1. SECRETS TO OSCAR CAMPAIGNING AT EVENTS: Oscar campaigning means showing up to the right events, staging your own, and getting the right people to attend. The Hollywood Reporter rounds up the best strategies that the contenders are using this year: “How do you get jaded voters to show up for yet another event? Promise them a show. So far, one of the season's biggest hits was a Mary Poppins sing-along that the movie's co-composer Richard Sherman led at the Beverly Hills Hotel to promote Saving Mr. Banks—even Sean Penn got into the spirit.” http://bit.ly/17Ml2XK
2. HOW MILLENNIALS REACT TO LIVE EVENTS ON TV: Pepsi, a major event sponsor, took a closer look at how viewers responded to the MTV Video Music Awards—yes, the one with Miley Cyrus twerking—and learned that millennials were more likely to jump immediately onto social media while older viewers waited longer. They also gravitated to different networks. Adweek: “During the VMAs, Facebook was the most popular social media brand, accounting for 41 percent of consumer usage, followed by Twitter with 32 percent. And while Cyrus’ antics burned up Twitter, performances by Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry had fans taking to Facebook to discuss.” http://bit.ly/17KnE8A
3. AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS RATINGS UP: Nearly 13 million viewers tuned in to the American Music Awards, its highest ratings in four years. The only show it couldn’t beat: NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Entertainment Weekly: “The numbers represent the show’s second-biggest audience in 11 years, plus was up 86 percent from 2012 among teen viewers. The AMAs easily dominated every other entertainment show on broadcast.” http://bit.ly/1gbWdXD
* LOCAL NEWS *
CHICAGO: American Junkie now has an upper-level nightclub and event space called the Attic. The space has a private party room, hidden behind a one-way mirror, that can hold 40 guests.
LAS VEGAS: Las Vegas is angling for a bump in tourism after it hosted the World Routes aviation conference. "Unfortunately, Las Vegas probably won’t see any big payoff—if there is one—for up to two years. That’s because it will take time for airlines to analyze Las Vegas as a destination.” Vegas Inc: http://bit.ly/1bhsLA0
The International Tourism Safety Association, the Las Vegas Security Chiefs Association, and ISC West announced an agreement in which they will co-locate their events in one venue in 2014. Both the International Tourism Safety Conference and ISC West will be held during the first week in April at the Sands Expo Convention Center.
LOS ANGELES: On Friday, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment presented the “One Direction iHeartRadio Album Release Party” to launch the group's new album, Midnight Memories. Ryan Seacrest hosted the event at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles, Clear Channel's new music and event venue located at the Burbank Studios in Burbank.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and InStyle hosted a press conference and cocktail reception revealing Miss Golden Globe 2014 Sosie Bacon (daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick) on Thursday night at Fig & Olive in West Hollywood.
Local event listings from Masterplanner: http://www.masterplanneronline.com/losangeles
MIAMI/SOUTH FLORIDA: Kosher Food & Wine Experience is December 18 at Gulfstream Park’s Sport of Kings Theater. The event will offer more than 30 wines and food prepared by kosher caterers and restaurants in South Florida. Women’s International Zionist Organization of Florida is hosting the event in partnership with Israeli Wine Producers Association, and the event is being promoted by Rockaway PR.
Registation has opened for the 30th edition of Cruise Shipping Miami conference and exhibition March 10-13 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. A V.I.P. pass will provide amenities such as complimentary valet parking and concierge service, access to a special lounge, more lunch selections, and reserved seating at the State of the Industry session.
American Social has created a drink menu in celebration of Movember, the mustache-growing movement for charity, and will host a "Mustachio Bashio" December 5 with mustache contests and other entertainment.
NEW ORLEANS: The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau has named Robert Reso its director of new business development.
NEW YORK: Read the best lines from Tina Fey, host of last week's American Museum of Natural History’s gala, including this one: “It’s my favorite time of the year in New York. It’s the magical time when all the smells freeze over. The tree is up in Rock Center, and—when it comes time to take it down—just like any New Yorker, they drag it to the building next door and pretend like they don’t know how it got there.” Vanity Fair: http://vnty.fr/1enhkWh
Local event listings from Masterplanner: http://www.masterplanneronline.com/newyork
TORONTO: Frocktail Five will take place at the Arcadian Lofts on November 28. The event supports the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
WASHINGTON: 826DC and the Museum of Unnatural History are hosting a holiday benefit December 3 at U Street Music Hall. The open bar from Bean International and DC Brau will have speciality cocktails and DC Brau Public beer, and DJ KC of the Fatback DJs will spin.
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With contributions from Jenny Berg in Chicago, Alesandra Dubin in Los Angeles, Mitra Sorrells in Orlando, and Beth Kormanik, Lauren Matthews, and Anna Sekula in New York.
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