Kaylee Hultgren

C’est fini! The 2019 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is a wrap, and we’re back stateside (a lot less sweaty and bit sun-kissed) and eager to share what we saw. A key insight from our three days on-site: High-level meetings and networking often take precedence over experiential activations at this event. So, brands that […]

Nous sommes arrivés! Event Marketer has touched down at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, a five-day event for marketing, advertising and creative professionals taking place at the Palais des Festival June 17-21. Attended by the crème de la crème of marketing and creative executives, Cannes Lions is far more than networking and high-level meetings […]

One of Renaissance Hotels’ points of difference is its Navigator concierge program, where individuals dubbed “Navigators” expose guests to hidden gems within the hotels’ local communities. For the launch of its new Discover This Way campaign promoting Navigator, the brand staged a scavenger hunt-filled evening for loyalty members, press and influencers featuring performances, local personalities […]

The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, which ran from April 24 to May 5, was not overrun with the lounges and lodges so prevalent at its West Coast counterpart, the Sundance Film Festival. The demographic Tribeca Film Festival attracts is often based locally and full of Big Apple pride. For brands like Bulleit Bourbon and Stella […]

Bulleit’s anti-advertising approach involves leveraging local cultural invents like Tribeca Film Festival, where it can engage with the ‘creative class’ When marketing to the creative class is a primary campaign objective, building experiential activations at film festivals is a worthy path to engagement. And for bourbon brand Bulleit in particular, which concentrates on penetrating local […]