CASE STUDY
Beverly Hills Centennial
A Birthday Party Becomes an Experiential Lifestyle Event
Results
Executed a birthday block party for 15,000 people who ate a 4,000-lb chocolate cake
Featured on CNBC Closing Bell, Reuters, NBC News, and more
Over 700 million media impressions
“They go above and beyond what is asked and they think outside the box to help the brand.”
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Executive Manager, Luxe Hotels
When the city of Beverly Hills, renowned for its special glitz worldwide, turned 100 in 2014, it wanted to celebrate in a big way. A block party was staged on Rodeo Drive, creating a family-focused experiential event replete with a commissioned birthday cake by agency client Luxe Rodeo Drive Hotel, created in partnership with famed pastry chef Donald Wressell of the Guittard Chocolate Company.
The staggering 4,000-pound chocolate cake that depicted Beverly Hills City Hall and Rodeo Drive served 15,000 people, which generated hundreds of millions of earned media impressions as well as social media mentions. To build up momentum to that day, we “seeded” media stories, planned mini events, held a cake-tasting preview for media, showed off with a 3-D model of the cake design and shot a video of the “making-of-the-cake” — a time-lapse video that wowed viewers around the world when released.
