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  • What it Takes to Implement Geofencing

    Knowing who your most active and interested consumers are is one of the most important elements of any successful event marketing campaign. The problem is that consumers don’t really like to spend time giving you that information, and sometimes they’re even afraid of jeopardizing their privacy by doing so. Geofencing, one of the hottest tools […]

  • Cover Story: Inside Verizon’s Reimagined Retail Experience

    [box type=”coloured” pb_margin_bottom=”no” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] I’m standing inside a fully stocked, 9,000-square-foot retail phone store, eyeing Bose SoundLinks and Jawbone Mini ­Jamboxes. There’s a slat wall filled with cell phone cases, chargers and other accessories, but the treadmill where I clip on a Fitbit and follow my running progress on a giant video screen […]

  • Short Films Help Salesforce.com Target Messages

    With more than 130,000 attendees from 82 countries, Dreamforce is the biggest event of the year for cloud computing company Salesforce.com. It’s when the brand invites all of its key clients to learn about the new features the brand plans to roll out in the coming year. The challenge is, each client needs something slightly […]

  • EventTech 411: Digital Displays

    Every conversation in the event marketing industry eventually comes around to technology. You want to know what tools are out there to make your jobs easier, make your programs more successful and most crucially, make your target consumers love you the most. We have heard your clarion calls for help and now, with this monthly […]

  • How a Lexus Italy TV Ad Became a Live Program

    Lexus Italy needed a new commercial to introduce its new IS Hybrid model to a tough Italian market. Instead, the brand got way more than it bargained for, and ended up with an event program that is now set to travel Europe. But let’s back up. The program, “Trace Your Road,” brought 10 of the […]