• I build partnerships for the moments people choose to show up for.

    I am Ben Tannenbaum: a partnerships leader, cultural analyst, and writer working across live events, media, nightlife, and consumer brands. I turn audience insight into programs that create value for brands while making the experience better for the people in it.

  • Partnership leader. Cultural analyst. Writer. Father.

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    I build and sell partnerships for the moments people choose to show up for.For more than 15 years, I have worked across consumer technology, media, CPG, beverage alcohol, and live experiences.

    My work sits at the intersection of commercial strategy and human behavior: understanding why people gather, what makes an occasion matter, and how brands can contribute without getting in the way.

    At LineLeap, I lead brand partnerships for a nightlife and live-events platform reaching more than two million legal-drinking-age Gen Z consumers across 900+ partner bars in 150+ college markets. I work with beverage, lifestyle, and media partners to build integrated programs across live events, venues, ticketing, app and SMS channels, social media, and audience insight.

    I have led enterprise relationships, growth strategy, and commercial programs for organizations including Diageo, Mark Anthony Brands, FOX Sports, Anheuser-Busch, Sazerac, Proximo, Kraft Heinz, Unilever, Molson Coors, Pernod Ricard, E. & J. Gallo, Coca-Cola, Diageo, and Constellation Brands.

    I write Proof Points because the best commercial work starts with a real understanding of culture. The publication examines the structures beneath consumer behavior: how social rituals form, how they change, and why people choose one experience over another.

    I am also a father to a daughter. It shapes the way I think about culture, community, and what is worth spending time on.

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    Essays on the conditions beneath culture, behavior, and social change.Proof Points looks past the surface of consumer behavior to ask what changed underneath it.

    The work covers drinking culture, the third place, live occasions, media, taste, status, and the social structures that make certain experiences endure.

    The publication reaches 1,400+ subscribers and has been quoted or cited by GQ, Fox Digital, The Drinks Business, and Beer Business Daily.

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    At LineLeap, I lead brand-partnership development for a nightlife and live-events platform connecting brands with legal-drinking-age Gen Z consumers across college markets.

    My work includes integrated sponsorships, live-event programs, venue and talent collaboration, ticketing, digital and CRM activation, and audience-insight tools for partners across beverage, lifestyle, media, and entertainment.

    Partnerships are not inventory. They are a chance to make the occasion more valuable for the audience and the brand.

  • Work with Me

    Brand partnerships, speaking, advisory work, sponsored research, and custom collaborations.