Whirlwind summers, wishing we were waterproof, and 3am wake-ups: 

At The Digital Voice™, we say go big or go home on events ✨ 

As we’re closing in on August, that means one big thing for our team at The Digital Voice™, and across many other companies in our industry – the 2024 event season is taking a well-deserved wind down!

From May to July the adtech industry is booming with events both across the UK and internationally, and where our incredible clients go - we do too! So to commemorate another fantastic summer of event successes, highs and lows (lows only referencing our phone batteries from all the pictures we took!), check out what you may have missed below. 

Stop 1: Cannes 2024

This year, with a bright and bushy 3am start for our team to catch our flight, Cannes Lions was back and better than ever. With our clients Veraviews, Nectar360, Onetag, Responsible Marketing Agency, Brand Metrics, GumGum, Utiq, Jellyfish, Multilocal, and SeenThis all attending, our team were out in full force ready to support! Our highlights, you ask? Here we go…

• Nectar360’s Retail Media Summit 
• Veraviews’ Annual Ad-tech kick-off lunch 
• Torrential rain on day 4 meant our team walked around Cannes resembling four large versions of ET (see the image to the right!).
• Visiting our clients Jellyfish and GumGum at their sponsored spaces
• Women in Cannes taking the week by storm! 
• The Digital Voice™ and Client Partners sponsorship of Little Black Book’s beach, featuring the ‘WTAF is Responsible Marketing?!’ panel from Multilocal, Onetag, Responsible Marketing Agency, Digiday and SeenThis.
  

Stop 2: MAD//Fest 2024 + the Female Leaders’ Club 

What a week! MAD//Fest’s theme for 2024 was ‘Fortune Favours the Bold’ and kudos to the MAD//Fest team, because we left the event at the end of the week feeling both bold, and incredibly fortunate to have been part of such an amazing few days. Why, you may ask? Let’s do a whistle-stop tour below of MAD//Fest 2024 in case you missed it.

• This year The Digital Voice™ was a partner of the Female Leaders’ Club at MAD//Fest, which was bigger and better than ever after its monumental success last year! You may have seen us teeing this awesome area up on our own socials with the production of the “Cappuccinos and c*ck-ups” interview series (find it HERE)
• Julia Linehan ran the “Leap to Lead” series on stage covering topics across Women in Sales, leadership without age limits and leading in sustainability. Looking for some daily inspiration? Check out our favourite quotes below that simply smashed the advice out of the park:
• Oyin Akiniyi in her discussion with Lianre Robinson -  “I walk into every room and come as my authentic self” and “TELL people what you want!”
• Sara Vincent in ‘Leap to Lead: Women in Sales’ - “Put yourself out there. It’s scarier, but it’ll pay off”
• Claire Ferreira in her tearing up the rulebook talk - “If you feel like you’ve got a fight on at the moment, you are not on your own”
• Daniel Pirchio in ‘Leap to Lead: learning to be a young leader’ - “You have to believe more in what you can do - and do MORE of that!”
• Julia Linehan “Let’s say FU to failure”
• Did we mention that our Founder & CEO, Julia Linehan took to the main stage with FERNE MCCANN? Leading a huge live breathwork session on ‘from Burnout to Bliss’ on the one and only HEX stage,, it was one for the events hall of fame. 

Here’s our team tearing up another MAD//Fest below - catch us there next year!

Stop 3: iPX 2024

Next stop: the 42nd floor of London’s Leadenhall building for iPX 2024! impact.com made a splash as always with their incredible partnerships focused event, with sponsors Hello Partner, Scale, Thoughtmix and Silverbean alongside them. This event saw:

• All-day content with a view! The pink and blue hues of the stage weren’t the only things that stood out, with the days’ highlights inclusive of Bruce Daisley as keynote speaker, product roadmaps with the Senior team, Content creators Adrian Valia and Julia Salume on stage, partnership success with B&Q, and much more. 
• impact.com also offered passport holder personalisation live with guests on the day! On the way out, guests created their own goodie bags from the ‘make your own gift bag section’ including earpods, bucket hats, eco-seed planters and Silverbean’s phone ring lights. 
• At the event, guests were treated to delicious Espresso Martinis, ice creams, Wimbledon-themed strawberries & cream, and of course, impact.com’s classic Happy Hour to finish off an amazing day. 
• Not to forget the iPX afterparty! With branded handpicked cocktails including ‘MAMMA MIA: it’s iPX!’ and ‘Silverbean’s Italian Job’ , guests partied the night away with red carpets, classic movie previews, a retro photobooth, and said cheers to a great day of content hosted by impact.com.
  

Stop 4: GumGum’s Brussels Summer Party + Soiree on the Thames!
And last, but absolutely not least, GumGum wasn’t quite ready to wind down yet, with two more incredible July events to round off the season. 

Firstly, our team headed to Belgium for GumGum’s Disco Cowboy Rodeo in Brussels. Whoever said we didn’t know how to end the busy season with a bang, or in this case, a yeehaw? With a bucking bull, western themed decor, and plenty of cowboy boots and hats, the GumGum team and their guests partied the night away, making it an unmissable event of the summer!

There was much more where that came from the following week, as our team returned back to London for GumGum’s Summer Boat party which cruised along the Thames during sunset. A special treat for all as we welcomed garage legends Artful Dodger for a DJ set, and England triumphed in the the Euros semi final - it was a night to remember for all attendees.

Stop 5: H2 is coming – let’s get ready.

So, there you have it. It’s been an event season full of wonderful clients, wet weather, early wake-ups, and wild rides for our team. After the buzz of H1, we couldn’t be more excited for what H2 has in store for us. Keep an eye out - there’s much more to come, and if it’s one thing we can count on, it’s that our clients and our team are here to LOVE IT. OWN IT. IMPROVE IT!

Rosie Hutchinson is The Digital Voice™’s Events and Content Manager. A first-class Bachelor of Laws graduate from the University of Manchester, Rosie has transferred these skills throughout her three years of event experience and is hugely passionate about all things creativity, analysis and of course, events!