Festivals & Fan Cons

October 7, 2019

Music Festival Activations: Inside Kia and SiriusXM’s Human Car Wash

If there’s one consistent theme at summer music festivals, it’s sweat. So, to ameliorate that pain point for EDM festival attendees, SiriusXM teamed up with Kia on a human car wash. (…Working at the car wash, yeah…) The Kia Soul Station Powered by SiriusXM activated in May at Sunset Music Festival in Tampa, FL; in...

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September 23, 2019

Experience Design: Inside National Geographic’s Ocean-Inspired Activation at D23

To connect with and inspire Disney fans following its acquisition by Disney, National Geographic created an immersive oceanic-inspired exhibit at D23 Expo: The Ultimate Fan Event, held Aug. 23-25 at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. The annual three-day event offers Disney fans “inside-the-magic” experiences and Disney brand activations. Consumers were transported into the depths...

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September 2, 2019

Reebok Scores Dwell-time at ComplexCon with a Carnival-Inspired Booth

ComplexCon Long Beach is about hype, but for its booth at the inaugural ComplexCon Chicago, July 20-21 at McCormick Place, Reebok wanted to do more than create a momentary engagement. Aiming for maximum dwell-time, Reebok nixed the “drops” and activated a 23-foot-tall SuperShot Challenge basketball game (like Pop-A-Shot) designed to engage its 18-25 target in...

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August 26, 2019

Fortnite’s First-Ever World Cup Event Activates Esports for the Whole Family

As the Fortnite Fan Festival began to wind down on the afternoon of July 28, a crowd of approximately 18,000 began to file into New York’s Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, Queens, for the first-ever Fortnite World Cup solo competition. One hundred highly skilled players, whittled down from an eye-popping 40 million participants across 10...

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August 26, 2019

How NBCUniversal Engaged Gen Z at VidCon 2019

If there’s one thing marketers understand about members of Gen Z, it’s that they’re not afraid to speak their mind. NBCUniversal took the concept to heart at VidCon, July 10-13 in Anaheim, CA, where four brands from its portfolio activated around a “Share Your Voice” theme to engage the event’s youthful attendee base. Each of...

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