Juanita Chavarro Arias, Author at Chief Marketer

Fashion Tailgates, Chaotic Bodegas, AI Newsstands: 10 Experiential NYFW 2025 Takeovers

Neutrals for fall? Groundbreaking… Brands broke out of the traditional warm color palette and cozy vibes for their activations during the Fall 2025 edition of New York Fashion Week. Instead, they leaned into off-beat collabs, bold designs, nostalgia and AI for experiences that had consumers waiting in lines to snag samples or catch glimpses of […]

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Q&A: evian Spices Up its 39-year US Open Partnership with a First-time Culinary Collab

For 39 years, evian has partnered with the US Open as the tennis tournament’s official water, and this year, beyond hydrating athletes and fans around USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center grounds, the brand added a new culinary component to its annual campaign. Collaborating with tennis star and evian Global Brand Ambassador Frances Tiafoe […]

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Back-to-Campus Tours: How Brands from Google to Skippy are Reaching Gen Z

Viral denim campaigns are dominating the back-to-school social media conversation this year (we’re still trying to master KATSEYE’s Gap choreography to “Milkshake”), and reactions to the ads on Instagram and TikTok have run the gamut. But some brands have opted to go offline and, instead, bring their latest fall fashion collections, beauty products and dorm […]

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Experiential Trend of the Week: Virtual Try-ons

It’s been 30 years since “Clueless” introduced us to Cher’s digitized closet, and millennials are still not over it. Tech brands are getting closer to making this virtual wardrobe concept a reality, and the innovation has been popping up in demos at events like festivals and sports events, with brands enhancing activations with e-commerce and […]

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CeraVe’s Six-city Birthday Tour Features a Giant Gift Box and Dermatologists

Skincare brand CeraVe is turning 20 and says it’s inviting all of “its friends” to celebrate. The brand is touring the country from July 29 to Sept. 14, popping up a birthday present-shaped activation in six cities: Chicago; San Francisco; Riverton, UT; Ann Arbor, MI; Tallahassee, FL; and Asbury Park, NJ. The 20 Years of […]

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From Pancakes to Karaoke, Nine Activations that Struck a Chord at Lollapalooza 2025

Lollapalooza annually takes place during peak music festival season, with this year’s four-day passes selling out in under an hour back in March, once again proving the event to be a huge draw for music lovers. About 115,000 people attended each day of the festival from July 31 to Aug. 3, organizers confirmed, saying that […]

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The Brief: Soda-Powered Car Washes and Financial Speed Dates

This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Evolution Fresh’s Soda-Powered Car Wash, Chime’s speed-dating pop-up, ESPN’s E train takeover, an in-store Nike x Milk Makeup activation and AARP New York’s Social Security celebration.

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So Delicious Talks Multisensory Sampling in a Giant Pint at Lollapalooza

A little mystery and the promise of a sweet treat drew Lollapalooza festivalgoers into a nondescript, oversized frozen dessert pint. A minimalist design on the exterior of the black box that included just “The Pint of No Return” messaging and So Delicious Dairy Free’s logo didn’t give a hint of the colorful, multisensory adventure that […]

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Festivals & Fan Cons

Podcast: EM Editors Take San Diego Comic-Con 2025

San Diego Comic-Con is the epicenter of fandom, annually bringing together thousands of fans at the convention center and across the city at off-site brand activations to celebrate the latest in comics, movies, TV and pop culture. The Event Marketer editors were on the ground to take it all in and bring our firsthand coverage […]

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How Disney+ Transformed an L.A. Thrift Store into a Y2K Throwback

It’s the year of the Disney throwback, and our millennial hearts are all in, from the release of “Freakier Friday” to the Jonas Brothers bringing out Demi Lovato for a “Camp Rock” reunion at MetLife Stadium. Nostalgia marketing is at the core of the first-ever Disney+ Throwback campaign, a summer-long celebration of ’90s and 2000s […]

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