B-to-C Events

Ben & Jerry’s is on the road again, but this year the brand’s sampling tour has a new component—a campaign called City Churn. Fans are encouraged to vote on Twitter for a limited-batch flavor that will be made from locally sourced ingredients in 11 tour markets located on the East and West coasts. Unveiling pop-up parties are then hosted two weeks later alongside local ingredient partners where consumers can test out the result. The tour began in April in Miami and San Diego and wraps up in September in Boston and Seattle.

In year one of a three-year partnership as the exclusive beer provider at Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival, craft brewer Goose Island served up exclusive beers and a fun environment for tasting them. The festival, which took place July 19 to 21 in Union Park, attracts fans of up-and-coming musicians and headliners such as Bjork and MIA and provides a natural fit for niche brands such as Goose Island, which was acquired in 2011 by AB/InBev.

MillerCoors’ new summer style Blue Moon Agave Nectar hit the public for the first time in Sacramento, CA, at the GOOD: street food + design market July 7. The brand built buzz with a custom Agave Nectar mural created by local artists at the site of the popular market, which is set up to emphasize good design, good food and clever do-it-yourself culture that stimulates the local economy—all things the brand wanted to tie into.

There’s no better way to win the hearts of wannabe professional baseball players than to create the experience of the best kind of field action there is— pitching, stealing bases and catching fly balls. At this year’s MLB FanFest, Under Armour offered just that, and the opportunity to share all the fun with friends.

Intel wants consumers to know that it’s more than just a chipmaker. So to demonstrate its breadth of innovations to the public, in May it launched a six-month global tour to give consumers the opportunity to experience and interact its technology through Intel-based devices. The tour kicked off in New York City and hit Chicago, Tokyo, Beijing and London in June and July. It will make stops in Sao Paulo and Moscow before wrapping up in Sydney in October.