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Objective of Event: Generate interest among influencers

  • Cotton Activates its First Live 24-Hour Runway Show

    Think cotton is just about comfy t-shirts and sexy jeans? That’s just the notion Cotton Incorporated wanted to dispel. And where better to do that than in Miami’s South Beach, where the brand activated the world’s first, and only, 24-hour fashion show. The show provided a unique platform for Cotton Incorporated, which represents American’s cotton […]

  • Slim-Fast Taps Bloggers for ‘Running of the Brides’

    To raise awareness about its weight-loss products, Unilever-owned Slim-Fast tapped into the bride-to-be market by becoming the first corporate partner of the Filene’s Basement Running of the Brides events. The Filene’s events bring in about 1,000 brides for each round of shopping, and the captive audience generally lines up outside the store for hours before […]

  • Microsoft Deploys a Hub of Connectivity for Partners

    To match the fresh excitement being generated in its redesigned Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) footprint, Microsoft unleashed three technology upgrades created with the attendee in mind: a custom social event platform called Connect, a complementary mobile app and an enhanced social media effort. Connect enabled attendees to schedule meetings with other partners, identify on interactive […]

  • Nissan Tracks Test-Driving Journalists with GPS

    “What could possibly go wrong?” We weren’t at the Nissan 360 planning meeting, but we’re pretty sure at some point someone said this in response to the idea of letting hundreds of international journalists loose on the streets of Southern California in Nissans as part of its one-month media blitz. Luckily, nothing did go wrong, […]

  • Esurance’s SXSW Glove Box Delivers the Cool Factor

    Nike at a marathon. Coke at a county fair. Intel at an electronics show. These kinds of endemic sponsorship stories all make sense to us, and to the attendees who frequent the events. But how do you make a non-endemic brand relevant to an event where it traditionally may not belong? Esurance is an online […]