Posts tagged with ‘Samsung’
Scavenger Hunts, Mobile, Metaverse: Event Trends for 2022
As we begin a new year amid another pandemic surge, the industry is focused on in-person experiences that offer ease of interaction and prioritize the wellbeing of audiences. Indeed, brands have had almost two years to test and evaluate different types of programming while restrictions tightened and loosened. Here we examine a few event trends...
No Spectators: How Four Brands Altered Their Game Plans for the Tokyo Olympics
Brands seeking to activate at the Summer Olympic Games seemed to encounter more hurdles than a 100-meter race. First, organizers delayed the games by a year in deference to the COVID-19 pandemic (yet kept the name Tokyo 2020). Then they announced a ban on nearly all spectators. The result was a literal buzz kill. Longstanding...
Launch Events: Lighting Design Ideas from Samsung Unpacked
Samsung Unpacked, the brand’s biannual product launch event, unveiled the company’s Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ line of premium smartphones, an updated S Pen, the Galaxy Watch Active2 and Galaxy Book S devices to an audience of more than 2,800 media, influencers and techies—along with 2.29 million livestreamers—at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center in New York City Aug....
How Samsung’s Unpacked Event Engaged Viewers Live and Virtually
There is a lot at stake with product launch events and, perhaps, a little more so for the biannual Samsung Unpacked. A few fun facts: This year, there were more than 1.5-times the audience that the Oscars pull in viewing the Samsung Unpacked live-stream as it unfolded. That’s 44 million people tuning in virtually throughout...