B-to-C Events

Traveling to a music festival is fun, but the quest to find nearby lodging? Not so much. For one sweepstakes winner, however, HomeAway, an online vacation rental marketplace, changed the game. During the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park, this year Oct. 5-7 and Oct. 12-14, Austinite Zach Moses […]

Intel is a technology brand best known for powering the PC. But a key company directive is to expand consumers’ perception of the brand far beyond that familiarity. Enter the Fast Company Innovation Festival. During the five-day festival that attracts futurists, entrepreneurs and change-makers, the brand created the Intel House pop-up event space in New […]

Citi is no stranger to the world of event marketing. The financial services brand produces thousands of events around the globe each year, activating everything from entertainment sponsorships to cause marketing experiences to a proprietary event series. But even the pros need to take an industry pulse-check from time to time, and Citi did its […]

As much of the culinary world continues to hype complex meals featuring exotic ingredients and unconventional combinations, Barilla is keeping things simple. The 141-year-old pasta brand touted its understated approach Sept. 21-23 at the Laver Cup tennis tournament in Chicago with chef demonstrations, cook-offs and a clean design aesthetic that underscored its messaging. Part of […]

Timberland put its boot stamp on urban greening the week of Oct. 15. The footwear and apparel company launched three events around its “Born in the woods. Raised in the City,” fall campaign, including a pop-up park in New York City’s Flatiron district, an urban greening project in East Harlem and a concept store on […]