Technology
An Esports Journey: Q&A with Hershey Company’s Head of Media Charlie Chappell
For a CPG brand like Hershey, whose target market is essentially everyone over the age of 12 in the United States, it’s important to keep tabs on where younger generations are consuming their media. So, in an effort to connect with those audiences, the company turned to Twitch and its 15 million daily active users,...
adidas Originals Sends Sneakerheads to Year 2048 Through a ‘Bodega Portal’
Sneaker drops and other hype events leverage tactics like exclusive giveaways and sneak peeks to get media and consumers buzzing. But adidas on Aug. 8 went in a different direction: into the future. To prove to consumers that its styles have always been ahead of their time, the brand created a futuristic bodega pop-up in...
Fortnite’s First-Ever World Cup Event Activates Esports for the Whole Family
As the Fortnite Fan Festival began to wind down on the afternoon of July 28, a crowd of approximately 18,000 began to file into New York’s Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, Queens, for the first-ever Fortnite World Cup solo competition. One hundred highly skilled players, whittled down from an eye-popping 40 million participants across 10...
How NBCUniversal Engaged Gen Z at VidCon 2019
If there’s one thing marketers understand about members of Gen Z, it’s that they’re not afraid to speak their mind. NBCUniversal took the concept to heart at VidCon, July 10-13 in Anaheim, CA, where four brands from its portfolio activated around a “Share Your Voice” theme to engage the event’s youthful attendee base. Each of...