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The plan · Cement Gardens at Red Rocks · Oct 11, 2026

Strategy

At a glance

One offer, one presenting sponsor: backing Cement Gardens, your festival at Red Rocks on October 11. We take that offer to a prioritized set of brand categories, in your voice, hitting named partnership decision-makers (never info@). Sent from your two warmed mailboxes (yours + Chris's), paced best leads first. Email now, LinkedIn next.

1
Presenting slot
A single brand owns the festival
4
Touches each
A reply-tested sequence, days 0 / 3 / 10 / 17
100%
Your voice
Modeled line by line on your real sends
You
Approve first
Nothing sends until you sign off

Cement Gardens Is The Headline

The offer in every category is the same marquee moment: presenting Cement Gardens, the first festival to put hip hop and hardcore on one stage at Red Rocks, with Live Nation. Eight artists, one day, a sold room of 9,000. It is the single most ownable thing we are selling, and the categories are simply who we take it to.

Oct 11
2026
Already on sale, with Live Nation
Red Rocks
Morrison, CO
One of the most iconic amphitheatres on earth
9,000
In the room, 18 to 34
A sold crowd, not a logo on a website
14.5M
Monthly listeners
Combined reach of the lineup
Why we lead with the festival
It is unforgettable. "Presented by you, at Red Rocks" is a line a brand marketer remembers. A logo on a website is not.
It is ownable. A single presenting slot, and the hip hop meets hardcore blend is the first of its kind. The first mover takes it.
It pays twice. The night itself, then the sponsorship and event videos the brand is woven through and keeps running long after.
The room roots for the sponsor. One partner keeps the ticket at $50, so the crowd thanks the brand instead of tuning it out.

The $50 thesis

Festivals turned into a luxury spend (60% of Coachella buyers financed their tickets, Billboard 2025). Cement Gardens keeps general admission at $50 with no financing, made possible by one presenting partner instead of a wall of logos. That is what the sponsor is really buying: the goodwill of a room that can actually afford to be there.

What We Pitch

A single presenting sponsorship of Cement Gardens, scaled from $10K to $100K. One brand, the whole festival.

What the brand walks away with: an audience paid media can't buy or hold, a Red Rocks content library, and its name on the night.
Tiers: $10K is the floor, $100K the full presenting package. The mid-tier deliverables are being finalized with you before we quote exact numbers.

Who We Go To, In Order

Locked with you. Two motions: the dream targets are hand-worked one to one; everyone else runs the cold sequence, in waves.

Dream get, warm: Monster first (Coke-owned, so no conflict), plus the big names where you can open a door (Liquid Death, Celsius, Nike, PRIME). Custom, not the template.
Wave 1, cold: niche apparel (skate, graffiti, street) and challenger energy, screened clean of Coke and Coors competitors, plus energy-angle pouches like ALP.
Wave 2, cold: food & snacks and broader apparel, layered on top.
Off the list: gambling (no-go for the venue), tobacco (banned), and any direct Coke or Coors competitor.

How it runs

~50 to 60 sends a day across two mailboxes, paced over weeks, not one blast, so you land in real inboxes. We don't promise a reply rate. We track the real numbers as it runs (opens, replies, meetings, pipeline) and tune from there. Full breakdown on the Targets page.

Week By Week

The clock starts the moment you approve the copy. Target launch: the week of July 7. Sends are paced, so replies build over the sequence rather than arriving all at once.

This week

Go / no-go

Your final copy nod and the Viberate login. On our side: lock the Wave 1 list, screen energy for Coke and Coors, load Instantly, attach the mailboxes, and run the pre-send checklist. Monster research begins.

Week 1

Launch

Wave 1 goes out, around 50 to 60 a day, best fit first: niche apparel, challenger energy, energy-angle pouches. Monster and the warm shortlist worked 1:1 in parallel. First opens and replies land within days.

Week 2

Follow-ups kick in

New sends continue daily while the day 3 and day 10 follow-ups start going out. Follow-ups carry close to half of all replies, so this is where volume builds. You get the first weekly report.

Week 3

Meetings + signal

Full sequence running, the earliest leads hit the day 17 breakup, meetings start booking, and the A/B (earned attention vs owned assets) shows a directional read. Second report, and we decide the Wave 2 ramp.

Week 4

Wave 2 + tune

Food and broader apparel enter the queue. We lock the winning first email, test subject lines, and review the pipeline together. Monster conversation ideally moving.

Beyond

Scale

If the numbers justify it: add mailboxes for more daily volume, bring LinkedIn on as a second channel, and keep the waves running.