Festivals & Fan Cons

Chevrolet’s recent VIP “Boots on Stage” event just outside Stagecoach Festival served as a celebration of its 100-year history and an avenue for engaging young consumers. But more than anything, it was an opportunity for the automaker to prove it had a legitimate stake in country music, and an authentic story to tell. Armed with […]

Ahhhh, Governors Ball… where half the audience is under 25 and naps on the ground in between (or even during) festival acts. How did brands engage mostly millennial and Gen Z attendees this year? EM checked out the Randall’s Island, NY-based festival June 1-3 and noticed a whole lot of photo opportunities, charging stations, giveaways […]

Think of the quintessential country music festival and chances are, pickup trucks quickly come to mind. It’s a notion not lost on Chevrolet, which touted its new Colorado ZR2 off-road truck at the “Boots On Stage 3rd Annual Shindig, In The Desert.” The exclusive event, which aligned with Stagecoach Festival and took place in nearby […]

It’s official: summer festival season has begun. Brands looking to court younger consumers are coming out in droves, all vying to engage with an increasingly inundated demographic. One of the younger-skewing fests is Governors Ball, which claims that 42 percent of its 155,000-plus attendees in 2017 were younger than 25 years old. EM was there […]

Coachella is renowned for the host of luxe brand experiences it attracts to the desert each year. The kind that take place at posh mansions and sprawling estates, draw scores of influencers and A-list celebrities and create a near-impossible level of FOMO. But Stagecoach Festival, which takes place just one week later in Indio, CA, […]