Type of Event: Buzz/word-of-mouth programs

It was a once-in-a-lifetime event that needed to be captured: Bud Light’s Whatever, USA campaign, which awarded 1,000 unsuspecting consumers with a weekend of experiences where they continuously proved they were “#UpForWhatever.” Bud Light had created the fictional town of Whatever in a takeover of Crested Butte, CO, turning it into a full-scale theatrical production […]

Ford’s coast-to-coast EcoBoost Challenge campaign was designed to encourage test drives among “fence-sitters,” or consumers that liked Ford, but hadn’t really made up their minds about the brand. Through it, Ford offered an incentive: $50 in exchange for a test-drive through an online promotion. This led to some challenges, including the problem of these offers […]

It will go down as the event that showed the industry how to combine dozens of best practices and the hottest event marketing trends into a single blockbuster campaign. And it proved that experiential marketing had the power to drive $1 billion in sales. The event, Call of Duty: XP, immersed fans in “Modern Warfare 3,” […]

Ice cream brands have a decided edge when it comes to attracting consumers to their mobile tours—namely, ice cream. But when Ben & Jerry’s hit the streets of Los Angeles, Miami, New York City and San Francisco, the brand drew extra attention by letting consumers help direct the tour. Instead of plotting out every event […]

Coca-Cola marketers knew they had to do more than traditional advertising to connect with the 13- to 18-year-old core audience of the American Music Awards, which the soft drink sponsors. The Coca-Cola AMA MyParty program mixed in-home events with targeted in-city parties to create a more personalized experience between teens and Coca-Cola that all tied […]