1.   A major giveaway promotion featured ads with two guys in a delivery truck handing out free Snapple.

2.   Hockey and basketball clubs have increased their number of giveaway promotions in recent years, but baseball still leads the way.

3.   Telefonica expects cellular revenue growth to accelerate as the company overcomes the cost of a Christmas cellular phone giveaway promotion.

4.   A minor league baseball team rejected an Osama bin Laden bobblehead giveaway promotion after an Internet poll indicated most people found it distasteful.