Kenneth Briodagh

The music industry changes rapidly. And in the late 1990s, electronic dance music, or EDM, gave birth to raves and gave djs a chance to get out from behind the scenes and launch their own careers. The EDM movement lost some momentum during the early 2000s, but in the past few years has again been beating the drum of success.

Nike on April 27 turned New York City’s Times Square into the Broadway Bowl, a full-on, truss-enclosed football field at Broadway and 42nd Street. The brand invited former NFL players, current athletes, cultural influencers, and officers of the NYPD and FDNY to play a 30-minute five-on-five flag football game, to build excitement around the draft and Nike’s new deal with the NFL to design the league’s official team uniforms.

Ford has begun a series of pop-ups in San Francisco, where the brand currently has no formal dealership, to reconnect with consumers and remind them that the brand is on the forefront of technology, sustainability and performance. The first in the series of four Go Further pop-ups was open from April 13 to May 13, and the next opens this month.

Every conversation in the event marketing industry eventually comes around to technology. You want to know what tools are out there to make your jobs easier, make your programs more successful and most crucially, make your target consumers love you the most. We have heard your clarion calls for help and now, with this monthly series, EM’s own Ken Briodagh will collect and codify the hottest, newest, most interesting, best (and sometimes worst) technological doohickeys available to you.

Since History (formerly known as The History Channel) couldn’t take New Yorkers to a swamp in Louisiana, the network instead brought the swamp to life at New York City’s Chelsea Market to promote the third season of its series, “Swamp People.” The Swamp in the City activation converted a 5,600-square-foot space into a swamp filled […]