Brought to you by Lycra and Fruit of the Loom, readers who snap a photo of the Lycra SnapTag in this month’s issue will be automatically entered into a drawing to win one of 25 prize packages from the Fruit of the Loom Fresh Collection.

If you happen to miss out on one of the prize packages, don’t worry – you can still get more incentive from the advertisers! Send in your name and e-mail address and you’ll get back an additional special offer with purchase.

With over 1 million readers, Teen Vogue, like many other magazine and publications nationwide are looking for additional ways to reach consumers and have implemented interactive campaigns, like this one. With SpyderLynk’s SnapTags, advertisers are able to interact with readers on a mobile level and deliver back wanted content straight to their cell phones. From prizes, to free samples, to coupons and discount codes, SnapTags are the newest in mobile barcodes, offering a branded, more accessible alternative to 2D Barcodes. Check out the SnapTag demo here to see for yourself how these “snappable” interactive tools work.

To activate the SnapTag sweepstakes, readers simply have to take a photo of the tag with their camera phone and send it in to the designated phone number or e-mail address.

Readers who enter the sweepstakes are automatically entered for a chance to win a trip to see Cobra Starship live in concert. The SnapTag is the interactive brand-marketing tool offering readers the opportunity to immediately enter the sweepstakes and engage with their favorite brands and music artists.

Grab your copy of Star Magazine today to check out this new innovative advertisement and to enter to see Cobra Starship live!

Dell used SnapTags to drive interest and awareness in the mini Netbook by featuring a picture of the new product as the centerpiece of the promotional SnapTag. Consumers were invited to snap and send in the Dell SnapTag for the opportunity to win ACL Backstage passes, concert tickets to future show or a Dell Mini 10 Netbook.

The impact of Event Marketing has historically been tough to evaluate. Demonstrating a product among an event filled with a product’s target market feels like a good strategy, but only if a marketer really creates awareness and engages the consumer in a meaningful way.

SnapTags offer brand marketers a means for making event marketing more effective and measurable:

1.    SnapTags provide consumers a simple means for participating in a brand promotion at event.
2.    SnapTags give brand marketers a way to convert interest to an ongoing conversation when they offer access to an email or text club.
3.    SnapTag promotions can be used to drive booth or display traffic.

MediaNews Group is the first newspaper company to offer this interactive ability for readers and advertisers on a wide-scale. SnapTags allow readers to access extra digital content from the newspapers and advertisers themselves, including special offers, additional stories, coupons, prizes, free samples, etc. without ever having to leave their couch or kitchen table or put their newspaper down. SnapTags allow this content to be delivered instantly back to the reader’s cell phone – all readers have to do is snap a photograph of any of the SnapTags placed throughout Live Better special sections, send it to a designated phone number or e-mail address and get back unique extras.

And since nearly 90 percent of advertising budgets still go toward traditional print advertising, using SnapTags allows MediaNews Group and its advertisers an option to innovate to make the most of their print ads – setting them apart from the competition and allowing them to give readers more of what they want, when they want it.

Look for SnapTags in future special sections and editions of local MediaNews Group papers.

The campaign is also promoting a contest to win a fabulous pink prize through SpyderLynk SnapTags. Readers snap a photo of the SnapTag with their mobile phone and send it to a designated phone number or e-mail address to be entered to win.

The pink prize pack valued at $500 features a copy of the “Pink Plaid” edition of the Better Homes and Gardens News Cook Book, a KitchenAid Artisan Series Cook for the Cure® Stand Mixer and products from Coldwater Creek and Ford Warriors in Pink apparel.

Grab your copy of Better Homes and Gardens today to shop the collection of pink products helping to support breast cancer awareness today and enter to win this fabulous pink prize with just the snap of a photo on your camera phone!