Electronic Arts (EA) Archives - Event Marketer
Electronic Arts Visits Malls to Connect with Families
For EA’s Xmas Experience Tour, the name of the game was sales. The strategy: a killer combination of multiple data collection points, instant purchase incentives, clever trial-to-conversion tactics and hands-on gaming experiences. In its sixth year, the tour sought to entice serious gamers (16- to 30-year-old males), as well as families and casual gamers. The...
EA Sports Activates Pop-up Training Centers
During the busy holiday shopping season, EA SPORTS Active put its More Workouts video game in the hands of consumers inside state-of-the-art pop-up training centers in high-traffic locations in Boston and San Francisco. The pop-ups were open for 30 days, which included private influencer events to fuel additional word of mouth among its primary target,...
EA Packs Gameplay, Green Screen into a Mobile Hub
Electronic Arts wanted to take high-def video game sampling beyond the standard retail and shopping mall experiences. So was born The Hub, an 18-wheel mobile tour that EA took to music festivals, community events, sporting matches and theme parks throughout the UK and Ireland last summer. The Hub was based on a tri-axle step framed...
EA Live Streams Multi-Player Gameplay at E3
When EA set out to live stream its E3 activations around its multi-player action game Battlefield 4, it deployed two key pieces of technology to make it successful: Twitch.tv and Battlefield’s Spectator Mode. Battlefield’s partnership with Twitch.TV allowed the brand to serve the stream to 2.1 million people without going down; the platform’s analytics tools...