EventMarketer Sizzle: Your Biweekly Feed of All Things Experiential
02.16.24
Las Vegas is known as the wedding capital of the world, and Cheetos took full advantage by popping up its own chapel on the Strip for Super Bowl LVIII. The brand invited couples to say "I do" in a ceremony officiated by an animated Chester Cheetah and sealed with a high five. And completing this love story: Two engaged Frito-Lay employees were actually married in it. 
📷 Photo of the Week
 
 

Uber Eats’ Get Almost Almost Anything Shop wowed Super Bowl Experience fans with a convenience store-themed activation stocked with groceries and household products. Through fridge doors, consumers entered a surprise tunnel leading to more goodies... Read more.

🗨️ Insight of the Week
 
“Mobileye is an ingredients brand; we’re inside cars. The core of the business is a chip, and the software that’s designed with the chip and computer vision to interpret the environment around a car enables features like automatic emergency braking. The challenge has always been how do we convey really dense, complex technical concepts in a way that is innovative, interesting, dynamic, exciting and digestible.”
Alexis Blais, Corporate Communications Manager-Trade Shows, Mobileye
Field Report
15 Brands That Hit it Big with Experiential Plays at Super Bowl LVIII
We bring you extensive, and exclusive, coverage of Super Bowl LVIII brand activations we toured around Las Vegas. From intimate concerts to celebrity watch parties to immersive booths, brands captured consumers’ attention with sprawling footprints and limited-time experiencesRead more.
Field Report
Ashley House Brings the Comfort of a Game Day Lounge to Las Vegas
For Super Bowl LVIII, furniture brand Ashley put on its biggest and longest experiential activation yet, with five days full of high-touch consumer moments and live country music to engage fans at Resorts World. Consumers could try out the furniture—and then shop it, too… Read more.
Hot Property
Why More Event Marketers are Attending and Activating at Davos
For a small town in the Swiss Alps, Davos packs a big punch. Since 1971, it’s been home to the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, which draws world leaders, corporate executives and global media to the mountains each January. Check out eight insights on engaging the VIPs… Read more.
Campaign News
Coca-Cola and Time Out Hand-pick Global ‘Foodmarks’ Destinations
The brand and the “best of the city” publication have launched a global campaign centered on 400 food landmark destinations that consumers will explore through activations, starting with a themed experience in New York City inspired by an iconic Marilyn Monroe photo… Read more.
Partner Content
Free Guide: The Event Trends That Matter Most in 2024
Business events are poised for transformation across content, planning and design. In this guide, created by the experts at Cramer, we explore what’s changing in culture and in the event industry, and how b-to-b marketers are giving even the flashiest of consumer events a run for their money… Get your copy.
Partnerships
Buzz Strategies: Three Ideas for Leveraging Local Businesses
FX, Hulu and Propel Water have found success in generating hyper-local buzz through businesses, influencers and partnerships. Here, we round up three recent event marketing strategies and tactics designed with communities in mind… Read more.
Trade Shows
Mobileyes Marketing Team Breaks Down its Evolving Exhibit Strategy 
Mobileye’s exhibit strategy at CES for years focused solely on market awareness. But the autonomous driving tech brand has steadily shifted its booth experience to stimulate excitement and intrigue. How live demos, partners and content are all part of the playbook… Read more.
Trends
2024 Food & Beverage Trends to Inspire Your Event Menus
Charcuterie boards and plant-based milks are cooling down; regional flavors and sweet-and-sour fruits are heating up. We dig into the National Restaurant Association’s 2024 “What’s Hot Culinary Forecast” to uncover what your foodies may be expecting on event menus… Read more.

Marketing News
The Brief: Cocktail Lingerie, Stupid Pet Tricks and Virtual Closets
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing run the gamut from spicy Valentine's Day-themed campaigns to 3D branded environments to Hendrick’s “Gintimates”—the world's first line of cocktail lingerie, designed to fit gin bottlesRead more.

💡 ICYMI Last Week
 
📌 EM Updates
 
Last chance for savings! The early-bird registration rate for the 2024 Experiential Marketing Summit expires today. Register now to join fellow corporate event and trade show marketers and industry professionals, April 24-26, at the MGM Grand Las Vegas.

Submit your entries for the 2024 Ex Awards before next week's regular entry deadline on February 23. Get your exhibits, events, conferences, campaigns and more in front of our panel of brand-side judges as part of the industry's most prestigious recognition program for experiential marketing.
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