Rachel Boucher

SVEDKA activated a sampling "cube experience" along the route of the Mermaid Parade, a 30-year tradition that kicks off the summer season.

Ben & Jerry’s is on the road again, but this year the brand’s sampling tour has a new component—a campaign called City Churn. Fans are encouraged to vote on Twitter for a limited-batch flavor that will be made from locally sourced ingredients in 11 tour markets located on the East and West coasts. Unveiling pop-up parties are then hosted two weeks later alongside local ingredient partners where consumers can test out the result. The tour began in April in Miami and San Diego and wraps up in September in Boston and Seattle.

There’s no better way to win the hearts of wannabe professional baseball players than to create the experience of the best kind of field action there is— pitching, stealing bases and catching fly balls. At this year’s MLB FanFest, Under Armour offered just that, and the opportunity to share all the fun with friends.

Intel wants consumers to know that it’s more than just a chipmaker. So to demonstrate its breadth of innovations to the public, in May it launched a six-month global tour to give consumers the opportunity to experience and interact its technology through Intel-based devices. The tour kicked off in New York City and hit Chicago, Tokyo, Beijing and London in June and July. It will make stops in Sao Paulo and Moscow before wrapping up in Sydney in October.

Celebrity Cruises for the first time steered its way into experiential marketing on June 10 and 11, giving consumers a taste of the luxury brand’s iconic, top-deck Lawn Club on its five Solstice-class ships in Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall.