B-to-C Events
Deadfellaz Connects its NFT Community IRL through DeadZone LA
Taking over downtown Los Angeles, DeadZone LA, a one-night-only event in October, transformed Skylight ROW DTLA’s industrial landscape into a post-apocalyptic basecamp among factory ruins set in the world of Deadfellaz. The Web3 brand—which was born from a 10,000-piece NFT collection of zombie characters released in 2021—invited the Deadfellaz community (known as the Horde), fellow...
How Jägermeister and the Lesbian Bar Project Blended an IRL Bar Tour with a Metaverse Activation
An unsettling statistic for the LGBTQ+ community and its supporters: in the 1980s, there were roughly 200 lesbian bars in the U.S.; today there are just 24. So for a third consecutive year, Jägermeister teamed up with the Lesbian Bar Project, a platform designed to bring “awareness and prosperity” to America’s remaining lesbian bars, this...
How FX’s ‘Atlanta’-themed Events for HBCU Students Launched a Dialogue on the Black Experience
If you’ve ever seen an episode of FX’s surreal comedy-drama “Atlanta” about the Black experience in America, you know it’s a conversation starter. So to celebrate the series’ penultimate and ultimate seasons, the network hosted discussions and wellness activations for HBCU students at an off-campus event in Atlanta. Students of Morehouse, Spelman and Clark Atlanta...
Year in Weird: A Roundup of Some of 2022’s Most Bizarre Brand Experiences
As the world reopened and a flood of events ensued, brands got weird to slice through a saturated landscape and earn consumers’ valuable time and attention.