B-to-C Events

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, Film and Music Festival, hosted each year in Austin, Texas, is one of the biggest and most sought-after live marketing opportunities all year, thanks largely to the 50,000 attendees who are members of a hip, trend-seeking and mostly well-funded demographic.

As part of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Road to London celebration, which was presented by Hilton HHonors and took place in New York City’s Times Square on April 18, Olympic sponsors including Samsung, Hilton HHonors and Chobani engaged fans in interactive experiences to promote the games and the athletes. The day marked the 100-day countdown to the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games and transformed Times Square into an Olympic Village with sports demos, giveaways, autograph sessions and a touch of London.

Kellogg’s is sponsoring the Walmart FLW Tour, the prestigious outdoors bass fishing tournament that’s making 11 stops nationwide until October. Next stop will be Potomac River in National Harbor, MD from May 17 to 20. 

For the relaunch of the new Tastykake Mini Donuts packaging, which now comes in a resealable bag, the company branded a royal blue MINI Cooper and topped it with a frosted doughnut. The vehicle was the centerpiece of its sampling program, which visited malls, ballparks, retailers and high-trafficked areas in the brand’s hometown of Philadelphia from April 9 to May 6.

Canon last November held a red-carpet premiere at New York City’s Museum of Natural History to launch “When You Find Me,” a short film inspired by eight winning photos submitted in an online user-generated contest. During that evening, 600 guests filed through a gallery that showcased each of the more than 96,000 submissions before the film was viewed in the museum’s Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Theater.