B-to-C Events
Lean Cuisine Scales New Messaging with an Art Wall
Following a dramatic rebrand this summer, Lean Cuisine on Oct. 26 activated an art installation at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall aimed at reducing the negative emotions and anxiety women associate with the bathroom scale. Artist Annica Lydenberg helped bring the brand’s new messaging to life, which is shifting away from “dieting” and instead “advocating...
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....
Amex Activates Hawks Island for Football Fans
American Express on Oct. 18 provided Seattle Seahawks fans with their very own tailgating oasis in the form of Hawks Island—a first-of-its-kind pregame experience held on a 200-foot barge in the Puget Sound. Free to cardmembers over the age of 21, the event offered complimentary food and beverages and live entertainment from 9 a.m. to...