Experiential
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B-to-B Events
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Creator Summits
The brand trip is evolving. It’s no longer just about whisking away influencers to a luxury destination for a vacation filled with product sampling, demos and gifting. Now, brands are collaborating with content creators on summits that fold them into the marketing engine as brand ambassadors and partners. The itineraries are stacked with brand-focused educational […]
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B-to-C Events
10 Brands Capturing FIFA World Cup Fever with Stunts, Activations, Pop-ups
After almost 40 days, the FIFA World Cup 2026 wrapped on July 19, but the experiences live on. Check out how brands showed up around the world to capitalize on the event of the summer.
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B-to-B Events
Yahoo’s Explorers Society Rewards Attendees for Being Curious at Cannes
When Yahoo dropped anchor at Cannes Lions 2026, it was equipped with its most ambitious festival activation strategy to date, and one very large purple submarine installation.
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B-to-C Events
Why a Dog Hydration Brand Designed an Activation to Meet Dogs at Their Level
For new brands and challenger brands alike, investing in experiential marketing doesn’t always require a huge budget or “bold” plan.
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Cowboy Deliveries and Talking Toilet Paper
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover cowboy deliveries, synchronized gaming raids and talking toilet paper.
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B-to-B Events
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Time is Luxury
Consumers are embracing tools to help automate their lives and their work, because while today they enjoy an economy of endless choices, the biggest luxury in a culture moving at warp-speed is… time. Experiential marketers are uniquely suited to ensure time is well spent, which is why they’re basing entire event strategies on the clock. […]
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B-to-B Events
How Oatly Built a B2B Event Inspired by its Beverage Trends
As beverage culture explodes, Oatly is ensuring it’s not only a key ingredient within the conversation and the concoctions, but that it’s also leading them. With the goal of creating “the Davos of beverage,” Oatly’s recent AFTERTASTE event in New York City immersed 300 leaders, operators, tastemakers, creators and journalists in the coffee, f&b and hospitality industries in presentations and sampling inspired by the brand’s latest strategic Look Book Vol. 3.
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B-to-B Events
Watch: Leah Stark of Ecolab in The Studio at EMS 2026
Welcome to Studio Sessions, interviews filmed in the field with the minds behind the moments. In this episode, Leah Stark, director of experiential marketing at Ecolab, joins us at the 2026 Experiential Marketing Summit to discuss what it means to be a bold-thinker and risk-taker in the industry, and what that looks like in practice. […]
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Spidey Apartments and Sun Clubs
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Peter Parker’s Apartment Tour, a Wimbledon-inspired activation in Central Park and X Games’ High Noon Sun Club.
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B-to-C Events
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Women’s Fitness Activations
Between a thriving women’s pro sports scene, the proliferation of wellness-themed third spaces that skew female, and the “strong, not skinny” health movement that continues to gain steam, women’s fitness activations are having a moment. And the brands that are thoughtfully producing them are reaping the rewards of paying attention to a demographic that has […]