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Strategy: UBS Enhances Orchestra Activation; Adds Minnesota To Lineup

Orchestras have been one of its core sponsorship platforms for the last three years but financial services giant UBS says it’s leveraging better these days. Now the company is attempting to build in more exclusive experiences for its guests inviting clients to panel discussions with musicians and offering CDs with tracks from several UBS-sponsored orchestras.

“The company has fine-tuned what works from a client perspective ” Melanie Wright the company’s head of U.S. sponsorships told Buzz.

Activation: Maxell Leverages Its First X Games

Maxell has made its first-year sponsorship of the X Games held last weekend in Los Angeles part of a multimedia campaign to reintroduce the brand’s iconic “blow away guy.”

One key goal was generating “brand awareness with a group of young people who were not even alive when the image was first conceived ” Cheryl Severini senior marketing manager at Maxell told Buzz. “The X Games is a perfect fit for the effort. The demographic is young and tech savvy.”

Hispanic Marketing: Sprint And Dr Pepper Use Concerts To Make A Connection

Sprint Nextel is targeting Hispanic consumers with a title sponsorship of rock band Maná’s upcoming U.S. tour. As part of the on-site activation consumers will be able to text messages and pictures to a large Sprint Nextel-sponsored screen that’s visible to the entire audience. Sprint Nextel consumers who participate will get a message back from the company inviting them to check out exclusive content through Sprint Nextel.

Boost Mobile has been creating buzz for the brand—and driving teens and young adults to volunteer—using a two-pronged attack of music and volunteerism.
Through its title sponsorship of a nonprofit called RockCorps Boost offers free admission to concerts only to consumers who volunteer in their communities.

Love it or hate it there’s no stopping the trend: B-to-B events are moving from the convention center to the computer screen.
Despite their high-tech persona the appeal of virtual trade shows and meetings is grounded in traditional metrics that are decidedly old school: cost-effectiveness reach and access to new audiences. What’s not to like?