Author archive for Rachel Boucher
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...
Experiential in Color: The Event Industry’s Next Generation of Diverse Leaders
Visibility can play a critical role in elevating careers. In recognizing the unique challenges facing people of color in this industry and beyond, we developed Experiential in Color, a program designed to share the perspectives of diverse, brand-side rising stars. The goal is to help generate a stronger pipeline for event marketing roles for people...
Mobile Programs Gain Traction Among Brands Stalled by Trade Show Postponements
Four Lessons Learned from Stratasys’ Mobile Showroom Experience Brands reliant on industry shows this year have faced a number of challenges in the wake of postponements or pivots to virtual. Among them, 3D printing technology company Stratasys, which hit the road in November to meet customers at their doorsteps in a showroom experience aimed at...
How a Localized Sampling Campaign Gave Herdez and the Boston Community a Lift
As the U.S. reaches a turning point in the pandemic, smart marketers are now drafting event programming for later this year ahead of what experts predict will be a mad summer rush. And in the case of traditional Mexican salsa brand Herdez, it’s a matter of lifting a garage door and shifting its fully branded...