Rachel Boucher

Ninety-nine percent of the time, your experience design process should not begin with an actual technology. It’s one of the major points Inessah Selditz and Nick Bartzokas, interaction designer and technical director at the LAB at Rockwell Group, explained during a session at EventTech (Nov. 2-4 in Las Vegas) on “dimensionalizing” a brand into a […]

Bacardi on Nov. 10 placed five of its single malt Scotches at center stage with an immersive theatrical experience that served as a history lesson on Scotland’s deep rooted whisky-making process. Taking over a deserted retail space on Canal Street in New York City, the brand turned more than 300 key customers, single malt enthusiasts […]

Groupon on Nov. 8 transformed a coat drive into a live experience for families in need in its hometown of Chicago with a Winter Wonderland charity event, part of its efforts surrounding #GivingTuesday, of which it is a founding partner. The brand invited more than 50 Chicago families to come and pick up new coats […]

Flip on your television any day of the week and you’ll find a food show. From culinary travel shows, to food talk shows to highly rated cooking competitions, an entire generation of foodies has infiltrated the market—bringing their fickle palates and their sophisticated food knowledge with them. And that trend has trickled down into events. […]

As photos give way to video as the sharable medium of choice, event marketers are leveraging real-time content to build buzz-generating stories around their experiences. Here, Ben Kaplan, ceo of PR Hacker, and presenter at EventTech 2015, takes you inside 9Lives cat food’s re-launch of its “spokescat” personality Morris the Cat at the South by […]