Posts tagged with ‘virtual event’
Inside Facebook’s Accessible and Purposefully Thematic Internal Virtual Event
Among the next big challenges for event marketers is fighting the urge to lean on retrospective pandemic content and messaging and to instead embrace fresh marketing themes and branding. For Facebook’s annual internal event, the GMS Summit, this year themed “Reconnect,” the goal was to inspire audiences with a higher energy, festival-like virtual platform that...
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...
Verizon Designs 5G Stadium in Fortnite for Super Bowl Fans and Gamers
In a typical year (remember those?), the Super Bowl is an opportunity for brands to showcase their experiential marketing chops on the ground for enthusiastic sports fans. But thanks to the pandemic, only 25,000 attendees (plus another 30,000 cutouts to fill seats) were allowed on location in Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium for Super Bowl LV...
Team Liquid and Alienware Celebrate Partnership Renewal With Pair of Virtual Events
Professional esports organization Team Liquid and Alienware, the gaming hardware subsidiary of Dell, renewed their partnership last month, marking nearly a decade of working together to support the gaming community with technology, training facilities across the globe and fan engagements. To celebrate the continued partnership and introduce Team Liquid’s new virtual fan platform, Liquid+, the...