B-to-C Events
EMS 2012: Beer Me, Again
Men love beer more than women love chocolate, Lesya Lysyj, cmo at Heineken and closing keynoter at the Event Marketing Summit on May 2, told the nearly 500 marketers in the room as she opened her discussion of the Heineken brand’s attack on the sinking beer category in 2011. The brand saw that, although the...
EMS 2012: SAP’s Soothsayer
The second day of the Event Marketing Summit (May 1) opened up with a keynote by Scott Schenker, vp-global events at SAP, who spoke not only as a marketer but also a visionary forecasting the future of the event marketing industry (sponsored by ewi Worldwide). With the WikiLeaks releases still fresh on folks’ minds, Schenker...
EMS 2012: Nightlife With A Twist
Michelle Klein, vp-content, digital and communications at Diageo, whose Smirnoff brand received an Ex Award at the 10th annual Event Marketing Summit’s awards gala on April 30 for its Nightlife Exchange Project, wowed the crowd earlier in the day as the opening keynote speaker at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Chicago (sponsored by Fish...
DuraZone Tour Offers Family-Friendly Activities
To generate awareness for the launch of its new weed and grass-killing product DuraZone, Bayer Advanced is visiting home improvement stores and family-friendly events in 10 markets through June 17 with the DuraZone Own Your Zone tour. The tour kicked off April 13 at the Maricopa County Fair in Phoenix, AZ, where it engaged consumers...