B-to-C Events
NFL Experience: Activations at Moscone Center
About a 20-minute walk south from Super Bowl City was the NFL Experience driven by Hyundai at Moscone Center in San Francisco. This fan experience was larger than the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee’s Super Bowl City on the Embarcadero, and structured with scheduled tickets fans purchased ahead of time. EM joined the masses for Super...
Kia’s Event Series Connects with African-American Consumers
With 20 million media impressions and a 100 percent sentiment score, Kia Motors’ Inspirationally Crafted event series is a hit with African-American consumers. The series, which launched last April with a New York City event and continued in Los Angeles in the fall, has increased positive perceptions about Kia and strengthened its connection with African-Americans....
Five Insights on Sustainability in Event Marketing
In our December issue, we explored the evolution of eco-friendly practices in event marketing and experience building. What we discovered is that, these days, going green at events is no longer an add-on but an expectation. Event marketers are taking a holistic approach to sustainability, examining the entire life cycle of an event and how the trickle-down...
Eight Strategies for Leveraging Virtual Reality
The November release of the Samsung Gear VR marked the beginning of what is bound to be a wave of consumer-friendly virtual reality devices made available to the public—especially with its (relatively) affordable $99 price tag. But event marketers capitalized on VR well before it hit the mainstream. The Facebook-owned Oculus Rift headset has led...