Festivals & Fan Cons

Traveling to a music festival is fun, but the quest to find nearby lodging? Not so much. For one sweepstakes winner, however, HomeAway, an online vacation rental marketplace, changed the game. During the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park, this year Oct. 5-7 and Oct. 12-14, Austinite Zach Moses […]

Intel is a technology brand best known for powering the PC. But a key company directive is to expand consumers’ perception of the brand far beyond that familiarity. Enter the Fast Company Innovation Festival. During the five-day festival that attracts futurists, entrepreneurs and change-makers, the brand created the Intel House pop-up event space in New […]

Wandering down a crowded street, a man dressed as Mario physically holds a replica Nintendo coin box above his head. Nearby, scores of consumers wait in a three-hour line to participate in a 10-minute escape room experience. No, we’re not in an alternate universe. This is Comic-Con International: San Diego, the original event platform for […]

Festival attendees and passersby at Austin City Limits were invited to experience Uber Radio Live Oct. 5-7, an interactive music activation featuring live performances from local musicians who drive on the Uber platform as well as a live cover band that played songs chosen by the crowd. The goal was to produce an experience that […]

More than 250,000 people descended upon New York City for New York Comic Con, which took over the Big Apple Oct. 4-7. While the heart of the event took place within the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, ancillary events like panels that used to fuel hours-long lines around the center were moved to strategic locations […]