Tag: gamification

Even as the live events industry roars back to life, Sephora says its customers continue to show an inclination for virtual experiences. So to meet clients where they are, the brand for a second year took its flagship beauty convention into the digital realm with the SEPHORiA: Virtual House of Beauty. The free event for […]

Consumers may not initially equate live music, gaming and the metaverse with an insurance brand—but with its recent launch on Roblox, State Farm is looking to change all that. “We’re in a category that not many folks wake up thinking about every day,” said Alyson Griffin, vp-marketing at State Farm. “It felt like the right […]

You’ve seen the branded spaces created in Fortnite and the activations hosted in Roblox, but some organizations are building their very own experiential digital destinations as a tentative first step towards cracking the metaverse code. These brand-owned virtual worlds reach well beyond the structure of traditional virtual environments, and are opening up groundbreaking ways of […]

To promote financial literacy among middle school-aged students, Ally Financial recently teamed up with rapper Big Sean and popular computer game Minecraft to create “Fintropolis,” a world within the game that weaves financial lessons into the experience as players navigate through it. And as of last week, it surpassed one million downloads. “Getting people to […]

ComplexCon is a tentpole event for Complex Networks that attracts nearly 60,000 rabid streetwear fans each year, so when COVID shut down the in-person festival in 2020, cancelling altogether wasn’t an option. But the resulting pivot to digital needed to go far beyond Zoom calls and flash sales to appeal to the event’s young, discerning […]