B-to-C Events

Discovery’s “Shark Week” program celebrated its 30th anniversary as the must-watch TV event of the summer, July 22-29. Strategies for driving tune-in to the programming have run the experiential gamut over the years, from a Fin Fest shark-themed festival in L.A. to guerrilla-style stunts involving half-bitten surf boards dropped on Australian beaches. This year, Discovery […]

Tips, tricks and techniques for “getting into bed” with consumers   Imagine winning tickets to watch your team compete in the Super Bowl. Or being submerged in a submarine with scientific researchers you watch on television religiously. Or winning a dinner at your favorite restaurant for you and three of your closest friends. All that […]

In the experiential marketing world, summer is mobile tour season. And while many brands are hitting the open road on journeys across the country, MINI in June took a decidedly hyper-local approach to a mobile tour as part of a cause-marketing program benefiting New York City’s Sing For Hope and its annual fundraiser for arts […]

When Comic-Con International launched in 1970, it was a modest 300-person gathering of sci-fi and comic book fans. Flash-forward to today and the event has evolved into a sprawling four-day affair dedicated to the popular arts in all of their forms, attracting 130,000-plus passionate fans of movies, TV, comic books, video games and beyond from […]

BullFrog Sunscreen may have been a little frog in a big pond at the GoPro Mountain Games, June 7-10 in Vail, CO, but it managed to make a splash with a variety of touchpoints including sunscreen application stations, giveaways, roaming brand ambassadors and a beanbag toss-style “Cliff Hanger” game. The activation marked the brand’s third […]