Tag: music festival

It’s official: summer festival season has begun. Brands looking to court younger consumers are coming out in droves, all vying to engage with an increasingly inundated demographic. One of the younger-skewing fests is Governors Ball, which claims that 42 percent of its 155,000-plus attendees in 2017 were younger than 25 years old. EM was there […]

Coachella is renowned for the host of luxe brand experiences it attracts to the desert each year. The kind that take place at posh mansions and sprawling estates, draw scores of influencers and A-list celebrities and create a near-impossible level of FOMO. But Stagecoach Festival, which takes place just one week later in Indio, CA, […]

Festival season is upon us and kicking it off in style was the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which continues to serve as a breeding ground for compelling brand activations and events. Taking place in Indio, CA, over two weekends, this year April 13-15 and April 20-22, the event once again attracted droves of […]

Returning to Coachella for its fourth year, American Express created a signature destination for festivalgoers with new experiences and benefits to cardmembers both within the festival grounds and, for the second year, at the Parker Palm Springs hotel for two days. Offering respite from the hustle and bustle of what has become a defining cultural […]

Music festivals are on a roll. Each year, more and more fans are rockin’ to the bands, diggin’ the on-site activations and sharing the experience with friends. Nielsen’s latest Insights Report on Music Festivals (2015) puts the number of people who attend at least one music festival in the U.S. each year at approximately 32 million, […]