#4 ways to educate your audience on VR
Virtual Reality (VR) is being heralded as the next frontier in advertising, marketing, and storytelling. We know global search interest in VR grew nearly 4X over 2015 alone (data from Google). Still, there are large amounts of people that never tried it yet. That is because many people still feel intimidated by the technology, especially […]
Educating Audiences with Infotainment
The main goal of many of our clients is education. They want the audience to learn something—this is particularly true for our tradeshow clients but many others as well. Infotainment works well to achieve those goals. What is infotainment? Info from information combined with tainment from entertainment. In essence, it’s a great way to teach […]
What’s Hot in Experiential for 2016?
About a year ago, I wrote about the Tech Trends for 2015 and which ones matter. I took the angle of discussing that choosing the right technology to fit campaign goals is more important than choosing solutions simply for the sake of having a trendy gadget. Of course that still holds true but technology has […]
Measuring the ROI of Adding Branded Interactive Engagements to your Event
The one tried and true way of measuring overall ROI is to take the revenue generated, subtract the costs and divide by those costs to get the percentage. Seems simple enough. To measure the ROI of adding an experiential element to your booth is a bit more tricky and yet can still be determined. First, […]
Why Experiential Marketing Works
Experiential Marketing is on the rise and we’ve been busy, so it must be true. Marketers are dedicating larger budgets toward incorporating these initiatives into their marketing mix. According to Event Marketer’s Event Track 2014, it’s an increase of 5% and is expected to be higher throughout 2015. It also says that marketers saw an […]
Evolution of Advergames to Digital Marketing Platforms
Advergames are simply games that have been branded at one level or another. Early on, brand marketers saw the potential of the video game market (in the old days 1995-2000) and started customizing game experiences with brand elements to connect with audiences. One early brand experience created that I recall from this time period was […]
Pharmaceutical Experiential Marketing – Engagement Strategies
One of the issues facing pharmaceutical companies recently is the amount of rules and regulations that the FDA and industry regulatory committees have enacted. Giving aways pens and promotional gear depending on the circumstances can run afoul of these rules. One of our favorite, strong response generators for our experiential marketing campaigns has been the […]