Archive

Festivals & Fan Cons

  • Super Bowl City: Scenes from Inside the Free Fan Village

    Super Bowl City presented by Verizon, the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee’s free event located on the Embarcadero in San Francisco, was a leaner but “cleaner” fan village than previous Super Bowls. Pop-up tents were outlawed. Activations were built with sustainability in mind. Security teams were ever present. Looking up, you saw the San Francisco […]

  • Bridgestone’s Winter Classic Focuses on Fans

    As seven-year presenting sponsor of the Bridgestone Winter Classic, the tire manufacturer has created a successful platform to build brand awareness and fan engagement, influence consumer purchase decisions and capture data for follow-up. The Winter Classic pits two popular hockey teams in an outdoor matchup on New Year’s Day and, along with fan activations at […]

  • How the UFC Dominated Las Vegas with a High-Tech Takeover

    What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas—unless you’re the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The mixed martial arts brand did anything but keep quiet in Sin City from July 7-12 during International Fight Week, which serves as the Super Bowl of UFC events. Attracting tens of thousands of fans from across the globe, the notoriously bold brand […]

  • AT&T U-verse Draws Consumers with Graffiti Art

    The sky was the limit for AT&T U-verse at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, where the brand promoted its GigaPower Internet and TV service through a host of engagements that aligned themselves with the event’s culture. Over two three-day weekends (Oct. 2-4 and 9-11), the brand offered demos by local artists, a recharge lounge […]

  • How Activision Deployed ‘Dramatic Agency’ to Engage Fans

    Activision’s Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare experience at E3 last year engaged fans as never before. How? Through “dramatic agency,” a term discussed by Rob Troy, chief creative officer, and David Wilson, executive producer, at Ant Farm, in their session on The Art and Science of Event Media at EM’s EventTech, which took place Nov. […]