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  • Hybrid Events: How Archer Leveraged Extended Reality to Engage Two Audiences

    It can be difficult to envision a future where electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft are an everyday form of transportation, so to showcase how it will help usher in the era of urban air mobility, eVTOL company Archer hosted a hybrid launch event for its Maker aircraft. Leveraging cutting-edge extended reality and gaming […]

  • Southwest Throws Itself a Hybrid Birthday Bash to Celebrate 50 Years in the Biz

    Southwest Airlines’ birthday week festivities are always a big to-do for employees, but as the brand approached the big 5-0 this year, grander celebrations were in order. Rising to the occasion, the airline hosted a hybrid 50th anniversary rally at a massive airplane hangar in Houston that included the reveal of its newest aircraft, Freedom […]

  • How Major Fall Conferences are Betting on the Return of In-person Attendance

    This fall, major user conferences, trade shows, music festivals and other gatherings are banking on attendees being ready to return to in-person events. For some, it’s a return to business as usual, with the events looking and feeling as they did in fall 2019. Others—like Salesforce—see it as an opportunity to reset and come back […]

  • What We Learned About Hybrid Events From Two Weekends of Essence Fest

    Surprise content, concierge service and a sense of place and mission—these were among the elements that led to the success of the Essence Festival of Culture, which took place as a hybrid event over two weekends, June 25 to 27 and July 2 to 4. The hybrid gathering combined elements of Essence magazine’s wildly popular […]

  • EM Executive Chat with Pearl Servat, Visible’s Head of Brand Marketing

    Concerts have begun to pick back up again, to the delight of live music fans and community-starved consumers everywhere. But even while the pandemic was in full swing, all-digital phone service Visible continued to connect with consumers despite the limitations posed by virtual platforms. Case in point: its three-day livestreamed concert, dubbed Red Rocks Unpaused, […]