How to Promote a Town with No Budget: The Magic of Zero-Cost Marketing
As you may have noticed, I’m not one for rigid editorial calendars. I prefer quality over quantity, and I dislike the idea of publishing a shallow piece just to meet a deadline. This article took days of reflection because it touches a raw nerve for so many of you—public administrators and destination managers I meet […]
From Empty Space to Destination in 48 Hours: The Rapid Reactivation Strategy
My fellow Mayors, my dear Councillors, we’ve all been there. You walk the streets of your municipality, the one you work for day and night, and you see it. The old cinema, its doors barred for decades, a ghost of collective laughter and dreams. The former industrial area on the outskirts, once the beating heart […]
Year-Round Tourism: How Peccioli Defeated the Tyranny of Seasonality
Hello, I’m Dario Riccio, and this is “The uneXt Blog”. Let’s talk about a sentence handed down to most of our wonderful towns and cities. It’s a silent tyranny that repeats every year: the tyranny of tourism seasonality. The economy of countless territories depends on a few, frantic months of summer tourism, leaving squares, restaurants, […]
Small Town Regeneration: The Castel del Giudice Model for a Real ROI
Hello, I’m Dario Riccio, and welcome the uneXt Blog. Today, let’s talk about a thorn in the side of every local administrator. It’s one of those questions that looms over every council meeting, a question the political opposition can’t wait to raise: how do we justify our spending on cultural events? “. I know the […]
From Local Fest to Full-Blown Phenomenon: How to Crush the Competition and Attract 100,000 Visitors. The Nameless Festival Case Study
Stop running the same boring local festival. One small Italian town went from obscurity to a youth tourism magnet by attracting over 100,000 people to its Nameless Festival. We dissect this powerful case study to reveal the “Blue Ocean Strategy” that ditches competition in favor of creating a whole new category of event. Here’s how you can do it too.
Secret Cinema: immersive, but social
Let’s meet Andrea Moccia, producer of Secret Cinema in London. A new way of making cinema, in which the world of film is recreated in reality.
The importance of sociality, how Secret Cinema works, how to find new ways to re-launch movie theaters, and more.
What is experiential cinema
Immersive, interactive, non-linear, multi-sensory and algorithmic. Let’s see how the cinema of the future will be experiential and engaging.
Immersive cinema is the future
What do Douglas Trumbull, Matthew Shifrin and many others have in common? They want to make cinema more immersive. To save the movie theater from the slow agony it is experiencing.
Influencer marketing for cinema
How do you do influencer marketing for cinema? Let’s discover the historical problems of cinema to study how they use social networks today.
