Bluelithium to Host Pre-ad:tech Party
Bluelithium, the company that’s “reinventing the ad network,” is reinventing the ad:tech party. On April 20 at 6PM, a week prior to the ad:tech San Francisco show, Bluelithium, famous for its ad:tech Ruby Skye blowouts, will host a party at Le Colonial and feature belly danvers, caligraphers and other Asian and French Colonial inspired activities, an open bar and small plates. We assume small plates means hors douvres...or however you spell that. To request an invitation, please contact Carla Vicens of blast! PR at (919) 833-9975 x.10 or .
read more...Monday Night Party Report
The Chicago ad:tech party scene Monday night was much more subdued than San Francisco and New York shows. The evening kicked off with the traditional Tribal Fusion post-exhibit cocktail and munchies party held at the back of the the Sheraton exhibit hall. Great tasting Tribal Fusion branded beer was served along with fried finger food. We spent some time speaking with United Virtualities’ Director of Channel Partnerships Natalia Scalia who made the trip to ad:tech from Argentina and Miami-based Nearly Natural Business Development Manager Stephen Wechsler (who apparently has to clarify to business card recipients that his company deals with flowers, not breast implants). After discussions regarding ooqa ooqa, shoshkeles and silk flowers, we headed upstairs to the ad:tech speakers reception held in one of the hotel’s bars.
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Monday Night Party Update
Either there’s, sadly, not much in the way of social events going on Monday night or we just haven’t been invited. We do know Tribal Fusion is hosting an invite-only networking event from 8 p.m. to midnight aboard Chicago’s First Lady. The boat is docked near Michigan Avenue at Wacker Drive. The Chicago Interactive Marketing Association, along with Leapfrog Online, is hosting a party at the Rock Bottom Brewery Gold Room and Rooftop (One West Grand) from 6:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. The first 300 guests will get open bar and a free buffet.
UPDATE: Commission Junction is hosting an early party at Sushi Samba’s Rooftop Lounge at 504 North Wells Street beginning at 6PM. Open bar until 7:30P but it’s invite only so stop by their booth for an invite. Be nice. They can’t invite everyone.
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Monday Night Party Report
Monday Night Party Update
AD:TECH San Francisco Party Plans Revealed
Earlier on Monday, TribalFusion will, as always, host the Grand Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall beginning at 5PM. Immediately following, will be the PartnerWeekly Mixer, a Las Vegas-style event complete with blackjack, held in the Marriott Hotel’s Club room from 6:30P to 8:30P. Web marketing and measurement firm SEMphonic will host an event from 4PM to 6PM in Suite J, fifth floor of the Marriott and debut its new MarketScan product. Following these early evening events, there are reports of an “exclusive” party hosted by YFDirect at an undisclosed location.
On Tuesday night, AdDrive and Impulse Marketing will co-host host The GRS Poker Tournament from 8:30P to 12:30A at the Marriott’s View Lounge. A prize of $10,000 towards a World Poker Tour Main Event will be offered. Also Tuesday night, the International Game Developer Association will host an event at Metreon beginning at 7PM and featuring work by 4orty2wo Entertainment, creator of ILoveBees, followed by free food and drink at LJ’s.
read more...AD:TECH Tuesday Night Party Report
The first stop for our entourage was the Hilton Hotel bar. Yes, we know it’s not very exciting but it was time well spent after standing up on the floor all day doing business. Drinks and appetizers were shared with Underscore Marketing’s Tom Hespos and Jim Meskauskas as well as Integrated Media Solutions‘ Jason Oates. After debating the merits of the consumer control trend and, visiting Booble on our hand helds to pass time, Tom and Jim headed off to a client dinner and we cabbed our way down to the Eyeblaster Awards party at Show.
AD:TECH Monday Night Party Report
Once the exhibit hall cleared out, attendees headed down to the hotel bar where Overture held its Mixer providing attendees, perhaps for the first time today, a place to sit down. relax and spend some time with business associates in a more informal environment. A full compliment of buffet items were available to cater to all food preferences - as long as those preferences were limited to fried food. The day’s hunger won out over any concern for cholesterol levels.
Next up was the Viral and Buzz Marketing Association’s get together held at Whiskeys. The venue was, for once, conducive to conversation even if the lighting was such that significant squinting was required to see who you were talking to. Open bar had a way of making this irrelevant. The center of the party was DMC Founder Justin Kirby who was decked out, head to toe, in a shimmering white suit. Just before leaving, a conversation with Pod Digital Design Principal Liz Curran and her co-principal husband ensued leading to the discovery the Curran’s living a stone’s throw from our little Massachusetts town.
read more...AD:TECH Party Invites Rolling In
As the New York AD:TECH show approaches, inboxes are beginning to fill with party invites as companies vie for conference attendee’s attention. Online ad network, Bluelithium, reprising its San Fancisco party of last May, has sent out a fancy Flash invite for an event that will be held at New York’s Show Nightlife from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., Tuesday, November 9. Also hitting inboxes is an invite for the Tribal Fusion party to be held Monday night, November 8 from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tribal Fusion promises an open bar all night. Bluelithium promises an hour of open bar from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Plan accordingly.
Tribal Fusion will also host the Grand Opening Reception in the Exhibit Hall on Monday from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Following that, Overture will host The Overture Mixer from 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m. Without a moment to rest, the New York Interactive Advertising Club, 212, invites you to their event beginning at 8 p.m. - location TBD. A full list of official AD:TECH social events is here.
read more...Monday Night Party Report
As I awoke in my hotel room and stumbled over to my laptop, there was an email from the esteemed editor of this publication asking, “Party report? The world wants to know. - EOM.” I replied bleary-eyed, “It’s on it’s way.” So here it is. As you may or may not know, party coverage is very difficult, requires preparation (napping) and recovery (sleeping late) hence the lateness of this report.
read more...Blue Lithium, the Good and the Bad
These are the things I learned tonight at the Blue Lithium party.
- AD:TECHers quickly become surly unless there is an open bar.
- There is no good time to cut the music off to present your corporate video.
- You only have about 30 seconds to say what you want to say after cutting off the music. If it is an open bar, maybe make it one minute.
- If there are scattered boos from the crowd, don’t respond with “Don’t boo, I’ll kill you.” It just doesn’t come off right, even when you are joking.
For a short Quicktime video of the trapeze act, click here.
read more...Tuesday Night Party Report
Following the closing of the exhibit hall and with no on-site vendor-hosted parties, the hotel bar filled to capacity. Several found their way across the street to the Atom/Shockwave party where there were prize drawings every half hour, with one of the first prizes won by consultant extraordinaire Tia Fix. Many regulars appeared.
After bluelithium quieted down, the party moved up the street to the Cliff Room, a high-ceilinged, low key bar with lots of comfy chairs making late night conversation pleasurable.
read more...bluelithium To Unveil Three New Products at Tonight’s Party
Six month old ad network bluelithium will unveil three new products during their party tonight at 11PM. The three products are are an expansion of their current CPM, CPC and CPA product lines and are said to be “revolutionary.” Attend yourself and decide just how revolutiuonary they really are. Get your party invite here.
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