Live Union Wins Grand Prix Title At C&IT Awards
Live Union has been hailed best of the best, taking home the Grand Prix title at this year’s C&IT Awards.
Earlier in the evening, the team was delighted to have been awarded ‘Best Celebratory Event’ for the delivery of Arm 30 house party.
In 2020 a year of activity was planned to celebrate Arm’s thirtieth birthday. The climax of which was to be a party in December. Originally planned as a physical event locally in each office, due to the pandemic it was decided to celebrate together virtually.
Against this backdrop, the challenge was to create an amazing virtual party that went the extra-mile to engage. With just 8 weeks to go, Live Union were appointed to provide a full-service virtual solution including: creative, content and production.
The creative idea was the Arm 30 House Party, a universally understood concept, with a nice link to home working, ideal for a non-corporate culture and providing lots of creative opportunities for a fantastic party!
Live Union’s Beehive virtual platform hosted the House Party, and like all good parties there was no curfew - it ran round the clock for three days engaging employees around the world. As people moved through the house, they discovered a huge range of content. For example, in the bedroom there were live performances by bands and DJs, and the attic hosted celebrity cameos and games. Each region had tailored content and people were able to engage with performers and entertainers live. It’s hard to imagine a more exacting audience for a virtual experience than Arm engineers, but the evaluation proved the Arm 30 House Party to be resounding success.
If you'd like to speak to the team to find out how to create award winning events get in touch via enquiries@liveunion.co.uk
Beehive Shortlisted For Best Platform Award
Beehive Shortlisted
For Best Virtual Event Platform Award
Live Union's virtual platform Beehive has been shortlisted for Best Virtual Event Platform in the Event Technology Awards 2021.
Designed by event professionals for event professionals, Beehive is Live Union’s highly customisable virtual event platform. Live Union created Beehive to meet the needs of their existing clients as they pivoted from live to virtual. Since its inception Beehive has been used for a range events from conferences, exhibitions, employee engagement, onboarding and global celebrations.
From engagement planning to content design, the Live Union team helps clients reimagine their events on Beehive.
The team is delighted to see the platform recognized in these prestigious awards and looks forward to the winners being announced on 20th September 2021.
If you'd like to find out more about Beehive or to see the platform for yourself get in touch with the team at enquries@liveunion.co.uk
Live Union Shortlisted For Two C&IT Awards
Live Union shortlisted
for two C&IT Awards
Live Union is delighted to be shortlisted for two prestigious C&IT awards.
We have made it to the finals for both Celebratory Event of the Year and Internal Communications Event of the Year.
Both shortlisted events were delivered by our team during the pandemic on our virtual platform, Beehive.
The winners will be announced on 17th September 2021 at The Londoner Hotel. Fingers crossed!
If you'd like to find out more about how to create award-winning events get in touch with our team at enquries@liveunion.co.uk
Beehive Launches Circles Functionality
Beehive Launches
Circles Functionality
Beehive launches Circles functionality - turning virtual experiences into communal experiences.
To see Circles in action watch our 1 minute video here
With virtual becoming a permanent part of a multi-channel event future, audiences want to enjoy the informal conversations – the corridor chats – that are such a valued part of in-person events. Beehive’s Circles function makes this a reality.
As you travel through a Beehive event, you and your Circle can share ideas on the go. You can recommend content to one another and keep in touch wherever you are in the event.
You can choose to set up your own Circle of up to six people or join someone else’s. Alternatively, the event organiser can pre-populate Circles.
Circles is the perfect way for friends and colleagues to enjoy virtual and hybrid events together.
To find out more about Circles book a Beehive demo with our team by emailing info@beehive.global
Live Union Wins Virtual Event Award
Live Union Wins
Virtual Event Award
The winners of the Virtual Events Institute’s (VEI) first Virtual & Hybrid Event Awards were revealed last week, and we are delighted to have won! Live Union were awarded Best Virtual & Hybrid Employee Engagement Event.
This winning event was delivered on our virtual platform Beehive, bringing together over 7,000 employees to celebrate a major company milestone. The event took full advantage of the highly customisable nature of the platform, every element was tailored to reflect the business. Live Union were responsible for the design and delivery, including producing the content and live streaming the 72 hour round-the-clock event.
That's Interesting March
That's Interesting March
Welcome to March's ‘That’s Interesting'. This month you’ll find views on the future of events, go behind the scenes at the most incredible music festival and stop by one of the world’s greatest live spectacles.
Most Interesting
Your 2021 Event Audience (7min read)
As we look towards a post-pandemic world, what do audiences value? Jez's M&IT article shares the findings of our Anatomy of the 2021 Event Audience Report.
Just Plain Interesting
Shorter, Smarter Conferences (5min read)
Wired magazine's view on how the pandemic will change conferences.
How Tomorrowland Was Created (15min read)
Not surprisingly this took rather a lot of producing!
COP26 - In-Person, Live or Hybrid (5min read)
Why it really really needs to be live.
Event KPIs (5min read)
A useful resource.
Jam Sessions(2min explore)
A useful resource.
Harbin Ice Festival (1min explore)
One of the world's great spectacles
Book To Read
The Art of Gathering(1min read)
Looks like essential reading for anyone working in events - we'll report back!
Audiences Unleashed
People-Led Experience Design
Audience Immersion
Shifting audience needs are creating new opportunities for experience design. Engagement that achieves deeper connections, deeper conversation, deeper convictions.
Audiences Unleashed
Sharing a people-first approach to experience design. New formats that are responding to a changed business landscape and
empowering audiences.
Leaders Unleashed
Exploring new ways to design leadership
events that go far beyond traditional formats, putting leaders at the heart of the conversation
and changing behaviours.
Download Report
Download our report on live experiences for a changed business landscapeThe pandemic changed people’s
relationship with work.
Their motivations, their day-to-day interactions and how
they like to lead and be led have all shifted.
This is creating exciting opportunities to design events
for newly empowered audiences.
In our new report we share an approach to experience
design that puts people first. We also unpack some
audience-centric formats that are delivering for
businesses in this new landscape.
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Audiences Unleashed report
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Audiences Unleashed report
Interesting December
Interesting December
Welcome to December's ‘That’s Interesting’. This month you’ll find a fascinating insight into virtual sets, the pros and cons of live and pre-recorded content and a virtual gig with an audience of 5million.
Most Interesting
Virtual Sets (8min watch)
The incredible use of virtual sets in film making. Expect to see this level of production coming to events.
Just Plain Interesting
Live or Pre-recorded content? (3min read)
Good way to address 2020’s no 1 FAQ
Par extra for a Full VR Experience(3min explore)
Interesting experiment in the future of virtual events
Deep fake your Audience(4min read)
Mind blowing way to reduce bandwidth and achieve higher quality streams
Simple, Striking Presentation (2min watch)
Black background and augmented graphics makes the story zing
Something from the Music Biz
Social Distancing Flaming Lips Style (1min read)
Those bubbles were always going to come in handy
Dua Lipa Breaks Streaming Record (2min read)
An audience of 5million at £10 a ticket!
Post-lockdown
Post-lockdown
As you plan events beyond lockdown what are the scenarios for a changing and uncertain world?
We share solutions that will meet varied audience needs and their heightened expectations of virtual and hybrid experiences.
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20 x 20
At last week's Interesting Breakfast, Conor went all guns blazing with a high-octane pecha kucha. That's twenty slides each changing automatically after twenty seconds - whether he was ready or not!
The twenty slides shared inspiration, drawn from far and wide, for designing live experiences. You can download a version with descriptions, here. Enjoy!
