A gimmick is a unique or quirky special feature that makes something "stand out" from its contemporaries. Product gimmicks are sometimes considered mere novelties, and not really that relevant to the product's functioning, even earning negative connotations. However, some seemingly trivial gimmicks of the past have evolved into useful, permanent features. In geographic information systems, a feature comprises an item of feature data. ... Novelty is the quality of being new. ...

Finding a successful gimmick for an otherwise mundane product is often an important part of the marketing process. For example, toothbrushes are often given various gimmicks, such as bright colors, easy-grip handles, or color-changing bristles so they appear more exciting to consumers. This is often done when trying to appeal to children, who often get more excited about the gimmick than the product. It has been suggested that Product marketing be merged into this article or section. ... Three toothbrushes The toothbrush is a brush used to clean teeth. ... In economics, consumers are individuals or households that consume goods and services generated within the economy. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ...

Examples of Gimmicks

Television

In television, gimmicks are often employed to make a TV series memorable, or help create a distinct theme. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Theme may refer to: Theme (music), the initial or primary melody Theme music, in film and television, a melody closely associated with the program Theme (literature), is the unifying subject of the story Theme (computer), a custom graphical appearance for certain software, similar to a skin Thema, in the Byzantine...

Some particularly gimmicky shows include:

• The Simpsons, which features a unique "couch gag" in the show's introduction sequence, in which the cast runs onto a couch in some wacky manner
• South Park, in which the character of Kenny is killed off in nearly every episode
• Frasier, which features "title cards" that introduce each scene
• Home Improvement, which uses comical, computer-generated "wipes" to change scenes, and features a character named Wilson whose face is always obscured (see also unseen character)

See: list of gimmicks in television shows The Simpsons is the longest-running American animated television series and overall sit-com, with 17 seasons and 366 episodes since it debuted on December 17, 1989 on FOX. The TV series, created by Matt Groening, is a spinoff of a series of animated shorts originally aired on The Tracey... South Park is an animated series created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. ... Kenny McCormick Kenneth Kenny McCormick, voiced by Matt Stone and Mike Judge, is a fictional character in the animated series South Park. ... Frasier is an American TV situation comedy. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters who are never seen or heard by the audience, but only described by other characters. ... Today many television shows make use of stylistic gimmicks to differentiate themselves from other programs of the same genre. ...

Art

• Al Hirschfeld hid his daughter's name, NINA in every one of his caricatures.

Al Hirschfeld photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955 Alfred Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist, best known for his simple black and white satirical portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. ... Caricature of Alan Greenspan by Jan Op De Beeck. ...

Professional wrestling

In professional wrestling, the term gimmick is typically used to describe a wrestler's in-ring persona. Bruno Sammartino wrestles with Stan The Man Stasiak. ... In professional wrestling, a gimmick is slang that refers to a wrestlers on-screen personality. ...

For more, see gimmick (professional wrestling). In professional wrestling, a gimmick is slang that refers to a wrestlers on-screen personality. ...

Sales

A pricing gimmick is often employed to increase sales of certain items, or to reduce inventory on items that aren't moving well or are overstocked. Examples of these are BOGO or BOGOF (also B1G1 or B1G1F, an acronym for buy one get one free), and DotD (an acronym for Deal of the Day), typically used in sales promotions at various retail stores. In economics and business, the price is the assigned numerical monetary value of a good, service or asset. ... In business management, inventory consists of a list of goods and materials held available in stock. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... Gratis versus Libre is the distinction between no cost and freedom, a distiction not made by the word free. ... Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ... In marketing, sales promotion is one of the four aspects of promotion. ... In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end user customers, usually in a shop, also called store. ...

In Stage Magic

A "gimmick" is the device that enables an illusion to work. A gimmick is not seen by the audience, as opposed to a "fake", which the audience does see but does not realise that it is a "fake", mistaking it to be a normal object.

In electronics

Two wires touching, not connected, possibly twisted together several times, provide a capacitor of very few picofarads as capacitive coupling. This, quite unofficially, is called a gimmick too. The picofarad (pronounced or ) is the smallest measurable unit of electrical capacitance. ... In electronics, capacitive coupling is the transfer of energy from one circuit to another by means of the mutual capacitance between the circuits. ...