Year: 2025
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Digital & Technology
Mastering Multiplatform Content with Mrs. T’s Pierogies
Discover how Mrs. T’s Pierogies tapped into humor, parenting insights and multiplatform content to connect with millennial parents.
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Wet Girl Summer and the Order of the Blade
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Wet Girl Summer, Be Like Blippi Week and the Order of the Blade.
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Cynsiders
Putting YouTube First
Before most legacy outlets had started thinking seriously about YouTube, Rachel Stockman, President of Law&Crime, was employing a truly YouTube-first strategy, shaping its content from the ground up – with distribution as the priority, not the afterthought. Stockman shares her thoughts on leveraging the platform. What does a YouTube-first strategy look like in practice […]
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B-to-C Events
Experiential Trend of the Week: Unexpected Mascots
Mascots have traditionally lived on sports fields, offering a spirited boost for players and fans at critical moments in the game experience. In fact, the term is derived from the French word “mascotte” meaning “lucky charm.” But lately, we’re seeing larger-than-life brand personas make appearances at a wide variety of events and for a wide […]
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Cynsiders
Gen Z Isn’t Loyal to Media Platforms – They’re Loyal to Relevance
By Julie Clark, SVP, Diversified Markets, Media & Entertainment Streaming habits, social behavior and content choices shift by the day. Brands that cannot adapt in real time will miss the moment. As an audience, Gen Z is a moving target. They spend hours online but drop platforms the moment they lose utility. Their loyalty is […]
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B-to-B Events
Four Insights on SXSW’s Evolving Brand Activation Landscape for 2026
SXSW has long served as an annual barometer for the experiential marketing industry with its roster of brand activations throughout the city of Austin helping to inform spending forecasts and tactical trends. The soon-to-be, 40-year-old tentpole was an early example of festivalized conference experiences, and has served as a breeding and proving ground for earned […]
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B-to-C Events
15 Experiential Tactics that Made a Racket at the US Open
In the days leading up to the 2025 US Open, the tournament was already scooping up headlines with a record-breaking Fan Week that saw nearly 240,000 tennis lovers walk through the gates of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. By the time the singles main draws kicked off on […]
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CTV Roundup
How Warner Bros. Discovery Ensures That Shoppable Ads Fit In Its Shows
There’s bigger fish to fry before broadcasters and streamers get bogged down in questions about QR codes and remote controls. Namely: How do TV studios guarantee that the products featured in these new made-for-TV shoppable moments are ones that viewers actually want to buy in the first place?
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Programming
Football Forecast: NFL-YouTube Experiment a Sign of the Future
Tonight’s the first time an NFL game will exclusively stream live and without a paywall on YouTube, and while it’s expected to attain a hefty number of viewers, the question then becomes whether YouTube—and the networks of internet providers enabling access—can handle the blitz.
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Branding/Marketing
PR Roundup: Nestlé CEO Crisis, Age Demos and the News, NFL is Back
PR Roundup examines the current company instability at Nestlé—which dropped another CEO, a new Pew study on news sources and demographics, and football is back!