B-to-B 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,...
SELF and Fidelity Women’s Event Offers Lessons on Success
Financial fitness and career advice were top of mind at a discussion and networking event co-sponsored by SELF magazine and Fidelity Investments. About 400 women attended the event entitled “Empowering Conversations: So You Want To…,” which took place on Nov. 17 at New World Stages in New York City. On-site activations included a professional headshot...
Beyond the Touch Screen: A Guide to Tangible Event Experiences
“Tangible” is the new “touch,” according to James Patten, founder and principal at Patten Studio, who presented on MIT’s blueprint for creating more effective interactive experiences at EventTech 2015, Nov. 2-4 in Las Vegas. “Technology has gone past the touch screen,” Patten says, adding that in events, the sense of touch is not engaged to...