Discover Wauwatosa

Background:

Wauwatosa is located immediately west of Milwaukee, and is a part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. It is named after the Potawatomi Chief Wauwataesie and the Potawatomi word for firefly.

Discover Wauwatosa is the city’s tourism initiative, helping to bring guests into the area and ensuring they have a fun and memorable experience during their stay.

Engagement Needs:

Discover Wauwatosa is establishing itself as a world-class destination for the arts. The city’s previous art activations included the Magic Murals, a seven-part mural art installation that can be seen along the North Avenue corridor in the North Mural Arts District, also known as “NoMAD.”

Discover Wauwatosa was looking for an experience that would build upon these previous initiatives while making a public splash and bringing guests from around the country to the city.

Key Insights:

NEWaukee hosted a series of planning meetings with both City of Wauwatosa staff, including its Deputy City Administrator and Tourism Specialist, to uncover the following insights:

• The proposed program should bring people from greater than 30 miles outside of the city into the city with the intention to book a stay at one of the Wauwatosa area hotels.
• The proposed program should drive foot traffic and sales at local Wauwatosa small businesses. NEWaukee developed a strong relationship with The Village of Wauwatosa BID (Business Improvement District) and one-on-one relationships with many business owners.
• Any experience involving artists should include voices of artists/artist organizations on the planning team. To do this, NEWaukee included leaders from several area arts organizations and local businesses on planning committees.
• In order to achieve brand awareness as a destination for the arts and bring in attendees from 30+ miles outside of Wauwatosa, the experience’s marketing campaign needed to be robust and involve strong media partnerships.

Results:

• 8,000+ attendees over two days
• 64 participating artists
• Attendees from 41 US states and 12 countries
• 6 million impressions
• 75K total website page visits (2022-2023)
• Earned media coverage in 9 media outlets
• 5,320 emails collected for retargeting
• Thousands of dollars in estimated economic impact

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Talk to Angela to get started: angela@newaukee.com

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Experience Design

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Results:

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