2012 Archives - Page 3 of 25 - Event Marketer
Google Takes I/O Conference to a Worldwide Audience
I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, is one of the best events marketers have never heard of. To accommodate the thousands who want to go to each year but can’t—recent I/Os have sold out all 6,000 seats in less than 30 minutes—the event has become much more digital. The conference now reaches millions of developers, virtually,...
Social Media Helps Cisco Keep GSX on Top of its Game
With its yearly Global Sales Experience—or GSX, as it’s better known—Cisco has evolved what was once a one-and-done annual event into a case study for maximizing the reach and impact of live+digital experiences. One recent GSX welcomed 20,000 attendees: 5 percent were in broadcast locations, 75 percent were in conference room viewing locations and 20...
Evian’s US Open Tennis Activation Creates a Racket on Instagram
Sports sponsorship activations can be limited by the square footage of a stadium or arena. But social media enables brands’ investments to soar way beyond the fences. To shake up its 27-year sponsorship of tennis’ U.S. Open, Evian served up a series of live and social media strategies that transformed every touchpoint at the tournament into...
Ford Rolls out Interactive TV Series to Build Social Presence
It was the first-ever reality show created by an advertiser, driven by consumers and broadcast on network TV. Ford’s “Escape Routes” was a six-part televised series of “Amazing Race”-style challenges in which six pairs of best friends vied for a Ford Escape and $100,000. Consumers supported their favorite contestants in their challenges online via live...