Client: Sorin Heart Valves

Project: Hanging Banners for the AATS 91st Annual Meeting

Planning/Goals of Project:

In the Periscope article Banners You Just Couldn’t Miss, Part I, Armada designed four circular, double-sided banners specifically for a unique space at the San Diego Convention Center. These are no ordinary banners, with a diameter of 19 feet. Based on our outstanding success at the San Diego conference, our client, a global medical device manufacturer — Sorin Group — negotiated with AATS conference managers to use these same banners in the Grand Hall at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery 91st Annual Meeting in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Our marketing team was presented with another challenging scenario for this meeting: sponsor space in the Pennsylvania Convention Center to display the banners (the easy part) and figure out a way to effectively hang them (the difficult part) in this unique venue.

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Client: Sorin Heart Valves

Project: Hanging Banners for the STS 47th Annual Meeting

Planning/Goals of Project:

In evaluating sponsorship opportunities for Sorin Heart Valves (based in Arvada, Colo.) for the first of two primary thoracic surgeon events in the U.S., we believed that securing all of the hanging banners offered in the San Diego Convention Center would have the greatest impact. With prominent placement around entrances and exits to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons 47th Annual Meeting, the banners offered the perfect opportunity to quickly and concisely communicate perceived value of the company’s heart valve portfolio while reinforcing the market positioning as “the choice of cardiac surgeons worldwide.”

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Client: Atherotech Diagnostics Lab

Project: Conference Invitation

Planning/Goals of Project:

Atherotech, makers of the VAP® Cholesterol Test, sought to meet and influence a large number of attendees during the National Lipid Association conference in Washington D.C. It was decided that the best way to do this would be an off-site event during the conference.

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And Armada’s Big Game Ad Analysis

Is watching the Super Bowl bad for your health? Experts came out before the championship match to say that the onslaught of junk food advertisements perpetuates America’s obesity epidemic.

Food and beverage companies paid millions to make up one-third of the ads aired Sunday, according to Advertising Age. (Car companies owned one-third or so, with the remainder split among websites, film studios, and retail chains.) With 111 million viewers — the most watched American TV broadcast ever — including millions of children, ads pitching high calorie foods, saturated fat snacks and carb-loaded drinks made their way into the American psyche and likely kitchen tables, too.

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