Rachel Boucher

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

The Amgen Tour of California is the largest cycling event in North America. Owned by AEG, it attracts pro-cyclists, including world champions, and is widely considered a precursor or practice event to the Tour de France in July. Engagement opportunities abound inside this eight-market weeklong event, both along the route and at a festival that moves to […]