Author archive for Rachel Boucher
Honda’s ‘Virtual Adventures’ Could Inspire Your Hybrid Event Strategies
Event marketers are leaning on social media more and more as they navigate a new and, hopefully, temporary world of digital experiences. Honda’s summer campaign, Honda Virtual Adventures, is an example of a digital program that encourages interactivity and decision-making on the part of the user to give it dimension. The effort is supporting the...
Leading Event Marketers Predict How the Industry—and Event Formats—Will Evolve
If there is anyone equipped to reimagine how people will gather in the wake of a pandemic, it’s an event marketer. Across the industry, the wheels are already turning. The return of conferences and experiential activations, in whatever form they take, will require new strategies, evolved KPIs, precision operations and logistics, and fierce collaboration with...
Content and Gameplay Collide in OMEN’s Virtual Esports Event
Combining esports, music, fashion and skating, HP’s Omen partnered with contemporary fashion and streetwear platform Hypebeast to host the first Omen Underground on June 24, a virtual livestream event that explored how gaming has “transcended its historic boundaries into the wider world of contemporary culture.” The event featured a live dj set, a Hypetalks panel...
The New Playbook: How Event Marketers are Adapting to the ‘New Normal’
The 2008 recession hammered the event industry. And while events returned in full force, as organizations recognized the direct correlation between their absence and holes left in the pipeline, the return of events in a post-pandemic world will require a paradigm shift. The learnings from the economic recovery a decade ago are difficult to apply...