EventMarketer Sizzle: Your Biweekly Feed of All Things Experiential
08.30.24
Keeping up a streak on Duolingo is a point of pride for its users, and the language-learning app designed a pop-up specifically for its dedicated fans in New York City. At last weekend’s Streak Society event, the bigger the app streak, the more opportunities to unlock plushies and prizes. Plus, social media darling Duo was on-site for photos.
📷 Photo of the Week
 
 
The IKEA Ready for College tour is visiting 30 college campuses across the country. Inside the blue branded school bus is a showroom filled with trendy IKEA products, and the outdoor footprint features a potting station, life-size Dala horse sculptures, “Swedish fishing” and a FRAKTA Bag Bar... Read more.
🗨️ Insight of the Week
 
“At IKEA, we specialize in maximizing the potential of small spaces. Outfitting the inside of a school bus demonstrates how to utilize our products for college students who live in shared dorm rooms or apartments. When deciding which products to highlight, we focused on small-space living solutions, both new and the classic favorites.”
–Christine Whitehawk, Marketing Communications Manager, IKEA U.S.
Trends
It's the Summer of School Buses: Insights Around This Trending Tour Vehicle
After the purple school bus for Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS World Tour blew up on TikTok, these vehicles have been popping up more and more as part of brand mobile tours… Read more.
Fan Cons
Nat Geo's Cinematic 'Hexadome' Installation Inspires Repeat Visits at D23
To remind Disney fans that National Geographic offers a diverse collection of content, the brand built a spherical theater with massive screens that enveloped viewers in its series… Read more.
Partnerships
From Ice Cream to Yoga Classes, Five Ways Brands Partnered on Activations
When brands come together, they become megaphones for one another, boosting messaging and profiles. But what goes into finding the right partner to collaborate with?… Read more.
Design Inspo
A Light-bulb Moment: 10 A/V Ideas for Your Next Event or Experience
Beyond mood lighting, a/v elements within experiences create feasts for the eyes, generate fodder for social posts and have the potential to increase brand loyalty… Read more.
Partner Content
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Marketing News
The Brief: FreshDirect's Speed-dating Picnic, Fanta's Dare, AWS GenAI Lofts
Single New Yorkers joined FreshDirect at a long picnic table to dine and date, and Fanta dared passersby in Johannesburg to drink a bottle of Fanta to enter a "Flavor Fantasy"… Read more.
💡 ICYMI Last Week
 
📌 EM Updates
 

Nominations for The Watchlist Due Next Friday: This fall, Event Marketer’s editors will unveil an all-new recognition program, The Watchlist, honoring an elite group of brand-side marketers taking the experiential marketing discipline to the next level. Entries for this first-ever roster of the industry’s most influential insiders are due next Friday, Sept. 6. Honorees will be unveiled this October. Start your nomination here.

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