B-to-B Events

One of the biggest issues impacting the operational cost structure of the event marketing industry has nothing to do with marketing budgets. Nope. It’s not the fast-paced worlds of social media or technology, either. It’s not even the changing cost of gasoline or the high price of travel.

The biggest threat to your event marketing portfolio’s bottom line may just be a quiet storm brewing around your people—the hired event staffers and helping hands you contract for days and sometimes weeks to be the faces of your brands in the field.

In the U.S., New York City sees more experiential action than any other market, and globally it’s one of the top choices for

To bring attention to its online commercial real estate marketplace LoopNet.com, and at the same time throw a meaningful event for clients, CoStar Group, a Washington D.C.-based provider of real estate analytics and marketing services, on Jan. 18 hosted a 3D mapped projection event to illustrate the message “If a Commercial Property Isn’t Advertised on LoopNet.com, it Might as Well Be Invisible.” The projection display gave the illusion that a 12-story Los Angeles building had literally disappeared.

DTS, a Los Angeles-based audio technology provider to over a billion consumer electronics products worldwide, is launching its new brand campaign at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The campaign, dubbed “Sound Changes the Way We See,” is designed to excite the brand’s base of b-to-b clients about new products and drive interest among potential new clients at the show.

Ten years ago, a small subsection of corporate marketing departments began to fall in love with a fairly new and extremely unproven discipline called event marketing. From auto and financial-services to beverage, commercial aviation, retail and technology, it started to grow like religion.