Kait Shea
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B-to-C Events
Experiential Marketing Trend of the Week: Hotel Takeovers
Identifying the right venue for the right experience is among an event prof’s top challenges, but upscale-leaning brands have been solving for the pain point by checking into hotels to host pop-up experiences that offer atmosphere, built-in amenities and plenty of space to spread out. From rooftop retail cabanas to self-care suites, here’s how marketers […]
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B-to-C Events
Field Report: Everything We Experienced at Netflix House Philadelphia
Tucked inside a suburban mall about 19 miles outside of Philadelphia sits a vibrant playground where lights, cameras and calls to action transform superfans into the heroes and villains from their favorite films and series. The fog is thick, the plots love twisting, and the rivalry is real. Welcome, outcasts, pirates, demon hunters and debutantes… […]
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B-to-B Events
Internal Engagement: Six Insights from Ford’s Employee-Dealer Event Playbook
From Ford’s perspective, both employees and dealers are the brand’s greatest ambassadors, and that makes nurturing the relationship between the two parties essential to the overall health of the business. To ensure those partnerships thrive, the automaker hosts a variety of live events and experiences throughout the year, from the Driving Ford+ Program to the […]
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Micro-Restaurants and Pop-up Cathedrals
This week’s hot topics in experiential marketing cover the Hidden Valley Ranch Tiny Restaurant, Juice Force Tankers and pop-up cathedrals.
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B-to-C Events
Consumers’ Leaked Data is Revealed at NordVPN’s Live Hacking Event in NYC
You don’t have to be the kind of person who uses “password” as their password to be at risk of a data breach. And that’s exactly the message cybersecurity company NordVPN aimed to drive home during a live hacking stunt on Oct. 16 in New York, where the brand educated consumers on just how vulnerable […]
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Pop-Ups
The Brief: Panadería Pop-ups and Secret Confessions
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Panadería Don Julio pop-ups, a Stranger Things Radio Room and Chicago’s secret confessions.
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B-to-C Events
Openigloo’s Humorous Guerrilla Strategy Stays the Course at the NYC Marathon
Running the TCS New York City Marathon has a lot in common with the hunt for an affordable apartment in the Big Apple these days—both are grueling, prolonged and often painful. It’s a phenomenon that NYC rental platform Openigloo had fun with on Nov. 2 during this year’s event. In four locations along the route, […]
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B-to-C Events
The Brief: Group Chat Bars and Credit Wreckers
This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover Group Chat Bars, Bodega Raves and the crushing of Credit Wreckers.
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B-to-C Events
Halloween 2025 Experiential: Hi-Chew’s Mystery House, Cutwater’s Sleepover, HBO’s Suburban Nightmare
Halloween is becoming big business. This year, consumers are expected to spend a record-busting $13.1 billion on products and activities related to the occasion (including $3.9 billion on candy), according to the National Retail Federation’s annual consumer survey. But tapping into the holiday is nothing new for experiential marketers. Halloween has long inspired some of the […]
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B-to-B Events
B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Nefra MacDonald
The road to a career in events is rarely without its twists and turns, and Nefra MacDonald’s path was certainly rerouted a few times before she arrived in the industry—look no further than her law degree.
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