Sampling
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Flavor Fantasies and GenAI Lofts
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover flavor fantasies, speed-dating picnics and GenAI Lofts.
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B-to-C Events
Field Report: Feeling the Grind at Mike’s Hard Lemonade’s ‘Jobstacle’ Course
With Labor Day around the corner and survey results revealing that more than half of Americans think their job is harder than other professions, Mike’s Hard Lemonade teamed up with actor and former odd-job man Lamorne Morris to put New Yorkers to work. On Aug. 20, as an extension of its “Hard Days Deserve a […]
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B-to-C Events
Hot Property: How the Hamptons Became a Hotbed of Experiential Activity this Summer
Just like hordes of well-to-do New Yorkers, several brands swapped the city for the coast this summer and escaped to the Hamptons, a collection of wealthy hamlets located on Long Island. The locale has historically attracted some ultra-high-end fashion houses, but 2024 brought other types of brands into the mix, too, including Sparkling Ice and […]
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B-to-C Events
Data-driven Sampling: Inside Primal Kitchen and Pinterest’s ‘Colorful Kitchen’ Pop-Up Events
Digitally native CPG brands often find themselves in a pickle when it comes to driving trial and conversion. So when Pinterest user data revealed that searches for “clean food” have risen by more than 9,700 percent and searches for “dips and snack hacks” have increased by 100 percent, clean-eating condiment brand Primal Kitchen decided to […]
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Snack Squads and Life-size Doll Houses
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover curly creations, mobile snack squads and life-size doll houses.
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B-to-C Events
Walmart Taps into the BookTok Community with a Spicy Summer Soirée for Influencers
“Spicy books” are all over TikTok right now, and Walmart jumped on the trend by launching a “Spicy Summer” campaign to show consumers and BookTok followers that the brand is a go-to destination for the summer’s hottest books.
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Sweet Escapes and Symphonies of Spirits
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover drama-free mobile tours, beach club bronzing and Banana-Versaries.
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B-to-C Events
How Oatly Crashed a Capitol Hill Ice Cream Party with a ‘Dairy Deprogramming Zone’
The oat milk brand activated a sampling experience in Washington, D.C., across the street from the annual IDFA Capitol Hill Ice Cream Party, parking its own bright yellow ice cream truck with a huge inflatable ice cream cone on top to serve curious passersby Oatly Soft Serve and climate impact facts.
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Foldable Buses and the Stayman Islands
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover foldable buses, Piña Oatladas and the Stayman Islands.
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B-to-C Events
Field Report: Our Visit to a Surprise Hennessy Sensory Pop-up in Orlando
You couldn’t miss it. A bright red, branded shipping container with its doors and walls propped open to reveal several interactive sampling stations surprised passersby when it popped up in the usually quiet parking lot at The Loop’s ABC Fine Wine & Spirits store in Orlando on July 11. It was Hennessy’s Made for More […]