Festivals & Fan Cons

Marketers looking at concert event sponsorships to amplify brand messaging are looking in the right direction. A new study by event marketing technology company Tagkast has found that, among all event attendee types, concert attendees are most likely to share branded photos on social media and produce social endorsements for brand sponsors. Concert activations hold […]

As lead sponsor of the U.S. leg of Taylor Swift’s The 1989 World Tour, Xfinity, Comcast cable’s residential service brand, is activating touchpoints designed to deliver fans exclusive content on-site as well as at home. The program began May 20 in Bossier City, LA, and ends Oct. 31 in Tampa, FL. Xfinity is activating the […]

Event Marketer was in New Orleans where the weather was hot but the sponsor activations were totally cool at Essence Festival, a celebration of African-American culture that took place July 2-5. The Essence magazine extravaganza drew 500,000 men and women to the Big Easy for fun and frolic, music and dancing, but there was a […]

The venerable camping music festival outside Nashville serves up authenticity and positivity   If there’s one obvious sentiment at Bonnaroo, it’s that people are happy. Event staffers are happy. Campers, waiting in long lines and hauling in equipment for the four-day music and arts festival, are happy. And from what we saw, the brands activating […]

The second incarnation of Bud Light’s Whatever, USA has wrapped on Catalina Island—and this year’s experience featured a few new tricks, a few new tweaks and metrics that well exceeded last year’s inaugural effort. Check out the full story here, and take a tour below.