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

Carving out a presence at SXSW is no easy task. Neiman Marcus did it with style thanks to a fashionista-focused strategy that mixed compelling content and cutting-edge music with digitally shareable experiences. The luxury-centric Make Some Noise activation ultimately drove $1.2 million in sales across Neiman Marcus’s online shops in just two days—60 percent of […]

Catching a flight during the holiday season is rarely an experience worth writing home about. Unless you happen to be flying with Canadian airline WestJet, which changed the game forever in 2013 with the trend-setting viral masterpiece Christmas Miracle. In this, its third iteration of the program in 2015, the brand enlisted the help of […]

Fact: 25 percent of young millennials buy technology products because they’re the cool new thing to have, not as a replacement or an upgrade. With that in mind, HP set out to showcase its Pavilion x360 notebook through a title sponsorship of pop star Meghan Trainor’s North American “That Bass” Tour. The program—which included a […]

How do you make a feel-good experience feel even better? Ask Citi, which leveraged its presenting sponsorship of the No Kid Hungry dinner event program to give its cardmembers a VIP experience within an experience that was all about giving back. From exclusive pre-sale offers to skipping the line to carte blanche access to free […]

To engage the technology community with its OneWireless system, Honeywell devised the Create Change for One Dollar guerrilla strategy and applied it on the trade-show floor. The objective was to grab the attention of plant managers and engineers to reintroduce the OneWireless solution and then generate buzz about it at the event. The company deployed […]