Tag: sxsw

Anna Nicholson likes to feel challenged and excited about her work, and while her first job as an event marketer at a health care startup taught her a lot about executing b-to-b and b-to-e events, she needed more. Enter: Yahoo and what she calls “the best team on the planet.” Nicholson took a leap of […]

From Nikon’s perspective, you can’t fully appreciate the power of a camera until you’ve taken it for a test drive. It’s the philosophy that’s been putting the brand’s experiential marketing strategy into focus over the last year as the company strives to meet creatives where they are, get them hands-on with its latest products, and […]

Three days of panels, performances, comedy sketches—and an interactive journey through the evolution of communication When Grammarly merged three AI-forward productivity platforms and rebranded as Superhuman just before the holidays, the timing wasn’t quite right for a large-scale debut. But by the time March and SXSW 2026 rolled around, the company saw a clear opening […]

Scouting out the right venue for Yahoo’s SXSW 2026 activation led to a pretty serendipitous matchup. From March 14-15, Austin’s Historic Scoot Inn became the Yahoo Scout Inn, a play on the brand’s newly launched AI-powered answer engine. Yahoo Scout was the centerpiece around which the western-themed pop-up was built, with the team positioning the […]

For the first time in more than 30 years, organizers of the SXSW Conference & Festivals overhauled the show with a decentralized format that unfolded across downtown Austin—and brands activating around the city adjusted accordingly.