Live events are emotional by nature—but how do you actually measure their impact? Today on Modern Marketing and Measurement, I’m talking with Ollie Blake, VP of Strategy at AEG Global Partnerships International about the data behind live entertainment partnerships. We dig into AEG’s Live Effect research, how emotional engagement translates into brand performance, and what modern measurement looks like when experience, data, and activation all come together.
Any global event, whether sport or entertainment, creates the same temptation for brands to prioritise presence over purpose. But the biggest lesson from this World Cup is not that brands need to shout louder, it is that promotional activity performs best when it reflects how people actually experience the tournament.
The brands that succeed over the next decade will be the ones that rediscover the simple truth of why they exist, and stretch towards the dream of how they can add more to the world, then express that clearly and consistently in everything they do.
When agencies are able to demonstrate likely outcomes before campaigns launch, conversations become less speculative and more evidence-based.
