Technology
Dissecting TikTok: How Event Marketers Can Leverage the Short-Form Video App
How brands can make magic on the red-hot social platform Step aside, Instagram. There’s a new social media kid in town, and its explosive growth shows no signs of slowing down. Meet TikTok, a social media app centered on short-form mobile videos accompanied by musical overlays and augmented reality-powered visual effects. Originally launched as Musical.ly,...
Q&A: What the Rising Cost of Consumer Attention Means for Event Marketers
A new kind of metric worth adding to your measurement toolkit Measuring the value of live events has traditionally entailed gauging dwell times and throughput, but a proprietary framework developed by Harvard Business School professor Thales Teixeira wants marketers to focus on a different metric: quality of attention. Teixeira, who studies the “economics of attention,”...
Four Insights on How the California Consumer Privacy Act Will Impact Event Marketers
How marketers can crack the code on California’s version of GDPR On the heels of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in 2018, marketers are now tasked with adhering to U.S. privacy regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, the groundbreaking legislation will secure new...
#Phonetopia: Visible Brings its Service to Life with a Phone-themed Obstacle Course
For many consumers, a wireless provider is just that—a faceless service that powers their phones. Visible, an all-digital service that utilizes Verizon’s network, is trying to shift that narrative through a combination of community engagement and experiential marketing in an effort to cultivate a more intimate relationship between the brand and its clients, as well...