EventMarketer Sizzle: Your Biweekly Feed of All Things Experiential
05.24.24
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are just two months away, and for the first time, the Opening Ceremony will not take place in a stadium. Instead, the parade of athletes will float down the Seine with boats for each national delegation. Plus, fans wont need tickets to take in the action along the river. Stay tuned for our Olympics coverage!
📷 Photo of the Week
 
 
Expedia anchored its New Orleans Jazz Fest sponsorship with a larger-than-life yellow parasol art installation. The brand partnered with local Colombian American artist Basqo Bim to design and create “Para Sol, Para Todos”... Read more.
🗨️ Insight of the Week
 
“A key thing that we’ve learned works really lovely is this idea of collaborating with local talent to help them tell the story and elevate their own place to invite the world to come and experience New Orleans Jazz Fest.”
–Liseli Sitali, Director-Football and Music Partnerships, Expedia Group
Festival Sponsorship
Expedia Partners with Local Talent to Bring Art to New Orleans Jazz Fest
As the festivals Official Travel Partner, Expedia sponsored the Cultural Exchange Pavilion, highlighting Colombia with a parasol installation that offered shade to attendees… Read more.
Festival Technology
Coachella Quests: Inside the Festival’s Gamified Scavenger Hunts
Festival organizers are consistently on the hunt for fresh ways to keep fans engaged on-site. At Coachella, festivalgoers earned prizes through a new Web3-based loyalty gameRead more.
Fan Conventions
Gamification, Influencers, Photo Ops: Three Tips for Activating at Fan Cons
Fan conventions are dynamic spaces centered on community, and brands are seeing the value of bringing tech-driven activations to meet Gen Zers and gamers where they are… Read more.
Marketing News
The Brief: AMCs Vampire Event, Paramount+ Movie Nights and Rat Summits
This week’s hot topics in experiential marketing include an immersive event for “Interview with the Vampire,” Fresca Mixed’s secret country clubs and Daiyas master melter role… Read more.
Special Feature
Meet the All-Stars: The 2024 B-to-B Dream Team
This year’s 12 honorees represent the marketers we’d hire if we started our own brand. The profiles tackle a range of topics, from event experiments to KPIs to budget hacks… Read more.
💡 ICYMI Last Week
 
📌 EM Updates
 
Check out our video recap of the 2024 Experiential Marketing Summit, where event profs convened for a three-day discussion that explored every aspect of the experiential marketing discipline. Hear attendee perspectives and see action from around the Hall of Ideas and conference sessions here.
✉️ Contact Us
 
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