EM Buzz – 11/17/2022
11.17.22 Live Nation's Q3 report is like Christmas come early. The festival giant just recorded its highest-ever quarterly attendance, with 44 million fans appearing at 11,000 shows over the summer. Meanwhile, the company's confirmed sponsorships for 2023 are up by 30%. Morgan Stanley's Spacesuit is a Giant Leap for Womankind Houston, we have a diversity problem:...
Morgan Stanley Rockets into Times Square with a Women’s Spacesuit and a Mission to Break Barriers
Houston, we have a diversity problem. In 2019, the first all-female spacewalk was postponed because NASA didn’t have enough spacesuits to fit smaller statures. And out of the 240 astronauts who have conducted spacewalks, 17 have been women. It’s evident that the space industry, much like the financial services business, has some major glass ceilings...
Diversity in Events: Forbes Offers Six Tips for Success
Every decision that an event marketer makes—and uses their budget for—offers an opportunity to advance diversity.
Event Peeps Podcast: Passion Projects—I Built a Nonprofit
In this episode of Event Peeps, we explore the passion projects event marketers are working on outside of their hectic schedules. Our guest Talib Abdullahi, national events coordinator at Tito’s Handmade Vodka, launched a nonprofit in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd to keep up the momentum of the movement and the fight for...