Impact

From pop-up to national brand.

Sloomoo Institute reframes ear piercing's experiential cousin — immersive, multi-sensory slime studios designed by contemporary artists. JBC's press program turned the pop-up concept into a national tourism brand, anchored by 17B+ impressions and multi-market launches across Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, and LA.

Sloomoo Institute LA studio
Client
Sloomoo Institute
Sector
Impact · Experiential
Partnership
2022 — Ongoing
The scoreboard

A tourism brand by the numbers.

Editorial reach measured the way an experiential brand should be — ticket sales, market launches, and the cultural moments that turn a venue into a destination.

17B+

Total media impressions across the partnership.

2022 — ongoing
$1M

Ticket sales in the first month after the LA opening.

September 2024 launch
1,000+

Combined consumer (600+) and regional (400+) media placements.

Multi-market launches
The challenge

Scale a pop-up into a national story.

How does an experiential pop-up become a multi-city tourism brand — with editorial reach that drives ticket sales in every market it enters?

Sloomoo had the artistic vision and the venues. What it needed was a press engine that translated immersive design into national tourism storytelling, regional launch coverage, and consumer features that drove ticket sales month after month.

That meant landing the brand in NYT, Fortune, Inc., WIRED, and The New Yorker for cultural credibility — while also running a regional press playbook for every new market opening.

The approach

Brand storytelling, market by market.

An integrated press program that operated at two scales simultaneously — national brand storytelling for editorial credibility, and a regional launch playbook tuned to drive ticket sales in every new market.

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National brand storytelling

Tier-one cultural credibility through features in NYT, Fortune, Inc., WIRED, The New Yorker, and PEOPLE — turning Sloomoo into a national experiential brand, not a regional curiosity.

02

Multi-market launches

A regional press playbook for each opening — Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, LA — designed to drive same-month ticket sales through local TV, lifestyle, and tourism press.

03

Free-programming campaigns

Free summer programming across all venues generated 876M impressions — community access stories that doubled as brand-building cultural credibility.

04

Broadcast revitalization

Creative broadcast campaigns to revitalize established markets — including the Tamron Hall Show feature — keeping Sloomoo in the cultural conversation between launches.

Sloomoo founders Karen Robinovitz and Sara
Founder as story

Karen Robinovitz, in cultural press.

Sloomoo's brand voice is its founder's voice. The press program built Karen Robinovitz into a category voice on experiential design, post-pandemic tourism, and the cultural moment around multi-sensory play — with editorial that treats the venues as art, not just attractions.

Coverage in The New York Times, The New Yorker, WIRED, Fortune, Inc., PEOPLE, and broadcast appearances on the Tamron Hall Show — building Sloomoo as a name editors trust with the experiential beat.

Launch moment · September 2024

The LA opening.

The Los Angeles opening drove 1.3B impressions and nearly $1M in ticket sales within the first month — a single market launch that demonstrated what a coordinated press playbook can do for a destination experience.

National brand press meets regional broadcast, lifestyle, and tourism coverage. The kind of editorial cadence that turns a launch into sustained traffic.

Sloomoo Houston community day
1.3B+
Impressions on the LA launch · $1M opening month.
Coverage highlights

Sloomoo, in tier-one press.

A selection of the moments and outlets that defined the partnership — cultural, business, lifestyle, and broadcast in tandem.

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Plus 1,000+ additional placements across consumer, regional, and broadcast outlets.

An experiential brand wins when the press treats every venue as a cultural moment — and every market launch as a national story.
— JBC's experiential-brand playbook
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