Author archive for Jessica Heasley
Post-COVID Storytelling: How Marketers are Activating Their Brand’s Stories in the Year Ahead
Storytelling has always been the beating heart of experiential marketing. The most memorable events immerse attendees into a story, make them part of the story and send attendees home feeling like they have a better understanding of the story the brand is trying to tell. “Storytelling has always been a main component of any great...
Failure to Launch: Everything We Learned From Hosting Two Unsuccessful Virtual Events
If you’ve been in the event business long enough, you’ve probably got a couple of painful “fails” on your resume that you’d rather forget. There are the “epic” fails, like when a demo crashes and burns at a pivotal moment in the multi-million dollar launch event. There are the A/V fails, when the sound or...
2020 Grand Ex Award: Taco Bell, Edelman, UEG and the Best Campaign of the Year
Most Taco Bell fans only spend an average of three minutes and 55 seconds visiting their favorite quick-serve restaurant. But the fandom? Well, that lasts a lifetime.
Women in Events: 13 Tips for Starting and Running a Woman-Owned Agency
Experiential marketing is an industry that has always skewed female. It’s not unusual to find entire event departments that are staffed and run by women. Yet despite this unique gender bias across many brand organizations and agency teams, woman-owned agencies are still few and far between. Indeed, while many of the 100 agencies on Event...