B-to-C Events

Event Tours: History-NASCAR Partnership Promotes ‘Ice Road Truckers’

To drive tune-in to this season’s June 8 premiere of “Ice Road Truckers ” cable net History teamed up with NASCAR in a partnership that brought an Ice Road Trucker-themed experience to four track events this season. History also created a series of mini-documentaries that will air during episodes of the series.

This April the Microsoft Windows brand for the first time turned to experiential marketing to give its Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Spaces photo sharing and social networking services a boost in awareness. From April 19 through May 11 residents and visitors to New York City’s Brooklyn Heights and San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhoods could swing into one of the brand’s Windows Live Portrait pop-up Studios for free professional photo sessions.

LIVING GREEN takes more than changing a lightbulb or buying a hybrid car. It requires a real commitment to making green choices in the most major and minor aspects of a lifestyle. In the event marketing industry it isn’t any different. Many companies are taking baby steps towards making their businesses greener from top to bottom.

Energy drink Jolt recently capitalized on the summer solstice—the longest day of the year—by airlifting cases of their product to sleep-deprived citizens of Barrow AK the northernmost U.S. city.  The beverage was distributed precisely at the solstice (approximately 8 p.m. on June 20)—which was exactly five weeks and six days after sunrise there with another five weeks and six days to go until nightfall.

Chrysler is partnering with theme park company Six Flags in an effort to give consumers one-on-one experiences with its Chrysler Jeep and Dodge vehicles. Chrysler will have a significant presence at 10 Six Flag theme parks this summer and will add more parks in 2009. Additionally Chrysler Jeep and Dodge vehicles will become the “official vehicles” of the parks.