Posts tagged with ‘sxsw’
SXSW Attendees Explore HBO Max’s Catalogue with Facial Recognition Technology
HBO consistently creates epic fan experiences on the ground during SXSW, from a 90,000-square-foot replica of “Westworld” to a cause marketing campaign with the Red Cross that urged attendees to literally “Bleed for the Throne.” For its 2021 experience, the network leaned on the fact attendees have consumed a record amount of content at home...
Desktops Be Gone: How SXSW Online is Adopting a Roving Approach
The typical virtual attendee of 2020 was confined to a home office. But in 2021, remote comes in a variety of flavors. It’s an insight the SXSW Online team embraced in its monumental task of transforming a 10-day, multi-venue, three-part, in-person festival into an enriching, comfortable and accommodating virtual experience for wherever the attendee may...
Grand Ex 2019: HBO, Giant Spoon and the Experiential Campaign of the Year
How HBO’s ambitious SXSWestworld campaign leveraged hyper personalization and content at scale to captivate festivalgoers—and an entire industry Loyal fans of the HBO series “Westworld” might have thought twice about the roundtrip ticket to Sweetwater. The fictional town is home, after all, to more than a few gunfights, ambushes and bloody massacres that are...
SXSW 2019 Part Deux: Experiential in Austin, From Dell to Bumble to Twitter
From augmented reality-enabled audio journeys to a library of President Donald Trump’s tweets to “Project Runway” music videos, we bring you part two in our coverage of SXSW’s opening weekend, March 8-10. What stood out: how many scooters cruised the streets of Austin, how many puppies there were to cuddle, how brand ambassadors’ passion (or...