Objective of Event: Generate PR impressions (on social and traditional media)

PayPal is the giant of the online payment world, but the company was out to show retail executives that it can also be used in a live setting—in brick-and-mortar stores—just as easily. To do that, it created the PayPal Shopping Showcase. The brand transformed a storefront in New York City’s trendy Tribeca into a series […]

The North Face had a serious challenge for its press event: How to distill dozens of new product demos, videos and activities into a memorable, one-day experience that would get journalists to publish stories about The North Face’s leadership in the outdoor product market. Its solution: an intimate celebrity-athlete experience against a panoramic view of […]

To celebrate the release of its Nikon 1 compact camera, Nikon gave media and sales reps a challenge: Capture the most emotional moments of an exciting event. But there was also a unique hook—participants wouldn’t find out what they would be photographing until the day of the event. The element of surprise would, in part, […]

Who is the chosen one? To answer that question, Nike launched the global online web reality competition series “The Chosen,” and hit the road with the Chosen Tour, a series of hyper-local skating and surfing events. Amateur extreme athletes could enter for a chance to appear on the series by submitting videos of themselves shredding […]

One afternoon each year, on Worldwide Day of Play, Nickelodeon and its sister networks go dark, turning off programming to demonstrate the importance of addressing childhood obesity. When the network decided to turn the event into its biggest-ever celebration of active play, it partnered with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and committed its resources […]