Event Technology: Measurement

If you’ve ever been to the South by Southwest Interactive, Film and Music Festival, you know that navigating its 6,000 official events amid tens of thousands of attendees can create an overwhelming FOMO effect. To make the massive event feel smaller and more communal, organizers leveraged the event’s proprietary app, the SXSW GO Mobile Guide, […]

The launch of Puma’s latest running shoe—IGNITE—set off a spectacle in New York City’s Times Square that involved semi-professional runners, the NYPD, tourists and passersby pounding away in their IGNITE footwear on 25 branded treadmills, six large LED screens, a giant 13-foot semicircular LED tower, out-of-home billboards and signage, not to mention tons of collective […]

Long before mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey’s famous armbar hit the mainstream, the Ultimate Fighting Championship franchise had been experiencing massive growth in popularity. While the fights take place in an enclosed octagon ring, the experience for fans extends beyond that to TV, where fans watch young fighters break into UFC on “The Ultimate Fighter.” […]

Last summer, DirecTV set out to drive new sports and premium package upgrades while maintaining current premium subscribers. Its secret weapon of choice? Its own customer service agents—the front line for sales and service of the premium accounts. To get the agents motivated and up to speed, the brand’s Sell & Save Tour hit the […]

The Ex judges gasped when IBM’s massive global event program was entered into this category, but after a closer review of the submission … it made sense. Why? Because Big Blue doesn’t think of its string of global events as separate projects—it considers them all part of one event campaign used to build both the […]