The Cannes Film Festival is back with a live, in-person event which opens today and runs through July 17. In an email we received today announcing the kick off of the Festival, the organizer said “the emotion was palpable in the Grand Théâtre Lumière for the return of the Festival to Cannes after its cancellation last year due to the global pandemic.” We have received … Read the...

We joined 250,000 visitors who attended Boot Dusseldorf in-person a few years ago (see our after-show post) and have followed the marketing for this annual boat and water sports show since then. We recently noticed Boot launched a new podcast initiative and highlight it because podcasting is surging and offers unique promotional opportunities for show organizers. An estimated 116 million people listen to podcasts … Read the...

As video is the fastest growing advertising format in the digital campaigns we handle for our exhibition and event clients, we are always analyzing video marketing programs for other shows and the deft use of video by Watches and Wonders 2021 caught our attention. This pair of major shows held April 7 – 18, 2021 for the watchmaking industry brought together the world’s leading brands … Read the...

The latest digital trends, media and technologies offer exciting and powerful opportunities for event marketers.  There are also challenges, especially the changing privacy landscape and inevitable phase-out of third-party cookies. This means BIG CHANGES to online advertising, including retargeting, a tactic widely used by show organizers. Start evolving your strategy now so you are prepared for a third-party cookie-less world and avoid a major disruption … Read the...

We visited BRAFA a few years ago when we were in Brussels (see our post) so were curious what this international art fair was doing this year considering the pandemic and that it has never been postponed or canceled in its 65 year history. We found BRAFA’s strategy to be an innovative solution to the current challenging environment for physical events. Their approach was also … Read the...

For the past 40 years, the film industry has converged in Santa Monica every fall for the American Film Market (AFM), which drives over one billion dollars in deals annually. This year, due to the pandemic, distributors, filmmakers, writers, buyers and other professionals instead converged at AFM’s new online campus from November 9 – 13.  Visitors came from 82 countries – more countries than … Read the...

Like many events, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest book fair which attracted more than 300,000 visitors last year, had to adapt its plans for the 72nd edition held October 14 – 18, 2020 due to Covid-19. Based on the numbers reported by the fair organizer, their first-ever primarily digital fair resonated well with their audiences.  200,000 users worldwide participated in the … Read the...