B-to-C Events
Intel Focuses on Retail with Six-Month World Tour
Intel wants consumers to know that it’s more than just a chipmaker. So to demonstrate its breadth of innovations to the public, in May it launched a six-month global tour to give consumers the opportunity to experience and interact its technology through Intel-based devices. The tour kicked off in New York City and hit Chicago,...
Pilot Pen Mobile Tour Touts Mistake-Free Writing
Pilot Pen has launched a mobile tour to get its new FriXion (pronounced like “friction”) Clicker, a gel ink pen that erases without leaving smudges, into the hands of consumers. The tour, called “On the Road to Mistake-Free Writing,” launched on July 9 and will travel to 100 Walmarts and Office Depot stores across the...
EM@MLB FanFest, Part I: Home Runs and Foul Balls
Earlier this week, Event Marketer editors escaped the oppressive heat of the city and joined families and fans in the Javits Center for an afternoon at MLB FanFest, Major League Baseball’s sponsored fan event that runs adjacent to the annual All-Star Game. We’ll bring you the full report in our August issue, but as a...
Celebrity Cruises Brings Lawn Experience to Grand Central
Celebrity Cruises for the first time steered its way into experiential marketing on June 10 and 11, giving consumers a taste of the luxury brand’s iconic, top-deck Lawn Club on its five Solstice-class ships in Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall. The event supported a two-day promotional sale as part of a larger national campaign to...