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The Fyre Festival: Some Marketing Takeaways

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

by Justin Grensing, Esq., MBA

 

A couple of years ago, Ja Rule — a rapper who rose to prominence in the early 2000s — and Billy McFarland — an entrepreneur and now convicted fraudster — organized the Fyre music festival. Billed as a luxury music festival on a Bahamian island with gourmet food, beautiful people and top music acts, the festival briefly made big headlines as a total disaster. (more…)