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Festivals & Fan Cons

  • Citi Unlocks an Intimate Concert Series for Cardmembers

    How the Citi Sound Vault delivered exclusive music experiences during Grammy Week   Citi, during Grammy Week in L.A., launched Citi Sound Vault, a live music concert series that gives Citi cardmembers exclusive access to performances by major artists in intimate venues, as well as meet and greets and backstage access. The first Sound Vault […]

  • EA Sports Expands its Super Bowl Presence to Focus on Fan Engagement

    Video game developer EA Sports kicked its Super Bowl sponsorship into high gear this year with gaming tournaments, performances by top musicians and its biggest activation footprint to date. The highlight of the brand’s on-site presence was the inaugural EA Sports Bowl, held Feb. 3 in Houston at Club Nomadic, a 60,000-square-foot pop-up nightclub. The […]

  • Music Festival Strategies: 10 Ways Toyota Engages Fans

    Music is a powerful platform for reaching millennials and multicultural audiences, a fact not lost on Toyota, where music festival sponsorships and activations strike a chord with these potential car buyers.

  • Acura Uses Biometrics for its ‘Mood Roads’ Activation at Sundance

    Not all of the excitement at Sundance this year took place on the film festival’s movie screens. Acura, a seven-year Sundance sponsor, returned to the Festival Village with an activation that leveraged VR and brain wave technology to engage fans in a personalized NSX supercar experience. The 90-second engagement, dubbed Mood Roads, created a one-of-a-kind […]

  • Gettin’ Jiggy With it: Brands Entice Millennials With ’90s Nostalgia

    If you don’t think the ’90s were all that and a bag of chips, talk to the hand because nostalgia marketing is all the rage these days. In an attempt to stir up warm, fuzzy feelings about how good life was back in the day, brands are creating ’90s-themed experiences in droves to trigger emotional […]