We recently joined water sports enthusiasts and trade visitors from around the world at boot Düsseldorf, and want to share one of our takeaways: the boot.club, the show’s visitor community which has grown to 110,000 members. It was hard to miss the promotion for the boot.club on the website, during the ticket buying process and while we were at the show.  We saw substantial … Read the...

The iconic champagne house joined forces with Frieze Los Angeles to bring its sponsorship to life at the recent art fair via a new artistic initiative, the R.U.in.ART Performance, with a performance piece inside the Ruinart Lounge. According to the fair website, “The R.U.in.ART Performance aims to reinforce and celebrate Ruinart’s commitment to the arts, and to the thriving Los Angeles scene by engaging all … Read the...

A few weeks ago, we joined 66,000 collectors, new buyers, connoisseurs and art enthusiasts from around the world at the 64th edition of BRAFA in Brussels to see fine art, antiques, modern and contemporary art and design displayed by exhibitors across some 165,000 square feet of exhibition space. We got one of our best marketing takeaways not at the actual event but at our hotel.  … Read the...

Native ads will make up nearly 60% of US digital display spending in 2018, according to eMarketer, and spend on native digital display is up 31% year over year. Encore client, American Film Market (AFM), has been using native, a type of advertising that fits the natural form and function of its environment, for several years to attract industry professionals from around the world … Read the...

We are always on the lookout for innovative ideas from show organizers, and a unique program presented by DMEXCO and Lufthansa certainly caught our attention. The annual digital marketing expo and conference, which attracts 40,000 visitors from 100+ countries, opened today in Cologne. However, industry professionals who wanted to get the ball rolling early were able to participate in an exclusive in-flight event on Sept. … Read the...

Today’s automated retargeting solutions make it very easy to use a “set it and forget it” approach to retargeting. While these solutions are very sophisticated and can streamline workflow, it is difficult to reach optimum KPIs without ongoing human guidance based on our experience buying tens of millions of retargeting and other programmatic online ads around the world for exhibitions and events. We share five … Read the...

We recently attended the Cannes Film Festival, and share one of our takeaways… a new promotion called “3 Days in Cannes”. For the first time this year, the organizer invited 1,500 film lovers between the ages of 18 – 28 from around the world to apply for a free pass to attend the last three days of the Cannes Film Festival (airfare and lodging … Read the...