Author archive for Rachel Boucher
Groupon Takes #GivingTuesday Live in Chicago
Groupon on Nov. 8 transformed a coat drive into a live experience for families in need in its hometown of Chicago with a Winter Wonderland charity event, part of its efforts surrounding #GivingTuesday, of which it is a founding partner. The brand invited more than 50 Chicago families to come and pick up new coats...
Six Trends in Event Food to Implement in 2016
Flip on your television any day of the week and you’ll find a food show. From culinary travel shows, to food talk shows to highly rated cooking competitions, an entire generation of foodies has infiltrated the market—bringing their fickle palates and their sophisticated food knowledge with them. And that trend has trickled down into events....
Five Tips for Leveraging Real-Time Video to Build Event Buzz
As photos give way to video as the sharable medium of choice, event marketers are leveraging real-time content to build buzz-generating stories around their experiences. Here, Ben Kaplan, ceo of PR Hacker, and presenter at EventTech 2015, takes you inside 9Lives cat food’s re-launch of its “spokescat” personality Morris the Cat at the South by...
How to Turn a Single Event into a Viral Sensation
What do Hero Cat, Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” and a make-out session during the 2011 Vancouver riots, the picture of which was one of the three most published photos in the world that year, have in common? Each of the scenarios went viral, earning billions of views. But as Ben Kaplan, ceo of PR Hacker explains,...