The following document is a USB flash drive shaped like an item of food, in this case, a snack (Cookie), which falls into the category of creative promotional gift USB drives.

The flash drives themselves are made from PVC material, and as such, support a wide range of custom storage capacity options (i.e. 4GB, 8GB, etc.) and logo customization. Companies will often create promotional gift USB drives to use as a tool for advertising their brand or product.

Industries Suitable for Promotional Gifts

• Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Food Industry: Snack brands (e.g., Snickers, cereal brands) can be offered as “product peripherals” bundled with main products to reinforce brand-product association;
• Food Service Industry: Chain fast-food outlets, bakeries, etc., as “purchase-with-minimum-spend gifts”;
• Corporate Benefits / Business Appreciation: Companies across industries (especially service and retail sectors) can use them as employee perks or client thank-you gifts;
• Retail Channels: Supermarkets, convenience stores, etc., can utilize them as in-store promotional giveaways.

Mars Foods (the parent company of Snickers) launched a Snickers-shaped USB drive as a “buy 3 Snickers products and get one free” gift during its “Snickers Energy Boost Season” promotion in the Southeast Asian market:

The USB memory stick provides several types of promotional materials for the Snickers brand, including several short video clips that comprise the Snickers “Office Hunger Challenge,” discount coupons only available through the promotion, and a brand development story booklet.

Sales in Just One Store increased by 28% during the promotion period as a direct result of sending out the USB sticks (the messaging and the “creative design” of the USB sticks created a large amount of conversations, and subsequently sharing via social media).

The strategy used in this promotional campaign was to give away the USB sticks and link the stick to the Snickers brand product by providing links to other relevant types of media (e.g., Snickers’ brand messaging).

i.e., Custom engraving on the USB sticks was done with the specific name of the company and logo. This created an even higher level of exclusivity for our customers who received them.