Author archive for Rachel Boucher
Time Lapse: Building Coffee-mate’s Sampling Activation
Nestlé’s Coffee-mate brand turned sampling into the ultimate finals week survival resource on the campus of Ohio State University with a 20-foot high coffee cup installation and activations designed to help students recharge. Located in the South Oval, the activation offered massages, games, music and charging stations as well as copious amounts of free coffee—that...
Coffee-mate Fires up Finals with Social Media Deliveries
Nestlé’s Coffee-mate brand turned sampling into the ultimate finals week survival resource on the campus of Ohio State University with a 20-foot high coffee cup installation and activations designed to help students recharge. Located in the South Oval, the activation offered massages, games, music and charging stations as well as copious amounts of free coffee—that...
How AOR Partnerships are Evolving the Event Landscape
We often think of Agency of Record relationships as a fixture of the advertising world, but in a grown-up event industry, where spend has increased and events are viewed as mission critical to business growth, the model is taking hold. Major brands have enlisted agency partners to manage entire portfolios of event programs, resulting, they...
Four Lessons on Festival Culture
In the counter-culture period of my life all conversations led to Bonnaroo. From high school through college, and a couple years after that, my East Coast peers and I all wanted to caravan to Tennessee to escape and experience a music community. Alas, that dream never came to be. Until this past June. A little...