This year, four major U.S. tech companies with ******s in Sydney — Facebook, Google, Twitter and Airbnb — have signed up to be major partners of the event, among other brands.*
There is a clear benefit to the Mardi Gras from such sponsorship — commercial partnerships delivered A$838,000 of investment*to the event in 2015 — but what is the gain for these four brands? All worthy causes deserve attention and amplification, but when corporations get involved, with their own specific set of incentives and priorities, it's fair to ask why. Read more...