EventMarketer Sizzle: Your Biweekly Feed of All Things Experiential
08.23.24
The cat’s out of the bag, or rather on it. Women’s fashion brand Tory Burch popped up in New York City with an Animal House activation, in celebration of its cat-themed capsule. Just past a scratching post, attendees could score a scratch-off card and then redeem it for a prize at Tory Burchflagship store, plus enjoy a free coffee. Meow.
📷 Photo of the Week
 
 
Mike’s Hard Lemonade teamed up with actor Lamorne Morris on “Mike’s Jobstacle Course,” where consumers could try their hand at “easy” jobs, including a weather correspondent charged with reading increasingly ridiculous cue cards about a tornado as special effects disrupted the news set... Read more.
🗨️ Insight of the Week
 
“People usually come in, and they just want the Instagram picture and the free product and then get out of there. But I think what sets this experience apart and what we do well is we really revolve everything around the dermatologists. It’s in our brand name, CeraVe, developed with dermatologists, so why wouldn’t we bring a dermatologist to chat one-on-one?”
–Neil Gustafson, AVP-Marketing, CeraVe
Field Report
Mike’s Hard Lemonade Puts Consumers to the Test with a ‘Jobstacle’ Course
Part of its “Hard Days Deserve a Hard Lemonade” campaign, the brand challenged consumers to take on roles like candy taste-tester and book sorter. We visited the job site… Read more.
Mobile Tours
How Back-to-School Skincare Purchases are Driving CeraVe’s First-ever Tour
To capitalize on a spike in sales of its cleansers during the back-to-school shopping period, CeraVe launched a four-city, “drama-free” tour this month to engage students… Read more.
Family-friendly Events
A/V Ideas and ‘Angles’ for Influencers at Disneys Descendants Premiere
It’s been five years since Disney Branded Television released a new “Descendants” film, so for “The Rise of Red,” it went all in on a storybook theme and surprise moments… Read more.
Fan Cons
Inside the Inaugural Fanatics Fest for Sports Superfans in New York City
What’s being referred to as the new Comic-Con for sports fans, Fanatics Fest attracted more than 70,000 sports fans to the Javits Center, and featured celeb appearances… Read more.
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Marketing News
The Brief: ‘Sauceographs,’ OverDrives Library Pop-up and LEGO DREAMZzz
Kraft Heinz got saucy with Ed Sheeran, as the singer appeared in London to sign autographs with ketchup. Also in this week’s roundup, silent stories and painting the rent… Read more.
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