Author archive for Rachel Boucher
Surrounded by Millennials, Brands Score Big at Bonnaroo
The venerable camping music festival outside Nashville serves up authenticity and positivity If there’s one obvious sentiment at Bonnaroo, it’s that people are happy. Event staffers are happy. Campers, waiting in long lines and hauling in equipment for the four-day music and arts festival, are happy. And from what we saw, the brands activating...
How Kenmore Leverages Events For Content
When Kenmore zeroed in on a Dirty Girl Mud Run series sponsorship two years ago it not only looked at the value of the program (strong) and the target it could reach (women). It looked at how the brand could leverage the sponsorship and event activation to generate content. Beyond “visibility” and lead gen, this...
How Strategic Stunt Marketing ‘Drops’ Can Be Silent But Strong
File this under the “subtle, but not so subtle” stunt marketing category. To promote the release of the latest Jurassic Park movie, “Jurassic World,” Universal Pictures UK on June 5 dropped a dinosaur transport container in the middle of London Waterloo station. Labeled with the fictional InGen Technologies branding, the shipping container offered the warning:...
Inside Wellness Activations at Amgen Tour of California
As title sponsor of the 2015 Amgen Tour of California for a 10th year, Amgen, a biopharmaceutical company, deployed wellness activations at stops along the cycling route in the fan experience called the Lifestyle Festival. The race (owned by AEG) kicked off May 8 in Sacramento, traveling along California’s most recognizable roadways, highways and coastline...