Tag: brand partnerships

Much like event professionals, destination marketers are in the business of brand-building, content creation and engaging targets face-to-face to showcase the value proposition of a particular city, state or country. And with an uptick in experiential programming hailing from the tourism industry, there are plenty of crossover lessons to be learned. So we rounded up […]

Interest in pickleball has been spreading like wildfire, and a growing number of brands is jumping in to fan the flames. As the nation’s fastest-rising sport, pickleball is attracting sponsors from a host of categories as tournaments, tours and festivals dedicated to the sport continue to crop up. The appeal is evident: “Picklers” represent a […]

Super Bowl 57 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ, was an affair to remember, from the Kansas City Chiefs clinching a victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in the final minutes of the game, to Apple Music replacing Pepsi as the halftime show sponsor and unleashing Rihanna after a four-year hiatus, to Tubi pranking us […]

Embracing cold weather is a way of life for Canadians. So with a 360-degree “KFC Buckets Are Life” campaign to hype, and the knowledge that basketball is Canada’s fastest-growing sport, KFC spotted an opportunity. Enter: the KFCourt, the first-ever winterized basketball court, where shooting buckets and eating buckets of chicken align under one “roof”—Toronto’s Gardiner […]