B-to-C Events

There’s nothing quite like that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when looking back on fond memories, and savvy event marketers are doing their best to summon those sentiments with events that evoke a strong sense of nostalgia. Millennials in particular tend to revel in the “good old days,” and from timeless board games to classic […]

There was a time not so long ago when street art and graffiti were viewed not as art forms, but as vandalism. Flash-forward to today, and those same mediums are celebrated as part of the fabric of pop culture. So when adidas Skateboarding, a brand known for its roots in street culture, got the opportunity […]

State Farm and The Marketing Arm score the Grand Ex with a cause marketing campaign that showed us all that customers care about their communities—and corporate values   Smart marketers know that millennials are finicky about the brands they give their loyalty to. More than any other generation before them, they care about what their […]

To highlight its transcontinental routes in an unconventional way—a delicious one, one might argue—JetBlue took its “New York’s Hometown Airline” tagline to new heights by making deliveries of authentic, New York-style pizza via transcon flights from New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport to LAX. The promotion, dubbed “Pie in the Sky,” came as JetBlue […]

It’s official: summer festival season has begun. Brands looking to court younger consumers are coming out in droves, all vying to engage with an increasingly inundated demographic. One of the younger-skewing fests is Governors Ball, which claims that 42 percent of its 155,000-plus attendees in 2017 were younger than 25 years old. EM was there […]