Meta’s Beach Experience at Cannes Lions 2022 Touts Creator Power, Short-form Video and the Metaverse
After a three-year hiatus, big tech brands once again erected sprawling beach activations at the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, designed to entertain, educate and inspire advertisers, marketers and creatives attending the week-long event. One such standout was Meta, sporting a (relatively) new name, several immersive, metaverse-inspired activations, a vivid, colorfully-designed footprint and […]
Unilever brand Liquid I.V. has launched its first-ever national branding campaign across TV, OTT and out-of-home media channels to drive awareness and educate consumers about its hydration product. AdExchanger explores the company’s new approach to measurement, which taps media mix modeling, and its unique marketing journey from a Facebook and Instagram-based company to a successful […]
True to form, Reddit’s activation at the 2022 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which ran live and in person, June 20-24, was as playful and irreverent as it was informative. The overarching takeaway, according to Will Cady, global director at Reddit’s in-house creative house, Karma Lab, who led press on a spirited tour of […]
Rumble Boxing, a boutique fitness brand known for its high-energy workouts and ’90s hip-hop vibe, was born in a city. But since its Big Apple founding in 2017, the franchise has expanded to 25 studios across the U.S. and, most recently, set up shop in Australia and the Dominican Republic. We spoke with Rumble Boxing […]
Check out this photo tour of six can’t-miss activations from San Diego Comic-Con following its three-year hiatus, according to coverage in Event Marketer, from Audible’s massive sand sculptures to FX’s fright-filled, walkable labyrinth to HBO’s beautifully fabricated “House of the Dragon”-themed castle.
In the land of third-party cookie deprecation, marketers have been handed a reprieve. Google announced that it will—again—delay the phase-out from Chrome until the second half of 2024. Claiming in a blog post that feedback from the industry was the motivation behind the extension, Google says that the extra time will allow for additional technology […]
Metaverse activations allow marketers to tap into new retail channels within immersive experiences while simultaneously building stronger relationships between brands and consumers. Here are several issues marketers should keep in mind while testing out the metaverse, according to a piece in Multichannel Merchant, from balancing between branding and performance campaigns to developing new metrics to […]
In its first experiential tour, Ghirardelli activated a sampling campaign that positioned its chocolate squares as a delicious centerpiece to an American campfire classic: the s’more. In a piece from Event Marketer, read how the brand’s flexible footprint, designed like a backyard, charmed consumers across the country while capturing valuable shopper marketing data.
What are the greatest challenges to your business from a marketing perspective, and what solutions are you implementing to meet them? CM asked four CMOs, leading marketing departments at a tech company, a wellness brand, a sports league and a media hub, to share their thoughts this week on the above. We learned that differentiation […]
Following are five ways a martech platform investment can facilitate your brand’s digital transformation, according to an article in Multichannel Merchant, from customer data management to marketing orchestration to AI-powered personalization and experimentation.