Thanks brendan. Are you in the entertainment business?
Not quite, I work for a major cable company and get to interact with reps and marketing departments for the bigger channels including the premimum channels like Showtime and HBO. A lot of cool perks come with this job.
I get to see what is in development for these channels which is really cool so that we can put together different marketing campaigns or sales campaigns together for our side of the business.
Sounds like a cool job. Do you get to keep promo posters or any other promo material and if so what is the coolest item you have.
I get cool promo stuff all the time. Especially from HBO, Showtime and Starz. I don't have room in my house for it though so I generally give them away. I sometimes get full size movie theatre style posters for their shows, also a whole range of things from calendars to coffee cups, tshirts, jackets, hats, etc.
For Boardwalk Empire I got a really sweet custom set of poker chips in a case along with some nice custom Copag plastic playing cards. I held onto those but don't know where my wife hide them.
Anymore when we do special promos with these channels I usually get cash kickbacks instead of promo items, once they started giving me a choice of cash vs. whatever it was an easy decision.
any Game of Thrones stuff you wanna give away
With season 2 coming up I will keep you in mind. I am sure I can score some cool stuff from my HBO rep.
A couple weeks ago I got some little pewter figures for Game of Thrones along with a pewter paperweight of the big throne itself. I already gave those all away or they would be yours.