Event Technology: Live streaming

When Hexagon, a maker of design and visualization software for 3D modeling, saw that it was time to take its legacy user conference onto the web, live streaming was the clear way to go. But it needed to impress—as a leader in the virtual visualization industry itself, streamlined and seamless technology is an imperative for […]

When EA set out to live stream its E3 activations around its multi-player action game Battlefield 4, it deployed two key pieces of technology to make it successful: Twitch.tv and Battlefield’s Spectator Mode. Battlefield’s partnership with Twitch.TV allowed the brand to serve the stream to 2.1 million people without going down; the platform’s analytics tools […]

There are some celebrity-athletes that are so charismatic and consistently amazing in their competitive sports that they never lose traction with their fans or the brands that sponsor them. Shaun White is one of those athletes (and we can attest to that—we saw a gaggle of teenage girls follow him all over Vancouver at the […]

Call of Duty, the largest gaming franchise in the world, nailed it through this proprietary Championship event, creating an ownable, global platform that had all the fixings of a major sports property—from live coverage to post-game analysis—that also leveraged two key partnerships. eSports (competitive video gaming) is something to watch out for, because it may […]

Moët Hennessy’s “What’s Your Wild Rabbit” campaign launched in 2012, but for the first time, in 2013 sought out a deeper connection with African-American and Hispanic millennial guys. The strategy: exclusive experiences for these consumers who are known for being early adopters. Part of this evolution of the program also included a refocus towards social […]