ABC Smoothie Tour Melds with Mindshare

The ABC Upfront Smoothie tour took to Seventh Ave. today, fighting west side traffic to bring our precious liquid Maui Wowi smoothie cargo to Mindshare. Neither double-parked trucks, crazy drivers from Jersey, no-standing signs nor oblivious pedestrians can keep us from our appointed rounds.

ABC Smoothie Tour Continues at McCann

The heat broke (just a bit) in Manhattan today, but the smoothies were flying off the bar anyway at the continuation of the ABC Upfront Smoothie Tour at Universal McCann. Maui Wowi provided smoothies and saw some old friends from UM who look forward to "ABC smoothie day" every June. And one lucky media buyer won an Apple iPad2!

ABC Smoothie Tour Visits OMD

Today's stop of the ABC Upfront Smoothie Tour was New York's OMD. Maui Wowi provided strawberry/raspberry, cappuccino banana, and pina colada banana smoothies to over 100 media buyers. Amazing views of the re-development of the World Trade Center site. Tomorrow: McCann!

ABC Smoothie Tour Rolls into Season 8

The ABC Smoothie Tour with Maui Wowi launched its 8th season, making Initiative our first stop. Every year we visit nine or so ad agencies in New York who buy media for the network "upfronts" -- the fall programming season. Without Maui Wowi smoothies, we wonder if there would be upfronts at all. Or even TV in the Fall! Next stop: Zenith Media tomorrow.

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour Stops at Mindshare

SOAPnet wound up its annual smoothie tour with Maui Wowi smoothies served at New York agency Mindshare. Melissa Archer, who plays Natalie Buchanan on One Life to Live, greeted the media team who took a cool break with pina coladas, frozen cappuccinos and strawberry/raspberry smoothies.

Doctor's in the House for SOAPnet Smoothie Tour

The SOAPnet Smoothie Tour made its hottest stop of the month today at ad agency MEC. The temp on the street hit 99. The humidity must have been, like, 160%. But inside it was all cool and refreshing. One Life To Live star Terrell Tilford (who plays Dr. Greg Evans) greeted the 100+ MEC media buyers with leis while Maui Wowi banged out the smoothies - strawberry, pina colada, frozen cappuccino with banana....yeah, it was really good. Eat (drink) your heart out! PS Check out Terrell's Facebook fan page.

One Live To Live's Kassie DePaiva Joins SOAPnet Smoothie Promo

SOAPnet promotes its Upfront buying season by bringing Maui Wowi smoothies in to NYC ad agencies like Universal McCann. Kassie DePaiva (Blair Cramer) from One Live to Live joined the event to greet UM's media team.

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour with Maui Wowi Stops at OMD

One Life To Live's Jean-Paul Lavoisier did the all-important lei-handing-out (there's a word for this, but we don't know what it is) at the ABC SOAPnet Smoothie Tour stop at OMD. Maui Wowi served up pina colada, frozen cappuccino and black raspberry/strawberry smoothies. Tomorrow's agency stop....Initiative.

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour with Maui Wowi Stops at ZenithOptimedia

The SOAPnet Smoothie Tour is into its 7th year in NYC. Maui Wowi stopped by Zenith Optimedia and had the help of One Life to Live's Bree Williamson.

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour Starts 7th Season with Maui Wowi

Every June, ABC Television markets its Fall lineup to the advertising community in the "upfronts," and for seven years in a row Maui Wowi has been partnering with ABC and its cable station SOAPnet to visit NYC's ad agencies with some summer fun. We kicked off the tour today at Mediavest. Joining us was One Life to Live's Melissa Archer (Natalie Buchanan to those devotees).

ABC Television Hosts Town Hall in Bronx

ABC Television held a town hall meeting this evening at the Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx. Several hundred residents attended and had the opportunity to give ABC's executives and newscasters their views on television coverage of news in the community. Democracy in action! Facilitated by coffees, smoothies and hot cocoas from Maui Wowi.

Coffee Service at ABC Eyewitness News Event

ABC Eyewitness News in New York held a community meeting on veterans affairs at the American Airpower Museum in Farmindgale, NY. Maui Wowi was on hand to provide coffee and smoothie service to the several hundred people who attended. If you live on or near Long Island, the museum is a must-see for its World War II aircraft (all of which are operational and flown regularly) and memorabilia.

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour '09 Final Stop at MediaVest

Well, it had to happen sometime...the SOAPnet Smoothie Tour's final stop of the season. The folks at MediaVest didn't seem to realize the significance of the event...in fact neither did the folks from SOAPnet, or Aiden Turner from All My Children. Maybe it was just us Maui Wowi folks with a wistful tear in our eyes...or was that some dust from 53rd Street? A good time was drunk by all!

Taking Initiative with Smoothies

It was Bobbie Eakes's turn to bestow the leis as we made our latest stop on the SOAPnet Smoothie Tour '09 at ad agency Initiative. Bobbie, an Emmy nominee who plays Krystal Martin on All My Children, was as friendly and charming in "real life" (as real as making smoothies in an elevator lobby of an office building is!) as she is on AMC. Next stop, OMD....but who knows what daytime SOAPnet star we'll be working with? Stay tuned.....

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour Stops at Carat

Our buddy Crishell Stause came over from the set of All My Children, where she plays the role of the thoughtful but fierce Amanda Dillon, to spread some SOAPnet good cheer at NYC ad agency Carat today. The SOAPnet Smoothie Tour '09 continues tomorrow at MediaEdge, where the celeb smoothie hostess will be.....oh, it's a secret til tomorrow.

SOAPnet Smoothies at Universal McCann

Those of you who peeked at the clue from last Friday's post about which daytime TV celebrity would be joining us for the SOAPnet Smoothie Tour this morning already know the answer. I'm sure thousands of you couldn't wait. Well, you don't get a surprise, then. It was Aiden Turner (aka Aidan Devane) from All My Children, who greeted the media folks from Universal McCann on the third stop of the Tour. Okay, here's a bit if trivia. Name the girl who plays the receptionist opposite Aiden in this scene from AMC. You may not recognize her name now, but wait a while...you will. A free Maui Wowi smoothie for the first correct answer...

Smoothie Tour Makes Whistle Stop at ZenithOptimedia

SOAPnet Smoothie Tour Day 2: We headed downtown (where the traffic is less crazy than 37th and 7th) to ZenithOptimedia. We were joined by One Live to Live star Melissa Archer, who plays Natalie Buchanan ("as fiery as her red hair") on the show. The media buyers from Zenith enjoyed our special tour flavors: Black Raspberry/Strawberry, Pina Colada with Banana, and frozen Cappuccino with Banana. Go on, be jealous! Next stop: Carat on Tuesday. Get thirsty, Carat! (And there will be a surprise celeb from All My Children. Sssshhh, don't tell!

The SOAPnet Smoothie Tour Continues!

How many years? We've lost count. But the SOAPnet Smoothie Tour rolls on. We kicked the '09 tour off with a visit to ad agency Mindshare. to promote SOAPnet for this year's upfront season. "JP", aka Jean-Paul Lavoisier who plays private investigator/nightclub owner Rex Balsom on One Life to Live, was flawless in his lei -ing of the media planners who came around for a Maui Wowi smoothie. We actually got to watch One Life live on the conference roomTV during the event so we saw JP in stereo! Next stop: Zenith Media tomorrow.