5 Keys to Planning Your Experiential Campaign
The dynamics of today’s market and how companies reach consumers is shifting. To address the new market dynamics, implementing experiential marketing in your marketing mix is quickly becoming a necessity. The question is no longer if you should be doing experiential, but how. If you’re new to the game, these five important keys-to-success will get you started.
10 Reasons Out of Home and Experiential Marketing are Essential to Strategic Account Planning
As strategic planners, our job is to consider the most effective and creative approaches that we can bring to market based on our clients’ goals, maximized budgets and, hopefully, a mix of genius creative spin. As an out of home and experiential marketing strategist, my job is to ensure that media planners, buyers and strategists are considering the often-overlooked channels that I work in throughout the year. In that spirit, here are 10 reasons why you should be taking a deeper look at Out of Home media and experiential marketing.
Mobile Tours: A Cost-Effective and Impactful Way to Reach a Hyper-Targeted Audience
A Mobile Tour allows a brand to maximize resources by designing a self-contained, fully-customizable, mobile exhibit space that creates a brand personality and easily travels where the target demographic actually lives, works and plays.
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The Numbers Behind Experiential Marketing [Infographic]
Experiential marketing is becoming a more popular tool in the advertisers tool belt. Brands and agencies are realizing how it can effectively establish a one-to-one relationship with consumers, generate positive brand awareness, and drive customer loyalty.
What is Experiential Marketing?
It goes by a lot of names…. “experiential marketing”, “event marketing”, “on-ground marketing”, “live marketing”, “participation marketing”, or “special events”. But no matter what name people use, it’s clear that there is one thing experiential marketing is, and that’s confusing. Experiential is still a (relatively) new channel, and it’s continuing to develop before our eyes. So, let’s take a look at some of the key features of what Experiential Marketing really is…
5 Important Trends For Out Of Home Media In 2018
As 2018 fast approaches, I see a number of key trends that will continue to dominate the Out of Home industry. Big data, digital strategies, location and audience analytics will continue the rapid transformation of the Out of Home media landscape, changing how advertisers plan, buy, and deliver creative. As new measurement techniques, and integration with digital channels come online they will continue to add to the value proposition for Out of Home, making it an even stronger component of a robust media plan.
Millennial Mindset Pt 3: The Experiential Element
What if I told you the best form of advertising to reach millennials isn’t really “advertising” at all? – at least not in the traditional sense. Our lives are centered around relationships, and while marketers seem to think those relationships are all online, most of us would still prefer face to face experiences. In my last article, we talked briefly about how experiential advertising is incredibly effective in campaigns targeting millennials. In this article, we’ll talk about why it’s absolutely necessary.
Expand Exhibitor Marketing Footprints With Unique New Promotional Sponsorships
Trade shows and conventions are critical marketing opportunities for exhibitors. Many companies devote relatively large portions of their marketing budget to these events recognizing the benefit of the face to face meetings.
One important part of trade show planning for exhibitors is taking advantage of sponsorship-advertising opportunities to increase their share of voice, and drive that all-important traffic to their booth. But for some associations it can be a struggle to keep pace with the exhibitor’s demand for new marketing strategies.
What is Out of Home Media? – An Introduction
When you say “Out of Home” most people will immediately think of billboards, but rarely do they go too far beyond that. The truth is Out of Home is an incredibly broad, and wildly diverse media channel that can reach consumers in a variety of ways. So, if you’re new to advertising, or you’d just like to brush up on OOH choices so you can sound really smart to your client, we’d like to provide a little bit of assistance.
A Tale of Two Retails: Why Real World Commerce is Still Key to Holiday Shopping
The growth of online shopping has been a popular headline for several years now, you can hardly look at any advertising related news sites without seeing an article with dire pronouncements about the death of brick and mortar stores. But when it comes to the holiday season, the numbers paint a very different picture.
A Day in the Life: Summer Festivals
I always look forward to this time of year — when the weather is just right, the atmosphere in the city is hopping, and everyone is ready to attend a calendar of summer events. With so many options for summer events and festivals to choose from, what type of day would your targeted group be facing?
Summer is Coming: Use Experiential to Connect with Your Customer
Summer is a time when you’re sure to see people outside, open to new experiences in the beautiful weather. Experiential marketing is the smartest way to reach your target audience to create positive lasting impressions, promote new items, boost sales and make your brand stand out.
Summer Vacation: Reaching tourists in major markets with Out of Home
This summer between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Americans will take over 600,000,000 long distance trips (TripAdvisor). Combine that with the fact that in 2015 leisure travelers in the U.S. spent over $650 billion (US Travel Association), it becomes clear that there is a strong marketing opportunity in tourist areas during the summer that is just waiting to be tapped.
Fortune Cookies, Smoothies and Dog Food – Oh My! An Experiential Update from EMC Events
With spring on the horizon it’s time for an update from our experiential experts at EMC Events.
Experiential Marketing for the Holidays – Top 5 Tips from the Experts
With the holidays fast approaching here are 5 important tips to remember to help your experiential marketing connect with busy consumers in a positive and memorable way.
Why Experiential? New studies show experiential marketing drives behavior
We live in a world of endless choices where new brands and fresh categories pop up with increasing regularity, all vying for a consumer’s attention and loyalty. Couple this with a technological revolution – all news, all the time, unending content, ad blockers - and...
Experiential Marketing – Another OOH Key to Memorability
Experiential Out of Home is not merely a cool gimmick to gain attention. It’s a proven tactic that elicits a deeper connection with consumers and greater memorability with prospects – thus, the perfect enhancement to any out of home campaign. A recent study by the...
Jennifer Stuart named Director of Events
Stuart will lead EMC Outdoor's National / International Experiential Division: EMC Events Jennifer Stuart has joined EMC Outdoor (www.emcoutdoor.com) as Director of Events, bringing over 14 years of event marketing experience to the EMC Outdoor team. Based out of New...