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Festivals & Fan Cons

  • Chevy’s VIP Event Illustrates the Authentic Tie Between Country Music and Trucks

    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 […]

  • Governors Ball: Why Honda Invests in Music Festivals

    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 […]

  • How the H2O+ Beauty Oasis Changed the Landscape for Stagecoach Activations

    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, […]

  • Menu-Inspired Photo Ops Keep Influencers Sharing at McDonald’s Coachella Event

    Coachella isn’t really Coachella without the host of swanky, off-site pool parties and late-night soirees that take over the desert each year, and the sixth annual Bootsy Bellows Pool Party presented by McDonald’s and PacSun was once again one of the hottest tickets in town. Celebrities and influencers who let their hair down at the […]

  • Road to Coachella: BMW i Sends 15 Influencers on a Content Creation Journey

    Riding on the heels of its successful Road to Coachella campaign in 2017, BMW i put its show on the road once again this year to drive awareness of its i Series electric and hybrid vehicles, reach new audiences and engage the creative, passionate (and eco-friendly) demographic Coachella tends to attract. The brand’s presence reached […]