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  • 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 […]

  • Lollapalooza 2021: Good Vibes and Music Lovers Kick Off an In-person Festival Season

    An estimated 385,000 attendees descended upon Chicago’s Grant Park for Lollapalooza, July 29 through Aug.1, kicking off a festival season that has thus far proved unlike any other. The festival instituted a number of precautions to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, from the required proof of vaccination or, alternatively, a negative COVID […]

  • ESSENCE and Toyota Engage Drivers in an Afrofuturistic Multisensory Playground

    ESSENCE magazine and partner Toyota capitalized on the Instagram museum trend in December with #SensoryWonderland, a multisensory playground that celebrated Afrofuturism while generating buzz for the new 2018 Toyota Camry. The event amplified Toyota’s Sensations marketing campaign, which “aims to tap into drivers’ emotions and the sensations they feel behind the wheel,” says Jovanca Maitland, […]

  • Toyota’s Hotel Tacoma Adventure Influencers Land on the Oregon Coast

    Toyota’s Hotel Tacoma returned once again this year, landing on Cape Lookout on the Oregon Coast, a location that allowed for a wide range of activities and experiences designed to get adventure influencers to go outside and play, as well as to off-road in a new Tacoma truck through the Siuslaw Forest. For four days […]

  • Music Festival Strategies: 10 Ways Toyota Engages Fans

    Music is a powerful platform for reaching millennials and multicultural audiences, a fact not lost on Toyota, where music festival sponsorships and activations strike a chord with these potential car buyers.