Tag: Stunts

As we near the end of 2020 (phew), much of the industry is focused on how brands will make their mark on consumer audiences in the year ahead. The good news is that the pandemic has required event marketers to think outside of their comfort zones over the last nine months, and if the innovative […]

Happy Halloween, marketers. While candy brands are having a field day today, plenty of other categories are getting in on the fun, too, leveraging the holiday to pull off stunts, contests and product launches. Last year, the industry saw Skittles activate a tiny house sampling structure, Reese’s activate vending machines that allowed trick-or-treaters to trade […]

Halloween is an experiential holiday. Between Halloween events, costumes, multisensory elements and, of course, “sampling,” it creates a natural opportunity for brands to infuse a little fun and engagement into the annual traditions. Entertainment platform Vevo last year hosted a Halloween extravaganza for employees that included a carnival freak show and plenty of engagement with […]

In an age when goldfish have longer attention spans than humans, getting consumers to notice a brand’s marketing efforts is challenging, to say the least. But fortune favors the bold, as they say, and event marketers are taking the adage to heart, producing striking experiential stunts that cause even the most distracted of consumers to […]