Author archive for Rachel Boucher
Value-adding Experiences, Content, Surprises: Inside Chevy’s CMA Fest Program
Among the summer’s biggest festivals is the Country Music Association’s CMA Fest in Nashville, which took place June 7-10, and entertained more than 300,000 consumers with an expo, festival experiences, outdoor stages and concert. As the official ride of the fest, Chevrolet engages fans across three activations including the Chevy Breakout Stage at Walk of...
Check List: Is a First-Year Festival Right for Your Brand?
Best practices for marketers looking to carve out a presence in a festival property. There were no brands attached to the ill-fated Fyre Festival, the “luxury” millennial music experience that abruptly aborted its mission in the Bahamas due to lack of infrastructure and funds, among many other issues. (Phew.) Nonetheless, the viral story surrounding the...
‘Shark Week’ Experiential: Upcycled Shark Installations, Cleanups and Jaw-Chomping
Discovery’s “Shark Week” program celebrated its 30th anniversary as the must-watch TV event of the summer, July 22-29. Strategies for driving tune-in to the programming have run the experiential gamut over the years, from a Fin Fest shark-themed festival in L.A. to guerrilla-style stunts involving half-bitten surf boards dropped on Australian beaches. This year, Discovery...
L.L. Bean Gives Office Life the Boot with Four Outdoor Workspace Activations
You might say the office is untapped marketing territory, rife with consumers looking for a way to break out of their eight-hour indoor workdays, especially during the summer months. Research shows that the majority of Americans spend 95 percent of their time inside, and half that time is spent at the office. L.L. Bean capitalized...