51.8 | Your teeth look lighter than You're going to love it in an instant. |
| 0:59.0 | Your teeth look greater than no nose! |
| 1:07.0 | You're not you when you're hungry. |
| 1:12.4 | You're a good hand with all feet. |
| 1:40.9 | You're under the influence with country artists of all time. |
| 1:44.7 | Dolly also holds three Guinness World Records. |
| 1:49.5 | She has the record for the most decades on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart by a female performer, seven decades in counting, amazing. |
| 1:54.7 | She has the most number one hits on the Hot Country charts with 25, |
| 1:59.8 | and she has the most total hits on the country charts by a |
| 2:03.1 | female artist with an astounding 109. Dolly is one of a kind, and also has one of the most |
| 2:11.6 | instantly recognizable looks in the entertainment industry, big blonde wigs, high heels, bright costumes, and a big sense of humor about it all. |
| 2:23.0 | When asked about her small feet once, she said they were tiny because nothing grows in the shade. |
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