B-to-C Events
How AOR Partnerships are Evolving the Event Landscape
We often think of Agency of Record relationships as a fixture of the advertising world, but in a grown-up event industry, where spend has increased and events are viewed as mission critical to business growth, the model is taking hold. Major brands have enlisted agency partners to manage entire portfolios of event programs, resulting, they...
How the UFC Dominated Las Vegas with a High-Tech Takeover
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—unless you’re the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The mixed martial arts brand did anything but keep quiet in Sin City from July 7-12 during International Fight Week, which serves as the Super Bowl of UFC events. Attracting tens of thousands of fans from across the globe, the notoriously bold brand...
Four Lessons on Festival Culture
In the counter-culture period of my life all conversations led to Bonnaroo. From high school through college, and a couple years after that, my East Coast peers and I all wanted to caravan to Tennessee to escape and experience a music community. Alas, that dream never came to be. Until this past June. A little...