Rachel Boucher

Rachel joined Event Marketer in 2012 and today serves as the brand's head of content. Her travels covering the experiential marketing industry have ranged from CES in Las Vegas to Spring Break in Panama City Beach, Florida (hey, it's never too late)—and everywhere in between.
  • Depend Puts ‘Underwareness’ Center Stage

    Myths and the stigma surrounding bladder leakage make it an uncomfortable health condition to discuss openly. Unfortunate, since one in four Americans experience it and nearly half are under the age of 50. Through a new marketing campaign, Kimberly-Clark’s Depend brand is opening the floodgates, so to speak, with “Drop Your Pants for Underwareness.” Depend […]

  • Heineken ‘Shushes’ New Yorkers in US Open Stunt

    Heineken generated buzz in the days leading up to this year’s US Open with a stunt in Union Square (one of New York’s busiest thoroughfares). The experiment was a take on the tennis tradition of umpires “shushing” stadium crowds. Brave consumers were tasked with climbing up on an umpire stand to silence the crowds via […]

  • HISTORY Fans Become Cast Members At Comic-Con

    HISTORY’s “Vikings” series, which will enter its third season in 2015, is a story set in 793 AD and filmed in Ireland. As such, all the drama can feel a world-away for viewers. During Comic-Con San Diego, July 24-26, HISTORY decided to give fans the opportunity to get up close and personal with a behind-the-scenes […]

  • Behind The Scenes: Coke’s World Cup Happiness Flag

    It’s one thing to engage consumers in a campaign message. It’s another to weave them into the fabric of one, literally. For its global sponsorship of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Coca-Cola harnessed the power of social media to create The Happiness Flag—a 3,015-square-meter digitally produced photomosaic flag made up, pixel by pixel, of fan-submitted […]

  • Mattel Canada Sets Up Target Practice

    Toys can be a tough sell—there are just so many to choose from. So, it’s important that toy brands distinguish their products from the competition. In promoting its new BOOMco. dart blaster, Mattel Canada Inc.’s “scientifically engineered” line of blaster products, the brand decided to give kids the chance to pick one up and experience […]