Industry: Online Business

Smart marketers know how to align what they’re selling with what consumers are needing—in exactly the right moment. Case in point: Google Play’s pop-up experience in Manhattan’s East Village, an activation that expertly transformed one of the most utterly mundane yet essential settings imaginable—a laundromat—into a play space designed just for millennials looking to kill […]

Chinese e-commerce goliath Alibaba’s first public event in the U.S., Gateway ’17, was designed to educate people on business opportunities in China, inspire small businesses and reignite trade between the two countries. With a five-year initiative to fuel growth and spending in the Chinese economy while creating new jobs in the U.S., Alibaba created an […]

For years, Google’s evergreen I/O developers conference, like all b-to-b events, took place in a convention center. Every year. In a convention center. The same format. Over and over again. For a brand like Google, the “same old thing” was eventually no longer an option. It was time to take a leap. A leap of […]

Since its inception in 2012, re:Invent has grown more than 500 percent in size, leaping more than 60 percent in attendance from 2015 to 2016 alone. Maintaining that rate of growth without sacrificing results for customers requires sustainable scaling, which means adding value while executing flawlessly for more attendees, sponsors, exhibitors, breakouts, VIP events, entertainment, […]

Slack had quite a job at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s mega technology conference. The communications software platform that entered the scene in 2013 needed to show off its industry leadership among 171,000 savvy professionals who have a desire to streamline their processes, and have many options to do so. With its light-handed, playful and modest activation teeming […]