Technology
Tech Strategy: American Express Swings Into RFID
American Express took its Championship Experience at this year’s US Open in Pinehurst, NC, into the digital age with the MyOpen Pass RFID Experience, its first foray into incorporating RFID technology into its activations. American Express is looking to expand RFID into other events, including its US Open Tennis, and perhaps music, activations. Incorporating RFID...
EventTech 411: Standout Tech Tools From EMS
Every conversation in the event marketing industry eventually comes around to technology. You want to know what tools are out there to make your jobs easier, make your programs more successful and most crucially, make your target consumers love you the most. This month, we give you a quick tour of some of the standout...
Social Media Top Tip: Snapchat Strategies
In this monthly series, EM brings you tips and tricks from pros and experts who eat social media marketing for breakfast. So eat up, and check us out on Twitter @eventmarketer and Facebook.com/eventmarketer for more. The current titleholder for most controversial social media platform is Snapchat. You’ve heard the stories. You’ve seen the alarmist news...
The 2014 Event Measurement Report: What You Missed
What was once a discipline based on anecdotes, gut feelings and a stack of post-show paper surveys has grown up to become one of the most sophisticated tracking methodologies in the marketing mix. We’re talking about event measurement, of course, and we’re exploring it from every angle with a master’s course in what to measure,...