EventMarketer Sizzle: Your Biweekly Feed of All Things Experiential
10.25.24
In honor of National Pizza Month and its “biggest toppings transformation in over a decade,” Pizza Hut popped up the Personal Pan Pizza Hut in New York City, where fans could book a 15-minute slot to step inside the one-person dining hut and create their own personalized, social media-worthy mini pizza. Get the full scoop in The Brief.
📷 Photo of the Week
 
 
Netflix and Johnnie Walker stopped traffic with its “Squid Game” takeover of New York’s Times Square in anticipation of the series’ season two premiere. For the live-action shoot, participants reenacted the show’s “Red Light, Green Light” game, with screens broadcasting the iconic animatronic doll... Read more.
🗨️ Insight of the Week
 
“We don’t have an awareness problem as Walmart, so what we want to prove is that these incremental touchpoints are creating more value and more valuable customers.”
–Kim Tunick, Group Director-Brand Experiences and Partnerships, Walmart
Partnerships
Netflix and Johnnie Walker Serve Up a Live-action Shoot and Sampling
A global Pick Your Player campaign kickoff experience in Times Square featured easter eggs from Squid Game and a drive to local Johnnie Walker happy hours… Read more.
Mobile Tours
How Walmart Has Been Growing its Experiential Footprint This Fall
Promoting its new fall fashion collections and online shopping experience, Walmart met consumers where they are with a traveling Airstream showroom experience… Read more.
VIP Experiences
Citi Resurrects its Sound Vault Platform with Luxe Engagements
After a four-year hiatus, Citi revived a concert series that gives cardmembers access to intimate performances by major acts. Inside the Jack Harlow show in Brooklyn… Read more.
People
The Watchlist: 30 Change Agents in Experiential Marketing
Event Marketer editors combed through nominations and coverage to create a collective of brand-side marketers influencing the industry’s next chapter… Read more.
Partner Content
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Stunts
Deadpool Variants Take Manhattan During New York Comic Con
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment unleashed a street team to promote the “Deadpool & Wolverine” movie with the Big A$& Bus Tour featuring the “Deadpool Corps”… Read more.
💡 ICYMI Last Week
 
📌 EM Updates
 
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✉️ Contact Us
 
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